Trump took no questions at that press conference. Why call it a press conference then?

pacino wrote:Apparently that people with teeth in the Republican party are voting Trump.

Yes, it is distressing. But the problem for Republicans is that they not only have among their base most of the country's out-and-out racists (if I may take "racist" as a proxy for "toothless" or whatever the epithet doc wishes to brand on what he sees as typical Trump voters) who bother to vote, but also that there are a fair number of those "sneaky" racists who also break Republican. White, baby-boomer suburban is who I am thinking of. Many are college educated and relatively affluent, which would suggest they are among the anyone-but-Trump crowd, but many of these same people also quietly harbor... unfortunate sentiments, and are likely drawn to the Trump "tell it like it is" nonsense. It will be interesting to see how Trump does in the Philly suburbs in the nomination contest in PA as a test of this. I think he wins Delco - more clearly home to the Trump sort, probably less educated on average than other Philly burbs - and Montco and Bucks will be close between him and Kasich. Both have a lot of the "establishment" country club style Republicans who are repulsed by Trump who doc envisions, but it will be a test of that sneak racist thing you see in a lot of baby boomer white people.

mozartpc27 wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:It would be difficult for this to be more depressing and distressing

Trump could have won Ohio.

I'd have taken that. Then ROMNEY 2016 could have gotten underway. Now we'll drift aimlessly toward narrowly nominating Trump.

How would Romney 2016 have worked in the event that Trump had won Ohio exactly?

Run independent. Split the vote. Elect Hillary. Give regular Republicans a reason to turn out and feel OK about themselves to keep the House and Senate.

pacino wrote:Apparently that people with teeth in the Republican party are voting Trump.

You knew that. Please have known that. He needs to stop being a gigantic ass to certain people. He has momentum. Or maybe that works.

Why can't Romney still do that if Trump is the nominee?

Isn't that the scenario ju is laying out? If trump OH, and looked to be the candidate?

Trump and Hillary one on one. Wow

That should be on PPV for real, help the economy

Maybe Matthews is a booze hound and demands a bar setting

JFLNYC wrote: There have been tectonic economic shifts which have occurred over the past few decades: The death of successful, local businesses which keep a community's wealth within the community in favor of national and multinational business which -- even if they provide jobs -- take the wealth out of the community and distribute it among investors in other parts of the country and the world; a global economy fueled by faster national and international shipping and modern telecommunications which allows jobs to be relocated to wherever in the world provides the cheapest labor; the ultra-redistribution of wealth from among the many to the very few.

Great post.

While there is danger in disregarding the lot of the downtrodden, it's also dangerous to think "this time it's different."

Compare the computer programmer who lost a nice job when it was outsourced, to the dustbowl Okie sharecropper who fled to California to bid for jobs where each opening had 10 men vying for it. This does not diminish the real pain or the need to address it - but it's not a new phenomenon.

Jobs have been lost and industries destroyed plenty of times. Whether to new technology or cheap foreign labor. Not seeing how it's different now other than there is a brighter light on the wealthiest. And somehow it's OK for celebs and athletes to be super wealthy, but not CEOs.

Here's a brighter view: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... er/426882/

drsmooth wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:The point is that the welfare state created and feeds this white trash culture - just like it does the inner city ghettoes.

oh for #$!&@'s sake. if you spent a tenth of the time you devote to kicking those who are already down to considering ways to goose the comfortable, you'd waste at least 10% less of your time here on earth. You could start on ways to trim corporate welfare.

But on that article, the best - and by best I mean the bizarrely worst - is found in so many of the comments. Whew, those people have already broken out the riding crops and the knee-high boots

Not sure how you reconcile your sudden defense of racist white trash with your (accurate) characterization of Mein Drumpf voters as mouth-breathers. Somehow it's OK for you to trash them but not the country clubbers at NRO?

TenuredVulture wrote:Finally, people are leaving these areas--the U-Haul solution is happening. Maybe not as quickly as Williams or TP or Doc Smooth would like, but rural population is declining everywhere.

Life gives some hard choices. To stay in squalor by virtue of the welfare state is in the interest of no one's welfare. The U-Haul solution is a grand one, all things considered. Syrians do it, so can Merkins

mozartpc27 wrote:Why can't Romney still do that if Trump is the nominee?

Need to start filing to get on the ballot by the beginning of May. Which means you need to start gathering signatures in the next week or two.

TomatoPie wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Finally, people are leaving these areas--the U-Haul solution is happening. Maybe not as quickly as Williams or TP or Doc Smooth would like, but rural population is declining everywhere.

Life gives some hard choices. To stay in squalor by virtue of the welfare state is in the interest of no one's welfare. The U-Haul solution is a grand one, all things considered. Syrians do it, so can Merkins

An utterly non-sensical comparison

Cruz now jacking off Rubio. Lol, what a fraud.

pacino wrote:Look at trump's hair. You can see his skull. How do we elect an ahole like that who expects us to accept that as his hair? Piece of #$!&@, we're not morons.

Truly, the hair should make him a nonstarter. He began as a joke, he remains a joke. I really can't imagine the stupidity of anyone pulling a lever for him.

#OrangeIsTheNewFascist

Lol, says the reason Trump gets airtime because partisan Democrats who control the media are pushing him. It's not the ratings.

CalvinBall wrote:Doc telling us the truth.

Trump tonight:

fl- 47 percent
Illinois- 40 percent
Nc- 40 percent
Missouri- 42 percent

Shurg

calvin, it's difficult for me to convey how far behind you are here. drumpf is not winning majorities in states where he needs to win them. 40% will not do it in the proportional states. He needs to win ALL the "true" WTA states, PLUS bigger pluralities in the proportional states, to gain the nomination. He's not doing it. He already lost Ohio. So he's even less likely to do what he needs to do.

If he underperforms in big states, like PA and CA - which seems quite probable - it's unlikely he'll corral enough delegates to secure the nomination before Cleveland.

It's not my fault you can't do math.

Plus, drumpf is just a disgusting awful, horrible organism.

Jeez, hope Cruz gets the nomination. He's unelectable nationwide.

Trump is going to DOMINATE PA, smooth.

Let's make sure we're civil to one another, guys.

pacino wrote:Jeez, hope Cruz gets the nomination. He's unelectable nationwide.

He's unelectable in his own party.