@clevfan4life said:

You just aren't getting it. This omnibus monster bill signed on to by republicans is why the base of the republican party has been looking to outsiders like Trump and Carson (although Carson has faded recently). These republicans idea of compromising with democrats is to get whatever they can to benefit big business and the chamber of commerce and throw to the wayside everything else such as immigration, Obamacare or defunding planned parenthood and sanctuary cities among other things. Even on giving in on immigration these republicans are helping the chamber of commerce who like all the cheap labor they can get and give some of their profits back to GOP politicians who make sure they get favored treatment. So what we have are republican politicians who say they are against Obamacare and will have 40 "show" votes that mean nothing even though they are in position to do something meaningful as they control the purse strings. These republicans were elected to stop some of the Obama agenda but time after time they show they are primarily focused on the interests of big business but they will give cheap talk to republican voters about defunding PP or illegal immigration and then do nothing. I vote republican but I consider them to be the party that is the lesser of 2 evils and not that I think so highly of them.

Sessions is not the best public speaker but listen to the substance of what he is saying. He is blasting his own party, the hypocrisy of what is going on and the betrayal of these republicans to the people who voted them into office.

@mld-woody said:

It's some kind of carpet ride isn't it?

@mld-woody said:

No. Trump has appeal to voters because we are electing politicians who are at times voting for legislation which is not in the best interest of the American people. That is what the video is speaking about.

... but now it is Obama's fault Trump is popular with Republican voters?

* also explains why Trump is doing so much better than expected.

And Trump is winning in all of them.

Trump is not a Democrat conspiracy, people actually like him in conservative circles including the Rush Limbaugh hard right winger group. Blaze and breitbart readers are pretty big fans as well.

@calfoxwc said:

Wait wait wait

Even when it comes to a Republican candidate you don't like getting support among conservatives.... you still blame liberals?

@calfoxwc said:

Every time there is a terror attack, Trump will gain more steam. Not with substance at all but he will resonate with people who are scared shitless.

A Cruz/Carson ticket.

Or maybe Cruz/Fiorina.

Sometimes, it seems that a lot of democrats are registered as reps, and that's how

Trump is doing so well...

they want him because higgardly could look nearly like a human being

debating him. His BS vs her sombeech stupidass lies and videotape of emails...

I think Cruz wins, because when the others drop out... those votes will go to Cruz.

Trump has his shallow one liners base, and it's stable, but won't grow dramatically.

Thanks."

@bbedward said:

Meaning he doesn't have that Texas swag, but the shit he says is equally as stupid.

He was trying to lay down some sick beats or something.

Kasich is basically the same as old fogies like Bush when you get down to it, he's just better at not sounding like an idiot in public.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Really?

I got to watch some of it myself. Out of that lot, I don't mind Paul, myself.

@mld-woody said:

Yep.

I think he'll win the nomination anyway. At this point he's starting to hit 40% in the polls and Iowa is pretty close. Even if Cruz wins Iowa, looks like Trump will win the nomination.

If by some chance he doesn't win, he'll just continue yelling on twitter and probably get a new TV show or something.

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If the RNC does this "Brokered Convention" thing and steals the nomination away from whoever deserves it - then they will lose in 2016 (deservedly so) in a huge landslide. I doubt they do that though.

If Trump wins, some of the right wingers say "Trump/Cruz 2016!!!!" I think he'd be better off picking somebody who's more moderate to try and win over a bigger voting block. A swing state guy like Kasich would be good, but I sort of expect somebody who isn't in the race currently.

Then you have to worry about a third party run or the idea that his supporters just stay home rather than vote for Jeb, the candidate that nobody cares about.

And Hillary rides her broomstick straight into the Oval Office.

WSS

To me, Rubio made the most sense (at least last night). Bush & Fiorina need to take a hike. Christie did fine, so did our Governor Kasich (despite my reservations with him).

There's no way the Rs are going to nominate Trump, but they'd be silly not to keep him around as some kind of economic adviser.

I don't know how the Rs are going to come together and figure this out, but they better do it real real soon. This infighting, or just a simple lack of a true front-runner isn't a good look. Right now, I doubt I vote D or R, it's a total mess.

@clevfan4life said:

I agree with Rand on that point. Toppling dictators has not helped anything but has made things more unstable and worse. I still believe Rand made a huge mistake in attacking Trump early on in the primaries and that has hurt Paul as much as anything. Trump has exposed a big rift in the base of the GOP who are sick of establishment republicans that don't deliver on promises when they go to Washington. The shame of this for Rand Paul is that he is not an establishment republican but by throwing his hat in the ring with establishment republicans like Jeb Bush he has suffered for it.

@oldbrownsfan said:

He could have just said something like "It's under FBI investigation and it's up to them to determine if a crime was committed" or something. Then he wouldn't have sounded like a pussy and wouldn't have had confrontation.

@bbedward said:

Sanders also gave Clinton a huge gift by saying in one of the debates he had heard enough about her emails. He acted like those emails were not important when in fact her negligence and incompetence has hurt our national security. I think it is pretty much common knowledge her private email account was hacked into by China and other countries not friendly to us and top secret information compromised.

@westside-steve said:

I think Rubio/Bush/Clinton are all pretty much in the same circlejerk. They'd all deny it vehemently, but I don't see much difference between them outside of social issues.

I'd like to see a Sanders/Paul election. Though neither one seems likely. I'd like to see Paul be SCOTUS or something though at least. Would make me feel a lot better about a Trump administration if Paul got a say in foreign policy