You realize that article is almost two weeks old.  Perhaps Trump doesn't think he needs to advertise his upcoming strategy so the enemy knows what is coming, like Obama did.

Exactly. Trump was spot on for not yapping to Pelosi and Schitt about the mission to kill the head of isis.

Yes, but you had a different perspective then, so you can't judge your previous self by your present self.   Have a shot of Bourbon and call it even. 

I know you weren’t talking to me, but I’m going to take that advice tonight regardless. I have a bottle of Buffalo Trace that I need to crack open tonight.

Here’s my theory: the election is won on superficial appeal, nothing else. This is because the dedicated right and left know their ideology. It’s the swing vote in the middle that will throw the numbers one way or the other, and many swing voters don’t know ideology from a hole in the ground nor are they well informed on issues.

Suppose there were identical twins running for president. Exact same position on all issues, but the only difference is one talks with a British accent and the other with a hillbilly or Deep South drawl. Which will win? The Brit of course. Americans have been conditioned by the entertainment industry to believe hillbillies are ignorant inbreds, and southerners are narrow minded, racist religious fanatics.

Unfortunately this is less true today than in the past because nowadays the mainstream media is far too biased, so the uninformed are automatically pushed Democrat. But let’s say the news was actually unbiased. All else equal, the taller candidate has an advantage. The better looking candidate has an advantage. Possibly the male still has an advantage and the white may have an advantage over a person of color. People vote largely how their subconscious directs them to.

Have you ever been at the booth and confronted a race about which you had failed to do your homework?  A local race where the party affiliation is not mentioned plus you have no clue what their positions are on the issues and you have never even heard of either candidate? You know nothing at all about them except their name. What do you do? The choice is, leave it blank, vote based on name alone, or, research has shown, more people than not just vote for the first name on the list.

My dad taught me that if I wasn’t sure about a race, vote for the person with the Polish name.

Now here in Wisconsin we have a tool that will hopefully never die. When the leftists voted to recall Scott Walker, they had to get xxx,xxx number of people to sign a recall petition. Those who signed presumed that their signature was private. It was not.

Conservatives banded together to memorialize those signatures. I was one of those people. Now, when I get a judge or a school board member that I haven’t heard about, I can look them up before I vote to see if they signed the recall petition.

http://iverifytherecall.com/

You can have fun with this. Jeffrey Skiles of Miracle on the Hudson fame signed it. The database will link back to the original signature on the petition. Good stuff.

So I had a silly thought... to actually look at legislation.  Now, there are lots of bills that get submitted and only a small percentage make it all the way to becoming law.

from www.congress.gov

The 115th Congress had 18732 pieces of legislation, 443 became law (no vetos)

The 116th Congress has (so far) 10324 pieces of legislation, 65 became law (6 vetos from President Trump)

Now, while I'm retired, I don't have infinite time to look through 10324 pieces of legislation (never mind the other type of stuff such as resolutions, etc).  So, I thought I'd look first at the legislation that passed.  At first I looked at the 115th Congress, but at first blush there were lots of republican co-sponsors of bills sponsored by democrats.  And I figured that looking through 65 bills would be easier... at least to get an initial feel of things.

If your premise of Republicans being fanatics without compromise is true, then none (or perhaps very few) pieces of legislation would have Republican co-sponsors.  Eight of the 65 had zero co-sponsors.  Five house bills were sponsored by a (D) without any co-sponsors.  Three Senate bills had zero co-sponsors (1 D, 2 R).

Of the remaining 57 bills, three bills sponsored by a democrat had 0 republican sponsors.  That means 54 bills included republicans as co-sponsors.   Interestly, 2 hour bills sponsored by democrats only had democrat co-sponsors, and 2 house bills sponsored by republicans only had republican co-sponsors.  All the rest had a mixture.

yup, those republicans are fanatics.  No doubt about it.

pesky facts.

When you obtain your intelligence from CNN.com, you get what you pay for.

Just about everyone in the State department connected to this thing is saying quid pro quo.  This is not going away.  Your Golden boy is in deep do do.  And the youth doesn't even know what he did wrong.  And none of you give a shit because its Trump.

Every interaction with foreign governments involve some sort of quid pro quo. When foreign nations want our support, we should expect something in return.  That’s not illegal, immoral, unethical, or a high crime or misdemeanor.  Yet when I read the transcripts of the call, I read nothing that says a quid pro quo. Nothing.

Read it at www.npr.org/2019/09/25/764052120/read-transcript-of-president-trumps-call-with-Ukraine-s-leader

Let me know where the QPQ exists.

Actually, I don’t think Romney has moved that much. The Republican Party has just become more fanatical and therefore he is less acceptable.

Thanks for confirming what I’ve thought for quite a while. You aren’t a moderate in any way. Moderates at least try to think.

Instead, you are projectile vomiting the same  bombastic rhetoric coming out of CNNMSNBCABC etc.

Exactly how has the GOP become fanatical?  Do they support infanticide?  Gun confiscation?  Censorship?  Men using girls bathrooms because they think they are female?  Mass de-incarceration of criminals?   Free-passage across our borders?  Ignoring federal laws through “sanctuary”? 

Correct, he told Brian that doing away with the SZ saved PoA.

Kind of like how decriminalizing drug use and shitting in the streets has saved San Francisco.

I keep hearing this type of complaint.

It doesn't matter what the US does, some people are going to keep claiming the US reputation is crap (or worse) because of [insert whatever the US does or doesn't do]

Including many Americans who don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground.