Do we ever hear about those “real Republicans”, not the “tea baggers”, who stand behind Trump 100%.
I saw this article today, on MSN, and wanted to share it, since it reflects what I have felt all along. It will be curious, when the voting actually begins and we see just how many Republican voters will actually admit Trump would make a great President and vote for him. It sounds like there are a lot of Republican voters, in New Hampshire, who are embarrassed by the way he is acting and would never want to see him become President.
BROOKLINE, N.H. — Jeanne Cleveland, a retired teacher, pursed her lips sourly at the mention of his name and tried to summarize her distaste in diplomatic terms.
“I think he’s arrogant,” she said. “I think he’s rude. I think——”
She paused, reaching for the right words. “Let’s just say, I don’t like the way he represents us as a country.”
To avoid any confusion, Mrs. Cleveland put it plainly: “I don’t like Trump.”
It truly amazes me how people can believe in a Donald Trump President. Watching how President Obama handles himself and admiring how he talks to other world leaders, there is no way I could ever, ever, ever, imagine Donald Trump being a President, since he is probably the absolute opposite of President Obama, whom I respect and admire for all the things he has done for this country having inherited a near cataclysmic melt down of the financial sector, which he inherited from the Bush Administration.
I admire how much President Obama has accomplished so far, despite no support from the Republicans. All they have done, since he has become President is to try and sabotage anything he does, when he tries to help us citizens. It is more important for them to trash all his, and the Democrat's, ideas and blame him for anything bad that happens.
Several voters insisted they had tried hard to close their eyes and picture Mr. Trump as the leader of the free world. They could not do it, they say.
“He’ll lose his cool when he gets up with Putin or one of those, and tell them to go fly a kite,”predicted Kathy DeFreitas, who lingered at a pizza parlor in Manchester after listening to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
Some voters interviewed said they wondered what, exactly, a President Trump would do to “make America great again.”Few could pinpoint much of an agenda, besides The Wall, in Mr. Trump’s abundant pronouncements.
It embarrasses me, as an American, to watch how the Republicans are so intent on undoing what has been accomplished so far, by going so far as to file lawsuits, trying to “defund Obamacare”, even though they would be taking away many of the benefits, especially health benefits, of their constituents. They don't care and don't even have any kind of plan, to replace it!
In this article, different people, in New Hampshire, who say they are Republicans state why they don't like Donald Trump and will not vote for him. I know I am not the only one who is baffled why someone would think he would make a great President.
“I really try not to watch him,” one resident, Paul Brennan, said as he walked out of an appearance by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida in a factory in Brookline, along New Hampshire’s southern border. “I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him.”
Trust is a nagging, recurring issue among Trump skeptics. On some level, they do not quite believe that he is really, seriously running for president, despite everything, nor are they convinced that his Republicanism is authentic.
They remember his donations to Democratic candidates (since disavowed as a business necessity) and his support for abortion rights (rationalized as trying to fit in with left-leaning New Yorkers).
Charles Bradley, 67, a retired lawyer from Laconia who calls himself conservative, said he had lost count of Mr. Trump’s shifting allegiances and discarded positions.
“He loves everybody until he doesn’t love them, if you’ve noticed,” Mr. Bradley said. “He loved Ted Cruz, and now he doesn’t anymore. He loved Hillary Clinton, and now he doesn’t anymore.”
No single attribute rankles as much as Mr. Trump’s instinctive proclivity to insult — everyone, over everything, no matter how big or small the issue, from Mexicans to the Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly.
How serious are their so-called “debates”, when it is mainly a circus frenzy, meant for entertainment, to get more viewers, plus more advertising, for the network, with all their shouting about all the things they want to take away from their constituents. They loudly proclaim all these things, which they want to do, when any sane person knows they could never accomplish it, since the President does not make all the decisions.
Look at how many good things President Obama had campaigned for and wanted to accomplish, in his Presidency, but can't because the Republicans are more interested in sabotaging and obstruction of whatever he wants to do. They prefer wasting their time and constituent's money, with their obstruction, not caring how much good they could do our country.
Where are all the Republicans, while “the Donald” shouts out his mouth vomit, criticizing anyone, who does not believe like him. How “trustworthy” is he or any of them, when they see no problem with lying, even when they are proven wrong and letting the media keep publicizing it without them even admitting the Republicans are lying?
So deep is the dislike for him in some quarters that people like Mrs. Cleveland’s husband, Doug, question the accuracy of polls that so consistently identify Mr. Trump as leading the field with around 32 percent. “I’ve never met a single one of them,” Mr. Cleveland said about those said to be backing Mr. Trump. “Where are all these Trump supporters? Everyone we know is supporting somebody else.”
From Brookline to Laconia, these voters call Mr. Trump “unhinged.” They object to his “temperament.” They doubt his motives.
“I understand people say, ‘I’m sick of this political correctness.’ I get that,” she said. “But there’s also an argument for some measure of civility. I mean, he’s just not somebody who you can say, ‘I’m proud he’s our president.’”
Faux News is supposed to be a News Service, not an entertainment service, trying to get as many viewers, as possible to watch them, to see what kind of insults etc, “the Donald” shouts about or the lies many of their news shows try to proclaim. Do any of the Republican voters believe “the Donald” would make a fine President? Would they really want to see him as President and how much damage he could do to the country in such a very short time, dragging us so far backwards, it would take a miracle, just to get us where we are today?
Why do we see so many polls showing how many people want “the Donald” as President, but then we are to assume all of the Republican base thinks that way? I can not imagine genuine Republicans supporting “the Donald” or any of his ideas. There is no basis to anything he says, he just shouts a lot, not caring what he says, who he ridicules or who he insults.
Mr. Trump has deftly dominated the Republican race, tapped into the unseen fury of voters and turned once-sleepy debates into must-watch television.
What kind of plans do any of the Republican candidates show, instead of just telling us what they want to do, they don't tell us how they are going to manage to accomplish those things. At least the Democratic Debates had more substance and little if any shouting and we are told what they stand for, what they want to accomplish and how they will accomplish it.
“I do believe he suffers from megalomania,”said Lorraine Raleigh, a 68-year-old retired teacher from Hampton.
Ray Weaving, 75, charitably downgraded the condition ever so slightly. “Egomaniac,” he said.
Mr. Trump is fond of describing his followers as a silent majority. But there is nothing quiet about his doubters, whose frustration with him boils over at the campaign events of his rivals.
“He’s very entertaining,” Susan Bunting said as she waited to hear Gov. John Kasich of Ohio speak in the lakeside town of Wolfeboro.
“But,” she said, “I don’t want an entertainer for president.”
The Republicans have no problem with starting “so-called commissions”, to waste as much of their time and their constituent's money trying to undo all of this. They are bound and determined to bring Hillary's numbers down. They don't care how many times they investigate Benghazi because there is a scandal there somewhere, if they just keep looking!
Bringing up her e-mail account, while Secretary of State, still looking for a scandal they can blame on her and point out how “Untrustworthy” she is. How“trustworthy”are Republicans who have no problem going through all of this, wasting their time and constituent's money trying to prove it? Are they being trustworthy, when they lie and keep on lying, trying to drag down her numbers?
How “trustworthy” are they, when they even go as far as to make a “fake video” supposedly bashing Planned Parenthood”. Even though Carly Fiorina's, video is fake and she knows it is, since she helped put it together, she will not admit it is fake. She still treats it as though it is true, trying to blame Planned Parenthood for selling baby parts, from aborted fetuses. On her campaign trail, she still sticks to the story it is true telling people how disgusted she is with Planned Parenthood and the fact they are getting rich on selling “baby parts”.
Even though the first video, which was released and subsequently proven to be false and edited to make it look like Planned Parenthood is definitely selling “baby parts”, none of them admitted it was all manufactured by them, and is a lie, to further their cause and “defund Planned Parenthood.” None of them want to admit how much good Planned Parenthood is doing for people, especially women, who need their services, the majority of them to screen for different cancers, which affect women, plus help stop many of the STDs, which affect everyone, wherever their clinics are located.
I personally am for Hillary, because of all her experience, especially in foreign policy and am not concerned about her maybe having been on Walmart's Board of Directors or how she reacted when the “scandals” were publicized about her husband Bill. I am looking at who she is today, not how she reacted to her husband's problem so many years ago. Are we going to be judged according to how we used to be and what mistakes we had made so many years ago, or are we going to look at what we have been accomplishing now and who we are now?
I never heard of Berney Sanders, until he began running for the Democratic nomination, for President. Since then I have learned a lot about what he stands for and what he wants to accomplish as President and how he will do it. If he ends up with the Democratic nomination, for President, I would vote for him eagerly.
I prefer Hillary, since I knew her and admired her, as First Lady, and was impressed with how hard she worked to try and get some kind of Universal Healthcare going. Of course back then, probably as now, most men think a woman's place is in the home and she should not be involved in politics. Of course then she was “First Lady” and should only be a decoration on her husband's arm.
I admire the fact she is also a great lawyer and knows a lot about the law. It's too bad she received so much negative back lash from the Republicans, about her work on Universal Healthcare, and others who didn't take her seriously, back then, because she was a “woman”.
Of course then there was the Clinton name and there was so much negativity involving it and so much searching for scandals, to try and get President Clinton out of office. I was disappointed when it came out about Monica Lewinsky, but was disgusted with how much the Republicans spent trying to “Impeach” him, when he only had a few months to go on his 2nd term and he would no longer be able to run again.
They wanted to keep his name out there, much like they want to keep Hillary's name out there now, hoping to link her to a scandal. Back then, they wanted to embarrass him as much as possible, while he was still in office, not caring how much “tax payer” money they spent doing it. What tickled me was each time, when they figured they had him, he managed to slip from their grasp, forcing them to keep it up, until he finally left office.
In the end, he left office and was not guilty, so the Impeachment failed and he was able to complete his 2nd term. Now people are dragging up all of this, trying to make a scandal, for Hillary and ruin her chances to be President. They talk about Hillary being “Untrustworthy”, but how “trustworthy” are the Republicans when they are willing to go to any extent and spend any amount of their own constituent's money, just to embarrass the Clintons, to defund Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood, drive down Hillary’s numbers or even pin a scandal on her?
We keep hearing about the polls, which keep coming out, but just how accurate are they? How can anyone, in their right mind feel “the Donald” would be a great President? Does anyone care about what he is actually saying? He don't seem to have any idea of how he is going to do what he says he is going to do, only that he will do it, whipping up that part of the Republican base, which feels that way.