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Old 8th July 2012, 08:28 AM   #1
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Florida GOP: Trump statesman of the year

The day before the Republican National Convention in Tampa, the Florida GOP will present Trump with the award for "Statesman of the Year".

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...ty-convention/

Yep, it's plain that the GOP is trying to distance itself from the Birther nutjobs!

Can you imagine if something similar were done by the Democratic party wrt one of the Truthers?

Seriously? Statesman of the Year?
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Old 8th July 2012, 08:41 AM   #2
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Statesman means what nowadays?
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Old 8th July 2012, 08:41 AM   #3
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Statesman? Has Trump actually held a political office? I thought he was a real estate dealer, casino owner, and television personality. How that translates to "statesman" escapes me.
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Old 8th July 2012, 08:53 AM   #4
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Statesman: Someone who gives a lot of money to a political party.
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Old 8th July 2012, 08:55 AM   #5
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...and they said Obama was unfit for office because he hadn't held one very long.

Dear Lord, are they even trying to be consistent?
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Old 8th July 2012, 09:04 AM   #6
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And I don't believe for a minute that the national GOP couldn't prevent this from happening in conjunction with the Convention if they wanted to.
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Old 8th July 2012, 09:27 AM   #7
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I'm trying to think of any political person they could have picked that would make them look stupider. David Duke?
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Old 8th July 2012, 09:32 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Tricky View Post
I'm trying to think of any political person they could have picked that would make them look stupider. David Duke?
Rush Limbaugh? (Didn't he speak at the RNC once?)

I keep trying to come up with any similar endorsement of a lunatic by the mainstream Democratic Party, and I can't find any. The closest (and it's not very close) is Al Sharpton. But AFAIK he doesn't go around spouting any bizzarro CTs.
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Wow. Trump a statesman?

I don't even
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Old 9th July 2012, 09:42 PM   #10
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And people wonder why I ran away from the GOP back around the year 2000
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Well, he's a man, and he inherited his daddy's real estate... move a few letters around, and like ketchup... voila! he's a vegetable.. Err, a 'statesman'.
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Maybe they meant "Statement of the Year" and it's like a stundie or something?
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Old 10th July 2012, 07:19 AM   #13
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From Bloom County by Berke Brethed (paraphrased):

Milo: He's just another politician.
Opus: He's not a politician. He's a statesman.
Milo: A statesman is a dead politician. God knows we need more statesmen.
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Old 10th July 2012, 08:57 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Ausmerican View Post
Maybe they meant "Statement of the Year" and it's like a stundie or something?


I believe his combover makes a statement: "I'm a very shallow person with tremendous feelings of inadequacy and an enormous ego problem."
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Can't wait until the next time someone criticizes his moronic political blatherings. He will be able to blast back, "What do they know? I'm an honored statesman!"
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