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February 10th, 2016 at 9:05:48 AM permalink
TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929	I see Rubio Scratched in New Hampshire. Can't be a good feeling. I'm assuming there's now a bunch of people who'll drop out. Those 4-5% numbers aren't gonna magically change. And they take impetus away from the front runners. Which is not good for the party as a whole. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life

February 10th, 2016 at 11:19:26 AM permalink

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Quote: Ezra Klein
It is undeniably enjoyable to watch Trump. He's red-faced, discursive, funny, angry, strange, unpredictable, and real. He speaks without filter and tweets with reckless abandon. The Donald Trump phenomenon is a riotous union of candidate ego and voter id. America's most skilled political entertainer is putting on the greatest show we've ever seen.

It's so fun to watch that it's easy to lose sight of how terrifying it really is.

Trump's other gift — the one that gets less attention but is perhaps more important — is his complete lack of shame. It's easy to underestimate how important shame is in American politics. But shame is our most powerful restraint on politicians who would find success through demagoguery. Most people feel shame when they're exposed as liars, when they're seen as uninformed, when their behavior is thought cruel, when respected figures in their party condemn their actions, when experts dismiss their proposals, when they are mocked and booed and protested.

Trump doesn't. He has the reality television star's ability to operate entirely without shame, and that permits him to operate entirely without restraint. It is the single scariest facet of his personality. It is the one that allows him to go where others won't, to say what others can't, to do what others wouldn't.

The rise of Donald Trump is a terrifying moment in American politics - Vox

Time for Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina , and Jim Gilmore to quit. They are just adding below threshold votes on Super Tuesday which will go to Trump. They have enough ammunition for speaking engagements and book deals.

February 10th, 2016 at 1:47:27 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011	{It's so fun to watch that it's easy to lose sight of how terrifying it really is.} By 'terrifying' he means it's frightening that he's a politician who can't be bought. He has nobody pulling his strings and to the establishment that IS terrifying. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

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