Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

Good morning! How are all you LRC stable geniuses doing this fine am?

Flagpole wrote:

Romney Not wrote:

On a somewhat related note - Does Mitt Romney have even one atomic unit of self-respect? "Thrilled to get Trump's endorsement." Even one?

WTF is wrong with this guy?

Yeah, that's really sad. I'm not sure he needed to say that at all. Utah already likes him and didn't really like Trump during the election which is why Evan McMullen ran.

Zero integrity.

Romney showed his lack of backbone when he ran for presidency and he caved to the far right in his party in every instance.

The sad part with Romney is that I think he clearly knows what is right.

Kool Aid Kid wrote:

Good gawd have you drank the Kool-aid.

You can't be for real.

I don't drink the Kool-Aid

I make the Kool-Aid.

the right thing to do wrote:

foo wrote:

Actually, the tax bill is giving money to people. It's giving money to all current tax payers at the expense of future tax payers. Even more so, it's giving tons of money to people, such as myself, who are deeply invested in stocks. This, too, is at the expense of future tax payers.

This isn't a conservative/liberal thing as both parties have shown themselves to be fiscally irresponsible.

I assume that since you think it is wrong, you will be writing the government a check so that you pay the prior tax rate (or maybe even a little more)?

You wouldn't want to pass the debt on to future tax payers.

Congratulations on putting forth the dumbest argument in the history of LRC (for the nth time)!

Here is where the ACA exchanges stand now

https://www.axios.com/the-big-picture-on-trumps-health-care-changes-cc1f5b4c-89ae-4031-89f7-9fdb1ae08ee5.html

Right now the exchanges are for the poor and the sick.

At some level that's good. At least there is a place for them to go if they make too much money for Medicaid and not enough to afford their own coverage.

But stripping the mandate means young and healthy people will drop out.

So the exchange becomes more expensive to taxpayers.

Taxpayers have to pay for their own insurance and help even more with the insurance of others.

This becomes a bigger deficit driver.

That's what Republicans do.

They create policies in a healthy economy that increase the debt at a faster pace.

A very stable genius! wrote:

Good morning! How are all you LRC stable geniuses doing this fine am?

Great!

Here is a Russian indictment recap:

Zero integrity.[/quote]

Romney showed his lack of backbone when he ran for presidency and he caved to the far right in his party in every instance.

The sad part with Romney is that I think he clearly knows what is right.[/quote]

This. He swung so far away from his core views that he couldn't even take credit for crafting the first workable version of ACA. All that just to please the base of crazies. He would have had a good shot at the general election had he been "himself" all along. In a way the base and party changed too much while he stood still, so he couldn't have survived the primary without morphing.

Romney should have simply run in 2016 instead of 2012.

He'd be president right now.

In November 2012, the economy was on a streak of over two straight years with GDP growth and consistent monthly job gains. Plus Bin Laded had been whacked.

Pretty hard to knock out an incumbent president in that situation.

In 2016 the top Republican opponents of Trump were Jeb and Rubio.

I think Romney would have fared much better.

Then the Russians would have helped Romney beat Hillary.

Collusion with Russia wasn't necessary. They were out to defeat Hillary regardless.

It just looks bad for Trump because Russia did in fact did try to help him and Trump did in fact have several of his surrogates that had contact with Russian officials. And praising Putin and never saying anything bad about Putin doesn't help Trump's image.

L L wrote:

Romney should have simply run in 2016 instead of 2012.

He'd be president right now.

In November 2012, the economy was on a streak of over two straight years with GDP growth and consistent monthly job gains. Plus Bin Laded had been whacked.

Pretty hard to knock out an incumbent president in that situation.

In 2016 the top Republican opponents of Trump were Jeb and Rubio.

I think Romney would have fared much better.

Then the Russians would have helped Romney beat Hillary.

Collusion with Russia wasn't necessary. They were out to defeat Hillary regardless.

It just looks bad for Trump because Russia did in fact did try to help him and Trump did in fact have several of his surrogates that had contact with Russian officials. And praising Putin and never saying anything bad about Putin doesn't help Trump's image.

Disagree. He would have been labeled "low energy," "little," whatever 9 year old insult Trump could think of at that time (bonus points if it starts with an R for the alliteration) and destroyed in the primaries. The public demanded Barabbas and that's what they got.

Your probably right.

I still don't see how Trump got the nomination so I guess Romney could have lost as well.

I agree that it would be easier for Trump to get gun restrictions passed than a Democrat.

But I don't buy this lobbying he is doing now.

He has made public statements about better healthcare, about continuing DACA and about spending on infrastructure.

Nothing has been passed and signed.

He will make a statement in public and then someone will pull him aside and speak to him in private and he will change his stance.

He really has no convictions or spine.

He has no ideology either.

L L wrote:

Then the Russians would have helped Romney beat Hillary.

LOL! Romney saw the threat of Russia long before Democrats started pretending to care

L L wrote:

Collusion with Russia wasn't necessary. They were out to defeat Hillary regardless.

It just looks bad for Trump because Russia did in fact did try to help him and Trump did in fact have several of his surrogates that had contact with Russian officials. And praising Putin and never saying anything bad about Putin doesn't help Trump's image.

Collusion was necessary if Russia told Trump it was necessary. Putin has something on Trump for sure. When a guy who has no problem saying horrible things about pretty much everyone on the planet won't criticize an enemy of the US, a guy who is a murderer and dictator, then that means he is afraid of Putin. Why be afraid? Because Putin has intel on Trump that would sink him...compromising video, financial crimes, financial assistance, something.

Make no mistake, Trump is Putin's b!tch.

The good thing is...

Mueller is coming.

The clown is done.

Trollminator wrote:

Zero integrity.

Romney showed his lack of backbone when he ran for presidency and he caved to the far right in his party in every instance.

The sad part with Romney is that I think he clearly knows what is right.[/quote]

This. He swung so far away from his core views that he couldn't even take credit for crafting the first workable version of ACA. All that just to please the base of crazies. He would have had a good shot at the general election had he been "himself" all along. In a way the base and party changed too much while he stood still, so he couldn't have survived the primary without morphing.[/quote]

Nope. Romney lost because he stopped campaigning in the last few weeks while Democrats turned up the smear machine. I don't know why he stopped, but it hurt him.

L L wrote:

A very stable genius! wrote:

Good morning! How are all you LRC stable geniuses doing this fine am?

Great!

Here is a Russian indictment recap:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/20/17031772/mueller-indictments-grand-jury

Uh-oh.

Flynn is considering pulling his plea deal. It seems that investigator Strozk (Hey, there's that guy again. Wasn't he the guy caught in text messages plotting to take down Trump if he won? Yes he was. And he's in the middle of this too.) who interviewed Flynn said that Flynn didn't lie, but that piece of exculpatory evidence wasn't presented to the defense before the plea deal, which is required by law. There's a whole lot of law breaking going on in this coup.

So it's looking like Flynn only copped a plea because his family was being destroyed by these corrupt investigators. No American should feel good about that. It seems the real crimes are being committed by the independent council and the FBI. The only prominent Democrat to challenge this abuse of power is Alan Dershowitz. Only one.

If Flynn's plea falls through, then the whole "Mueller's got all these indictments" narrative falls apart.

Now we're finding out the the MSM promoted one of Russia's anti-Trump rallies that Micheal Moore attended. It seems that Democrats are Putin's b!tches. The technical political term is "Useful Idiots".

L L wrote:

Can't Stump the Trump wrote:

Now that Americans are receiving paychecks, the popularity of the tax bill is surging.

So you are that giving money to people is popular.

Then why not give everyone fully paid for health coverage?

Letting me keep more of what I've earned is different from "giving money away"....'

DiscoGary wrote:

L L wrote:

Great!

Here is a Russian indictment recap:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/20/17031772/mueller-indictments-grand-jury

So it's looking like Flynn only copped a plea because his family was being destroyed by these corrupt investigators.

Let me get this straight : you think an innocent man accepted a plea deal?

Hardloper wrote:

L L wrote:

Then the Russians would have helped Romney beat Hillary.

LOL! Romney saw the threat of Russia long before Democrats started pretending to care

Wait. I thought Trump and Fox News told you the Russia thingy was FAKE NEWS!!! Now you believe the Russians did meddle. Now it is REAL NEWS!!!