Just a little background. I am a registered Republican since 1976 who has been unable to vote GOP at the top of the ticket ever since Bush Jr made the Evangelical Christian into a voting block and the party slide wildly right. Anyone here care about a balanced budget? If any politician did they would get my vote. Dem or Repub. The hardest decision I ever made as far as who to vote for as President was 2 years ago. I did not decide till I was walking into the polling station. I wanted change but was not sure Trump would "grow up." Anyway, I was fine when he was elected but held my breath. He never grew up.
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Welcome to the forum. I suspect you may get on with Giftedone http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/the-nuclear-option.553739/#post-1070420379
@mentor59 How do you feel about BlLM Blue Lives Matter? Moi Welcome: pending Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic, regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.
Be Welcomed....you sound a bit like me as I too became disgusted with my party, but I did something about it and registered Independent.
No it wasn't. Bush unearth them in his run for Governor down in TX and then did the same nationally in 2000. That is when the GOP fell off a cliff.
I think that I'm being loose with my verbage. So let's back up a bit here, Evangelical Christians started to become a mostly-united voting bloc in the mid-70s with the advent of the "Moral Majority." It would be untrue to claim that either Reagan or Bush "created the Evangelical Christian as a voting bloc." I'm a bit fascinated by your interpretation of the history here, since you were there and I wasn't, it's a bit difficult for me to imagine a politics before what I consider a Reagan-Bush-Bush continuity in mainstream Republican politics. Sorry if my digging is a bit annoying.
From what I'm hearing (in the UK) he's doing a good job, especially with the economy and the employment stats. And he's going to stop illegal immigration into the US. So what does it matter if he's a bit eccentric? Rather him than a president who's effing useless, shirley?
Actually, Carter first harnessed them in 1976 (google Moral Majority), and then Reagan took them over in 1980.
It's like that at all. Economically it's but a continuation of the positive economy we have enjoyed since 2010. What is differant is that Trump sells it like he is responsible for it and as if it's something very special when it is not. Also, Trump has orchestrated a cold civil war here in the States and he would defiantly make it hot if he is threatened. You have to understand. Trump is a hideous human. He is not at all eccentric, he is downright evil. I say this without exaggeration.
I am so tired you Trumpets denying reality. I will not play your game. You know as well as I do that TRump is a veil human.
But that is the only game we play here. Reasonable people trying to have a discussion constantly interrupted by people who are foaming at the mouth about how much they hate trump. At least try to be original about it. That "TRump" thing must have been used a thousand times already.
Yet he has governed as the most conservative President in my long lifetime. At least 80% of conservative values yet the hard right conservatives are probably the most disappointed with Trump which I find interesting.
