Neurath

4 hours ago, Ulysses G. said:

Kasich is ONE guy and he was against Trump all along. He is just using this to justify his stance. I can understand why people do not like Trump - I am one of them - but Republicans who turn on him over this are cutting off or noses to spite their face. However, I am hoping that Trump will see reason and withdraw. Pense or Kasich or almost anyone else would be a better candidate. 

Trump might see reason, but it's hardly likely he'd recognize it if he saw it.

4 hours ago, CaptHaddock said:

So, now it looks like the Republican leadership is taking advantage of the current scandal to dump Trump.  There was talk of various underhanded means of dumping him at the convention, but that would have appeared too obviously to reject the will of the voters.  Now however, the current scandal has given them the perfect opportunity to get rid of Trump and return the party to the party bosses and the good graces of the billionaire donor class.

 

It's quite cynical since Trump's view of women has long been clear even before the incriminating tape, but that's politics.

Dead right. If he was ahead in the polls a large number of these people would have shut their traps and let Trump get on with his groping, his walls, his taxes and his all round cluelessness about public policy and governance. Rats off and away from SS Trump

5 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

I kinda realized that the GOP was really in crisis when i heard my home State Senator John Thune, not exactly a left leaning Republican, calling for Trump to withdraw.

 

Regardless of what happens, the party is in for some pretty deep soul searching on how it got to this

Pointless exercise. They can't find what died some time ago.

2 hours ago, Skywalker69 said:

‘I’ve never withdrawn in my life’: Trump

I'm quite sure that's true. The man has no manners.

2 hours ago, Ulysses G. said:

 

Who said that I "swallowed" anything? I suggested that it was not proven either way. Every wack-job website says something different and credible media have not reported anything that I can find.

What Media source do think is credible. Around here it tends to be the one that agrees with prior sentiment. Which source do you have in mind. 

3 hours ago, up-country_sinclair said:

It's over.   The Clintons can start measuring the drapes at this point.  The election is less than a month away, and this story (and the video) is going to be in heavy rotation for at least a week.  Don't forget that early voting is happening right now.

 

It's becoming even more clear that Trump has ruined the Republican Party for at least a generation.  Maybe forever.  I genuinely do believe that this could be it for Republicans in a national election.  For example, after this cycle, how are Republicans every going to win the Hispanic vote in swing states?  People tend to remember racial slurs hurled against them.  And if they don't, I'm confident the DNC has all of Trump's words (and those of the Republicans who stood behind him) recorded for posterity.

They'll take a hit for sure but they'll come out of it O.K. Using diversion and denial skills honed in the last decade they will dissociated themselves from Trump saying that they only went with him because of faulty intelligence and that the decisions made on the basis of faulty intelligence cannot be faulted AND that lots of people made the same mistake anyway. It's now commonly known in Political circles as the Iraq Maneuver. You have seen a bit of already when someone here commented that Trump made his oh so very Manly comments when he was a democrat. 

Still, in the short term There Will Be Blood as the Republican Party turns and starts devouring itself. There will be a reckoning for this dalliance with Trump and what he represents. 

4 hours ago, SoiBiker said:

Trump would have voted for the war too.

 

And then lied about it afterwards, probably. 

Probably?

Donald Trump and Roger Ailes - truly soul brothers.

2 hours ago, ClutchClark said:

 

I just made a drive through that Deep South Land of Evangelicals.

 

There were numerous billboards and they alternated every other one between a passage from the Bible and the next was a peepshow or Asian Spa next exit.

 

The folks you talk about are Sinners themselves and a Sinner loves the concept of Redemption.

 

I know in my heart of hearts that Donald repents what he said and I bet you a good Southern Evangelical knows more than anyone that Jesus forgives.

 

 

Repentance? Repentance in act and thought is about as far from Donald Trump as Alpha Centauri. If he repented or apologized he'd shrivel up and blow away like a vampire in the sun. He's just not capable of it in a way that would evoke any sort of sincerity - something of which he's also lacking. 

As for the notion that this latest disaster is just an example of locker room man banter and nothing else. Nah, it's not. It is another brick in the wall; another part of the jigsaw revealing the man for what he truly is. He's toast now. No coming back from this. What a disaster. 

Just now, Ulysses G. said:

 

 Yes. Sorry: 0.2% is probably more accurate.

Lose a whole number and add a zero - sounds like the Republican Primary result.

17 minutes ago, Ulysses G. said:

 

That is about 2% of his supporters at most and Hillary has just as many nut cases supporting her.

Is there a digit missing here somewhere?

9 minutes ago, Si Thea01 said:

 

Yeah, but a rich idiot.  If I had as much, then like him I would care what anyone called me.

You reckon Trump doesn't care what anyone calls him? How come he spent years and years sending photographs of his hands to Spy magazine with golden marker pen circling what he took to be his normal appendages? Trump's running because he cares way to much about what people think of him. His run for President is a pitiful exemplification of his need for affirmation from others. He's an infant looking for a stroke on the head and a suck on the tit.

49 minutes ago, ClutchClark said:

 

This is news to me. Most of the posters on this forum who post stuff against Trump are NOT big fans of hillary? 

 

Not trying to be a wiseguy but I was not aware of that. How many of the hillary anti-Trump people posting here are not actually hillary fans? Why is she defended so much then?

Not a fan of Hillary Clinton's. If the ticket against Trump was Nixon and Bush, I'd vote for them. And still call Trump out for what he is: a dangerous, erratic fool nurturing and fertilizing all that is dark, shameful and nasty in our souls.    

Looks like a record number of people will vote for Hilary Clinton.

The Republican Song of the moment? Crystal Gayle:

Don't know when I've been so blue

Don't know what's come over you

You've found someone new

And don't it make my Red States blue

Hope he recovers fully and returns well to his family and friends.  Have to say though that the only thing missing in the photograph is a big Union Jack on his back.

Nah, Rudy's just a nematode in Trump's rotten meat. Even your cats wouldn't eat it.

18 minutes ago, ClutchClark said:

 

Bug-eyed ?

 

Is it possible for a liberal to not spew negativity and vitriol ?

Anything's possible Clutch, I suppose anything's possible. Why, just now I'm commenting on your comment about liberals being unable not to spew negativity and vitriol and doing so in a very civilized and dare I say it liberal and understanding manner ..... no.....wait on.....can't stop ...it....vitriol can't fight it....bug eyed Rudy in Trump's trouser pocket like malformed ugly elf. Sorry. You're right. Not possible.

12 hours ago, Jingthing said:

trump vs. "political correctness"

 

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At time 4:04 in this. The dancing girls. A disturbing memory of a scene from the film Eraserhead. Girl dancing, things falling from ceiling....things that look like spermatazoon or  malformed or foetuses. They're raining down on her head. She's stamping on them now, stamping on them!  But still dancing! She sings on and dances stamping on the malformed things. But still singing and dancing and stomping. It's abject and ugly and terrifying. Those Trump dancing girls presage evil, evil I tell you. 

4 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

 

Your arrogance is why trump is a serious presidential candidate in the first place.

Hang on a minute there! OMGpattaya told me not so many posts ago that Trump became a 'serious' presidential candidate because Obama told a joke about his birther nonsense. Now your telling me that Trump became a 'serious' candidate because Pinot is arrogant? Hell buddy, I'm confused, I didn't even know that Trump was a serious presidential candidate rather than the political equivalent of the mixture of Circus Geek and used car salesman - not that there's anything wrong with used car salesmen - some of them, I presume, are nice people. 

538 now has Clinton with a better then even chance of winning both Iowa and Ohio. Ouch, that must hurt. If it goes any further in this direction she'll end up with more electoral college votes than the Kenyan. Arizona next to fall? Say it ain't so. Sheriff A. will blow an aneurysm. 

7 hours ago, Bob9 said:

 

Maybe you can tell me?  Why do liberals always make personal insults against people who disagree with their political agenda?  

 

You mean like this:

"Ooops - how silly of me - expecting a liberal to think for themselves."?

7 hours ago, Bob9 said:

 

Maybe you can tell me?  Why do liberals always make personal insults against people who disagree with their political agenda?  

 

You mean like asserting that they weren't born in the US?

3 minutes ago, OMGImInPattaya said:

I've got Alex on speed-dial so easy for me to check  

You've got him on speed-dial, but he's most assuredly on speed - lot's of it. Leads to psychosis I'm told

40 minutes ago, OMGImInPattaya said:

My point was that the polls are close and that it's still very much a toss-up.

Might be your point, but it's not how the facts stand. Maybe that will change in the next four weeks, but it's hard to see how short of HRC being unmasked as Fembot sleeper being controlled remotely by voracious aliens from Gliese 581c. You'll have to ask Alex Jones.

12 minutes ago, OMGImInPattaya said:

Is she the flat-chested one...much prefer the leggy busty Fox babes.

You and Roger both