Victims can't be victims without having an antagonist to blame.

If I were guessing, the topic line has attracted spammers with a certain type of links to post here, and our fair moderator has been doing yeoman's work deleting them but it still twigs the "last updated" date on the thread.

Interesting idea. Jason, I would endorse dumping this thread if it's causing you headaches. I think we all got the OP's message. 

I would say that Sanders has principles.  I think his principles are ill informed and dead wrong, but I do believe that he truly believes the shit that comes out of his mouth and doesn't change it to suit changing political winds. 


Hillary?  Excuse me while I laugh uncontrollably. 


Trump has yet to demonstrate anything resembling a guiding principle.

True, but what has Sanders done with those principles since joining Congress in 1991?  Other than sponsoring bills renaming Post Offices, I'm not sure he took any risks that would cause him to lose his status as a career politician, going all the way back to becoming Burlington mayor in 1981.

He's shouting his principles now because it's his swan song.

And Cruz = Sanders.
Or do you really believe that Cruz is the one and only politician ever that won't change once he attains office and responsibility?

I won't speak for Jeff, but I think he is the one and only candidate running who has any chance of following through with his promises. He has principles, and followed through on them in his senate career, at great political cost. When has Trump, Sanders, or Clinton ever stood for something  even if it may cost them an election or political power or financial gains?   

This is a serious question. Why did someone who has expressed extreme hate for the GOP and the RNC, and who hasn't read the rules and refuses to acknowledge the rules, and wants the rules changed such that a plurality of delegates should automatically get the nomination, want to be this party's nominee? 

Why does Trump want the GOP nomination, when he appears to be at odds with much of its platform, including the support for the Fifth Amendment and the platforms rejection of Kelo v. New London (pg. 13 of the Republican Platform 2012)? 

Why didn't he just start his own party?  He could certainly afforded to do so. He could have set up a primary system where every  state has a Trump Party primary vote (no caucuses or conventions), and the plurality vote getter gets the nomination. It would be an excellent party, a beautify party, and the Trump Party voters would be fabulous people.

I despise the Republican establishment (the elected career politicians), but not the party of Lincoln.  That's why I engaged in significant debate over on POA that the Tea Party wanted to change the GOP from the inside, and not start a new party. However, I don't think Trump even knows the GOP was the party of Lincoln, or that it was started in 1854 in nearby Ripon, Wisconsin.

So why did Trump run as a Republican?

Ever been down to Florida?   

Saturday I went from KISM to KSGJ.  That was fun.

I've never flow there, but when I got my PP in North Carolina near Charlotte, I was totally intimidated about going to First Flight airport because of that massive system of restricted  airspace, and thus never went there. 

My take is that Democrats base their judgement on "feelings", and feeling can change with the circumstances.

Ds get all up in arms if I don't want to pay for some girls birth control, but have little sympathy for all the women and young girls that get kidnapped, enslaved, sold, tortured, raped and murdered in countries that hate us.

That hypocrisy is truly stunning, isn't it?