The Crimson Cyclone wrote:

pacino wrote:Hmm, I'd have to see who said that. I could see Obama thinking that way.

Nina Totenberg (sp?)

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watc ... 6270531777

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:I thought Christie was going to be Trump's lap dog...er I mean VP choice

Monkeyboy wrote:

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:I thought Christie was going to be Trump's lap dog...er I mean VP choice

I guess the AG spot makes more sense for him. It's probably his 2nd choice for best job ever.

GrizzledVeteran wrote:Sen. Elizabeth Warren was on CBS This Morning earlier and was really evasive with questions about backing a candidate and Clinton releasing the Wall Street transcripts. She danced around and non-answered and the hosts called her on it several times. I'm a huge fan of Warren and this was a big disappointment for me. I thought she was supposed to tell it like it is. I guess Clinton offered her a really good gig if she keep her mouth shut. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/elizabeth-wa ... interview/

pacino wrote:

JUburton wrote: I don't know if he's implying that a Trump/Kasich ticket would get Trump the nomination but (and I know Nate knows this) if Kasich stays in, his delegates are legally bound on the first ballot (not 100% but close) and if they become unbound it's not like the vast majority of them are Kasich/Trump chosen humans who will automatically vote Trump.

My gut says that if he's within 50ish delegates something will get done in the week before hand to get him the nomination on 2nd ballot. If he's way shy then he won't get it.

The Dude wrote:
nobody here has said anything different

drsmooth wrote:

JUburton wrote: I don't know if he's implying that a Trump/Kasich ticket would get Trump the nomination but (and I know Nate knows this) if Kasich stays in, his delegates are legally bound on the first ballot (not 100% but close) and if they become unbound it's not like the vast majority of them are Kasich/Trump chosen humans who will automatically vote Trump.

My gut says that if he's within 50ish delegates something will get done in the week before hand to get him the nomination on 2nd ballot. If he's way shy then he won't get it.

Silver's tweet is nothing about any kind of "ticket". Kasich isn't doing anything like that. It's about drumpf not getting 1,237 delegates. Period. Forget a drumpf/Kasich "ticket". That's some kind of fantasy league shit.

Gaffney's main argument is that Muslims are trying to impose Sharia, Islamic religious law, on America. This is not happening. "There is simply no evidence that US judges are encountering Sharia law, becoming enraptured with it, and tossing out their statute books," Amanda Taub wrote for Vox in 2014. But the argument has led to unnecessary, unconstitutional, and discriminatory bans on Sharia in seven states.

Gaffney argues that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the federal government and has called for a new version of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the inquisition into communism in the 1950s, to examine and "root out" its activities.

Gaffney said in 2009 that Obama "not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself."

Gaffney was key to the conspiracy theory that Huma Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton who worked closely with the then-secretary of state, was connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.

This time around it's a little different. As Cruz makes the case that he is the last, best chance to prevent Trump from winning his party's nomination, his foreign-policy advisers include not only Gaffney, but also three others who work for Gaffney's think tank: former CIA officers Fred Fleitz and Clare Lopez and former Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Jim Hanson. Also on the list is Andrew McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted the first World Trade Center bombing. McCarthy has been outspoken in his view that adherents at least to political Islam are seeking to impose Sharia law in the U.S.

At the same time, Cruz's team includes former officials who reject Gaffney's broad view that any Muslim who believes in Sharia law by definition believes in a totalitarian and violent ideology at war with America.

Cruz threaded this needle between Gaffney and Abrams in his response to Trump's call in December for a temporary ban on Muslims coming to the U.S. Cruz never criticized Trump's position directly. (Marco Rubio did.) But he also didn't endorse the position, instead introducing a bill to halt refugees from countries with a significant al Qaeda or Islamic State presence, with exceptions for asylum seekers fleeing genocide.

CalvinBall wrote:at least he is consulting with someone. trump talks to himself, mostly. he has a smart brain.