raydawg wrote on 05/06/16 at 05:15:35:

Yes,... people are lying because they fear my sarcasm...

You expect to engage me intellectually by asking if I'm dumb?...
That would be dumb...

My sarcasm and dismissiveness,.. is on a bike site, arguing politics.
Trump does it on a podium...
Which is the more inappropriate?...

Some things just can't be discussed seriously...
Trump is one of them.
He is a joke of a man,.. and it is unfathomable that he where he is today.
The Republican Party is now a joke.
I'm really looking forward to his monumental failure, and the death of the Republican Party.

Consider,... last election, there was an arrogant, white, silver spoon, billionaire on the ticket.  It didn't go well...
This time you have a rude, racist, grade school, arrogant, silver spoon, billionaire...  that looks like the bastard offspring of an Oompa Loompa...
What's the forecast?...   I see rain...

I agree it's no joke, however, a large segment of a political party has had their say, for whatever reason, and we can argue the insanity of it, however it doesn't remove the very fact it happened within the system....
As has Bernie, and his followers, and I might imagine, their angst at the "party" for their presumption of anointing Hillary right out of the gate.
However, that is not even the gist of my post....
I don't get Trump, and at this stage of the game, I ain't voting for him, nor my wife.
I have asked his supporters here to enlighten me re: the man, and I have nothing concrete.
We can name call and assign him cartoon characters semblance, as if that ain't childish......  
But even Michael Moore has lectured the left on the need to be serious re: Trump.

I still believe he is a symptom of a failed two party system, not a savior....
But go ahead Bot, blame mitt, or don, or whoever, and when you awake, maybe we can begin to be part of the solution, even on a silly motorcycle board.

I'll take a shot at replying to Ray Dawg's question.  It certainly won't be a complete answer.  I and my family are Trump supporters; in fact, my daughter is the campaign chairman for our county.
First, yes, we like the idea of a businessman running things for change, rather than some career politician, or community organizer who hasn't had a real job in decades, if ever.
Sanders is a left over hippie from the Haight Ashbury days who has no clue about anything realistic to do with economics.
We like Trump's attitude about foreign aid - extracting something in return from all of the countries we protect and shelter, especially the Saudis.
Our heroin epidemic is beyond description, and even a little sealing of our southern border can't help but at least do something to help alleviate it.
In every speech he gives, he talks about doing more for our veterans - who can object to that.  
He understands finance - just yesterday he spoke about taking advantage of these current historically low interest rates and refinancing a good portion of our national debt to cut the massive amount of interest that the gov't pays.  That's a no brainer; but the community organizer never thought of it.
At a rally recently, a retired union construction worker got up to thank Trump for employing him for 18 years and providing a decent living for the man and his family.  It was announced a few hours ago that the West Virginia Coal Miners Association just endorsed Trump.  Trump is a friend to the working people of this country - there isn't a single union that is vigorously opposing him.
I am not a tea party type, and get tired of people who say that Trump isn't a true conservative, whatever that is.  If it means that Trump is not "Lucifer in the flesh", as Boehner said Cruz is, that's good in my mind.  Labels mean little - ideas mean a lot.
He understand trade issues - I like that he wants Ford to pay a tariff on cars that Ford makes in Mexico - we all pregnant dog about jobs going overseas, and Trump is the only one to have a firm idea how to prevent it.
Additionally, Trump said yesterday that he doesn't oppose a reasonable increase in the minimum wage.  Good.
That's probably enough for now to stir the pot a little.

JOG - You never disappoint; there is always a conspiracy for everything.  How about staying on subject and address Raydawg's questions.

Only got a couple of minutes.  Short list for VP ,as I've heard, is Kasich, Newt, Martinez ( female governor of New Mexico ) and one other whose name I can't recall.
Trump knows he is a political newbie, and has said he wants someone who has served in Congress, can get legislation thru, and who has friends in both parties.
More tomorrow.

What you can't grasp Sew is many of us have seen Obama as the real clown for the past 8 years.