Elected Republicans really MUST be Stupid...who puts them in office?
May 4, 2016 06:22:08 #
moldyoldy wrote:
I am a bit concerned with open carry on campus now. I would not be handing out many failing grades.
Everybody should be concerned about open carry on campus and in churches, in stores... how is anyone supposed to discern the intent of people walking down the street with a weapon strapped to their back or hip?
May 4, 2016 09:00:18 #
jelun wrote:
Everybody should be concerned about open carry on campus and in churches, in stores... how is anyone supposed to discern the intent of people walking down the street with a weapon strapped to their back or hip?
You'd better be worried about the people who carry concealed. Can you spot someone who is carrying concealed? I can. Police, and in my case, Army MPs are trained to do this. It doesn't work with people like me, who have carried concealed for years so that we no longer exhibit the tell tale signs. I personally almost never carry openly, and it is less out of concern that I might offend someone than the fact that I want the element of surprise. The first indication that a malefactor should have that I am armed should be a bright flash and a loud bang. I only carry openly in venues where it is quite common to do so.
May 7, 2016 15:54:39 #
Ya gotta love the principles of the folks elected by conservatives in some parts of this nation, they supported this guy for a few days and then dropped him as soon as he showed he couldn't handle his pain or his drugs.
So in just one statement he had all this to say...
http://rickperry.org/defending-conservatism-against-the-cancer-of-trump-ism
Let no one be mistaken – Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.
Donald Trump the reality television star is a great generator of ratings. But Donald Trump the candidate is a sower of division, wrongly demonizing Mexican-Americans for political sport.
It is wrong to paint with a broad brush Hispanic men and women in this country who have fought and died for freedom from the Alamo to Afghanistan. He scapegoats Hispanics to appeal to our worst instincts, when we need a president who appeals to our best.
Donald Trump is the modern-day incarnation of the know-nothing movement.
He espouses nativism, not conservatism. He is negative when conservatism is inherently optimistic.
He would divide us along bloodlines, when conservatives believe our policies will work for people of all backgrounds.
I will not go quiet when this cancer on conservatism threatens to metastasize into a movement of mean-spirited politics that will send the Republican Party to the same place it sent the Whig Party in 1854: the graveyard.
As a veteran, I took offense to his attack on Senator McCain, and I found lacking his defense that he spent a lot of money on veterans’ parades.
Donald Trump was born into privilege. He received deferments to avoid service in Vietnam. He breathes the free air thousands of heroes died protecting. And he couldn’t have endured for five minutes what John McCain endured for five and a half years.
Think what you want about Senator McCain’s politics, but let no one question his service to our country.
Here was a man offered the chance to go home. He refused, knowing it could cost him his life. There was no way he would leave before any man captured before him. This is the embodiment of duty, honor, country. Mr. Trump does not know the meaning of those words.
When a candidate under the Republican banner would abandon the tradition of magnanimous leadership of the presidency, when he would seek to demonize millions of citizens, when he would stoop to attack POWs for being captured, I can only ask as Senator Welch did of Senator McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
My fellow Republicans, beware of false prophets. Do not let itching ears be tickled by messengers who appeal to anger, division and resentment.
Only to switch to this...
... Perry enthusiastically endorsed Trump in an interview with CNN, a remarkable about-face for a former candidate who was the first in the GOP field to sound the alarm about the billionaire's candidacy. After dropping out, Perry went on to endorse U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, whose exit from the race Tuesday set in motion Trump's rise to presumptive nominee.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/06/perry-defends-trump-endorsement/
PLEASE!
So in just one statement he had all this to say...
http://rickperry.org/defending-conservatism-against-the-cancer-of-trump-ism
Let no one be mistaken – Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.
Donald Trump the reality television star is a great generator of ratings. But Donald Trump the candidate is a sower of division, wrongly demonizing Mexican-Americans for political sport.
It is wrong to paint with a broad brush Hispanic men and women in this country who have fought and died for freedom from the Alamo to Afghanistan. He scapegoats Hispanics to appeal to our worst instincts, when we need a president who appeals to our best.
Donald Trump is the modern-day incarnation of the know-nothing movement.
He espouses nativism, not conservatism. He is negative when conservatism is inherently optimistic.
He would divide us along bloodlines, when conservatives believe our policies will work for people of all backgrounds.
I will not go quiet when this cancer on conservatism threatens to metastasize into a movement of mean-spirited politics that will send the Republican Party to the same place it sent the Whig Party in 1854: the graveyard.
As a veteran, I took offense to his attack on Senator McCain, and I found lacking his defense that he spent a lot of money on veterans’ parades.
Donald Trump was born into privilege. He received deferments to avoid service in Vietnam. He breathes the free air thousands of heroes died protecting. And he couldn’t have endured for five minutes what John McCain endured for five and a half years.
Think what you want about Senator McCain’s politics, but let no one question his service to our country.
Here was a man offered the chance to go home. He refused, knowing it could cost him his life. There was no way he would leave before any man captured before him. This is the embodiment of duty, honor, country. Mr. Trump does not know the meaning of those words.
When a candidate under the Republican banner would abandon the tradition of magnanimous leadership of the presidency, when he would seek to demonize millions of citizens, when he would stoop to attack POWs for being captured, I can only ask as Senator Welch did of Senator McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
My fellow Republicans, beware of false prophets. Do not let itching ears be tickled by messengers who appeal to anger, division and resentment.
Only to switch to this...
... Perry enthusiastically endorsed Trump in an interview with CNN, a remarkable about-face for a former candidate who was the first in the GOP field to sound the alarm about the billionaire's candidacy. After dropping out, Perry went on to endorse U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, whose exit from the race Tuesday set in motion Trump's rise to presumptive nominee.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/05/06/perry-defends-trump-endorsement/
PLEASE!
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