[tomder55]

Sounds like a case of round the Mulberry bush

in his case it is critical that he doesn't screw up the pick. Newt Gingrich is being floated because he is sorta an advisor to Trump (not that Trump consults with him before Trump puts his foot in his mouth). But Newt is as old as Trump and would probably do a better job as chief of staff is the electorate inflicts us with a Trump Presidency. The General ? Too many policy differences with the Republican base. He will cost Trump votes . Mike Pence is a Governor of an important state ,and was an influential Congressman in his time. I was for his selection to be on the Romney ticket and my opinion of him hasn't changes. Had he run for President I would have gladly supported him.

[Catsmine]

Each week Johnson gains ground. The question is whether there are enough weeks left until November.

[tomder55]

Each week Johnson gains ground. The question is whether there are enough weeks left until November.

He's picking up the disgruntled Bolshevik Bernie voters that Trump thinks he can win . If he does well he may get the same popular support that Perot got .

Now this is a wierd year so anything could happen ..... like having Congress decide the Presidency . But to be considered in that scenario ,Johnson has to get some electoral votes .Perot got none.

But let's say Johnson takes his home state of New Mexico ;and maybe an independent minded state like New Hampshire ? The goal is to take enough electoral votes to prevent Evita or Trump from getting the 270 electoral votes needed for a majority .... Then to Congress it goes (12th Amendment )! Each member of the House does not get a vote . State delegations would decide as a block ;1 state 1 vote . Right now on appearance it would look like a lock for Trump . Republican delegations are the clear majority(33 state delegations to the Dems' 14 with three split 50-50).
But hold the phone !! Trump has not exactly gone out of his way to even act like he wants the Republican "establishment " on his side . It isn't hard to imagine some of the state delegations bolting and throwing their support behind Johnson.

So it is possible he could win that way . That would be a fitting end to a bizzare campaign season. Instead of' a chicken in every pot' we would have' pot in every home' ?

[paraclete]

All I can say in response to that scenario Tom is what happened to having an election and exercising the will of the people, you may as well go this road from the gitgo

[tomder55]

We were never ,and hopefully never will be a direct democracy .The founders never uses the words Republic and Democracy interchangeably .

"Democracy is the most vile form of government. ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as the have been violent in their deaths."
(James Madison )


"We are a Republic. Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”
(Alexander Hamilton )

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
( Thomas Jefferson)

"Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine percent."
( Thomas Jefferson)

Benjamin Franklin defined democracy as “two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”

[paraclete]

We were never ,and hopefully never will be a direct democracy .The founders never uses the words Republic and Democracy interchangeably .

"Democracy is the most vile form of government. ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as the have been violent in their deaths."
(James Madison )


"We are a Republic. Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”
(Alexander Hamilton )

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
( Thomas Jefferson)

"Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine percent."
( Thomas Jefferson)

Benjamin Franklin defined democracy as “two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”

Seventeenth century rhetoric not withstanding, democracies were rare on the Earth at that time and had not had the opportunity to mature
,and there was a great deal of faith in allowing the few to determine the will of the many. These ideas appealed to those who sought their god given right to rule and to overthrow what they saw as tyranny. Some of us have known a different system, where the rule of the gun wasn't necessary to bring about change. We have just seen the true democractic voice of the people in the BREXIT referundum in Britain. It produced what is, among the ruling elite, an unanticipated result and a rejection of the NWO. We continue to see 50.5% of the people rule 49.5% in your representative republic, and in my parliamentary democracy, and we rail against the injustice of it all, but of course, we know the day will come when the shoe will be on the other foot

[tomder55]

We have just seen the true democractic voice of the people in the BREXIT referundum in Britain

Yeah we have referendums here too .Sometimes they even become the law . I'll believe Brexit when I see it . The pushback has already begun. But let me ask you this ; when a referendum decision by the majority violates the rights of the minority ;should it become the law ? I ask that because our courts have struck down many such referendum.

[paraclete]

Yeah we have referendums here too .Sometimes they even become the law . I'll believe Brexit when I see it . The pushback has already begun. But let me ask you this ; when a referendum decision by the majority violates the rights of the minority ;should it become the law ? I ask that because our courts have struck down many such referendum.

We don't have that problem and the next referundum we have will be very interesting, we are going to vote on gay right to marriage, or to put in another way, we are going to find a way to disenfranchise the majority and spit in their face, the gays are dreading it because you cannot bribe or threaten an entire population

Personally, I think they should just F**k off

[tickle]

We don't have that problem and the next referundum we have will be very interesting, we are going to vote on gay right to marriage, or to put in another way, we are going to find a way to disenfranchise the majority and spit in their face, the gays are dreading it because you cannot bribe or threaten an entire population

Personally, I think they should just F**k off

Very mature, clete.

[paraclete]

Very mature, clete.

Yes, it's cultural but it is actually because my attitude to the whole issue is unprintable. It is just another of those tail wagging the dog issues

[earl237]

I'm from Canada but I also hope that Clinton will get elected in November. A Trump presidency would be a disaster for the economy and foreign affairs. I just hope Sanders' supporters grow up and do the right thing and vote for Clinton. I think Tim Kaine or Sherrod Brown would be the best VP picks for Clinton but I think she'll pick Kaine since a Democrat would choose his successor in the senate and Brown opposes NAFTA which could disqualify him since Clinton supports free trade. Kaine is also Catholic and speaks Spanish which could help gain some Hispanic votes.

[smoothy]

The only real disaster is if a criminal like Hillary gets elected.

There are Millions in Prison for doing less than Hillary has done... she SHOULD be in prison NOW for what she did over the email thing ALONE. Its Federal law that ALL correspondence produced by Government officials is REQUIRED to be archived and MAINTAINED by the Government, its all also REQUIRED to use government communications systems for the same reason, Accountability.

Nixon erased a few minutes of tape, when it wasn't even illegal to do so. Hillary has deleted HUGE amounts of emails when it IS illegal to do that and liberals feel she should be allowed to do it.

What Nixon has been crucified for was NOTHING compared to what Hillary did on just this. And that Ignores Benghazi, and many other things...

Hillary has never been successful at anything except escaping justice... Trump at least knows how to successfully run a business...

Trump might be arrogant... its REQUIRED to be arrogant to make it and be successful in NY... It's a trait of MANY people from NYC.

But he is a good arrogant... not the rude, condescending arrogant Hillary has always been. Its well known by the Secret Service and anyone else who has spent time dealing with the White House she's exceptionally rude, arrogant, a drunk, and an overall very, very unpleasant person to be around.

I may not have liked Bill politically, but at least he was somewhat likeable when you talked person to person with him. Not her...

I actually understood why Bill did what he did with all those women. Hell most guys that had a wife like her around would do it too. Unless they were totally emasculated.

[paraclete]

The only real disaster is if a criminal like Hillary gets elected.

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There are two possible disasters smoothy and that is if either is elected. Since realistically there will only be a choice between two, Hobson's choice, even the status quo looks good. I think we will find very interesting Dump's response to the coup in Turkey, let us see if he has any sense.

[tomder55]

There are two possible disasters smoothy and that is if either is elected. Since realistically there will only be a choice between two, Hobson's choice, even the status quo looks good. I think we will find very interesting Dump's response to the coup in Turkey, let us see if he has any sense.

Do you have any doubt that the coup was engineered by JFKerry and Putin as part of their new cooperation in Syria ?

[smoothy]

Don't get me wrong, I think Trump is far from perfect... but Hillary IS almost certainly even WORSE than Obama, and only He has managed to make Jimmy Carter look good. And we do only have those two choices.

[tomder55]

Don't get me wrong, I think Trump is far from perfect... but Hillary IS almost certainly even WORSE than Obama, and only He has managed to make Jimmy Carter look good. And we do only have those two choices.

We make our representative hurdle such low bars .

[paraclete]

Do you have any doubt that the coup was engineered by JFKerry and Putin as part of their new cooperation in Syria ?

Tom, despite the fact that the US interferes in the politics of many nations, Putin doesn't need your help, I have little doubt he is behind this. Turkey is supposed to be a US ally in the "fight" against Daesh although a little luke warm in that fight. I'm wondering if the US has shifted from opposing Assad to thinking of him as the best deal it can get

.. Turkey had apparently shifted its position in opposing Assad and this may have been the trigger

Don't get me wrong, I think Trump is far from perfect... but Hillary IS almost certainly even WORSE than Obama, and only He has managed to make Jimmy Carter look good. And we do only have those two choices.

smoothy, after hearing seven years of nothing could be worse than Obama, I'm just proposing the "devil you know" scenario and the inevietable migration from republic to empire otherwise you will see Dump playing Vader to a Dilliary Empress

[paraclete]

With a coup in Turkey I think it is time to ask;where are we going with this? The whole of the middle east region is destabilised, nothing new in that, but the situation is escalating. Attempts to scale down the conflict in Syria have destabilised Turkey and so what do we really have here, an attempted coup in Syria allowing the rise of Daesh, a bloodless coup in Iraq followed by some success in pushing back Daesh, now a coup in Turkey in a nation that fostered Daesh and fermented unrest in Syria. You have to see the hand of Russia in this, someone had to be let go and Erdogan got the DCM. It pays to have powerful allies instead of limp wristed muslim sycophants

[smoothy]

We make our representative hurdle such low bars .

Unfortunately... that's how it works out all too often.

[paraclete]

We make our representative hurdle such low bars .

Which demonstrates you need a different selection process