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2016: I Find Myself In A Quandary

As the real election process approached I find myself agreeing with the one person that I detest the most……Donald Trump.

In the beginning his comments were offense and a bit hateful….comparing immigrants to rapists and criminals….then his words about a female candidate were women hating in tone…..but recently he has made a couple of statements that I actually agree with….at least in principle.

The first one of his statements was that we should have left Saddam in power and the Middle East would not be as violent and hostile as it is today……I agree with his assessment……we could have used Saddam to our advantage and used him to destroy AQM and in doing so would have eliminated the people that put together ISIS……

Then recently he made another statement that I agree with…at least in principle…..

On Friday, Donald Trump espoused a belief that is taboo among Republicans and off limits for even most Democrats: that George W. Bush bears some responsibility for the attacks on 9/11, Politico reports. During an interview with Bloomberg, the GOP presidential frontrunner was asked if he would be able to show compassion and reassure Americans during a natural disaster or terrorist attack. He responded by saying he’s more “competent” and has a “bigger heart” than either of his predecessors. He also pointed out that 9/11 happened while Bush was in charge. When the interviewer expressed shock he could blame the former president, Trump seemingly stuck by it. “He was president, OK?” Trump said. “The World Trade Center came down during his reign.”

The New York Times reports Trump’s comments on 9/11 are just the most recent in a string of criticisms directed at George W. Bush as part of his attacks on primary opponent Jeb Bush. “Your brother’s administration gave us Barack Obama because it was such a disaster, those last three months, that Abraham Lincoln couldn’t have been elected,” Trump told Jeb Bush during a debate in September. While George W. Bush refused to address Trump’s latest comments, Jeb Bush weighed in on Twitter: “How pathetic for @realdonaldtrump to criticize the president for 9/11. We were attacked & my brother kept us safe.”

Let me clarify my stand….it is his fault because he was at the helm of the country at the time of the attack…..it is like the GOP blaming everything on Obama because he is president and it happened on his watch.

I find it unsettling that I could agree with a misogynistic toad like Trump….but the truth is the truth….and it is a perfect political ploy….it is brilliant (something I thought I would never say about Trump)………he has Jeb defending his brother and not his own policies….I have to give him a thumbs up on this tactic.

Even the American Conservative is brow beating Jeb on this issue…….

Source: The Trump-Bush Fight Over George W. Bush | The American Conservative

Jeb needs to really get his sh*t together….he is losing badly to Trump on ALL fronts!

I know that my quandary will soon dissipate….but for now it is quite unsettling that I could agree with Trump on things……surely there is an antidote for this…..I believe it is called …..commonsense……Ha!

17 thoughts on “2016: I Find Myself In A Quandary”

  3. Bush winning is the most scary scenario to me…he will feel he has to make up for his brother’s and father’s mistakes….he’s got a big cache of money, same neo-con backers as W, etc….

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    1. Huh….and while he defends his policies are being crapped on by everyone else….he needs to pull back and fight for his own survival…..

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      1. It’s still kind of early…I think it will boil down to Trump and Bush. Cruz is too wacko, Carson is too…ahem…*dark*…for the Republican party….

  4. Ah, all the utterly pointless speculation…As a comparison: Canuckistan’s longest election since 1900, 78 days (Note: DAYS, not months), gets decided today. (Cue my plate of “anti-stress” brownies.)

    If the last 8 years have taught us ANYTHING, it’s that what party occupies the White House means virtually nothing (other than Supreme Court appointments), unless that party can carry both houses of Congress as well.

    Even then, a 2 house Democratic majority with a Democratic President still means very little.

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      1. Well, I’ll save my lengthy rant for the Canadian Election story you’ll post today, or tomorrow 😉 but….

        Trudeau….yeah…I mean, I like the guy (met him briefly when he was an awkward, lispy, teen at a school debate) but I don’t trust his party ONE BIT. Unfortunately, thanks to the Liberals getting a Majority Government, his party now has 100% control over every single vote. They can do whatever they want, as opposed to what they promised.

        It sucks. But at least our new dictator has great hair!

      2. That has always been important….look at the hair of JFK……I will not post o the Canadian election for I have little to no knowledge…..but if you would like to have at it….always a welcome comment….chuq

      3. Since when does having little-to-no knowledge on a topic stop people from writing about it on the Interwebs? Hey, all you gotta do to post the Canuckistan Election story is:

        1) Do a simple web-search of “2015 Canadian Election results” pick the first site that shows up and use it as a link.

        2) Write a couple sentences in which you acknowledge that there is actually a country to America’s north and that it too holds elections. That already puts you ahead of 90% of Americans, so anything beyond that is a bonus.

        If you really want to look smart, mention that a 2nd generation Trudeau won Canada’s longest, most expensive, election ever. But it took only 11 weeks from beginning to end and probably cost about what Donald Trump spent on his hair during that time. You could mention Canada has 5 parties with seats in the legislature. Or mention that Liberal Scott Simms got 75% of the votes cast in the Coast of Bays riding, home to the bustling town of Dildo, Newfoundland.

        3) Then let me bitch alone in that silo about what happened for a few days months years, or until I just can’t take it anymore and want to jump in front of a bus…which probably won’t take long.

  5. There are a lot of people I can’t stand personally but if I stand on a street corner with my trouser leg on fire and someone I can’t stand personally takes the trouble to point the fire on my pant leg out to me I am going to forget …. for a moment at least …. how much I dislike the individual and focus on the good that his words might do me if I take action to put the fire out.

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