2016 Election
Quote: RonCIf we could just get all liberals to move to those ten cities!!
Cheers!!
Eek! That sounds very dark and "final solution"-ish to me.
Quote: ams288Eek! That sounds very dark and "final solution"-ish to me.
I am an evil Conservative...of course...but then I thought about it...if Austin is one of those ten, we could have enough liberals move here to turn the state that way...no, thanks...
Quote: RonCif Austin is one of those ten, we could have enough liberals move here to turn the state that way...no, thanks...
Haha... That was actually one of the first things I thought... Austin has gotta be on that list.
Aha, that information could be tracked down in 15 seconds. Buy why do that when speculation can rule the day?Quote: ams288Perhaps next time you should spend more than 10 seconds....
This particular difficulty makes Trump and his offspring too careless even to check their registrations months after announcing his candidacy. What hypocrisy! It is painfully evident that the Tump campaign can't deal with native New York legalities, not to mention Colorado and Wyoming details. By the way, all this ever so clearly indicates that the family has long been staunchly registered Democrats. And not anything close to Republicans.
I knew it was Ann Arbor, you had shown your hand previously. I did not know Ann Arbor was a great place to live, liberal or conservative really shouldn't matter, maybe it does. How does Johns Creek GA show up on the list you are referencing? Many of my neighbors are very liberal. They tolerate me, that doesn't mean they like me ,-)Quote: ams288Not Detroit, Ann Arbor.
Voted one of the ten best cities in America for liberals to live in. ;)
Quote: SanchoPanzaThis particular difficulty makes Trump and his offspring too careless even to check their registrations months after announcing his candidacy. What hypocrisy! It is painfully evident that the Tump campaign can't deal with native New York legalities, not to mention Colorado and Wyoming details. By the way, all this ever so clearly indicates that the family has long been staunchly registered Democrats. And not anything close to Republicans.
I'm sure Trump has some real beliefs. It's just hard to tell whether he values them more than promoting himself. I say no.
Flint.
Quote: Sabretom2What do you get when you fill Ann Arbor with Democrats?
Flint.
I don't get it.
Ann Arbor is already filled with Democrats.
Rick Snyder, our criminal governor, actually lives here too. In a multimillion dollar condo above a restaurant on Main Street. There are people who protest outside it sometimes.
Quote: ams288I don't get it.
.
I believe you.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-calls-drudge-report-attack-site-for-the-trump-campaign/
I can totally understand why a gay conservative like Matt Drudge would prefer Trump over Cruz. Cruz is a legitimately frightening candidate when it comes to civil rights issues. Trump.... who knows what he'd do?
(And don't lecture me over Drudge's sexuality. If you have a problem, take it up with Out Magazine).
Deleted (was just nonsense;-)Quote: ams288Ted Cruz doesn't like the Drudge Report.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-calls-drudge-report-attack-site-for-the-trump-campaign/
I can totally understand why a gay conservative like Matt Drudge would prefer Trump over Cruz. Cruz is a legitimately frightening candidate when it comes to civil rights issues. Trump.... who knows what he'd do?
(And don't lecture me over Drudge's sexuality. If you have a problem, take it up with Out Magazine).
Quote: ams288Ted Cruz doesn't like the Drudge Report.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-calls-drudge-report-attack-site-for-the-trump-campaign/
I can totally understand why a gay conservative like Matt Drudge would prefer Trump over Cruz. Cruz is a legitimately frightening candidate when it comes to civil rights issues. Trump.... who knows what he'd do?
Out Magazine publishes drivel like this:
"A new study by trend forecasting agency J. Walter Thompson Innovation Group found that only 48 percent of 13-20-year-olds identify as "exclusively heterosexual," compared to 65 percent of millennials aged 21 to 34."
http://www.out.com/news-opinion/2016/3/11/less-50-teens-identify-straight-says-new-study
I don't want the poster suspended for continually identifying Drudge as "gay" when he has not come out as gay on his own. However, in light of the fact someone made a homosexual reference to Hillary Clinton and was warned about doing so, I think ams288 should refrain from using "gay" or any other thing referring to sexuality when referring to Drudge or anyone else who is not "out".
"Outing", the process of people proclaiming someone as gay who was not ready to come out, has led to suicides:
http://reportquickly.com/charlotte-rapper-guttah-kutthroat-redd-commits-suicide-after-being-outed-as-gay-by-popular-urban-blog/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/09/pastor-and-beloved-christian-college-professor-who-was-outed-as-ashley-madison-user-commits-suicide/
http://www.thetaskforce.org/why-outing-can-be-deadly/
Just because someone is suspected of being gay, it is not the job of some LBGT-friendly magazine to "Out" them--no matter who they are. That should be left to the individual, not to other LGBT activists or even gay haters.
Quote: ams288(And don't lecture me over Drudge's sexuality. If you have a problem, take it up with Out Magazine).
So you can just write what you want, something not proven true, about anyone just because some magazine said it? I guess you can if they let you do so here but there are literally thousands of things written and unproven about people in the public eye. I get that you don't like Drudge or the Drudge Report...I don't like lots of people, including some in the political arena with gay rumors about them out there, but I don't go using those rumors to describe them when I write here.
My initial point was that I can totally understand why Drudge is clearly favoring Trump over Cruz.
Ted Cruz is a legitimate psychopath when it comes to gay rights.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/opinion/campaign-stops/ted-cruz-and-the-anti-gay-pastor.html
Quote: ams288I literally cannot fathom why you would waste your time writing and researching that defense of Drudge's sexuality when you know it will not change my mind or get me to stop calling him what he is, a gay man.
You choose what useless drivel you would like to write; I'll choose what I write. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference what you think about it or how I use my time. Like you care. You can't just say whatever you want and not expect that it might be challenged. If you don't like it, block me, get me banned, or whatever.
Quote: ams288ITed Cruz is a legitimate psychopath when it comes to gay rights.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/opinion/campaign-stops/ted-cruz-and-the-anti-gay-pastor.html
It is kind of ironic that a liberal is criticizing who Cruz hangs out with, yet Bill Ayers and all the other freaks President Obama hung out with are just peachy. Typical liberal double standard.
How about a true standard:
Judge Cruz by who he hangs out with and question his judgment in being involved with those people. Judge Hillary, Bernie, and the others the same way. The bottom line is that they all hang out with some shitty people. In the case of Obama, known terrorists.
I literally don't know why you worry so much about Drudge's sexuality. You are the only one who brings it up continually. It doesn't matter, though...you write what you want; I'll do the same!
Cheers!!
Quote: RonCIt is kind of ironic that a liberal is criticizing who Cruz hangs out with, yet Bill Ayers and all the other freaks President Obama hung out with are just peachy. Typical liberal double standard.
It's actually not ironic at all, as I have never defended Bill Ayers.
Go ahead and find me mentioning Bill Ayers anywhere on this board.
Good luck. You'll need it.
Typical rightie trying to find double standards where they don't exist.
The results are truly horrifying.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/this-is-what-donald-trump-would-look-like-without-his-fake-t#.yjlkOBwbN
Quote: ams288It's actually not ironic at all, as I have never defended Bill Ayers.
Go ahead and find me mentioning Bill Ayers anywhere on this board.
Good luck. You'll need it.
Typical rightie trying to find double standards where they don't exist.
I never said that you did mention them.
I also did not say that you defended Ayers.
Quote: RonCI never said that you did mention them.
I also did not say that you defended Ayers.
When did Obama campaign with Ayers during the 2008 campaign? (Hint: he didn't).
Ted Cruz was happy to campaign with the crazy "kill the gays" pastor.
Your "double standard" just doesn't hold up to logic.
Quote: ams288When did Obama campaign with Ayers during the 2008 campaign? (Hint: he didn't).
Ted Cruz was happy to campaign with the crazy "kill the gays" pastor.
Your "double standard" just doesn't hold up to logic.
Yes, it does. Obama's associations did not matter to liberals but those of conservatives do matter to them.
Yes it does. Especially when Cruz made one appearance with Swanson. Compared to the long and friendly relationships with the likes of bombers Ayers and Dohrn, not to mention Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright. Right up to the heat of the 2008 campaign.Quote: ams288When did Obama campaign with Ayers during the 2008 campaign? (Hint: he didn't). Ted Cruz was happy to campaign with the crazy "kill the gays" pastor. Your "double standard" just doesn't hold up to logic.
As a Texas solicitor general, Ted Cruz once defended a ban on selling dildos and argued that Americans do not have a right to "stimulate their genitals."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/ted-cruz-dildo-ban-sex-devices-texas
However, his college roommate finds that to be hypocritical.
He tweeted:
Quote:Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to "stimulate their genitals." I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.
Especially not when you have 37 percent of the popular vote and 42 percent of the delegates. But even that is far more reflective of the will of the electorate than the opposition party's convoluted and arbitrary procedure.Quote: RonCYou can say that you think the process should be different, that all states should have primary elections run a certain way, etc. but you can't truthfully say that the party is "cheating" you when they run the events the way they said they would run them.
Quote: ams288Possibly my favorite story of the campaign thus far:
As a Texas solicitor general, Ted Cruz once defended a ban on selling dildos and argued that Americans do not have a right to "stimulate their genitals."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/ted-cruz-dildo-ban-sex-devices-texas
However, his college roommate finds that to be hypocritical.
He tweeted:
Still laughing...
Quote: SanchoPanzaEspecially not when you have 37 percent of the popular vote and 42 percent of the delegates. But even that is far more reflective of the will of the electorate than the opposition party's convoluted and arbitrary procedure.
Well said. Pretty funny how Trump's picking and choosing what to whine about when he's benefiting by 5% beyond his actual popular vote count already. Pot, meet kettle.
He's basically started running a real campaign.
He doesn't call in on every frigging morning show anymore. Very few stupid late night retweets. He seems to have made amends with Megyn Kelly.
It's definitely not as interesting as what he was doing. I wonder if it will actually help him in the polls...
Still seems to be boiling down to a fall competition between a successful businessman, one that cannot exactly be described as 'squeaky clean', and a successful politician, another one that cannot exactly be described as 'squeaky clean'. All the rest is just noise, some intentional interference meant to confuse is still buzzing on virtually every channel and source. Much of it is well intentioned. Good luck to us all!
Quote:The presidential campaigns of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced late Sunday that they were coordinating their efforts in three upcoming primary states in an extraordinary attempt to prevent Republican front-runner Donald Trump from clinching the GOP nomination before this summer's convention.
In a pair of simultaneously released statements, the campaigns announced that Kasich would pull out of Indiana to give Cruz "a clear path" ahead of that state's winner-take-all primary May 3, while the Cruz campaign will "clear the path" for Kasich in Oregon, which votes May 17, and New Mexico, which votes June 7
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/25/cruz-kasich-campaign-announce-collaboration-to-deny-trump-delegates.html
Quote: rxwineOfficial tag team formed.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/25/cruz-kasich-campaign-announce-collaboration-to-deny-trump-delegates.html
A complete act of desperation by two candidates who can't win enough delegates through the process. I think Trump comes off like an idiot when he acts like the process of gaining delegates was not known when he entered the race, but these two come off even worse...
The Republicans are going to be running a candidate against a Democrat with huge negative numbers. It looks like they are still going to screw up what should be a really good opportunity to regain the White House....
Quote: RonC
The Republicans are going to be running a candidate against a Democrat with huge negative numbers. It looks like they are still going to screw up what should be a really good opportunity to regain the White House....
I really think the establishment of the GOP does not care if they win. They want their nice berry patch of getting paid to run campaigns and hit cocktail parties with beautiful people. Candidate with naturally high energy and motivated base comes in and they say no thanks. Cray, Hillary should be an easy takedown, why so many people are afraid of attacking her is a mystery.
They should have done this like a month and a half ago if they were serious about stopping Trump.
Trump is going to be the nominee (hopefully!).
Quote: AZDuffmanI really think the establishment of the GOP does not care if they win. They want their nice berry patch of getting paid to run campaigns and hit cocktail parties with beautiful people. Candidate with naturally high energy and motivated base comes in and they say no thanks. Cray, Hillary should be an easy takedown, why so many people are afraid of attacking her is a mystery.
I think this is true of both parties.
The DNC and friends in media have had to dig fairly deep to bury a challenge from a Jewish guy in his seventies. The RNC did a worse job of it, and are probably failing to hold off a reality TV star.
Voters are desperate for someone who represents their interests, rather than those of the people throwing those cocktail parties. Both parties would rather lose than allow that to happen.
Quote: AZDuffmanHillary should be an easy takedown, why so many people are afraid of attacking her is a mystery.
They are afraid of ending up dead and wrapped in carpet in a park somewhere along the Potomac...
In the Potomac, washed up to the bank of some park 'along the Potomac'.Quote: RonCThey are afraid of ending up dead and wrapped in carpet in a park somewhere along the Potomac...
Quote: RonCThey are afraid of ending up dead and wrapped in carpet in a park somewhere along the Potomac...
Ah, the good ol days....
"Fostered" along the Potomac. : )Quote: RonCThey are afraid of ending up dead and wrapped in carpet in a park somewhere along the Potomac...
How delusional can you get?
Quote: ams288Ted Cruz will announce that Carly Fiorina is his VP pick at 4pm today.
How delusional can you get?
Well if he picked her to capitalize on the remaining delegates it would at least have some immediate use.
After all he's aiming for a brokered convention.
Quote: rxwineWell if he picked her to capitalize on the remaining delegates it would at least have some immediate use.
After all he's aiming for a brokered convention.
But why her?
She ran. Nobody liked her. She lost.
Ah.... Looking at it like that, I guess that makes her and Cruz like two peas in a pod.
I think it's aimed squarely at California voters, hoping they feel some state loyalty to her that bumps him enough to make a difference there. Otherwise, it seems a wasted draft pick; she's simply ridiculous on women's issues, and would be more of a detriment than a help to that demographic.
She was CEO of HP and guided that top 20 Company from 1999-2005. Under her leadership 30,000 HP employees were laid off and the company lost half of it's value.
Is she cute?Quote: ernestmiddleI have it on good authority that Trump's choice for VP is María del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza.
Of course, when you actually dig in to what she's saying, the vast majority is pure nonsense (see her Planned Parenthood B.S. at that one debate).
