The Purple Heart Thing Might Have Done It For Me.

Let's see .....

...Trump has concluded that ISIS/ISIL is a genuine threat and should be ended.

The "Generals" think "ISIS/ISIL" are NOT a threat and are CONTAINED!

Right? Originally Posted by LexusLover

Wrong. Doesn't sound like it as of yesterday:

www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/politics/isis-congress/

Although Afghanistan might not be the threat it once was, hence your "not the whole truth" comment, lol.

You're not SERIOUSLY saying Trump knows more than the generals...are you?

Wrong. Doesn't sound like it as of yesterday: Originally Posted by Prolongus

When did he make the statement? After "yesterday"?

I'm still correct. The CIC called them "junior varsity"!

Did HillaryNoMore take issue with that "assessment"? ... No!

So, since neither Obaminable nor HillaryNoMore know shit about assessment of relative military and/or "quasi-military" strength the "Generals" upon whom they rely (and HillaryNoMore KNOWS AS PER HER DNC ACCEPTANCE SPEECH) assessed them as "junior varsity" ... as they were kicking ass in Iraq and Syria!

Some used to call it .... "connecting the dots"!

A vote for Gary is a vote for Hillary. Originally Posted by TheDaliLama

Barring the release of videos of both Hillary and Trump gleefully clubbing baby seals, Gary Johnson isn't going to win in November.

However, the rationale for voting for Gary Johnson is as follows:

1) We need a viable small-government alternative, and the Libertarian Party is the best hope for it. The Republicans have proven that they are also a big government party, just in different ways than the Democrats.
2) While the Libertarian Party cannot win in 2016, by gaining votes now it can eventually surpass the Republicans -- perhaps in two or three more election cycles (but maybe in this cycle if Trump continues to destroy the GOP from within) -- as the best alternative to the quasi-Marxist Democrat Party. Just as the GOP needed more than one election cycle to replace the Whigs, the Libertarians will need more than one election cycle to replace the Republicans.
3) While Hillary is a quasi-Marxist, Trump is a quasi-Fascist, and to a Libertarian neither is a good result. If Hillary wins she will (likely) be impeded by a Republican Congress and her low favorability rating means she will probably be a one-term president.
4) The country can recover from a generation of activist Supreme Court, it recovered from FDR. It will be a bad 10 or 20 years of course. Hopefully the conservatives on the court can outlive Hillary's administration or a Republican Senate can check her activist nominations.
5) The country cannot survive a moronic quasi-Fascist Trump whose thin skin and authoritarian impulses could cost us more allies, get us into wars, impose on civil liberties, etc.
6) I live in Texas and it won't be all that close here anyway (if Trump doesn't win Texas easily, he will lose at least 40-45 states).

I have voted Republican since Reagan in 1980. But Trump is no Republican, he is certainly no Reagan, and to be blunt, he's about the biggest pr!c# in the country. I don't trust him to be our CINC.

I'm voting for Gary Johnson no matter how many people tell me I'm wasting my vote. I'm trying to give my children and grandchildren a libertarian option in their lifetimes. We all know the next 20 years are going to be awful, hopefully our kids will do a better job with this country than we have.

Barring the release of videos of ....Trump gleefully clubbing baby seals, Originally Posted by Texas Playboy

... Please don't give the media any MORE IDEAS!

Edit by staff...racial slur removed, DED

First, I would not vote for Hillary Clinton Under any circumstances. Period. She is and always will be a dispicable, lying, money grubbing, sexual predator enabling cunt. She is the worst example of the American Political System.

But, Donald Trump's reaction to the retired Lt Colonel handing him a Purple Heart was unacceptable. The proper reaction would be, "I appreciate this great gesture, but the only person who should have one of these is a person who was wounded in combat. Thank you, but I cannot accept this".

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/poli...e93238842.html

Hillary is probably going to win this election. The Supreme Court will be a Liberal/Socialist/Progressive institution for the next 50 years. The Country will be even more divided than it is now.

I'm old. I can just coast until I die. But we now are faced with a situation where our kids, and their kids, are faced with living in an America that will be a shadow of it's former glory. Originally Posted by Jackie S

As much as the opposition keeps saying what Trump should have done, there is no protocol for receiving something like a Purple Heart medal from someone who earned it. A more eloquent person might open their mouth and dramatic music comes out with their words, someone might fake such a moment just so they can deliver a carefully written speech for the cameras, someone might be so taken aback that they just don't know what to do or say. Obama is eloquent, Hillary knows about faking a moment (ask Bill), and I think Trump didn't know what to say. Would you know what to say when the cameras are rolling?

Would you know what to say when the cameras are rolling? Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

John Kerry just chunked his ... or so he said he did.

As much as the opposition keeps saying what Trump should have done, there is no protocol for receiving something like a Purple Heart medal from someone who earned it. A more eloquent person might open their mouth and dramatic music comes out with their words, someone might fake such a moment just so they can deliver a carefully written speech for the cameras, someone might be so taken aback that they just don't know what to do or say. Obama is eloquent, Hillary knows about faking a moment (ask Bill), and I think Trump didn't know what to say. Would you know what to say when the cameras are rolling? Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

Are you saying the Trumpster can't think on his feet?

I Imagine his feet are as small as his hands...

Agree with the "what would you do" statement...however, it's never too late for a video op of Trump handing it back to him and saying it belongs to him, you earned it, etc.

Yeah, I know what some of y'all are thinking...he would look weak, indecisive, etc.

Trump was parading it around at his latest rally, proclaiming it real and not fake, like some media were claiming. Also showing a cash envelope from a gold star family

Agree with the "what would you do" statement...however, it's never too late for a video op of Trump handing it back to him and saying it belongs to him, you earned it, etc.

Yeah, I know what some of y'all are thinking...he would look weak, indecisive, etc. Originally Posted by Prolongus

Not KNOWING why the vet made the gesture in the first place it is difficult to formulate a generic response ... The bottom line is that it didn't matter why the vet handed it to him or what Trump said or didn't say in response. The Anti-Trump media was going to "refurbish" the incident to fit their agenda of trashing Trump.

Look at some of the SHIT put in headlines in this forum.

Same mentality. Immature and Dishonest.

From FOX News:

"Retired Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman said that he gave Trump his medal because he wants the Republican nominee to remember all the people who have fought and died for our country."

Trump may trade it for some more KFC.