Why I am voting Trump

Discussion in 'Politics' started by TradersForTrump, May 8, 2016.

  1. Exactly. And Trump won't ban all Muslims. He will make an exception for the Mayor of London. Trump is a good man for making exceptions.

    However Trump should ban the current Muslim POTUS Barack Hussein Obama.
     
    #11     May 10, 2016
  2. piezoe

    piezoe

    Trump is a buffoon of course. But not even Trump deserves these morons. My guess is that this thread was started in a none too subtle effort to make Trump look worse than he actually is by appearing to be supported by obvious idiots.
     
    #12     May 10, 2016


  3. I agree, only Trump can build a wall to keep out the Mexican liberal commies. Plus, his wife is pretty hot. That's the most important thing.
     
    #13     May 10, 2016
  4. all world leaders should be Women

    for one reason - fewer Wars

    a no brainer

    party is not that important

    marc
    :cool:
     
    #14     May 11, 2016
  5. Well, not all women are great leaders, just like not all men are great leaders.

    If you study what happened with Brazil, Argentina, and Chile during the last few years....
     
    #15     May 11, 2016
  6. fhl

    fhl

  7. fhl

    fhl

  8. Why I am backing Donald Trump
    By Kayleigh McEnany



    Updated 6:30 PM ET, Wed May 11, 2016





    [​IMG]

    Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump points to supporters following his speech at the Charleston Civic Center on May 5, 2016 in Charleston, West Virginia.
    Story highlights
    • Kayleigh McEnany: Donald Trump's audacious, unflinching boldness in face of criticism is a virtue
    • Trump has set the politically correct prison walls aflame, she says
    Kayleigh McEnany is a CNN contributor. She recently completed her Juris Doctor coursework at Harvard Law School. She graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and also studied politics at Oxford University. The views expressed are her own.

    (CNN)It was about a year ago that Donald Trump stormed onto the political scene. Many were taken aback by the confident, unapologetic and far from politically correct New York businessman -- including me.

    I admit that, for the first month of his candidacy, I had my concerns about Trump. I questioned, for example, whether someone with such cutting yet candid honesty, a candidate who veered so sharply from so many of the usual political expectations, could ever become president. The more I watched Trump on the campaign trail, though, the more some of these supposed weaknesses turned out to be strengths. I kept an open mind.
    [​IMG]

    Kayleigh McEnany
    Having spent years in academia -- at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Oxford University and Harvard Law School -- I encountered a wide range of worldviews. Some of the most interesting were from my Oxford tutor, a former Palestinian Liberation Organization representative with whom I frequently disagreed, but who I grew to understand and genuinely respect. My Harvard law professor, meanwhile, held views on the criminal justice system that sharply contrasted with my own, but that professor taught me the importance of thoughtful, civil interchange between opposing viewpoints.
    These are lessons that I have kept with me, and which have helped inform my political views -- including a willingness to be open-minded about Trump's candidacy.
    Like many others, I fully expected Trump to back down from his controversial statements as any good, scripted Washington politician would. After all, such brazenness was not permissible in mainstream political discourse. But rather than backing down, Trump pushed forward and the media was incensed. His audacious, unflinching boldness in the face of an onslaught of criticism is a virtue that I would not just come to accept, but also to appreciate and admire, leading me to endorse him before voting ever began.
    Sadly, some seem unable to accept that maybe what America needs is someone who will level with voters, and who isn't shy about presenting things as they are, not like we would necessarily like them to be. That is no truer than on U.S. college campuses.
    Bastions of free-flowing discussion with civil exchange are the academic ideal. But during my time in academia, it became increasingly clear that prisons of political correctness with peer-engendered public shaming are now the academic reality. Indeed, the reality is that there is a contingency of liberal college students that seek not just to diminish alternate viewpoints, but to stifle them altogether.
    In many cases, students who profess conservatism become the subject of anonymous ad hominem attacks -- not by professors seeking to facilitate conversation, but by students seeking to stop it. At one institution, an entire student-run website was devoted in part to just this endeavor. But the bullying was not just confined to the Internet.
    The squelching of speech was showcased last year when Yale students were filmed screaming down a professor who suggested that banning offensive Halloween costumes infringes on free speech. At the University of Michigan, students called police over pro-Trump messages written in chalk and suggested that there ought to be an emergency number to erase future "chalkings."
    It was this kind of mindset -- the hostile advocacy of platitudes over polite dissent, dictatorial silencing over thoughtful engagement and censorship over free interchange -- that took me from reticent acceptance of Trump's approach to passionate advocacy.
    It is of course not just his approach that has appealed, but his recognition that the enemy we face is not faceless but comes in the form of radical Islamic extremism, that the middle class has been left behind by both the left and the right and that unbridled immigration has victimized many Americans.
    Yet it is his honest advocacy for his deeply held beliefs that has emboldened me to speak out confidently for my positions, and to ignore the anonymous attacks and scoffing jeers of the naysayers. Trump has set the politically correct prison walls aflame.
    Despite the unfortunate state of freedom of ideas on U.S. campuses today, it was still the scholastic principle of openness to alternatives that encouraged me to give Trump's views a second look, and what I found was far more nuance than the media and his critics give him credit for.
    Take Trump's supposed "ban on all Muslims." What he actually proposed was a temporary ban on non-U.S. citizen Muslims until we discover how to isolate ISIS sympathizers. And Trump never dubbed all Mexicans rapists and criminals. Rather, he suggested that Mexican government had sent some people who fit this profile, much like Cuba did during the Mariel boatlift of the 1980s. None of this was motivated by bigotry, racism, Islamophobia or whatever other "ism" or "ia" the pundits concocted.
    "The punditry snicker, the politicians sneer, and the editorialists scoff, but the American people speak and Donald J. Trump rises --commandingly so -- confounding the powerful institutions of Washington D.C. and New York and earning him the ire of both." That's what I wrote when I endorsed him.
    Yes, I knew the road would be hard, beset with opposition from the left and the right. But the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia and his infinite wisdom continue to be a guiding light. Though written in a religious context, his words are ever encouraging to those fighting an uphill battle of any sort: "Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world."
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/11/opinions/donald-trump-support-mcenany/index.html
     
    #18     May 12, 2016
  9. Sheldon Adelson: Trump in the White House ‘is the only way things will get better’
    The multibillionaire casino magnate endorsed Trump early Friday

    Adelson was wooed by multiple candidates during the Republican primaries but stayed on the sidelines

    ‘You may not like Trump’s style or what he says on Twitter, but this country needs strong executive leadership more today than at almost any point in its history,’ he wrote

    [​IMG]

    Sheldon Adelson, one of the Republican Party’s largest donors, has given generously to presidential candidates in the past. Jerome Favre BLOOMBERG NEWS
    BY ELIZABETH KOH

    ekoh@mcclatchy.com







    The multibillionaire casino businessman and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson endorsed Donald Trump early Friday morning, urging fellow Republican donors and party members to unite behind the presumptive nominee.

    “While the primary cycle still has some important elections ahead, it is clear that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president,” he wrote in a Washington Post commentary. “I am endorsing Trump’s bid for president and strongly encourage my fellow Republicans — especially our Republican elected officials, party loyalists and operatives, and those who provide important financial backing — to do the same.”

    Adelson, one of the Republican Party’s largest donors, has given generously to presidential candidates in the past. He donated at least $155 million in the 2012 presidential cycle along with his wife Miriam, at least $30 million of which went to a Mitt Romney super PAC. He was wooed by several GOP candidates during this election’s primaries but ultimately withheld an endorsement. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which his family secretly purchased late last year, did endorse Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida before he dropped out of the race in March.

    Adelson wrote that though he doesn’t agree with Trump “on every issue,” the real estate businessman is “a CEO success story that exemplifies the American spirit of determination, commitment to cause and business stewardship.”

    "You may not like Trump’s style or what he says on Twitter, but this country needs strong executive leadership more today than at almost any point in its history,” he added. “The world is less secure than ever, and our allies have lost confidence in our ability to lead. The economy is not growing the way it should.”

    Adelson chided Republicans who have withheld their own endorsements or announced they would rather vote for the Democratic nominee. Several, including four of the last five Republican nominees, have said they will sit out the party convention in Cleveland that will officially give Trump the nomination.

    “As Republicans, we know that getting a person in the White House with an ‘R’ behind his name is the only way things will get better,” he wrote. “That opportunity still exists. We must not cut off our noses to spite our faces. If Republicans do not come together in support of Trump, Obama will essentially be granted something the Constitution does not allow — a third term in the name of Hillary Clinton.”

    “Trump has created a movement in this country that cannot be denied. He will end this primary election cycle having garnered more Republican primary votes for president than anyone before,” he added. “Republicans have the candidate who the people decided is our winner from a field of 17 viable contenders. It’s time for all Republicans to mount up and back our nominee.”









    Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/election/presidential-election/article77388167.html#storylink=cpy
     
    #19     May 13, 2016
  10. fhl

    fhl

    Joe Arpaio and Barry Obongo.

    One seeks to arrest people who are breaking the immigration laws.
    One wants to let them get away with it. As much as they want.

    Guess which one a judge has found in contempt?

    So put the sheriff in jail. When Trump is president, he can pardon him and get the judge impeached. Maybe we can find a crime the judge is guilty of, too.
     
    #20     May 13, 2016