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Default Teddy Roosevelt and the Donald

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 06:11:47 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/29/16 2:14 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:02:32 -0500,

wrote:

On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 20:23:20 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Is the Donald being sold short?

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I don't think he'll be getting my vote.
TR lived a fairly honorable life as far as I know. Donald, not so
much. What you see is what you get.


I am not sure any of those weasels has lived what I would call an
honorable life.
I bet the Trump we see in the general (if he gets there) will not be
the guy we see now,
That is the biggest problem we have with this primary process.
The primary candidates need to appeal to their party's most far pout
fringe to win the primary, then they need to run to the center to be
elected. In the last half dozen presidential elections I have said,
they passed each other in the middle. That was really true with
Clinton and Dole. Clinton was already pretty far right by 96 and Dole
was to the left of him by the election.


Yesterday on the big morning TV news shows, Trump refused to walk away
from the support he is receiving from David Duke and the right-wing hate
groups and also defended his use of a tweeted quote from the fascist,
Mussolini.

You are really spinning that or you did not actually see the show.
His answer about Duke was he did not know Duke had endorsed him and he
repudiated it.
As for the quote, he said he did not know it was Mussolini but he
liked the line
I bet Mussolini did not write "“It is better to live one day as a lion
than 100 years as a sheep.", he just heard it somewhere himself.
My bet is the Romans heard it from someone in North Africa before the
birth of Jesus and it has been in the Italian culture for eons.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike Trump but this is bull****.