Ah yes, the reason to endorse a candidate for President of the USA is "because he is not completely crazy".

Not completely crazy means wanting to carpet bomb Syria and other countries regardless of how many innocents are killed? It means nuking those countries until the sand glows in the dark?

Not completely crazy means taking control over women's personal rights?

No, Cruz is completely crazy!

He's not the "preferred" candidate, Hillary is "their guy", that's why you don't hear anything about him, they just don't cover him. They did the same with Ron Paul the R "unliked" candidate last cycle.

Trump is a puzzle...the media gives him SO MUCH attention, I often wonder if this whole thing isn't a ruse, more of the political theater. Is it all for ratings? Or more nefarious reasons? Is the presidency on his bucket list? Is he really working for the R party and all this is just "reality TV" for attention taken from Hillary? He's "pals" with the Clinton's "off camera", is he trying to take the election from the R party? I have no idea. I know he's "one of them", he's buddies with the powerful, the bankers, the corporations. I just don't know.

The people are deliberately kept ignorant. The last thing you want to do is watch the "news" and listen to "polls". It's all propaganda to sway your thinking.

When did you "wake up"? Upon retirement? That's when it happened to me, I had time to "look into things", and learned just how bad it is, the corruption, the stealing is rampant.

Our government is nothing but organized theft from the people. One party brings in these industries to promote, the other party brings in those industries to promote. An endless cycle of graft and theft.

That's a brave question to ask around here. Retirement is when I started to look things up that I never had the time to do before. I had mentors. Mostly family that are smarter then me, half younger, one is my son. I'm open minded and use common sense. My mother taught me about the importance of gut instincts too. Smart enough at least to know who is smart and who isn't.

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Trump's media attention is not a puzzle to me. He has it all, including 3 hot wives and a playboy past. When he speaks he has no filters and for the most part says what jumps into his head. He is different because he doesn't take the time to write a speech or think out issues well in advance. I think he is the person most shocked that he got this far. And that's construed as not being PC. I can't get enough of him and look forward to the tweets and the one liners like this. "I know words, I know great words"

McCain's handlers picked a hot soccer mom that looks like a librarian and Tina Fay because that thought that will get him the female vote. Are you kidding? Trump is now using his wife to get the female vote. Who can relate to them?

This is why I also object to the disrupters. Let Trump be Trump.

[QUOTE=Guest;1208917]Trump's media attention is not a puzzle to me. He has it all, including 3 hot wives and a playboy past.

McCain's handlers picked a hot soccer mom that looks like a librarian and Tina Fay because that thought that will get him the female vote. Are you kidding? Trump is now using his wife to get the female vote. Who can relate to them?
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I thought that Trump's current wife, Malaria, had the best quote about immigrants. She said America welcomes immigrants because without them, who would do the gardening and cleaning? Americans don't want to do that kind of work.

Ah yes, a woman of the people - if the people are like her and Leona Helmsey!

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“Trump’s wife speaks immigrant?” -Trevor Noah
I'm not judging. My great grandparents, 1 had an Irish brogue, one had an Italian accent and 2 had a German accent. They didn't take the Mayflower, I guess it was booked.

Not only is Trump's wife a looker, but she also speaks five languages and runs a business. On top of that, she is getting a lot of traction from her old pre-marriage modeling photos that are about 16+ years old. She still looks pretty darn good though. She would make a nice accessory to the White House.

Say what you will, but Trump would bring an improvement to the White House from what it is now.

What's her education?

Does it matter? Is there an educational prerequisite? There isn't one for the position of president.

some prefer educated letters to educated people.
I am sure that is not what was meant by the question.

The Europeans tell the joke;

what do you call a person who speaks 3 languages or more? Multi lingual.

What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual.

What do you call a person who speaks one language? An American!

I think education matters in some circles. I think the circles the President is in is made up of highly educated people. Suppose the conversation is about NATO and she is not sure what NATO is. She might feel like a fish out of water.

Perhaps she could come to one of my parties instead. None of my friends know too much about NATO either.

There are a lot of Bilinguals and Multilinguals in America and more to come. That's an old joke.

THAT should tell you something! They're the "front man", the talking head, that's all, they just have to be convincing liars. Be able to convincingly read a script/teleprompter.

Or you wind up with just the opposite result....example? Obama....supposedly well educated and lettered....

sure makes no difference in how he operates around all those educated people in Washington.

You certainly must know the priroities are politics and me first.....NO MATTER HOW STUPID THEY LOOK AND ACT.

Example? Obama.