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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 07, 2016, 04:53:40 PM »

No you don't, you've read a second hand copy of "Politics for Dummies" and it shows.  You're simply more interested in flame throwing than talking any serious political philosophy.


So as a so called libertarian, you cannot support libertarian principals.........   :o

 Don't deflect here Jeff.  You call yourself a libertarian, and libertarian appears twice under your name.  But yet you can't support the libertarian platforms?    ::)    :o


 But please, keep digging that hole......................

Do you really need to be this childish? 

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Spin Zone / Re: Tuition Free College........
« on: February 07, 2016, 03:15:26 PM »

Certainly not. I went, dropped out, then went back for an AA from a Community College. That was quite enough for me, thank you very much.

I don't think anyone is proposing that College be mandatory. That would be illogical since High School, while free, is not compulsory.

But there would be benefits if post-High School one could continue in either higher education or vocational school. Sure, someone has to pay for it, but someone already pays for K-12, so it's not like it's some radical new entitlement.

Somebody already IS paying for it. Community colleges are funded by property taxes or other state taxes. It is the most affordable deal out there, bar none. Why do we have to make it free?

At some point people need to have skin in the game for their own future. Otherwise college will be as appreciated as inner city high schools are today.

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Spin Zone / Re: Republican Debate 2/6/16
« on: February 06, 2016, 09:29:56 PM »

Maybe Christie realized that the same old "Obama sucks" line works only in small circles of the general electorate...


Sent from my iPhone . Squirrel!!

So you see no criticism of Obama as legitimate? 

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Spin Zone / Re: Happy Birthday, Gipper
« on: February 06, 2016, 08:52:06 PM »
Happy birthday!

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Spin Zone / Re: Republican Debate 2/6/16
« on: February 06, 2016, 08:48:52 PM »

Right now I can most envision a President Christie.

Plain spoken and forthright. Get 'er done swagger.

Not unlike Trump, but with more practical views.

Almost certainly not going to happen, but none of the rest inspire me at all.

I disagree about Christie. In every previous debate he refocused the argument against ObamaHillary. This time he abandoned that and played the circular firing squad card.

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Spin Zone / Re: Republican Debate 2/6/16
« on: February 06, 2016, 08:46:02 PM »

Chrisite tore Rubio a new one and made him look like a child that could only repeat the same lines over and over.
Yea, that was disturbing.

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Pilot Zone / 2016 FAA Reauthorization republican proposal
« on: February 06, 2016, 03:18:58 PM »


Thanks. I'm pretty excited about it. I'm not an A&P, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn express last night. :)

My job is to make sure the maintenance gets done, logbooks are correct, and occasionally turn a Dzus tool for things like replacing the ELT battery and other owner/operator things that can be done by a mere private pilot under FAR Part 43 Appendix A.

Our wing has a 1943 PT-26, and a 1943 SNJ.

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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 06, 2016, 03:05:53 PM »



You love me!  You really really love me!

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Spin Zone / The world is FLAT not ROUND
« on: February 06, 2016, 02:55:41 PM »
Journalism in America is all but dead. It's strictly an alternative platform for projecting their point of view. It's quite sad, really. Such a far cry from the Woodward and Bernstein era.

Jonesy, it's great to see you take some time away from your big time airline pilot gig!  :D

:D

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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 06, 2016, 12:07:54 PM »

Reading comprehension problem I see.

Your whole focus is why Trump is unelectable, but you refuse or can't come up with a cognizant reason of how Rubio or Cruz can overcome the same problem.

Chanting "Trump is unelectable" will not persuade people to vote for a polarizing politician such as Cruz, nor will it help Rubio.

You can throw out all of the junk polling you want, but the basics confirm what I've been telling you.  Go do some homework.

Dude, I know facts is hard, and you don't like to admit that they exist, but the RCP average is just that - an average of all polls. Throw out whatever "junk polling" you want, and average the rest. Trump still loses the electorate.

The same polls , as well as the demographics from the only voting to take place this election season shows that Cruz and Rubio can win.  Not will win , but can win.

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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 06, 2016, 11:53:49 AM »

First of all, you are trying to assert I'm somehow backing Trump.  While there are certain aspects I like about him, he too has a problem in coming up with the numbers.

The unfavorable ratings are polling gibberish.  To win a national election requires support from all sectors of your party, plus a portion of independents and democrats, period.


Now, stay on topic.  How does a Rubio or Cruz attract people from these demographics?

Sorry. Unfavorable ratings goes to electability. Your candidate isn't electable.

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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 06, 2016, 11:34:30 AM »

Thanks for the honest answer.

So how does the bible salesman attract the independents and conservative democrats?  ANYONE who expects to win the the WH must have the backing of a portion of those two groups.

The extreme right wing and the evangelicals will not give enough votes to have a majority.

Rubio claims he "will unite the Republican Party", but how will he?  Rubio has already shit in his mess kit with a large part of the Republicans.

 Politics are a numbers game, period. If one can't add up enough numbers to get a majority then you don't win.

We can do this all day.

So how does Trump overcome his 57.8% unfavorable rating (Real Clear Politics average)?

Cruz' unfavorable is 40%. Rubio is 38%.

Clinton's is only 51.4%!  Sanders is 38.2.  And Obama is only 48.4%.

How is Trump going to appeal to the people who have an unfavorable opinion of him?  He is more disliked than Obama. Now THAT'S a winning formula for the GOP, isn't it? 

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Pilot Zone / Re: 2016 FAA Reauthorization republican proposal
« on: February 06, 2016, 11:12:05 AM »

Sorry I asked.  Apparently you don't have any idea what's going on here. 


Sent from my iPhone . Squirrel!!

Sorry, Mark. I just can't yet get excited about a proposal. I was looking at an old AOPA Pilot magazine from February 2014, I think, and they implied in that issue that they were THIS CLOSE!! to third class medical reform. Two years later, we are THIS CLOSE. 

So no, I don't have a clue, because it hasn't risen to my level of worrying about it yet. It is tax season after all. Plus I've been made the maintenance officer for our CAF Wing, so my plate is full.

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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 06, 2016, 10:39:42 AM »

In Iowa.  Iowa does not represent the total US electorate.

Cruz attracts the far right wing and the evangelicals.  He is opposed by moderates and absolutely despised by the left.

Rubio attracts moderates and the conservative left.

To win the White House one needs a solid majority of his party and a small percentage of independents and democrats crossing the line.

Go back the previous two elections and look at the demographics for McCain and Romney.

We'll see, won't we?  And polls don't represent the electorate either. If it did, Trump would be doing the victory dance on Cruz' and Rubio's heads.

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Pilot Zone / Re: 2016 FAA Reauthorization republican proposal
« on: February 06, 2016, 10:37:03 AM »

Wow..no opinions (save for one) on this?  Really? 

(Question for moderators, is this thread publicly viewable?)


Sent from my iPhone . Squirrel!!
SSDD.

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