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Sitting here listening to the "Super Tuesday" (ST)results I just heard that Mr. Cruz's Texas HQ/ST rally point is at the Redneck Country Club. Say what? Didn't I just yesterday hear Mr. Cruz and myriad others chide Mr. Trump for his equivocating remarks re: David Duke and the KKK/white supremacists during an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN?
Did the meaning and implications of of "redneck" literally change over the past two days? The club is not located in a town called "Redneck;" it's in Stafford, TX, which is just outside of Houston. I am "half Southern." My father's side of the family are all from the Mississippi Delta region. I know plenty of rednecks and see plenty of them each time I visit my kin Down South. I realize that one can conceivably be a redneck and not necessarily be an overt racist, and I was born in the mornin', but not this mornin'.
Someone please tell me how Mr. Cruz, or anyone for that matter, can with any degree of legitimate integrity choose a place called the Redneck Country Club as his TX rally point and expect to be believed when he chided Mr. Trump re: his remarks on CNN?
Come the f*ck on! It is what it is if one sympathises with rednecks. One may even empathize with them; that too is what it is. But Jesus H. Chist, friggin' own it. I've really had it with this "toeing the line" crap! If one, a political candidate, has a clear set of principles, tell us what the hell they are and stick to them. If one doesn't have any clear set of principles, tell us that too, but again, own it.
I can stand mature and intelligent adults changing their mind/principles once in a blue moon, but I expect one to also wholly own both one's former view and not run from or "spin" the fact that it was one's former view. But every time I turn around I discover something else one of the current candidates used to stand on -- maybe last year, maybe last decade, maybe last weekend -- and now it's something else...No! Just no! One needs also to own why one changed it and why one has "seen the light," as it were, and one must own their new view as well.
I'm sorry. I just have little tolerance for this BS, wishy washy "spin" I keep seeing from this election cycle's candidates. "I used to think this, but now this and that, and so and so, and the dog at my homework, and who struck John....," I just don't have patience or respect for that sh*t. Unless one is going to tell me that one was, in that former time, dumber 'n' a box o' rocks, I'm just not buying it at the rate it comes flowing from these candidates. No way; no how!
Did the meaning and implications of of "redneck" literally change over the past two days? The club is not located in a town called "Redneck;" it's in Stafford, TX, which is just outside of Houston. I am "half Southern." My father's side of the family are all from the Mississippi Delta region. I know plenty of rednecks and see plenty of them each time I visit my kin Down South. I realize that one can conceivably be a redneck and not necessarily be an overt racist, and I was born in the mornin', but not this mornin'.
Someone please tell me how Mr. Cruz, or anyone for that matter, can with any degree of legitimate integrity choose a place called the Redneck Country Club as his TX rally point and expect to be believed when he chided Mr. Trump re: his remarks on CNN?
Come the f*ck on! It is what it is if one sympathises with rednecks. One may even empathize with them; that too is what it is. But Jesus H. Chist, friggin' own it. I've really had it with this "toeing the line" crap! If one, a political candidate, has a clear set of principles, tell us what the hell they are and stick to them. If one doesn't have any clear set of principles, tell us that too, but again, own it.
I can stand mature and intelligent adults changing their mind/principles once in a blue moon, but I expect one to also wholly own both one's former view and not run from or "spin" the fact that it was one's former view. But every time I turn around I discover something else one of the current candidates used to stand on -- maybe last year, maybe last decade, maybe last weekend -- and now it's something else...No! Just no! One needs also to own why one changed it and why one has "seen the light," as it were, and one must own their new view as well.
I'm sorry. I just have little tolerance for this BS, wishy washy "spin" I keep seeing from this election cycle's candidates. "I used to think this, but now this and that, and so and so, and the dog at my homework, and who struck John....," I just don't have patience or respect for that sh*t. Unless one is going to tell me that one was, in that former time, dumber 'n' a box o' rocks, I'm just not buying it at the rate it comes flowing from these candidates. No way; no how!
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