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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. +1. My friend Maria and I didn't miss Bush's BIGGER gaff, anchor babies "coming into the country."
Sun Aug 23, 2015, 01:50 PM
Aug 2015

I was chortling, but boy was she mad. She's conservative and was leaning toward voting for him, but pandering to the typical hard-right attitude that these children aren't real citizens was the end of that. She's lived all her life with the reality that many right wingers don't consider her a real American because she's Hispanic and would love to get rid of her if they only could.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,837 posts)
8. I was referring to the "republican club."
Sun Aug 23, 2015, 09:22 PM
Aug 2015

In other words, why would anyone want to vote for someone from a party she's aware doesn't want, like, or respect her?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Gotcha. She's a conservative looking for the best conservative leader to vote for. Many
Tue Aug 25, 2015, 09:23 AM
Aug 2015

people seem to think all minorities should be liberal, but liberal and conservative are PERSONALITY orientations we're born with. At least as many minority Americans as white Christian Americans are conservative by nature. And, of course, the more conservative they are, the less they can stomach the left, which that type loves to claim is no different from the people rejecting on from the right.

My friend, though, isn't extreme. She's a moderate and decent, and sensible, social and religious conservative. She believes I mean well even if I'm mostly wrong about most things. We're still talking anyway.

Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts)
3. Remember this?:
Sun Aug 23, 2015, 01:56 PM
Aug 2015

We can thank President Obama for Trump and driving the Republican Party to further extremes. I think Trump got his ego severely bruised at that correspondent's dinner by someone with more power than him and now he wants that kind of power to redeem his butthurt. More evidence this President is twelve steps ahead them?:

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