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(50,986 posts)make the GOP Convention in Cleveland an ideological shit-storm.
He certainly has the skills set for it.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)I love Idaho because of the natural beauty but why the people of Idaho have always voted against their own best interests has always been beyond my ability to understand it.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Along came Steve Symms and Helen Chenoweth and it's been a long downhill slide ever since. Yes, it sucks.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)rid of her but what followed wasn't much better. It has to be lonely for a Bernie supporter there. Hang in there.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)We've had some real doozies here over the decades. This year's crew at the Statehouse has been especially jaw-dropping.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)I can't imagine other than he's Canadian and knows how to talk to people used to
living in the woods, but he's actually a city guy, isn't he? Or is it the fact that he's a Christian evangelical? Did he appeal to the Mormons? Even that is mystifying to me.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)He came across as a gun lover in one commercial if I recall, and he did show up Sunday for a campaign appearance at Boise State. He also appeared at a campaign rally in Coeur dAlene on Saturday with the pastor who was later shot . Trump had a phone interview with KTVB (NBC affiliate) and promised to "eat some of those delicious Idaho potatoes". Phoniness doesn't sit well with a lot of folks here.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)I hope he fails in every contest and every election from here on.
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)but also the least electable. And every state he wins is one step closer to a brokered convention, and subsequent GE rout.
Go Cruz! (and then go away!)
Raine
(30,540 posts)he's totally repulsive.