heh. (on accounta it’s deprived!)

I suspect part of the reason – perhaps most of it – for Trump’s popularity is that the man is totally unfazed by the Left’s favorite debating tactic: attacking the person (“Racist! Homophobe! Sexist! 1 Percenter!!!11!”) instead of addressing the argument on the merits.

Realizing that neither the Left nor the Right care much about the merits anymore, Trump provides little in the way of arguments – much less any cogent explanation of how he’s going to single handedly make America great again. Instead, we have the prospect of the leader of the free world assuring us that his schlong is quite adequate, thank-you-very-much. Remind anyone of a certain thin-skinned president currently serving?

The combination of reckless braggadocio, wildly unrealistic boasts and promises, and utter inability to simply ignore trivial challenges to his ego that are beneath the dignity of the office he’s pursuing, he reminds me of Obama, promising to heal the oceans – nay, the planet! – and make the world respect America again while trash-talking his opponents every chance he gets.

Nary a hint of how these truly gargantuan tasks would be accomplished. As Susan Sarandon breathlessly whispered, “I can’t wait to see what Obama stands for”. Looking at Trump, I can’t help but feel the world’s biggest case of deja vu.

It’s amusing to see people countering Romney’s case against Trump by… (channeling the Left) attacking the messenger rather than refuting the merits of his arguments. They’ll have less success refuting the case made by 90-odd Republican national security experts, so my guess is that we’ll hear little about that.

One of the biggest jobs of any president is to set the tone and direction of our foreign policy and serve as commander in chief of our armed forces.

And we’re getting ready to hand those important jobs to a man who denigrates the service of men who spent years in Vietnamese POW camps because “they were captured”. I’d love to see him say that to the faces of men like Leo Thorseness or Jeremiah Denton. This is man who has the colossal gall to compare the risk of catching an STD from indiscriminate sex to serving in VietNam.

I don’t trust the judgment or the character of a man who thinks that sleeping around makes him “a great and brave soldier”. I don’t respect a man who admires Putin and thinks Bush lied us into war.

During the Clinton years, I frequently felt embarrassed for my country. That experience was painful enough when the President was a Democrat. I don’t want to feel that way with a Republican in the Oval Office.

This guy is the Republican Obama. *THAT* is why so many lifelong conservatives oppose him.

I hear you loud and clear on our/the world’s fiscal suicide. The next great depression will IMO be totally unlike the 1930s. It will be far more severe and all societal cohesion will collapse into chaos and violence. I doubt all but a few societies will be able to cope with the looming catastrophe, and our’s will not be one of them. The left’s divide and conquer politics will come back to haunt them.

Its all just a matter of when.

Point taken, thanks!

It’s just that he’s ALREADY set up to take a dive in November — whether he wants to or not.

The MSM will trip him up.

He’s NOT a winner with the typical registered GOP voter.

His vote tallies are buttressed by Leftist activists that are falsely signing on as Republicans.

Virginia figures to be just such a victory for Trump.

Up in Minnesota the activists figured that Rubio would be dreamy.

( To keep the dog fight going, that’s why. Yes, the vote was unexpected That state was virtually off the radar for the MSM… and the campains, too. )

Near as I can tell, Rubio made virtually NO campaign appearances up north. The echo of Iowa would have to do.

Preach it brother.

Romney = clueless.

But I have a lot of problems with many of Romney’s assertions;

“I say this in part because of my conviction that America is poised to lead the world for another century. Our technology engines, our innovation dynamic, and the ambition and skill of our people will propel our economy and raise our standard of living. America will remain as it is today, the envy of the world.”

Would that it were true. The man is living in an alternative universe. Wall Street illusions blinding him from Main Street realities.

“Warren Buffett was 100% right when he said last week that “the babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history.”

‘Potential’ is not actuality. Babies born today instantly face an astronomically obscene level of national indebtedness. We won’t be trying to pay off that 19+ TRILLION indebtedness, they will!

“U.S. Debt Up $1,608,304 for Each Baby Born the Year Obama Took Office”

“If the federal government were to continue accumulating net debt throughout the expected 78.5-year lifespan of a baby born in 2009 at the same average annual pace it has accumulated net debt during Obama’s first five years as president, the government would add more than $104 trillion in net debt during the life expectancy of those babies.”

So far more likely is that fiscal collapse will occur and they will grow up in a world we can’t even imagine but our depression era grandparents sure could. Though this time, the entire world’s bankruptcy will be much worse.

“That doesn’t mean we don’t have real problems and serious challenges. …But if we make the right choices, America’s future will be even better than our past and better than our present.”

But that is the problem, Americans in the aggregate are NOT “making the right choices”, proven with Obama’s 2012 reelection and now with Trump AND Sander’s elevation to the national stage. That men that deluded and unqualified are being considered, not by the merest fraction of the electorate but instead are considered by many, many millions of Americans as… preferable candidates, tells us all we need to know of just how badly our ship of state has gone astray. Romney’s failure to appreciate these obvious lessons, given his loss in 2012… is telling.

[Trump’s] “proposed 35% tariff-like penalties would instigate a trade war that would raise prices for consumers, kill export jobs, and lead entrepreneurs and businesses to flee America. His tax plan, in combination with his refusal to reform entitlements and to honestly address spending would balloon the deficit and the national debt.”

A trade war is the ONLY way to stop the obscenely unsustainable trade imbalance with China. They have to be convinced that the status quo has ended. We either suffer greatly now or suffer far more at a future date. There is LITTLE support in Congress for lowering the deficit and national debt because that is necessary to the continuance of the entitlement state. Under any democrat or RINO there will be NO honest addressing of spending, the deficit or the national debt.

Romney states that, “I believe we can nominate a person who can win the general election and who will represent the values and policies of conservatism.”

Does Romney actually believe that either Kasich or Rubio “represent the values and policies of conservatism”???

” I would vote for Marco Rubio in Florida, for John Kasich in Ohio, and for Ted Cruz or whichever one of the other two contenders has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump in a given state.”

This reveals that electibilty rather than principle are foremost in his thinking, so a continuance of the GOPe is acceptable. Which WILL ensure America’s future collapse.

“Insulting all Muslims will keep many of them from fully engaging with us in the urgent fight against ISIS.”

News flash Mr Romney! The FBI is on record stating that they get ZERO engagement from American Muslims in our ‘urgent’ fight against ISIS. The great majority of American Muslims are first Muslim and Islam’s tenets are unalterably and fundamentally opposed to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”…

Such clueless opinion, when many in our military have confirmed that we are doing little to combat ISIS overseas. An average of 20 sorties a day with a refusal to allow targeting of key ISIS positions is NOT fighting “urgently”. Its accepting lip service.

“The President of the United States has long been the leader of the free world.”

Not any more sir and, the world has long looked to our leadership… when it suited them. Ingrates who consistently place national interest above any other consideration. That America is more generous during foreign disasters than ALL of the rest of the world combined, tells us all we need to know about those we ‘lead’.

“Mr. Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes. He creates scapegoats of Muslims and Mexican immigrants”

Pure Bullpucky. The majority of American Muslims support Sharia law for themselves, a sure sign of NON-assimilation.

“Among Muslims aged 18-29—the future Muslims in America—only 25% said they think of themselves as American first. 60% said they are Muslim first, 5% refused to answer (which means they are Muslim first) and 10% said “both equally” (which means they are Muslim first). Even among those Muslims who said they are American first, 15% supported suicide bombings, and 39% didn’t believe that Arabs perpetrated the 9/11 attacks.”

Illegal immigrants disrespect our laws and then act outraged when called out for their criminality. Far too many reek of entitlement. La Raza’s popularity among Mexican immigrants is astronomical.

[Trump]“he calls for the use of torture and for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit first amendment freedom of the press.”

Waterboarding is NOT ‘torture’! He’s not calling for the direct murder of innocents. He’s saying allowing jihadists to use innocents for protection against retaliation is a formula for defeat. Trump is saying that, faced with totalitarian fanaticism, someone’s going to die. It can be M.E. innocents or American innocents.

Romney is another George Bush. A decent man who loves America but deeply clueless and completely unwilling to face hard realities.