It looks like Trump is setting the mood for the 1T.

[Warren Dew]

(11-20-2016, 01:41 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(11-20-2016, 01:08 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(11-20-2016, 12:02 AM)taramarie Wrote: btw for the record I have not watched a movie in a very long time and i never watch tv. What now...
Seeing what people get up to over there...what they say and the pos they have elected president yeah I am disgusted.

It could have been worse.  We could have elected Clinton.

If you think the crowds of semi-literate people at Tea Party rallies unnerved us liberals, then wait until you see what our larger, more coherent rallies do to shatter your complacency.

Obviously you've never been to a Tea Party rally.

Quote:On foreign policy alone, Hillary Clinton would be far safer. As a conservative, do you really wish to cast off the Reagan-Bush foreign policy that became the default for Barack Obama?

First, there's no such thing as a Reagan-Bush foreign policy.  Reagan intervened by the minimal amount needed to obtain the most favorable outcome possible for the U.S.  Notice how he won the Cold War without any nukes actually being used, contrary to all expectations.

The Bush-Obama policy, in contrast, has emphasized heavy intervention, with mediocre outcomes and excessive loss of life on all sides.

Clinton's policy would be worse, though.  Bush and Obama at least refrained from antagonizing other nuclear powers.  The Cliinton-Clinton foreign policy emphasizes quixotic "humanitarian" interventions - the idea that the way to reduce tensions in flashpoints is to kill people - with no thought to the interests of other nuclear powers, in particular Russia.  In the Pristina incident, the Clinton administration almost managed to "start World War III", in the words of the British general who defused things by refusing to obey an American order to attack Russian forces.  The next time around, the Brits might not have been in a position to save us from the irresponsible Clinton foreign policy.

It's hard to imagine Trump being worse than the Clintons on foreign policy.  It's easy to imagine a chance of his being better, given his belief that the U.S. should cut back on interventionism and nation building.