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Cutting off your nose to save your face is cleaning house? Goofy, unbridled pomposity isn't reform. What's with UK and US conservatives throwing baby out with bath water. It will take three years for UK to get out of EU and another three to try to get back in. And UK economy as parlous as yours. Let's hear the upside, eh?

(I have to hand it to member Ted. He had a line from the beginning on Cruz, last man standing in the Trump-reality-show primaries. There wasn't a hope for the other contestants facing a reality show wizard in a country besotted by celebrity. "Could you imagine voting for a woman with her face?")

I don't know about stupidly when you are trying to route out a bunch of dirt bags that should be wiped out as vermin.

Its the politician that lose heart and impose such stringent 'rules of engagement' on the troops that it boils down to, what's the point of us being here. For example, they tried to melt into the civilian population so we trained a bunch of guys and gave them scope mounted Remington bolt action rifles to start blasting this scum into oblivion from unheard of distances. Brilliant tactic, just plain brilliant in my opinion and tactics these scum bags couldn't counter. First thing they requested was for us to remove the 'snipers' so what did we do, remove our 'snipers.'

Makes no difference what are the "rules"---they're not observed anyway; torture and no-mercy are a given---people who believe in their country and are willing to die to defend it don't buckle under to foreign invaders, including the most powerful panoply of military power in the world.

Tactics? The US-trained and expensively equipped Iraqi army fled from a few hundred ISIS because they wouldn't die for their corrupt governors. Trump now says he will do it "fast" all by himself, which means more sons and daughters as sacrifices while the country has said clearly to Obama to stay to hell out of there.

This is a tumultuous time for the country, acknowledged by its own citizens as dysfunctional in governance, neurotic and without direction, aberrations of a magnificent andt noble tradition of high human values and leadership. Believing in Trump as messiah to cure all ills is madness. There's no support for his notions on this board.

Lenin do you ever get the feeling you are so full of pompous banal drivel that you might explode at any minute ?

And perhaps suffer from terminal psychological projection ?

I don't buy it.

America necessarily loses, because they poke their nose in where not wanted? Not long ago, we were told that Bush, as a puppet of Cheney, went into iraq for, drum roll, the oil. Not because he was nosy.

Don't ignore the oil angle, or the cerveza, cigars, maybe even the spaetzle or the maple. Point is, doesn't Trump say he recognizes military and economic alliances and responsibilities, difference being, he wants to 'redistribute' the cost of strengthening the free world?

Trump is a populist, but angry at corruption? C'mon King, you can do better than talking points. When all the mythical anger of the primaries is forgotten, a bunch rally around her and a bunch rally around Trump. The last standing 'feud' on the national radar is with cruz. Are you saying that cruz is representative of good ole boy party corruption?

Teddy bear mike brown's mother is scheduled to speak at the dn convention next week. Is that big money systemic party corruption like hillery represents? No it isn't, but it's an example of a lie trumped by pc in the hope of rallying the base. Do you suppose ferguson was looted and wrecked because those peaceful folks were upset that hilery is concealing billions offshore in Canada, gained by sec-o-state influence peddling?

I didn't think so. But don't doubt it for a moment, a good chunk of America will buy it.

No. Feel pretty good in my skin, postoak. Fit, nearing 85 in the regular work force, a strong market for notions in my head, taking my turn at the communal oars, enjoying myself on the board. Leaving mental for the weak and poor, rich and influential, of all colours and political stripes, to decide. I lack no invitations into their company. Thanks for your interest.

Yes, craig, a good chunk will buy it. That's principally what frightens---well, not so much frightens as annoys me---because without reasonable US leadership the rest of us will drift off into a lonely orbit of despair. I love America.

Don't understand your Trump angry at corruption. America is angry at the corruption of their parties and principles. My wife and I were saying this morning we have more respect for Cruz for standing by his principles. He may understand Trump more than anyone.

Most members know pretty much how each feels about issues discussed on this board. Anger is a powerful force. Employment, immigration, crime, racial divide, foreign and social policies are hot issues. Add the Second for Jim. Anger is poison for judgement.

A consequence is Trump winning the College and not the vote---a bad dream for me but I'm sticking to the biggest rout in US history.

I think he's fixin' to blow any second now.

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What frightens, no annoys me more than anything, is that half of the US and most of the world knows that hill is concealing billions from influence peddling under the veil of a pc acceptable big corporate offshore laundering 'foundation' in Canada. Just kidding, it's okay, I'm with her, right?

Cruz, and vet this with your missus, had a most amazing stand on principles over the last few days.

He was invited and allowed by Trump to speak even though his speech was vetted and known to not include an endorsement. Immediately, he is said to have gone off script, though he signed an agreement that the rule of convention speeches will be followed. Then, controversy erupts, he had signed an agreement, without anyone twisting his arm, that he would support the eventual party nominee.

Cruz jumps up on a side stump and says, I break my signed agreement because I'm doing for the American people. Fine, but if he gets a little hot under the collar, personal feelings, he growls, trump his insincerity about the American people. I say, so what about your feelings, it just a punks game right?

Who cares? Well the thing is, is that Cruz or Jeb, etc. would've turned to, I can only mention for myself, me and said I demand your vote. Weird, eh?

It's simply a matter of who blows first. craigd or King.

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