GOP's War on Trump

[41chevy]

Even if Donald Trump earns the required 1,237 delegates before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, he still may not be the party’s nominee for president. .

Curly Haugland, an unbound delegate from North Dakota, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on March 16 – the day after Trump rolled up more big primary victories – that political parties, not voters, choose their presidential nominees:

“The media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination. That’s the conflict here. WE chose who WE want NOT the public"

Haugland, who’s also the head Republican convention rules member, also questioned why primaries or caucuses are even held as they are meaningless to the party.. He’s one of 112 Republican delegates who are not required to cast their support for any one candidate because their states and territories don’t hold primaries or caucuses.

Even with Trump’s huge projected delegate haul in four state primaries Tuesday, the odds are increasing that he may not ultimately get the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the GOP nomination before the convention if they allow him to claim the nomination at all. 

This could lead to a brokered convention, in which unbound delegates, like Haugland, could play a significant swing role on the first ballot to choose a nominee.

Most delegates bound by their state’s primary or caucus results are only committed on the first ballot. If subsequent ballots are needed, virtually all of these delegates can vote any way they want, said Gary Emineth, another unbound delegate from North Dakota.

“It could introduce Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, or it could be the other candidates that have already been in the race and are now out of the race [such as] Mike Huckabee [or] Rick Santorum. All those people could eventually become candidates on the floor.”

If this wasn’t confusing enough, here’s another twist. Haugland  sent a letter to each campaign alerting them to a rule changes he’s proposing, which would allow any candidate who earns at least one delegate during the nominating process to submit his or her name to be nominated at this summer’s convention. The  rule change also allows the votes by registered Republicans to be counted  but Democrates who cross party lines and Independents NOT to be counted.

Haugland added: “The rules are designed to have a political party choose its nominee at a convention. That’s just the way it is.  Haugland  also stated ” It’s our party and we’ll choose any candidate that we damn well  want – regardless of what the people think ,want or expect, it is still our show".

 

 

Seems to me that both Republican and Democratic party leaders have shown voters that they run rigged games for their benefit and not for the benefit of the American public.

Conservative Republicans around the country are already beyond angry. If party leaders steal the nomination from Trump, this could be the of the end of the GOP. and creation of a one party system.

I feel this "stop Trump art all costs" will also give Hillary or Sanders the election on a platter.     Paul

[HeavyGunner]

Yup, if those dummies can't get behind trump they are surely going to lose and really screw us with either of the dems candidates. We need to change our election system to majority vote so EVERYONE'S vote counts. If memory serves me correctly Obama didn't get the majority vote last election but still won. Things like this and things like you posted Paul helps me make sense of people who don't vote. Unless you're in a state with lots of electoral votes your vote usually doesn't matter much if any at all. It always pisses me off when they announce a winner before all the votes are counted. I do understand that when they do that there is no way the other candidate can win but it makes it seem like only a some of the states voters count. 

[tjc transport]

just because the losers do not support trump, that does not prevent people from doing a write in of his name.

[RedBullDog]

It is strange that both parties have a primary candidate that is popular with a large segment of their supposed voting base, yet that person is so undesirable  to the party elites and ruling classes.  The people that are in support of Trump are in the same boat as the people supporting Sanders. 

They are members of a party that has pandered to them for so long, and made them feel like they are what that party stands for. Now each party has a candidate that says what these voters want to hear, and its very different from the actual vision and belief of those really in charge. 

The wolves are being forced to take off their sheeps clothing and try to force, on these voters, a candidate that is chosen for them by 1%'s and the "educated" elite.  The reason Sanders keeps hanging around, is that Hillary is not anything anyone wants in a president.  Trump wins primaries because he says things that sound more appealing than the same old blather from the country club blue bloods that actually run the party. 

If  the blue bloods pass over Trump, ignoring all those base voters,  and try to nominate another 1% stiff like Romney,  those voters will leave the Republican party in droves.  When they go, it will be the final nail in the coffin,  because the falsehood that they represent the average guy's views will have been exposed.

Same for the Dems; usurping the will of their base voter to push the pet candidate of the rich leaders. 

 

[ranchhopper]

There will be hell to pay when most people who would for Trump figure out their votes don't count because they didn't vote for the establishment candidate.

[tjc transport]

and then the civil war will start after they all realize a person was appointed president even though someone else won the election by votes.

[41chevy]

If Hillary gets the Democrat nomination that Sanders voters would in all probability vote for Trump.  With the Electoral College and the electronic voting fraud from the past two elections, I feel it is stacked to keep status quo for both parties.

One thing mentioned with the GOP Anti Trump thing on Radio Free Europe (BBC) is that the GOP "core" members and their lobbyists do not want Trump as a candidate. 

[Brocky]

This is an email I recieved last week from a friend

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Bill Bennett about Donald Trump. Subject:

Written by the distinguished Bill Bennett about Donald Trump. I think you will find it very interesting and alarming.  You might want to take the time to read it. PHD - Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan Cultural studies at the distinguished and renown Heritage Foundation Interesting take on Trump. William J.. Bennett, Host of Bill Bennett's Morning in America Show, is one of America's most important, influential, and respected voices on cultural, political, and education issues.  He has one of the strongest Christian world views of any writer in modern times. What I See Happening In a Trump Presidency By Bill Bennett "They will kill him before they let him be president.  It could be a Republican or a Democrat that instigates the shutting up of Trump. Don’t be surprised if Trump has an accident.  Some people are getting very nervous:  Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Jon Corzine, to name just a few. It's about the unholy dynamics between big government, big business, and big media.  They all benefit by the billions of dollars from this partnership, and it's in all of their interests to protect one another. It's one for all and all for one.  It’s a heck of a filthy relationship that makes everyone filthy rich, everyone except the American people.  We get ripped off.  We’re the patsies.  But for once, the powerful socialist cabal and the corrupt crony capitalists are scared.  The over-the-top reaction to Trump by politicians of both parties, the media, and the biggest corporations of America has been so swift and insanely angry that it suggests they are all threatened and frightened. Donald Trump can self-fund.  No matter how much they say to the contrary, the media, business, and political elite understand that Trump is no joke.  He could actually win and upset their nice cozy apple cart. It's no coincidence that everyone has gotten together to destroy The Donald.  It's because most of the other politicians are part of the a good old boys club.  They talk big, but they won’t change a thing.  They are all beholden to big-money donors.  They are all owned by lobbyists, unions, lawyers, gigantic environmental organizations, and multinational corporations – like Big Pharmacy or Big Oil.  Or they are owned lock, stock, and barrel by foreigners like George Soros owns Obama or foreign governments own Hillary and their Clinton Foundation donations. These run-of-the-mill establishment politicians are all puppets owned by big money.  But there's one man who isn't beholden to anyone.  There's one man who doesn't need foreigners, or foreign governments, or George Soros, or the United Auto Workers, or the teacher's union, or the Service Employees International Union, or the Bar Association to fund his campaign. Billionaire tycoon and maverick Donald Trump doesn’t need anyone’s help.  That means he doesn’t care what the media says.  He doesn’t care what the corporate elites think.  That makes him very dangerous to the entrenched interests.  That makes Trump a huge threat to those people.  Trump can ruin everything for the bribed politicians and their spoiled slave masters. Don’t you ever wonder why the GOP has never tried to impeach Obama?  Don’t you wonder why John Boehner and Mitch McConnell talk a big game, but never actually try to stop Obama?  Don’t you wonder why Congress holds the purse strings, yet has never tried to de-fund Obamacare or Obama’s clearly illegal executive action on amnesty for illegal aliens?  Bizarre, right?  It defies logic, right? First, I'd guess many key Republicans are being bribed.  Secondly, I believe many key Republicans are being blackmailed.  Whether they are having affairs, or secretly gay, or stealing taxpayer money, the National Security Agency knows everything. Ask former House Speaker Dennis Hastert about that.  The government even knew he was withdrawing large sums of his own money from his own bank account.  The NSA, the SEC, the IRS, and all the other three-letter government agencies are watching every Republican political leader.  They surveil everything.  Thirdly, many Republicans are petrified of being called racists, so they are scared to ever criticize Obama or call out his crimes, let alone demand his impeachment.  Fourth , why rock the boat?  After defeat or retirement, if you’re a good old boy, you’ve got a $5 million-per-year lobbying job waiting.  The big-money interests have the system gamed.  Win or lose, they win. But Trump doesn’t play by any of these rules.  Trump breaks up this nice, cozy relationship between big government, big media, and big business.  All the rules are out the window if Trump wins the Presidency.  The other politicians will protect Obama and his aides but not Trump.  Remember:  Trump is the guy who publicly questioned Obama's birth certificate.  He questioned Obama's college records and how a mediocre student got into an Ivy League university.  Now, he's doing something no Republican has the chutzpah to do.  He's questioning our relationship with Mexico; he's questioning why the border is wide open; he's questioning why no wall has been built across the border; he's questioning if allowing millions of illegal aliens into America is in our best interests; he's questioning why so many illegal aliens commit violent crimes, yet are not deported; and he's questioning why our trade deals with Mexico, Russia and China are so bad. Trump has the audacity to ask out loud why American workers always get the short end of the stick.  Good question!  I'm certain Trump will question what happened to the almost billion dollars given in a rigged no-bid contract to college friends of Michelle Obama at foreign companies to build the defective Obamacare website.  By the way, that tab is now up to $5 billion.  Trump will ask if Obamacare's architects can be charged with fraud for selling it by lying.  Trump will investigate Obama's widespread IRS conspiracy, not to mention Obama's college records..  Trump will prosecute Clinton and Obama for fraud committed to cover up Benghazi before the election.  How about the fraud committed by employees of the Labor Department when they made up dramatic job numbers in the last jobs report before the 2012 election? Obama, the multinational corporations and the media need to stop Trump.  They recognize this could get out of control.  If left unchecked, telling the raw truth and asking questions everyone else is afraid to ask, Trump could wake a sleeping giant.  Trump's election would be a nightmare.  Obama has committed many crimes.  No one else but Trump would dare to prosecute.  He will not hesitate.  Once Trump gets in and gets a look at the cooked books and Obama's records, the game is over.  The goose is cooked.  Holder could wind up in prison.  Jarrett could wind up in prison.  Obama bundler Corzine could wind up in prison for losing $1.5 billion of customer money.  Clinton could wind up in jail for deleting 32,000 emails or for accepting bribes from foreign governments while Secretary of State, or for misplacing $6 billion as the head of the State Department, or for lying about Benghazi.  The entire upper level management of the IRS could wind up in prison. Obamacare will be de-funded and dismantled.  Obama himself could wind up ruined, his legacy in tatters.  Trump will investigate.  Trump will prosecute.  Trump will go after everyone involved.  That’s why the dogs of hell have been unleashed on Donald Trump. Yes, it's become open season on Donald Trump.  The left and the right are determined to attack his policies, harm his businesses, and, if possible, even keep him out of the coming debates.  But they can't silence him.  And they sure can't intimidate him.  The more they try, the more the public will realize that he's the one telling the truth".   Please don't delay in forwarding to your fellow Americans... THANK YOU for deleting my address, any other addresses and personal information from this e-mail before  forwarding it. and  also for using "Bcc" instead of "To" and "Cc" when initiating group e-mails.  This prevents spammers and hackers from obtaining addresses and reduces

[carlotpilot]

thanks for posting the above   brocky  mr bennett is spot on with this article  i sincerely hope dt has triple checked his security team daily and continues to do so

[Gmerrill0516]

EXACTLY why we need to get The Donald into the Whitehouse!  Time to clean house, shake up the corruption and hold some politicians accountable for their corruption and crimes.  One can hope this stuff gets brought into the light before we are a third world country.

[41chevy]

GOP And Left Hijack Race

 

Published on TheHill.Com on March 22, 2016

2016 has seen the advent of two serious threats to our democratic process of choosing a president. One is from the right, as Republican Party bosses seek to reassert their ability to overrule the voters — and the other from the left, with demonstrators seeking to shout out Donald Trump and goad his all-too-susceptible followers into violence.

The nexus of these twin threats is the same: fear of Trump.

As he marches on toward the presidential nomination, he is sweeping aside the best the Republican Party has to offer. John Kasich hangs on by a thread. And only Ted Cruz stands in his way.

But the fear he engenders has catalyzed the least democratic of our impulses: mob rule by the left and boss rule by the right. While Americans have fought and died for the right to select their leaders in elections, thousands more have been clubbed, gassed, exiled and imprisoned in the fight to get the right to nominate candidates in direct primaries.

Before 1964, party bosses routinely selected the candidates. Primaries were for candidates who had something to prove, a form of auditioning for the party bosses. In 1952 and 1956, Adlai Stevenson won the Democratic nomination without competing in a single primary. In 1960, Kennedy fought in the primaries to prove that a Catholic could win and so he could persuade — but could not compel — the bosses to nominate him.

But in 1964, Barry Goldwater turned the Republican establishment on its head by defeating Nelson Rockefeller in the primaries, leaving in the dust the old Eastern party establishment.

When the left wing of the Democratic Party, animated by opposition to the Vietnam War, tried the trick in 1968, its candidates — Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern — won all the primaries, but the party bosses nominated Hubert Humphrey nonetheless. Chicago, the scene of the convention, was gripped by days of rioting, police brutality, tear gas, billy clubs and arrests. So rent was the Democratic Party that it succumbed to Richard Nixon in the fall.

Stung by the events of Chicago, Democrats — followed by Republicans — changed the rules and required that the delegates who chose the candidates be elected in primaries after making binding and public pledges of support for a candidate.

Now the leaders of the Republican Party, terrified by the prospect of a nominee they cannot control and convinced they will not defeat Hillary Clinton in the fall, are mapping out a strategy to ignore the will of their voters and derail Trump at the convention. Nobody challenges the primary voting or alleges that the billionaire stole his victories. But the bosses would nonetheless have us turn away the candidate that got the most votes and instead nominate someone more to their liking.

This strategy is obscene and a violation of the spirit of our nation and our democracy. Even if a candidate should fall just short of a majority but win the overwhelming plurality, he should not be stymied but must be nominated.

On the left, noisy demonstrators try to disrupt Trump’s rallies. In the spirit of the communist “agents provocateur” of years past, they shove their signs in the face of Trump supporters, challenging them to physical combat. When Trump’s backers respond, they film it and broadcast it throughout the nation, piously decrying Trump’s authoritarian predilections.

Meanwhile, the left-wing mob blocks traffic to stop people from exercising their First Amendment right of peaceful assembly.

These threats to our democratic way of choosing a president must not be allowed to block the path of popular selection of the nominee — especially not when hundreds of thousands of voters are participating in the Republican primaries for the first time. We dare not make them more cynical by showing that their votes didn’t count.

This election is not a question of whether or not you are for Donald Trump. It’s about whether or not you are for democracy.

[grayhair]

I agree with Bill Bennett.  Copied from above, " Don’t you ever wonder why the GOP has never tried to impeach Obama?  Don’t you wonder why John Boehner and Mitch McConnell talk a big game, but never actually try to stop Obama?  Don’t you wonder why Congress holds the purse strings, yet has never tried to de-fund Obamacare or Obama’s clearly illegal executive action on amnesty for illegal aliens?  Bizarre, right?  It defies logic, right?"

And, on the other hand, if you vote for Hillary, and if you live in NY, or NJ, or MA, or IL, or San Francisco, then you know Hillary will protect you just like she took care of our people in Benghazi.  Repeat, you do not need to own guns and ammo, etc.  Hillary has your back.  No really...

[41chevy]

So it seems to me the " plan " is stop Trump causing a third party and that will Hillary or Sanders to win. Trump voters showing disgust and protests. The GOP can back Trump and cause protests and or riots before the elections............causing Obama to declare Martial Law and suspend the election and stay in charge until "the crisis passes".    Paul  

[david wild]

1)  If Cruz would attack Obama, Clinton, reed and Pelosi with the same vigor that uses against Trump then I might support him if he gets the nomination even by theft, if not I'll vote for Clinton and send the country down the tubes so we can start over, because she will finish what shit for brains has started.

 

2) I believe that Washington and that's both sides fear Trump, he owes no one nothing and he will expose the corruption in Washington and then the real problems will begin, I don't care if he pisses off North Korea or China or anyone, I'm tired of this country being pissed on by every dirt bag, Love it or leave or support it or leave.

 

3) Trumps woman is better looking than the dog we have now

 

4) any 4 year old could do better than Obama, so Trump would have to be better ???

 

5) Obama said 30 million people were without healthcare, now there are close to 9 million on Obama care what happened to the other 20 million ????  

 

6) Maybe Trump does not want to be president, maybe he just trying to show us how corrupt our government is ?? maybe that is why he say's what he say's, I hope he is president, I hope pisses off all the blood suckers who draining this country dry, and I would help him in any possible put this country back on top instead of driving us toward being a third world nation.  

 

7) Lastly, since coal is near and dear to me, Shit for brains destroyed our coal industry, he himself owns that, he was out to save the environment, BUT global coal power plant construction starts are at a record global high ?? so much for the environment ?? or just another way to bring our country down ???? 

[m16ty]

The GOP has two options, get behind Trump or die. It's insane to think that they can nominate anybody else and the Trump supporters will just say "oh well, I guess we are stupid and the GOP knows much better than we do".

Why a party would rather commit sucide than let the republican front runner win is beyond me. 

[grayhair]

I used to be a staunch GOP supporter once upon a time.  I wouldn't send them a dime now.  Last go-around Romney had the party nominating rules changed to keep out Ron Paul.

This time they are messing with the rules to keep out Trump.  The party has shown complete disdain for the will of the people.  It would be good if today's GOP implodes and a new conservative party rises from the ashes.  

In fact, the Founding Fathers warned us about the threat from a two party system.

John Adams said:

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

[41chevy]

There talk of the GOP picking Romney to run against Hillary or Sanders. . .

[grayhair]

21 minutes ago, 41chevy said:

There talk of the GOP picking Romney to run against Hillary or Sanders. . .

He won't get many votes.  Now that we've seen more of him we know him to be a puss, and sneaky on top of that.

[david wild]

I think Trump has his own set of problems but Cruz is part of the problem that this country is in, he is a insider and his number one concern is not us the taxpayer, I truly believe that Trump really does want this country to be great, it's good for all biz including his. I have to wonder how sick and twisted anyone would have to be to support Clinton ???  they must belong to the same camp that believes smoking is harmless ?? and the Muslim Brotherhood is a frat.  Bernie is funny, he is totally clueless but his supporters scare me, they believe his shit. Funny how we (America) under Obama go out of our way to please our enemies, people that want to kill us and see our country brought to it's knees yet our government worries more about us insulting them or offending them more than what they do to us, I find that offensive.  Trump is no way perfect but compared to the others he is heaven sent.    

[41chevy]

1 hour ago, david wild said:

I think Trump has his own set of problems but Cruz is part of the problem that this country is in, he is a insider and his number one concern is not us the taxpayer, I truly believe that Trump really does want this country to be great, it's good for all biz including his. I have to wonder how sick and twisted anyone would have to be to support Clinton ???  they must belong to the same camp that believes smoking is harmless ?? and the Muslim Brotherhood is a frat.  Bernie is funny, he is totally clueless but his supporters scare me, they believe his shit. Funny how we (America) under Obama go out of our way to please our enemies, people that want to kill us and see our country brought to it's knees yet our government worries more about us insulting them or offending them more than what they do to us, I find that offensive.  Trump is no way perfect but compared to the others he is heaven sent.    

 

Emory University in Atlanta is under siege at this hour from a chalk-wielding Donald Trump supporter who caused a massive outbreak of micro-aggressions among frightened students.Terrified collegians are hunkered down in their safe spaces – traumatized by whoever wrote “Trump 2016” and “Accept the Inevitable: Trump 2016” on campus sidewalks.

That was a bit alarming,” one panicked student told The Emory Wheel. “What exactly is inevitable? Why does it have to be accepted?”

“I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe [here],” she told the campus paper. “But if this racist man is being supported by students on our campus…I feel afraid for my life at my school now.”

The Emory Latino Student Organization posted on their Facebook site calling the drawing “a racist act of cowardice.”

“They did not do this merely to support the presidential candidate, but to promote the hate and discrimination against people of color and Hispanics that goes along with him,” they wrote.

Dozens of students protested the chalk drawings in the university’s quad – demanding the administration take criminal and civil action against the pro-Trump supporter(s).

“You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain,” students shouted as reported by the campus newspaper. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.””

“I will dismiss their expression of feelings and concern as motivated only by political preference or over-sensitivity,” he wrote in an email to students. “Instead, the students with whom I spoke heard a message, not about political process or candidate choice, but instead about values regarding racial hatred and lack of respect for non citizens that clash with Emory’s own values.”

President Wagner vowed to launch a campus police investigation and round up the pro-Trump graffiti artists, the newspaper reported. He said if the individuals are students they will go through a violation process and if they are not students they will face charges.

Meanwhile, the university’s student government association is providing “emergency counseling for students triggered by the Trump 2016 campus chalkings.” The student newspaper also took a few jabs at Mr. Trump – calling him “an offensive man” who has made “racist, sexist and xenophobic statements.”

Ironically, there was no outrage from liberal students or the university administration or the campus newspaper in 2014 when protesters drew chalk outlines of bodies during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. I reckon at Emory University black lives do matter, but the lives of Trump supporters do not..But a source at the Centers for Disease Control tells me there are grave concerns that what happened at Emory University is not an anomaly. And they fear that if the Republicans nominate Donald Trump – it could spawn an epidemic of micro-aggressions on university campuses across the United States.

Edited March 27, 2016 by 41chevy

[BOB DINGSDALE]

If CRUZ is the nominee the first thing Hillery is going to ask for is his birth certificate. remember 4 years ago when Donald made a big deal about Obumbas. ties will turn.

[HeavyGunner]

15 hours ago, 41chevy said:

There talk of the GOP picking Romney to run against Hillary or Sanders. . .

Let's not forget trump just whooped it up in Massechusetts, he got more votes there than when Romney was governor and running for the presidency

Edited March 27, 2016 by HeavyGunner
Auto correct inserted wrong word

[RowdyRebel]

21 hours ago, david wild said:

I think Trump has his own set of problems but Cruz is part of the problem that this country is in, he is a insider and his number one concern is not us the taxpayer, I truly believe that Trump really does want this country to be great, it's good for all biz including his. I have to wonder how sick and twisted anyone would have to be to support Clinton ???  they must belong to the same camp that believes smoking is harmless ?? and the Muslim Brotherhood is a frat.  Bernie is funny, he is totally clueless but his supporters scare me, they believe his shit. Funny how we (America) under Obama go out of our way to please our enemies, people that want to kill us and see our country brought to it's knees yet our government worries more about us insulting them or offending them more than what they do to us, I find that offensive.  Trump is no way perfect but compared to the others he is heaven sent.    

Just because he's in the Senate doesn't mean he's an "insider".  Cruz is the one who stood on the Senate floor filibustering spending bills funding Obamacare, illegal amnesty, etc.  Cruz is the one who has argued (and won) cases at the Supreme Court.  Cruz has a core set of principals that he does not compromise on...he had the balls to call for ending ethanol subsidies while campaigning IN IOWA.  We KNOW where he stands on issues, and he doesn't try to hide from those positions.

 

That is why Jimmy Carter endorsed Trump...called him "malleable"...capable of being easily changed or influenced.  His position on any issue isn't what is right or wrong, but what he thinks is the popular opinion of the crowd he's in front of...such as calling for the EXPANSION of ethanol subsidies while campaigning in Iowa.  He'll say anything to please whatever crowd he's talking to, even if he said the complete opposite the day before....and if you have the gall to call him out on the flip-flopping, he insults you and calls you a liar. 

 

Trump has shown a complete lack of class throughout the campaign, and this latest deal where his good buddy who runs a tabloid rag published a fabricated story to tarnish Cruz's reputation only illustrates that point.  We've already had 7+ years with an undignified, classless individual occupying the white house.  We don't need another.

[RowdyRebel]

19 hours ago, BOB DINGSDALE said:

If CRUZ is the nominee the first thing Hillery is going to ask for is his birth certificate. remember 4 years ago when Donald made a big deal about Obumbas. ties will turn.

The whole birther thing originated with Hillary's campaign...Trump just picked it up and ran with it.  And as far as Cruz's eligibility is concerned, that has already been addressed by the courts and they have stated that he is, in fact, eligible.

Edited March 28, 2016 by RowdyRebel

[david wild]

The problems with this country are bigger than Trump and Cruz, Trump seems to worry less about who he pisses off, at this point I'd like to see them all gone.

If ever given the chance to speak with Obama he would know exactly how I feel about him and his anti American attitude, there would be no question in his mind of my feelings about him, that's what I want in the next president, I want to know that he wants us to be no. 1 I don't care about the rest of the world, they do not care about us, I have worked all over the world including Iraq and Africa and the people are great but the leaders are just like ours, corrupt. But every place I have been it's them first then help others, we  help all others then the people of this country. This country has it all and we should use it to the best advantage that we can, kind of like Alaska and it's oil payouts, take care of US citizens first then help the rest with what's left, not we sacrifice so others get more than us.  Close the borders, what's wrong with that, every one else does, why can't we, that slows down the drug trade, that's good, develop our coal and oil, buy up everyone else's while it's cheap, then corner the market, that's good, how about educating the kids of today and teaching them that work is not a nasty four letter word,  We have country full of people that can't find a job yet we can't anyone that wants to work  ???  Most of the problems in this country now stems from people expecting to be taken care of instead of taking care of themselves, look around, one misfit after another, interview someone for a job, we had one the actually thought that he should get medical time off for his wife's period, she cramps and he needed to be there ???? WTF  like I said I'll support Cruz but let him attack Clinton with the same vigor as he attacks Trump.