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Letter: Whom are Republicans voting for?

By Carl S. Scheuffele, Vancouver
Published: November 20, 2015, 5:59am

Congratulations. The U.S. House has a new speaker, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., another Democrat-hating radical. Oh, well. What’s new?

Loud-mouthed blowhard Donald Trump is running second in the polls, which makes me wonder how stupid are the Republicans? Don’t they see he’s a carnival barker urging you to toss your dimes at the saucer to win a goldfish, namely him, to be president? Has Trump, who claims to be our omnipotent leader, ever stated an intelligent explanation of what he will do once in office? No, all you have gotten is flimflam. Oh, I forgot; he said he was going to stop taxing people making $25,000 or less. That’s the biggest political lie since Richard Nixon said, “I am not a crook.” Trump has told one truth: “I am a business man.” What does a business man do? He looks for a business to make profit. How would a billionaire make a profit in a 24-hour-a-day job being president? Do you think he’s doing it because he loves this country? He’s doing it to make money, mainly to eliminate himself and his “1 percent” buddies from paying taxes.

So who are Republicans going to vote for? A loud-mouth flimflam man, or a surgeon who knows your insides better than being president, or someone who is qualified to be a President Bush’s baby boy?

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