[WideRight05]

Perhaps one day before I die, I will be able to speak as eloquently as you, Hoot and WideRight. I can think of things, but cannot relate it in the written word.

We have no one but ourselves to blame for Trump and his political position of today. The last 8 years have been unbelievable, and Americans have sat back on their laurels and done nothing to prevent the chaos that is present day politics. The middle class has had its' back broken working to support the agendas of the upper class and/or politicians and the agendas of most of the lower class who refuse to work. And why SHOULD they work? They are rewarded with everything from free healthcare to real time support and all for doing nothing. It's beyond shameful!!!

You want to know why the candidate Donald Trump is so popular with all of his faults and issues??? Hmmmm....where can I begin? How about a $2M beer summit? That may or may not be an accurate sum, but I will accept it. After all, when the budge deficit is a few thousand trillion, what's another couple of million? Chicken feed. We can go on to allowing Obama and his administration to decimate our military, and end with Hillary watching as the Benghazi tragedy unfolds before her lying eyes. Oh, and she doesn't worry at all about being caught up in her lies...she blames a preacher making a video in Florida!!!! Yes..most of us have forgotten about THAT excuse, but I never will. And she gets away with it! SHE GETS AWAY WITH IT!!! Just exactly like she will get away with the email server controversy. She lies, she waits, she distracts, she gets away with it.

So you have a buffoon like Trump enter this race. He is plain spoken and isn't monetarily indebted to anyone. He may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but compare him to other "accepted" candidates, he's a genius. Rubio and Cruz jumped on his bandwagon, BUT Trump was the only candidate with the balls to say the things first that we were all thinking. He slashed the "sanctuary cities", then Cruz slashed them; he ridiculed the border crossings, then Rubio ridiculed them. And wonder of wonders, he is still fighting.

The media can do nothing but try and undermine him from his character to anything else they can find. This may be the first time in recent history that the Democratic National Party and the Republican National Party agree on ANYTHING. They must stop him...but how?? Nobody is funding him!! So the bottom line is, the RNP will do anything it can to keep him from getting the nomination. To hell with what the public wants or votes for...Evidently the voters don't have enough sense to vote anymore.

So, bottom line...why bother? The good ole boys' club is going to manipulate, strangulate and get elected just whomever they want.

It's not that I'm a big Trump supporter, but he sure has got a lot of people thinking.

Personally, if I was younger, I would be thinking about moving to Texas or Idaho or any other state that was considering succeeding from the USA. For the first time in my lifetime, I am ashamed of where this country is going.

Granny, I totally meant to respond to this sooner. To be mentioned in the same sentence as TRT and Hoot in articulation, what an honor. I don't think I come close to either one. But they are certainly who I strive to be when I make political posts. I know they don't like each other very much right now, but I sure like and respect the heck out of both of them!