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Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame
You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul
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Yeah, but could Trump really be that brief?
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Administrator Bionic Scribe
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Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame
You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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and the second reason to be a Trump supporter
1. ensure Sen Cruz does not get the nomination
2. the American people facing a choice between rational and irrational would hopefully come to their collective senses and choose rationally
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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And which one of them is rational? This is like supporting Mussolini or Torquemada, as far as I can tell. People are supporting Cruz just so Trump doesn't have enough delegates for a first round victory at the convention. Cruz certainly won't have enough. Besides, plenty of Republicans would never vote for Cruz, either.
Then they can pick somebody a majority doesn't despise. Like Kasich or Ryan. Doesn't matter much in the Presidential race: They are doomed anyway it unwinds, unless Hillary dies and Bernie goes nuts with Leninist rants about "Each to his ability".
The people who run the Party just want a decent guy to bring out the vote for Senators and Representatives. Trump or Cruz will not do that.
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The people who run the Party just want a decent guy to bring out the vote for Senators and Representatives. Trump or Cruz will not do that. But...as I keep pointing out, a third party run by Trump would do just that. (Relatively) Moderate Republicans would vote for the candidate chosen by the party. While the more unhinged would go with Trump. It would bode well for the down ticket Republican candidates and likely keep the Senate under Republican control. I had genuinely hoped that this election was going to turn into a rout but as time passes I see that it will likely be a fairly close race.
Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
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If Trump does get foxed out of a nomination and does run third party, I can see a lot of his devout fans blaming the Republican Party and NOT voting for Republican Congress critters. The guy loves to sue, after all. He could start an anti-Republican war.
All of this is speculation, of course. We shall see what happens, but I bet it will be entertaining!
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Oh they'll cuss the party but they'll vote for their Senators and Representatives. I hear Paul Ryan is getting primaried by a TEA Party candidate and may go the way of Eric Cantor this time around.
Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
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