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"It's the economy, stupid."
Agreed, but in the way that it's being used to try to distract some people, I don't think it'll have the desired impact. It's being set up by someone to be a potential wedge issue, but ultimately, I don't think it'll turn into one because the electorate has moved on from where it was a decade and a half ago. If it were to get people to change their views, though, I think it would be a net gain for Clinton, depending on how hard those who are pushing it try to push it.
Personally, my big issue in this election is hair. Donald's is threatening and scary, Hillary's is wildly inconsistent. Bernie's hair stays the same. He has hair you can trust.
Anything else really is unimportant at this point.
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Trump will run to the left of her on military and trade most likely. He has said he will go all out relentlessly against ISIS & terrorism (with bombastic campaign rhetoric no doubt), but is calling for disentanglements in other areas. Again, non-status quo.
The discussion about revamping the Nato alliance & its funding is the right one. He may have not articulated his points clearly, but his overall point is correct. The alliance needs to be revisited for the new times we live in, not perpetuated in its outdated format.
The same goes for military procurement waste and futzing about spreading democracy in foreign lands. He has said this needs to be looked at closely.
The same goes for insisting the Arabs (and particularly Saudi) step up and take on their responsibilities with respect to the refugee crisis and the war against ISIS.
He is taking the common sense positions of a variety of candidates (including ilbertarian Rand Paul) and creating a composite foreign policy - not an ideological based one.
The blanks & details need to be filled in, but the strategic thrust is one I am in sync with.
He just caught the wave. Timing.
I just hope he reconsiders his stance on not being a VP choice.
My hope is that the change of heart was after a conversation with Trump regarding the VP job, but I doubt that's the case.
He's generally talked positively about Kasich and hasn't subjected him to the same kind of verbal assault he's given to guys like Rubio and Jeb Bush, both of whom Trump has said he likes after the fact.
Kasich could help him get Ohio, but he might need to choose someone else who can help him make inroads into some of the demographics that he's pissed off over the course of the campaign. Kasich would be on my short list if I were Trump, but I'd also have a pretty long conversation with someone like Condoleeza Rice as well.
Plus she's tainted with the lingering and unwashable stench of that 'nightmare' group of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolkowicz etc. and that behind the strings puppet master 'Richard Pearle'.
That would be a recipe for a sure Trump loss imho.
Sounds like a great reason to choose her.
I don't think she's tainted, though, at least not in Republican circles. Her ascension in the Bush White House in his second term was a direct result of Bush wanting to distance himself from Rumsfeld and Cheney, the latter of which he considered dropping from the ticket in the 2004 election.
I do think that Trump is, however, going to need to look very closely at female candidates for his VP spot. He is viewed wildly unfavorably by women and will need to do something to win back at least some female voters if he wants to stand a chance, especially against someone running to be the first female president in the history of the nation.
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Hills has the same problem as McCain in '08. Staid as 'f'. She's going to have to 'amp' it up, so I wonder who the Dem version of Palin is.
Not quite closed. There's still Brunssum and Benelux-Schinnen. And plenty of 'Virginia farm boys' hanging around Nijmegen shipping and yellow lift truck production. More than 150 countries have US service personnel stationed there.
Common sense would almost certainly say that we'd never see the two least-liked candidates in history facing off in the general election, but here we are. Both have such high unfavorable ratings that it just leaves you wondering who exactly voted for the both of them.
The same applied to Obama as well, only he had the 'love' of the rest of the world too.
2016 is an 'America First' election, unlike 2008/2012. The rest of the world probably won't like the end result.
Still, I think they've treated him more fairly than the other candidates. He's on TV pretty much every other night for an interview and dominates their coverage, which has given him so much free publicity and allowed him to not have to spend nearly the amount of money as his rivals.
Still, I think they've treated him more fairly than the other candidates. He's on TV pretty much every other night for an interview and dominates their coverage, which has given him so much free publicity and allowed him to not have to spend nearly the amount of money as his rivals.