GOP Primaries/Caucuses Discussions, Jokes and Predictions

[cronus]

Trumps the man for me. You can trust a woman with many things. Running a country is not one of them.

1979 revisited. In that year Deborah Wardley wanted to become an airline pilot. She had every possible professional, technical, psychological and meritorious reason to support her many, rejected applications. She took her boss, Reginald Ansett, owner of the airline to court. He said that he wasn’t prepared to risk the safety of his passengers by having an emotional, unpredictable woman in the cockpit.

And here we have the likes of Coito still arguing that women are on equal terms with men now.

Airline crews are a tight knit and socially co-operative community for obvious reasons. You've no reason to worry about that. I'm all for female commercial pilots. A safe and predictive pair of hands are a great comfort for the passengers. Still...the battlefield and politics are two areas of life where it's all a Joan of Arc too far, though.

[pErvinalia]

Clinton has plenty of material to work with for her attack ads.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... ever-trump

[piscator]

The Quiet American
Paul Manafort made a career out of stealthily reinventing the world’s nastiest tyrants as noble defenders of freedom. Getting Donald Trump elected will be a cinch.

Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s palace, is impressive by the standards of Palm Beach—less so when judged against the abodes of the world’s autocrats. It doesn’t, for instance, quite compare with Mezhyhirya, the gilded estate of deposed Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych. Trump may have 33 bathrooms and three bomb shelters, but his mansion lacks a herd of ostrich, a galleon parked in a pond, and a set of golden golf clubs. Yet the two properties are linked, not just in ostentatious spirit, but by the presence of one man. Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain, an operative named Paul Manafort.

Ukrainians use the term “political technologist” as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first a technical task: Manafort knows how to bullwhip and wheedle delegates at a contested convention. He’s done it before, assisting Gerald Ford in stifling Ronald Reagan’s insurgency at the GOP’s summer classic of 1976. In the conventions that followed, the Republican Party often handed Manafort control of the program and instructed him to stage-manage the show. He produced the morning-in-America convention of 1984 and the Bob Dole nostalgia-thon of 1996.

Given Manafort’s experience and skill set, it never made sense that he would be limited to such a narrow albeit crucial task as delegate accumulation. Indeed, it didn’t take long before he attempted to seize control of the Trump operation—managing the budget, buying advertising, steering Trump toward a teleprompter and away from flaming his opponents, appearing on air as a primary surrogate.

Some saw the hiring of Manafort as desperate, as Trump reaching for a relic from the distant past in the belated hope of compensating for a haphazard campaign infrastructure. In fact, securing Manafort was a coup. He is among the most significant political operatives of the past 40 years, and one of the most effective. He has revolutionized lobbying several times over, though he self-consciously refrains from broadcasting his influence. Unlike his old business partners, Roger Stone and Lee Atwater, you would never describe Manafort as flamboyant. He stays in luxury hotels, but orders room service and churns out memos. When he does venture from his suite for dinner with a group, he’ll sit at the end of the table and say next to nothing, giving the impression that he reserves his expensive opinions for private conversations with his clients. “Manafort is a person who doesn’t necessarily show himself. There’s nothing egotistical about him,” says the economist Anders Aslund, who advised the Ukrainian government. The late Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory described him as having a “smooth, noncommittal manner, ” though she also noted his “aggrieved brown eyes.” Despite his decades of amassing influence in Washington and other global capitals, he’s never been the subject of a full magazine profile. He distributes quotes to the press at the time and place of his choosing, which prior to his arrival on the Trump campaign, was almost never. ...

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... rants.html

[Animavore]

None of the Bushes will be supporting Trump.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/geo ... ump/24677/

He has no support from any former president.

[Tyrannical]

None of the Bushes will be supporting Trump.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/geo ... ump/24677/

He has no support from any former president.

You say that as if it's a bad thing Remember, Trump attacked GW in the debates for the invasion of Iraq and lying about WMD's. Hey, maybe GW can even campaign for Hillary, how awesome would that be

[Animavore]

None of the Bushes will be supporting Drumpf.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/geo ... ump/24677/

He has no support from any former president.

You say that as if it's a bad thing Remember, Drumpf attacked GW in the debates for the invasion of Iraq and lying about WMD's. Hey, maybe GW can even campaign for Hillary, how awesome would that be

Remember how Republican supporters were all defending that shit right up until Trump started criticising it?

[Svartalf]

None of the Bushes will be supporting Trump.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/geo ... ump/24677/

He has no support from any former president.

You say that as if it's a bad thing Remember, Trump attacked GW in the debates for the invasion of Iraq and lying about WMD's. Hey, maybe GW can even campaign for Hillary, how awesome would that be

You secretly want her to lose so you can hav an excuse to go live with your girlfriend, don't you?

[Hermit]

Trumps the man for me. You can trust a woman with many things. Running a country is not one of them.

1979 revisited. In that year Deborah Wardley wanted to become an airline pilot. She had every possible professional, technical, psychological and meritorious reason to support her many, rejected applications. She took her boss, Reginald Ansett, owner of the airline to court. He said that he wasn’t prepared to risk the safety of his passengers by having an emotional, unpredictable woman in the cockpit.

And here we have the likes of Coito still arguing that women are on equal terms with men now.

Airline crews are a tight knit and socially co-operative community for obvious reasons. You've no reason to worry about that. I'm all for female commercial pilots. A safe and predictive pair of hands are a great comfort for the passengers. Still...the battlefield and politics are two areas of life where it's all a Joan of Arc too far, though.

What the fuck are you blathering on about now? You're doing the exact same thing reg did 37 years ago: Excluding someone from a job for no other reason than that she is a woman. Troglodyte.

[piscator]

A gay misogynist. TMI

[Tyrannical]

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-president ... t-apology/

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox apologizes to Trump, Trump accepts apology.

[cronus]

Women are OK in politics in good times. They are dependable and predictable. In good times that is a almighty plus. But we are not approaching good times. There are heavy rapids ahead. That is when you need the little bit of extra risk taking and the little bit of extra intelligence that a man can bring. I'm not saying Trump is the man. But he still better than Hilary. As we'll all see if the coin toss goes her way.

Gender differences in intelligence based on evidence, not prejudice. The difference only occurs meaningfully at high IQ levels, where positions of social influence often come into focus...

http://paulcooijmans.com/intelligence/s ... ences.html

[cronus]

America and the free world's, everyday freedoms we all take for granted. But our enemies are not constrained by political correctness from choosing the best chess player to lead them to a historic vicotry. Whether it is a leadership in Russia, China or the Middle East they are all hoping for a Hilary win, exactly like the nice caring pack around here....but because she'll do the right thing wrong.

[Tyrannical]

Russia likes Trump, and Russian media and the Russian are positive about him too. For the simple reason that Trump wants better relations and isn't trying to antognize Russia. With a president not stuck in the cold war mentality we can use joint resources to really fight Islamic extremism.

[piscator]

Trump & Putin: who'll be the butch; who'll be the bitch?

[Tyrannical]

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/mili ... /84132402/

Military hates Clinton, likes Trump. I guess her foreign policy experience isn't popular lol