Hillary is sure to win in Virginia

[ddoering]

Funny how these guys find new executive powers all the time.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...vember-n560556


More than 200,000 convicted felons will be able to cast ballots in the swing state of Virginia in November's election under a sweeping executive order by Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Friday that restores their rights to vote and run for office.

The Democrat said his actions would help undo Virginia's long history of trying to suppress the black vote.

[cbtengr]

Originally Posted by ddoering

Funny how these guys find new executive powers all the time.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...vember-n560556


More than 200,000 convicted felons will be able to cast ballots in the swing state of Virginia in November's election under a sweeping executive order by Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Friday that restores their rights to vote and run for office.

The Democrat said his actions would help undo Virginia's long history of trying to suppress the black vote.

So we are to believe it was all about Virginia suppressing the black vote, I wonder what Iowa's excuse is? it's pretty hard to get your right to vote back here, must be because we have a heartless republican governor.

[Razor]

Did they also get their 2nd Amendment rights back, too?

[Mills]

What the fuck is happening?

[Box]

vote early, vote often - mother fuckers...

I just wish the sun would hurry up and go supernova so we can sanitize whats left of this failed experiment.

[Mills]

Originally Posted by Billy L-bach

vote early, vote often - mother fuckers...

I just wish the sun would hurry up and go supernova so we can sanitize whats left of this failed experiment.

Thats why the left is so concerned with Global Warming!

[Patrin]

Law and order replaced by prison rules.

[ddoering]

Originally Posted by cbtengr

So we are to believe it was all about Virginia suppressing the black vote, I wonder what Iowa's excuse is? it's pretty hard to get your right to vote back here, must be because we have a heartless republican governor.

If whitey hadn't made so many things a felony in an effort to suppress black culture then we wouldn't be where we are today.

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by Mills

What the fuck is happening?

No kidding. I understand a governors powers, I also understand abuse of such powers for political reasons.

Let me know when the shooting starts, I'm ready.

[PSM]

Originally Posted by ddoering

Funny how these guys find new executive powers all the time.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...vember-n560556


More than 200,000 convicted felons will be able to cast ballots in the swing state of Virginia in November's election under a sweeping executive order by Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Friday that restores their rights to vote and run for office.

The Democrat said his actions would help undo Virginia's long history of trying to suppress the black vote.

More:

Trump Donated $25,000 to Terry 'Let Criminals Vote' McAuliffe

By: Daniel Horowitz | April 26, 2016

No Republican can win the White House without carrying the state of Virginia. Yet, Donald Trump donated $25,000 to the very man who will turn Virginia from a competitive purple state into an unwinnable blue state.

According to CNN, among the many liberal Democrats Trump supported throughout his career was Terry McAuliffe in his first bid for the Virginia’s governor’s mansion in 2009. We are not talking ancient history here. The frontrunner for the GOP nomination gave $25,000 to one of the sleaziest Democrats of our generation just seven years ago, a man who served as the Chairman of the DNC. As late as September 2014, Trump was still rubbing shoulders with the man.

What is so tragic and ironic is that McAuliffe just signed an executive order categorically restoring voting rights to 206,000 felons in Virginia, including convicted murderers. His action likely violated the state’s Constitution.

With such a narrow window of electoral viability in Virginia, it’s almost impossible to win the state if these overwhelmingly Democrat voters are added to the high floor of Democrat support in the state. Yet, Trump was one of the earliest supporters of the man who will likely tip the presidential election to Hillary Clinton if his executive order is not countermanded.

I hear many people say they are willing to forgive Trump’s plethora of liberal views because of his perceived stance on immigration. After all, as we’ve pointed out many times, if the immigration issue is not confronted Democrats will cement a permanent electoral majority, thereby rendering every other issue moot. The problem with this line of thought is that Trump is already responsible for helping Democrats create a permanent majority by supporting the very man doing so in one of the most critical blue states.

Trump likes to compare himself to Reagan and describes himself as a convert to the Republican Party. But Reagan fought for conservative values for decades prior to running for president. This man, on the other hand, has championed every left-wing cause under the sun until recently, and regarding several critical issues, still does to this very day. Worse, at a time when conservatives were fighting the consummate issues of our time – the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, sanctuary cities, and jail break – Trump was supporting its very leaders. He donated to the Gang of Eight and the Gang of Jailbreak.

For many Trump supporters, facts just don’t matter. However, Trump’s own support for the very people who have created a permanent Democrat majority will become evident even to them in the general election when he can no longer carry a state like Virginia, thanks to his liberal donations. In this case, he would have paid for the rope that ultimately hung himself.

- See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/c....dFWHBnqY.dpuf

Just sayn'

Pat

[Paslode]

Originally Posted by PSM

More:



Just sayn'

Pat

Further down the page you will find just one of the many thousand reasons Trump is in the drivers seat.....and why Danny's article is like the Pot calling the Kettle black

GOP-Passed Solyndra Subsidies Use Enron-Style Accounting to Fuel Federal Housing - See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/c....uhlLaVJu.dpuf

[PSM]

Originally Posted by Paslode

Further down the page you will find just one of the many thousand reasons Trump is in the drivers seat.....and why Danny's article is like the Pot calling the Kettle black

Not sure what your point is here. Since the GOP took control of both houses of congress, what have they done that Reid and Pelosi would not have done?

January 21, 2016

Is Trump a McConnell-Rove Establishment Tool?

By Daren Jonescu

On January 19, Donald Trump, the loudest Republican claimant to the anti-establishment label, filled out his recent attacks on Ted Cruz in a very telling way, as revealed on Mark Levin's radio program (click here, select the 1/19/16 podcast, go to the 23 minute mark):

We've been contacted by the establishment types. They all want to know, how do they get involved with the campaign? They're giving up on their candidates…and I mean these are real establishment people, that I've known when I was a member of the establishment -- meaning a giver, a big donor. But they are contacting us -- Corey [Trump's campaign manager], I think we can say that very honestly, they're contacting us left and right about joining the campaign, and these are serious establishment types.

Who might these "real," "serious" establishment types be? Perhaps there is a hint in this subsequent comment, a follow-up to his recent pro-establishment assault against Ted Cruz:

So when you talk about temperament, Ted has got a rough temperament, I don't know. You know, you can't call people liars on the Senate floor, when they're your leader.

This, of course, is a direct reference to Cruz's criticism of Mitch McConnell regarding the GOP establishment leader's secret deal with Barack Obama prior to a trade vote.

Donald Trump defending Mitch McConnell, you ask? The answer is yes, and the explanation may be found by examining Trump's recent history as a political donor.

Back in early 2013, Tea Party conservatives, fed up with McConnell's feckless (to be generous) Senate leadership, his semi-tough talk that never seems to match his legislative decisions and results, and his relentless suppression of the conservative minority in the Senate, sought to supplant this establishmentarian's establishmentarian by supporting a conservative rival in the 2014 Kentucky primary.

In response to this challenge, a super PAC called "Kentuckians for Strong Leadership" was formed to raise funds for McConnell's scorched earth campaign against not only his own Tea Party rival, but the whole Tea Party movement. I put the group's name in scare quotes because, of its fifty-eight major donors -- those who had given $1000 or more as of May 15, 2014 -- the Louisville Courier-Journal identified only five with Kentucky addresses. "Kentuckians for Strong Leadership" was in fact, as Tony Lee reported at Breitbart at the time, a re-branding of Karl Rove's American Crossroads, an organization expressly dedicated to destroying the constitutionalist movement in favor of the old guard GOP establishment.

The big donors to Mitch McConnell's anti-Tea Party defense fund gave amounts ranging from $1000 to $250,000. In the upper half of this donor list appears one Donald J. Trump, who gave $50,000 to the group. Five days earlier, he had already donated a few thousand dollars to McConnell's campaign directly. This total donation is far and away the largest contribution Trump has ever made to any individual Washington politician's campaign -- at least ten times larger than any other contribution he has made to a national Republican candidate. Indeed, one has to cross over to the Democrat side of his donor history to find anything comparable to this contribution at any level of government. That would be his $50,000 donation to Rahm Emanuel's mayoral campaign in December 2010.

Mitch McConnell has been perhaps the single most prominent leader -- certainly the most powerful -- in the Republican Party's long-standing effort to "crush" (McConnell's word) the grassroots constitutional conservative movement that threatens the privileged status of the Washington Brahmin caste, aka the American political establishment.

In 2014, the Tea Party had the temerity to challenge McConnell directly on his own home turf. He did indeed crush them there, as he would happily crush them in the Senate. His effort to annihilate the constitutionalist resistance was funded heavily by a nationwide group of donors affiliated with Karl Rove, who presumably shared McConnell's and Rove's desire to defend the establishment against the belligerent serfs who were daring to assert their liberty against its permanent privilege.

Donald Trump was a major donor to that effort. He even threw another $10,000 into the pot in October 2014, to bring his total contribution to McConnell to more than $60,000.

Now he is attacking his primary rival, Ted Cruz, on the grounds that "Nobody in Congress likes him," and, more specifically, that "you can't call people liars on the Senate floor, when they're your leader."

Donald Trump is no longer making a generic accusation against Cruz's demeanor or reputation. He is slapping him on behalf of the Republican he has supported most generously, Mitch McConnell. I have previously argued that Trump's reputation as anti-establishment is all hot air, corresponding to nothing he has ever really done. Here we have just one more clear example of that.

A conservative blogger friend recently suggested to me privately that he is not ready to reject outright the possibility that Trump is actually the establishment's clever creation -- that, after years of deepening threats from an increasingly serious constitutionalist faction within the GOP, the progressive Republicans may have surmised that the best path to victory is, as my friend puts it, to "run against themselves."

Whether strategic or merely fortuitous, the alliance between Donald Trump and the GOP establishment, which has lurked verifiably behind Trump's brash mask for years, has now become an open feature of his primary campaign. And the chief target, Enemy Number One, of both parties in this alliance is Ted Cruz. Cruz is "nasty" and "nobody likes him," as Trump says, because he is brazenly defiant toward the GOP establishment's leaders.

And you thought the whole point of being anti-establishment was to be brazenly defiant toward the establishment's leaders. Silly you. Apparently, a real anti-establishment candidate would not donate $60,000 to Mitch McConnell's "crush the Tea Party" campaign.

http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...ment_tool.html

Pat

[craigepo]

Actually, that is the same law that Missouri has, in that if a person has completed probation or parole, they can vote again. There are a lot of states that have the same law.

I am not sure how the Governor did this by executive order, but he is a democrat, so...

[SF-TX]

From the article in post #10:

For many Trump supporters, facts just don’t matter.

Facts didn't/don't matter to Obama and Hillary supporters, either.

[Box]

Facts?

...I seem to be following the wrong thread. I thought this was a political discussion and here we are using the word, "facts"


Never mix facts and politics.