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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Why on earth is Mc Cain so hated?
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranDemocrats think he's a war-monger.
Tea Party repubs think he's a RINO
Everyone thinks he's a flip-flopper who will do anything to stay elected.
I like the guy personally, but he has no shortage of flaws.
edited 12th May '16 2:06:16 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.I thought Mcain would have been pretty nice as a president. His Vice President...not so much.
Leviticus 19:34@I Love Dogs: My home state of Maine is no surprise. Politically, we have usually been a three way split between both parties and a huge number of independents. And by today's Tea Party Standards, Susan Collins is a RINO, while Olympia Snowe would be an independent Centrist.
To be fair I honestly think the Mc Cain campaign didn't know how nuts Palin was when they nominated her to be veep. Believe it or not she was well known for fighting corrupt oil companies when she was in charge of Alaska. According to an Alaska couple my Grandparents went on a cruise with Palin just seemed to morph into a different person when they nominated her to be Vice President, I guess fame will do that to you.
I can't believe that is a song.
edited 12th May '16 2:42:38 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.No, because Cruz is a true believer right wing fanatic with no redeeming qualities. A Christian Taliban by the book.
Trump does sometimes say and do nice things, c.f his defense of "New York values" when Cruz first brought it up and the flip-flopping on the transgender bathroom controversy (rather than Cruz who fully embraced the bigots there). Occasionally. And as this rounding up episode shows, many of his most horrible stances are shared by Cruz.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanCruz is basically a man with an iron heart. Nobody can stand him because he is just All Cruelty All The Time.
My estimation of him is that he is a maggot. He eats decay and derives nourishment from the suffering of others.
Some people who've worked with him, from staffers to John Boehner, have said very telling things. One staffer outright said Cruz took a sadistic joy in human suffering when "they deserved it for offending god". As in, by these accounts, he liked it when Transgender people got killed just for being themselves.
In comparison to him, Trump seems downright charming. There are at least people Trump genuinely likes and will defend. See "New York Values" and a recent interview between him and O'Reilly (where somehow Trump ended up the less racist one).
Cruz on the other hand - the more we learn about him, the less there is human in there.
Yeah, the thing with Trump is that he's kind of what I picture Big Brother from 1984 as being like (if we assume he actually exists). To him, the object of power is power, and truth doesn't exist.
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The difference between Trump and Cruz is the difference in motive. Cruz is a Knight Templar in motive. Trump is a Glory Hound in motive. Quite frankly, the big issue in focusing protests on Donald Trump is that it ignores that the entire Republican Party for the most part supports the more heinous policies that Trump expounds publicly.
Donald Trump: Muslim ban 'just a suggestion'.
The first Paragraph really says it all:
edited 12th May '16 5:39:35 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.When he said "Wall" he actually mean 'dainty, picket fence'.
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.

Governors? Well, Republicans do have the majority of governor posts...
Senators? Only 3 out of the 10 most popular ones are Republicans. And only 4 among the 10 least popular are Democrats.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman