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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. Justin_Rice

    Justin_Rice Well-Known Member

    Justin_Rice, Jul 16, 2018
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  2. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    That political organization was the NRA.
     
    Inky_Wretch, Jul 16, 2018
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  3. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    I have often appreciated McCain's willingness to speak up about Trump. My problem with him is that he'll give statements like this, but when the vote is called he still votes the GOP line. He bucked it on Obamacare repeal, but otherwise he's all talk.
     
    Neutral Corner, Jul 16, 2018
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  4. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    It started with the republican emasculation of Jimmy Carter With a complicit and patronizing news media. Annapolis Grad and Engineer was allowed to be pretreated as a goofball backwoods peanut farmer. And Jimmy couldn’t get out of his own way.
    Gingrich and his band of lying pervertswho branded themselves, undeservedly, as family values types. With his scorched earth attempts and false piety Gingrich is more to blame than anyone.
    Ross Perot was more of an insitigator than Palin.
    Taking a woman as VP smelled of desperation, taking Palin stunk of wet dogshit
     
    heyabbott, Jul 16, 2018
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  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I think if anyone was ever really going to "drain the swamp," John McCain would end up swirling around the drain for quite a while, a little like a clump of hair. But the self-serving John McCain, who plays the statesman, war hero and conscience of the Senate role at times like this, often strikes the right note with the rhetoric. There was nothing he said in that statement that isn't what a lot of politicians should be out there saying right now. . . . without making calculations, but because right is just right. We have that less than ever. McCain is in a position where he can do it, and vindictively probably wants to do it whenever there is a chance. And I ain't going to argue with it. It's the message, not the man, that matters most (well, to me), even if the reason the message might reach one or two people who it might not otherwise, is because of who is saying it.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 16, 2018
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  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    It continues to boggle my mind that the ONLY world body that's played a strong hand with Putin is the hallmark of integrity known as the IOC.
     
    HanSenSE, Jul 16, 2018
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  7. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Although it's been said, many times, many ways on this account: Loved the McCain of the "Straight Talk Express." But couldn't vote for the one that not only inflicted Sarah Palin on us, but, when he talked, you could see Karl Rove's lips moving.
     
    HanSenSE, Jul 16, 2018
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  8. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    Everything changed when he won the nomination and the GOP machine got around him. It was very sad to watch happen.
     
    typefitter, Jul 16, 2018
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  9. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    July 27, 2016, Trump: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
    Indictment: That evening, Russian operatives targeted Clinton campaign emails "for the first time."
     
    heyabbott, Jul 16, 2018
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  10. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

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    heyabbott, Jul 16, 2018
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  11. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Oh, when I heard that straight talk express bullshit, all I could ever think of was McCain selling himself to Charles Keating decades before because he had wanted to be president then. When the cronyism with Keating unravelled, there was little straight talk then. Not when McCain's ass was on the line. The test of real character is always how you behave when you face adversity because of your own lapses in judgment or your own bad behavior. He really failed that test, but it turned into ancient history as time wore on, and few people even know today or give a shit.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 16, 2018
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  12. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    heyabbott, Jul 16, 2018
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