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Pariah3j wrote:Interesting... Looks like he won't be at the debate on Thursday either... I think we have another week or 2 before the next primary votes, hopefully he officially suspends before then.

Now the real question... Will Kasich and Rubio have the composure to gracefully bow out before then ?

Pariah3j wrote:Well I don't have a link, but I saw it with my own 2 eyes so you'll have to take me at my word...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12 ... ation.html



These 2 specifically were discussed in one of the debates - where Megan Kelly attacked Ted Cruz on it... then in the interview after the debate they admitted that he had not flip flopped on Immigration, he did in fact introduce a poison pill amendment. Of course if you only watched the debate, you were left with the impression that they thought he did flip flop.

jed wrote:

parabelum wrote:
http://txcann.com/ted-cruz-flip-flops-o ... marijuana/


http://www.thewrap.com/ted-cruz-flip-fl ... recording/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12 ... ation.html


http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/politics/ ... index.html



http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-el ... nt-n481996

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/t ... z3tNrAeoJs

So, your source of information comes form three liberal news networks, one questionable news network, a pot website, an entertainment website and youtube videos. If I got my info from those I probably would support Trump also.

Bitter Clinger wrote:Are You Sure You Want to Buy What Donald Trump is Selling?

Sydney Finkelstein
Author: Superbosses & Professor: Dartmouth Tuck School of Business
Mar 1, 2016

“We will have so much winning if I get elected,” Donald Trump exclaimed this past September, “that you may get bored with winning.” The line worked so well, that he now repeats it at virtually every campaign stop.

It’s a bold claim, and an alluring one—who wouldn’t want a winner as president? For that matter, who wouldn’t want to elect “the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” as Trump has also predicted he’d be?

It sounds alluring, but is it actually the case that people who proclaim themselves so loudly and so often to be winners actually succeed the most?

My research into business leaders suggests they don’t. On the contrary, it suggests that such bombast is one of a slew of behaviors embraced by spectacularly unsuccessful business executives. Unfortunately, many of these habits are part and parcel of the Trump leadership playbook.

For my book Why Smart Executives Fail, I interviewed some 200 people at fifty companies to learn why some people in business didn’t merely lose, but lose big. I discovered an interesting pattern: Spectacularly unsuccessful people tend to display a number of behavior patterns in common.

One of the most common is a tendency to see themselves and their companies as dominating their industry, regardless of what is happening around them. For example the co-CEOs of Research in Motion, the maker of the Blackberry smartphone, failed to appreciate the rise of the iPhone, going so far as to laugh off Apple’s new product as a nonstarter because it didn’t have a “real” touch keyboard. As we’ve seen with Donald Trump, denigrating your competition is one of the best ways to see this syndrome in action. Like Trump, the RIM CEOs felt certain they would win, and it cost them big-time.

Spectacularly unsuccessful executives also tend to think that they have all the answers. To all the questions. CEO Wolfgang Schmitt drove Rubbermaid into a ditch during the 1990s. A former colleague remembered that under Schmitt, "the joke went, 'Wolf knows everything about everything.'” Not surprisingly, know-it-all executives suffer because they fail to consider other points of view that might have merit. In fact, no one is always right, yet spectacularly unsuccessful executives act as if they are. In this regard, Trump’s impression of his own judgment and intelligence is telling. As he tweeted in May 2013: “Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest – and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault.” In September 2015, he made a similar statement on The Tonight Show, telling host Jimmy Fallon, “I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.”

And then there’s a related behavior, the tendency to underestimate obstacles. Unsuccessful CEOs are so confident that they blithely wave away the challenges that might impede them from realizing their visions. When these challenges materialize, do they backtrack? No! They double-down and get in even deeper.

In announcing his run for president, Trump proclaimed that he would solve the immigration issue by building a wall on the Mexican border: “I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” Yet by most estimates, the cost of fencing in all 2,000 miles of border would be expensive, perhaps as high as $25 billion. Trump has talked about building a wall, not a fence, which would push the cost even higher. As for Mexico footing the bill, a spokesman for Mexico’s president has scoffed at the idea, noting that it "reflects an enormous ignorance for what Mexico represents, and also the irresponsibility of the candidate who's saying it."

But hasn’t Trump actually been very successful – in fact, a billionaire? Leaving aside the four bankruptcies, mostly due to problems at his Atlantic City casinos, there’s no question that his net worth today is in the billions. While no one can predict with certainty whether his business empire will remain intact in the years to come, CEOs who embrace many of the unsuccessful habits, as Trump does, are particularly vulnerable to a downturn. It’s almost like there’s a geological fault line beneath the surface, ready to erupt when the pressure becomes too unbearable. In my research, triggers like a major business downturn, a huge acquisition, and a strong new competitor were all responsible for turning seemingly thriving companies, run by leaders living the failing habits, into disasters in record time. Stress points typically bring out the worst in spectacularly unsuccessful leaders; habits that didn’t foul them up in better times can become fatal.

What might trigger those fault lines under a President Trump? Where to begin? Anything from a global crisis for which he lacks both personal experience and the makeup to be schooled by experts who may well have a different take than that of the intuitive deal maker who insists that he’s the smartest guy in the room; to even new economic crises that can’t be resolved with bluster.

Other research I have conducted raises still more concerns. In writing my current book Superbosses, I turned the table and explored why some executives succeeded more fabulously than others. In particular, I spent ten years probing the secrets of leaders who not only amassed great wealth, but who developed a generation of leaders in their industries. Here again I managed to identify a number of behaviors that these leaders had in common, including the willingness to share the spotlight with subordinates, the willingness to work closely with protégés and learn from them, and the willingness to hang back and give subordinates room to make their own decisions.

Trump’s answer to a moderator’s question in the most recent Republican candidate debate in South Carolina was telling:

Question: Can you tell us of an instance where somebody has said, “Donald Trump, you’re wrong,” and you listened to them?

Answer: Well, I would say my wife tells me I’m wrong all the time. And I listen.

Question: About what?

Answer: Oh, let me just say – look, I am very open – I hired top people. I’ve had great success. I built a great, great company. I don’t need to do this.

Superbosses have big egos, but the one thing they still do is make room for other people – their opinions, their ideas, and their influence. That’s how great organizations stay great. Trump not only appears to have a different leadership mindset, he also seems oblivious to the risks that often come with unadulterated egos.

These are all questions that cry out for more considered analysis by the press and the electorate alike. There is little we’ve seen about candidate Trump to ease these legitimate concerns. Predicting leadership behavior on the basis of past leadership behavior is smart, but not foolproof. But at a minimum, Trump’s adherence to key habits of spectacularly unsuccessful executives should be a warning sign. Does this mean that a President Trump will necessarily fall prey to the same weaknesses that have brought down previously successful leaders like Ken Lay of Enron, Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco, and Martin Winterkorn of Volkswagen? No. But is this a big-time risk that warrants close attention? As Bernie Sanders might say, you better believe it.

Sydney Finkelstein is a professor of management and Director of the Leadership Center at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. His new book is Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent (Portfolio/Penguin, 2016)

Right2Carry wrote:Trump is nothing more than FOOLS GOLD.

baldeagle wrote:

parabelum wrote: We will just have to agree to disagree Mojo.

Cruz flip flopped as well, and no, that doesn't mean that two wrongs make a right.

No, he did not. That's a lie that Rubio has spread around and a lot of people have believed.

https://www.txantimedia.com/?p=2136

parabelum wrote:All of the enmity towards Trump in this thread ought to be directed at Hillary.
Trump did everything that RNC wanted him to do, and now that he's pulling ahead they are in panic trying desperately to pull the rug from underneath him.

As far as "my level of respect towards Cruz and his supporters just went down a notch"
comment; Well, the sentiment I'm getting from this thread is that no matter what Trump does will be enough for Cruz supporters to coalesce around him if and when he gets the nomination, and that's disturbing as it will surely hand the WH over to HRC, ensuring the slow dance of death for our Country.

We've already had one male pig in the White House (Bill Clinton), we don't need another one. When Trump refused to denounce the KKK he alienated a LOT of people. The Dems have worked hard to brand the GOP and conservatives as racists, and Trump handed that issue to them on a silver platter. If we don't defeat Trump in the primaries, he will lose in the general. He has provided the Dems with enough fodder to shoot him down a hundred times, and the media won't be so friendly to him once he gets the nomination. They're already turning on him.

https://www.txantimedia.com/?p=2193

I don't want a foul mouthed Andrew Dice Clay for President, and there are millions of conservatives who feel the same way. If we're going to destroy the country, we might as well get on with it and elect Hillary.

jed wrote:

parabelum wrote:Show of class.

Trump comes out and actually compliments Cruz, and Cruz right away takes a jab at Trump.

Echoes the sentiment here.

My level of respect for Cruz and his supporters just went down a notch.

A President Trump would be just about as bad as another President Clinton. How can you possible think a candidate who seems not to have much concern for the constitution could actually help this country? This country was founded on our constitution, a document not to be changed to "fit modern times" but that is timeless. We must follow it or America with become the country from which you came. How can you possible think that is a good thing? We have only one constitutional candidate and he is our only hope to stop the downward fast track we are on. If voters cannot see this, then apparently the majority of this country want communism or socialism.

Do you want a fundamental change in this country, to be like your home country, because a vote for Trump will help fulfill your wish.

Sir, you boggle my mind.

mojo84 wrote:

parabelum wrote:Show of class.

Trump comes out and actually compliments Cruz, and Cruz right away takes a jab at Trump.

Echoes the sentiment here.

My level of respect for Cruz and his supporters just went down a notch.

Come on. Don't go there. Trump said tonight be would not negotiate on amnesty after he admitted he would negotiate on amnesty after it came out he was caught on tape he said he would. Just in a couple days he has flip flopped multiple times. How are you going to feel when he flip flops on an issue important to you?

You keep getting awfully close to making personal attacks and insults and that is getting old. I have made sure to keep my comments directed at the issues and candidates.

By the way, Cruz came out and congratulated Donald. Did he not?

jason812 wrote:

mojo84 wrote:

Glad you joined the party. Was starting to feel like the Lone Ranger.

You're not alone in your thinking. If I were going to vote for who would get the most done, it would be Trump. Too bad what he will get done is more of the same from the last 8 years. No doubt he is successful and doesn't take any pooh pooh from anybody but he is saying whatever it takes to win. He knows how to play the media and keep the attention on himself.

He has never said how he will pay for his wall other than Mexico will pay for it and he's great.

He has never said government is too big or has it's nose in too many citizens's business. In this regard it's the same statement you hear from people pushing the socialist agenda. It will work if we have the right people in place or the current people in office are idiots.

He know politicians cause he's been paying them off for years.

When asked about anything specific he resorts to 3rd grade name calling.

The people dying in the streets comment is the same rhetoric that the socialist engineers (think liberals, or black lives matter people) use. I think that statement was a slip that revealed a little truth to his real thought process.

The Clinton's were at his wedding and up until this year, he had nothing bad to say about Hillary. How much money you think he gave the Clinton Foundation? Once that comes out it will be like Romney trying to talk bad about Obamacare.

All he has done is replaced "hope and change" with "I'm great and I'll make America great again" and there's a bunch of people that think he's actually going to do something different.

No matter who is elected, the 2 party system needs to disappear. It has done more damage overall than even Obama.

Parabelum, I'm glad you care so much about America. I wish all of the immigrants had your mentality instead of a handout.