Donald Trump supporters in South Carolina: 'We're voting with our middle finger'

[Jefferson23]

Robert Bowers, a 50-year-old debt collector, conceded that Donald Trump may have gone “overboard just a little bit” when he attacked President George W. Bush, saying he lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and failed to stop the Sept. 11 attacks.

But that did not stop Bowers, of Fountain Inn, S.C., from putting on a cap with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan and walking through an icy cold parking lot so he could crowd into a raucous Trump rally Monday night.

“He’s not a polished politician,” Bowers said, neatly summing up both Trump’s appeal and liability.


Early evidence suggests that Trump, as he has many times before, is maintaining his wide lead here despite criticism of his crude rhetoric, the latest example of which came in his attacks on Bush in Saturday’s debate and ever since. Though South Carolina has long prided itself on Southern manners and propriety, it is changing rapidly as outsiders increasingly move here. And Trump Nation may be immune to, and in some cases, even more than forgiving of his brash behavior.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-trump-south-carolina-20160216-story.html

[spanone]

1. ain't that america

[Jefferson23]

5. It seems they can't stop him, no matter what he says. n/t

[NightWatcher]

7. Little pink houses for you and for the the angry politician who is

manipulating the ignorance and hate of the easily malleable masses.

[valerief]

2. Jeebus, that "overboard" stuff is the best part of Trump!!!!

[RobertEarl]

8. Over bored?

I don't get it. Was or was not bush the president on 9/11?

What's wrong with these people that they can't accept the elemental truths? Does the truth bore them?

[valerief]

10. I know. I don't watch the GOP fecesfests, but I'm looking forward to the next one

when Trump goes after Cruz for not being eligible to run for president. That'll be fun!

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[RobertEarl]

11. You couldn't pay me to watch well, maybe $100?

But the point is I don't watch. But it's sure fun reading about their clowning around. Especially the words of the rabid one's complaining they haz a sad.

[valerief]

12. I didn't watch the last one, but I loved the "Trump goes after Bush 9/11 myths" clips, so

I think Trump might hack away at the other candidates in the next one. I'd only watch for Trump. The other candidates just say, "Garble, garble, garble," as far as I'm concerned.

Don't get me wrong. Trump is a racist blowhard not fit to be president. I realize that. But he does occasionally spout the truth, which is something you NEVER see from the GOP. That's what's so entertaining about him.

[RobertEarl]

14. He is the best clown

The best humor is that which contains an element of truth. The rest, afaict, are complete liars.

Rubio and Cruz do make me laugh. Well, not them so much as the words I've read wherein their lovers put lipstick on them.

[dmr]

16. I'm enjoying, yet watch the GOP debates in horror.

It's like a Halloween haunted house, or an awesome, but scary rollercoaster ride.

I'm not sure what it is.

Cruz scares the hell outa me.

Dark money purchased Rubio does, too.

Bush & kasich make me nervous.

I don't want them anywhere near the White House. I don't trust them from stealing the election. OMG, they would doom America.

Trump, well, he's certainly entertaining & disturbing.

But I believe Hillary or Bernie can beat him far easier than the others. Rest assured a lot of dark money will be spent against the Democratic nominee.

[clarice]

3. I didn't know that S.C. had so many Polish voters.nt

[gratuitous]

4. Blaming the increased incivility on outsiders moving to So Car

Nice. Maybe it's been there all along, covered with a thin veneer of manners and propriety among the privileged?

I get that people are angry and upset, but the hand holding the cudgel that's been bludgeoning the middle class for the last 35 years looks an awful lot like the manicured digits of the short-fingered vulgarian.

[GoCubsGo]

19. You beat me to it.

I have lived here 30 years, and I can't tell you how many times I have seen the incivility appear the very milli-second they discover that this middle-aged white woman isn't a conservative. They assume that every white person is like them: republican, "Christian", and a crazy-ass, bigoted wingnut. Not everyone is like that, but it's generally the case more often than not.

[Hortensis]

6. Hmmm! Exactly 2 weeks to Super Tuesday!

Christmas in March? Ridiculous as it would have been even to contemplate this time last year, our nominee could be running against The Donald.

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[Jefferson23]

9. lol He does add a new meaning to the Teflon concept in politics, doesn't he.

When I heard him go after Bush and use language like, lies, they knew no
WMD..I thought, ok, history is being made, he is still standing and their
constituents don't give a shit..amazing.

He has taken over, not sure they can stop him at all.

[Hortensis]

13. Expect to see The Donald doing the "presidential walk"

any time soon. To quote someone, GOP winners walk the presidential walk and talk like fourth graders. The Donald has the latter down superbly. He does fourth graders when the teacher's back is turned.

[Jefferson23]

15. I don't want to see Trump as POTUS but it is Cruz who frightens me, a lot.

Cruz in that position of power would be more than this country could take,
and what he would do around the world freaks me out too.

[Hortensis]

17. I so agree. Rubio is probably no more than

an amoral opportunist. But Kaisich actually worries me more than Cruz because I think he could be more likely to be elected. He has the nation fooled into thinking he is a moderate. I suspect he's a much smarter and more experienced Scott Walker.

[Kingofalldems]

18. Confederates are all in for Trump.