Posts Made By: Darian Rachal

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Seen Ken Starr quite a bit lately and have not heard him say anything like that.....got a link?

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Whether it's coming from Bolton's upcoming book and/or newly uncovered emails, the complete portrayal of the truth of Trump's corruption will be known:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/01/politics/trump-ukraine-aid-emails-omb-justice-department/index.html 

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Darian,Why don't you email the department of justice and tell 'em their Trump emails are bullcrap...

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Have not done any verification but I just today saw where mayor pete was charged with indecent exposure back in 01.....lol

Originally Posted by James Lacey

It could be worse. Mayor Pete could be a compulsive liar who peddles in ignorance, dishonesty, and misinformation by repeating verifiable falsehoods over and over again. He could be guilty of multiple acts of sexual misconduct and harassment. He could coddle up to white supremacists and authoritarian dictators and do them personal favors. He could encourage foreign governments to interfere in our elections and obstruct justice. He could carry out witness tampering and retaliation. He could have terrible policies that cage children, waste money on vanity border walls, undermine our national security, and undercut environmental protections. I mean, there are things worse than being an openly gay married man.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

I'm inclined to think that none of us has a crystal ball and that there is at least as much evidence indicating his defeat as his re-election. For example, the latest Quinnipiac poll has Trump losing to everyone in a head-to-head contest by at least 7%. Yes, it's true, we don't elect the President based on the popular vote, but it is electorally impossible to lose the popular vote by 7% and win the electoral college. If the Trump strategy is to lose the popular vote and win the electoral college, that is not a winning strategy. By the way, Quinnipiac is historically one of the best-performing polls in the sense that they are eerily accurate, and they use gold-standard methodologies exclusively in their practices. Keep in mind too that this is on the heels of what supposedly was a great week for Trump, i.e., his Senate acquittal.

Just this week, Trump announced his budget that includes deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare. This announcement comes after many false promises where he said he would never touch these programs. You don't have to be a soothsayer to know that is not going to be popular, and Democrats like Bloomberg will undoubtedly be using this flip-flop in their negative ad campaigns.

It boils down to this. Trump's base supporters are not enough to re-elect him. Therefore, he needs to attract voters repelled by his disgusting behavior and who voted against Republicans in the 2018 midterms. So far, it looks like Trump is incapable of moderating his behavior, and the chances of him attracting swing or independent voters are minimal at best. It's ludicrous to think that Trump is going to change after three years of unfettered and unleashed shameful behavior.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi James:

I generally agree with your post.¹  But, I think that the bit I quoted above is backwards.  Yes, Trump may not attract lots of voters who are not already in his base, these are highly polarized times.  But, the D candidate could be repulsive enough to moderates that they vote Trump as a defensive move.  I'm thinking a socialist or a near socialist for example.  Personally, I think Klobuchar would win in an electoral landslide.  Sanders, not so much.  Like Mel, I think Biden is toast.

Obviously I'm projecting my own personal view here, I'd vote for Trump over Sanders any day of the week.  With Klobuchar, I would currently be "undecided, leans D."  Colorado independents can vote in either primary by the way, this is new this year and so is CO being a Super Tuesday state.  I signed up to vote in the D primary and intend to support Klobuchar, assuming that she is still a viable candidate in a few weeks.

As a conservative registered as independent, I am not sure I like having the D and R primaries open to independents, the largest group in Colorado, but those are the new rules.  4 years ago when I was registered as an R, I got selected from our precinct caucus to go to the city-wide convention as a Rubio delegate.  That was interesting, but by then, Trump was starting to steam-roll the field.

Jim

1.  No doubt Rich will parse your post word by word and pigeonhole me as a commie.  There might be something in your post that I technically do not agree with.  But you know what I mean.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Originally posted by A TDS Suffering madman:

Jim,

All I can do is respond with a post I made elsewhere when 4 US Prosecutors quit afte Trump bragged about getting Bill Barr to meddled with the justice system:

In the few days since Pres Trump has been freed from normal constitutional limits on his power, he uses the Justice Department to free the guilty and his own authority to fire the innocent. A man like Trump will continue to go down a lawless path to inflict his will until he is stopped from doing it - he won't on his own. We have a Pres who has paraded the "Lock him/her up" chant since the 2016 primaries against political rivals. A man who has literally said that the free press is the "enemy of the people". Is that the kind of government you want? A government no different than Venezuela that uses it's security arm to harass and jail it's political opponents? If you say yes, then you don't deserve our Constitution and the protections it gives us all.

As anyone who knows me will tell you, I am a hard-core free-market capitalist, and a conservative evangelical Christian, yet I believe even Bernie Sanders is not as great a threat to us as what's going on now is. We can recover from insane economic policies lawfully executed for 1 presidential term. I question whether we can survive the dismantling of Constitutional protections and limits on Presidential power that is going on right now.

It's up to us, Americans. Do we love the Constitution or not? Is it worth defending at the ballot box or not? We'll see.


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Has to be the most idiotic thing I've ever read in this forum and that includes the dumb-ass commentary that Forrest provides on a daily basis!  LOL