The problem with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio

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There are two problems with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio which has made it possible for a candidate like Donald Trump to possible snag the Republican nomination. The Republican party is in an unenviable position; they hate the candidate who will be representing the Republican party and the don't much like the alternatives - Ted and Marco. So what's a voter to do?  Supporting the alternative candidates does not seem to be working so far. Why? Well I believe Ted and Marco are more of a problem than Trump and here is why.

1) Both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio spent the first critical moments of the campaign fighting Barack Obama instead of Trump. In all their debates and meetings they insulted and  derided not only the sitting president of the United States but America as well. If you don't know any better you would probably think that under Obama the USA has become a third world country. The problem with this is that Obama is not running for president - Trump is. So it would seem that, unless they believed Trump could make a great president, they would have concentrated their efforts on stopping him long ago.

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2) The other problem is likeability. You hear it all the time - talk about how hated Cruz is by the establishment and the "Ted Cruz is Crazy" talk that has flooded the internet. You have seen how little confidence in his abilities, Marco Rubio instills in he Republican voting public.
So who to vote for; one of the two candidates who border on the "boring" at times or one who offends every class of people in the Unites States and the world, a billionaire, an entertainer, and one with reported questionable business practices.  You see the dilemma? I gues many Republicans are praying for a "savior" today.

Presidential jewels of the day - Hilary Clinton on president's pay

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Kids do ask the darnedest questions and the smartest too. So when a young girl asked Hilary Clinton
“Do you think when you’re President, you’ll be paid as much as if you were a male?” Hilary's response was
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“This is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same,” ----But there are so many examples when that doesn’t happen, when women doing the same job are not paid the same.”

I thought about this and wonder if Hilary Clinton knows for sure if a woman will be paid the same as a man in the White House. After all, we never had a woman in the White House and some can claim that a woman president may not have been provided for and never anticipated in the early days. However. Just a thought.

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Presidential Jewels of the day - Donald Trump on Ku Klux Klan and White Supremacist. Donald Trump could not summon the courage to deny an association with the  Ku Klux Klan by  claiming ignorance of the group. The man who wants to be president of the United States touting make America "Great again",  gave an un-presidential response when asked on CNN if he will disavow former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. He stumbled and stuttered but still could not say his supporters name. He said he didn't know enough to "disavow David Duke"

Trump: "Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK?" 

Trump: "I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," he said. "So I don't know. I don't know -- did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists."

Really? The man who wants to be president knows nothing about the White Supremacist movement or the Ku Klux Klan ? This is the same guy who claimed to be a supporter of Israel but he cannot disavow a group, or claim to know noting of a group, that worships Hitler.

Presidential Jewels of the Day, Rubio Trump Smackdown

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The Rubio VS Trump battle at the Republican nomination debate was the most amusing yet. It may be a little too late but Rubio and Cruz have decided to attack the mighty Trump on his business record primarily. This exchange provided a lot of "presidential" jewels that had me laughing through the night. Here are some.

1) Rubio on Trump stated that if Trump  "hadn't inherited $200
million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan."

2) Rubio on Trump : "If he builds a wall the way he built Trump Tower he'll be using illegal immigration to do it."

3)Trump on Rubio and Cruz "This guy's a choke artist and this guy's a liar. ... Other than that I rest my case."

4) Rubio on Trump:  Trump University "a fake school."

5) Ben Carson after feeling shut out of the debate 'Can someone attack me, please?'

Presidential Jewels of the day Ben Carson

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More presidential jewels and today it is from Ben Carson. Being the bottom feeder in the republican nomination race has led him to start attacking the sitting president. Not his fellow nominee seekers but the Barack Obama who he is really not in competition with. However, Ben Carson has decided on a new competition - perhaps one he thins he can win - Who is the blackest of them all. Here he goes referring to Obama in a podcast.

" He is an 'African' American. He was, you know, raised white"

Then in an effort to prove his "blackness" Ben Carson illustrates his blackness by claiming that he lived in the ghetto with Rats and Cockroaches. So according to Ben Carson to be "black" you have to be raised in the ghetto with rats and cockroaches.

Presidential jewels of the day Donald Trump

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I have begun to collect presidential jewels of words by the presidential contestants. Today it is the words of Donald Trump that are so outrageous in delivery and substance that they are my top jewels of the day. Here is your future president's description of his Republican opponent Ted Cruz: 

He is like a little baby: soft, weak, little baby

Sounds like a two year old taunting the one year old doesn't it? What next? na na na na

Whose afraid of Donald Trump? Not the Pope.

Next battle Jesus versus Trump. Like Donald Trump, Pope Francis says what is on his mind. He told off people in  the crowd following him in Mexico by calling them essentially "selfish". When asked by reporters about Trump's plan to build a wall, he responded that

"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the gospel,"   

Of course the Pope did not refer to Trump by name but made a general response to the question.

Next up Jesus Versus Trump