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I think of Trump as a hail mary pass. Doing the same thing over and over again hasn't worked. Sure, it might not work either. But at least there is a chance.
no, trump is the change in offense from a run only offense, to one that is a balanced run/pass offense. as much as i like him, carson is the hail mary pass, as is fiorina.
I know that I'm tired of politicians who are beholden to their mega-rich donors to the point that the donors get put first instead of their constituents. Years of the same old, same old has gotten us in the mess that we are in now.
Trump refuses to take contributions from mega-rich donors because he knows how the game is played (having played it himself) so he won't be beholden to any of those donors. If Trump were constantly throwing "temper tantrums", do you really think that he could be a successful businessman? He also is shining lights in dark corners and addressing the elephant in the room plus he eschews PC BS. Is he perfect? No one is perfect. I, for one, see nothing wrong with giving him a chance at the presidency.
So you are voting for Sanders? Oh wait, you can't vote for a Social Democrat that doesn't take money from the mega-rich....well maybe someday a GOP candidate will finally turn away that wealthy hand trying to feed them.
The secret vote - withdrawing $150 billion dollars from SS on Friday night is one of the reasons the American people do not like the establishment. Now no news outlet reported this and yet it has gone viral - so the American citizens are becoming aware of it. This was passed by a vote of 64 senators - and I am sure going to find out which ones in my state voted for it and write to them. SS will never be solvent if we keep drawing out of it. We need an outsider - who will fight for the people.
Everyone knows you need lots of funding to have a chance to be elected POTUS. We all know how they get the funding with the exception of Trump. Even in our local elections, you have to be "dynasty" quality to have a chance. It is unfortunate.
The problem is that the national parties DNC and GOP are in business to push the candidates that will keep the money flowing. Any outsider that rocks the boat is a threat to be crushed. If they can't control them, they will defeat them.
Everyone knows you need lots of funding to have a chance to be elected POTUS. We all know how they get the funding with the exception of Trump. Even in our local elections, you have to be "dynasty" quality to have a chance. It is unfortunate.
I have to say that I'm embarrassed for this country. At this point, the two strongest candidates are Clinton and Trump. Clinton, one of the most corrupt, incompetent and arrogant politicians and arguably the worst SS in history. One who tells one lie after another, with too much contempt for the American public to even give them credit for caring or understanding. One who among other things helped her husband get away with decades of sexual abuse of women.
Or Trump...a man with the maturity and class of a 9th grade kid. A clown of a reality TV show host. One with a history of misogyny and who throws temper tantrums when he doesn't get his way. No better than Obama in that regard, and we certainly have seen way too much childish behavior from the White House for the last 7 years. Please, not again.
I want to like Carson. Smart, successful, and someone that is not a political insider. But sadly, I don't see it in him. I don't see the leadership persona that a president should be able to present (again, like Obama).
What's left? A ranting old socialist? 2 other absolutely clueless space fillers on the left? On the right...Cruz and Rubio don't look bad. Not stellar, but not bad. Far better than Trump or Clinton.
In a nation of 330 million or so people...is this really the best we can come up with? What is wrong with us?
I fully agree with everything you said. The choices we have are just pathetic. I really don't see any of them as presidential.
As usual, the partisans will see this as a sports match and so long as the other side loses, they really don't care about the problems with their own candidate. Which is precisely WHY we have such lousy choices and need to either clean up the two major parties or have an independant party that has a shot in hell in winning.
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Trump isnt even a republican, he's a democrat.
I think he's more of a chameleon, he'll be whatever benefits himself the most at the time.
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It is unfortunate.
