Republicans flummoxed by prospect of Trump picking up Jeb's votes

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Yes I figured as much. He has some nice ideas but I dont see them as practical and moreover (since all politics is local) I dont see him as a fit choice to represent the US to the world, especially as CiC.

Unfortunately not.

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I was just about to tweet this out and then I got scared. What if it did go viral. I actually do not want that.

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Isn’t that what throwaway accounts are for?

You’re in Canada, they wouldn’t extradite you, would they?

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If it took off I think the internet sleuths would spot the lack of jpeg artifacts around the text and a few other giveaways pretty quickly (like the original image being easy to find), though probably it is best not to post those as anything but a clear joke.

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I’m not on Facebook or Twitter, so I’m not in a good position to make anything real or otherwise go viral. But if I were, I’d announce a plan based on the “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a fun is a good guy with a gun.”

I’d announce a plan to put handguns in public places for “good guys” to use in an emergency. You know, just like fire alarm pull stations. “In case of emergency, break glass.”

They’d be placed wherever violence is most likely to happen. In or just outside bars, sporting venues, high crime areas, etc.

It would be entirely in keeping with NRA views on the greater availability of guns meaning greater security for all. Any public official who disagrees will be asked to explain his anti-American commie Marxist socialist reasons why.

And then I’d announce that Trump opposes the plan…

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Hillary Clinton’s candidacy may be like Richard Nixon’s in '68.

Nixon had enemies and scandals going back to Alger Hiss. There was HUAC, Checkers, losing to JFK, losing the governor’s seat, the infamous press conference. The Goldwater and Reagan conservatives didn’t want him.

In the end, Nixon won because the democratic coalition fractured. They could no longer unify — even for a sitting president.

The chaos of the 1968 democratic convention is like the current chaos of warring GOP factions.

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