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Dartz... I've not felt we've had any good choices nationally in the US for as long as I've been old enough to vote. Or, if we have, they got eliminated early in the primaries.

Consider that anyone entering politics is going to be the subject of attack ads, and anyone actually elected to major office is going to be scrutinized 24x7.

Then consider that anyone entering the business world won't have to put up with either of those conditions, will make more money than the politicians who are at comparable levels of success, and (at the highest levels) will still be as famous as the politicians.

All the good choices are going into business, not politics.

ordnance11 Wrote:

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Quote:Foxboy wroteartz... I've not felt we've had any good choices nationally in the US for as long as I've been old enough to vote. Or, if we have, they got eliminated early in the primaries.

Consider that anyone entering politics is going to be the subject of attack ads, and anyone actually elected to major office is going to be scrutinized 24x7.

Then consider that anyone entering the business world won't have to put up with either of those conditions, will make more money than the politicians who are at comparable levels of success, and (at the highest levels) will still be as famous as the politicians.

All the good choices are going into business, not politics.

But Rob, had you noted that the upper echelons of most government agencies (in the U.S. at least) are run by a revolving door of business people? Or the civil servants who had gone as high as they could in the bureaucracy, had been inveigled into working for the other side?  I have no problem with people from the outside being appointed politically, as long as they can prove they are a good fit. Dr. David Michaels, the current head of OSHA is one such example. It's when you see a conflict of interest, or worse, a political hack gets appointed.  I point to Michael D. Brown, the head of FEMA during Katrina, as a good example.

Quote:In a phone interview on ABC’s “This Week,” the billionaire
businessman-turned-political celebrity said he’d have “no interest” in
running as a third-party candidate if he’s “treated fairly” by the
Republican Party but “would certainly not give that up” if he felt
burned.





















“If I’m not treated fairly by the Republican Party, I very
well might consider that,” Trump said, touting his surge in the public
opinion polls to the top of the crowded GOP presidential field.

ordnance11 Wrote:Well, rejoice! Trump finally immolated himself.

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Well, rejoice! Trump finally immolated himself.

This does not, in fact, seem to have bothered a lot of people after all. At least, judging from what I'm hearing on the radio on my way to work, which is admittedly a somewhat random metric, but it sounds like polling backs it up.

I'd really rather the excitement Trump's getting was directed towards someone else, but at least he's not another in the line from a political dynasty. I'd really like to not have one of those.

-Morgan.

ordnance11 Wrote:Well, Trump has started a war on women.

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Well, Trump has started a war on women.

[Citation needed]

Quote:Donald Trump is once again pushing the limit, bringing Megyn Kelly’s anatomy into a feud that had already opened him to charges of sexism — and the risk of losing support among the Fox News anchor’s rabid following.
After a day of escalating hostility, Trump took his attacks on Kelly to the next level on Friday night, apparently insinuating that the moderator had been menstruating when she questioned him during Thursday’s first Republican debate.