February 29, 201610 yr Things are certainly heating up on the GOP side, mainly because of Trump. Trump says that Cruz is a liar and a "basketcase" and says "Little Marco" is a choke artist and makes fun of how he sweats and drinks water. Cruz is accusing Trump of having mob ties and Rubio is accusing Donald of being a con-artist and making fun of his orange tan and even making fun of the size of his "manhood." Cruz has engaged in some dirty tactics affecting the Carson and Rubio campaigns. And now there's David Duke and the KKK talk. With Hillary on the horizon for Trump in the general election campaign, how dirty do you think this thing might get? Will it rival the nastiness of the 17th century? Most people wonder what has happened to civility in politics. I have news for you folks. There has never been much civility in Presidential politics. If you think they played nicer back in the early days, read your history. That said , this one looks to get nastier and nastier before all is said and done. How low will it go? One of my favorite nastiest campaigns was the 1800 election between TJ and JA ( that's Jefferson and Adams for those who prefer FOX to the History Channel). Jefferson called Adams a "hermaphrodite." In fact, the exact quote was that Adams was a " hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." Can you imagine Trump barking out something like that at Hillary in a debate ? LOL Adams and his Federalists colleagues came back with the following retort : "Are you prepared to see your dwellings in flames... female chastity violated... children writhing on the pike? GREAT GOD OF COMPASSION AND JUSTICE, SHIELD MY COUNTRY FROM DESTRUCTION." (Sounds like something establishment Republicans might be saying today in reference to Trump) What about 1828 when another Adams( John Quincy) ran against Andrew Jackson? Those Adams' boys were a scrappy bunch. He and his handlers said Jackson had the personality of a dictator, was too uneducated to be president (they claimed he spelled Europe 'Urope'), and hurled all sorts of horrible insults at his wife, Rachel. Rachel had been in an abusive marriage with a man who finally divorced her, but divorce was still quite the scandal at the time. The Federalists called her a "dirty black wench", a "convicted adulteress" and said she was prone to "open and notorious lewdness". On their end, Jackson's people said that Adams had sold his wife's maid as a concubine to the czar of Russia. Still think politics used to be civil? NEVER!!!! If its Hillary v. Trump in 2016 do you think the Trumpster can top our philandering fathers as far as dishing out the dirt on Billary and Bill ?
February 29, 201610 yr and Rubio is accusing Donald of being a con-artist and making fun of his orange tan and even making fun of the size of his "manhood." Should Rubio even be going there with the info you had previously posted about him? Just askin'
February 29, 201610 yr I wish the GOP guys would start hammering Billery instead of cutting on each other to be honest.
February 29, 201610 yr Author OlDog75, I just missed out on the 1828 election , did you vote in that one, sir?
February 29, 201610 yr Author Should Rubio even be going there with the info you had previously posted about him? Just askin' I wouldn't mind if Donald brought back the S-word(the one that rhymes with phlong) to hit Rubio with.
February 29, 201610 yr OlDog75, I just missed out on the 1828 election , did you vote in that one, sir? No, I was just learning how to ride a horse then. That's after I got that butter churned.
February 29, 201610 yr I wouldn't mind if Donald brought back the S-word(the one that rhymes with phlong) to hit Rubio with. I got a feeling Marco wouldn't want to be in that contest.....just a guess. ("to hit Rubio with", now that was funny!)
February 29, 201610 yr Author No, I was just learning how to ride a horse then. That's after I got that butter churned. I bet you were some kinda butter churning Whig in your younger days!!! Are you a SOW(son-of-a-Whig)?
February 29, 201610 yr Author I got a feeling Marco wouldn't want to be in that contest.....just a guess. ("to hit Rubio with", now that was funny!) Probably right. Never good to get phlonged over the head like that.
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