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Democrats Debate tonight.

I can't wait to see Ivan Drago in this debate.

Hillary to Bernie...I vill destroy you.
Bernie to Hillary...Yo.

jc

Lexi helped grandpa pick out his shirt today...have to reach them young right

At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot To Stop Trump


Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.

The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he "cannot support Donald Trump."

Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).

Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed.

"A specter was haunting the World Forum--the specter of Donald Trump," Kristol wrote in an emailed report from the conference, borrowing the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto. "There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why he's done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated."


"The key task now, to once again paraphrase Karl Marx, is less to understand Trump than to stop him," Kristol wrote. "In general, there's a little too much hand-wringing, brow-furrowing, and fatalism out there and not quite enough resolving to save the party from nominating or the country electing someone who simply shouldn't be president."

A highlight of the gathering was a presentation by Rove about focus group findings on Trump. The business mogul's greatest weakness, according to Rove, was that voters have a very hard time envisioning him as "presidential" and as somebody their children should look up to. They also see him as somebody who can be erratic and shouldn't have his (small) fingers anywhere near a nuclear trigger.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d

They scared as hell...in a way I wish it was just Cruz and Trump so I could see him beat the guy 1 on 1 and shut people up about his percentages...or confirm it...either way I'm glad he is sticking it to the GOPe.

I saw this in the news. They said they have this meeting every year. It's not like they called a meeting just for Trump bashing.

Yes, but it has already been confirmed a lot in this group are the ones signed on to figure out how to defeat him so....

Sorry for adding the pic to the thread but Lexi liked the Trump shirt and was blowing bubbles while Grandma was saying GO TRUMP GO...and she was laughing and smiling this was the best shot...

Don't be sorry, the kids cute as a button.

Grandpa not so much.

My wife said the exact same thing...I'm to old to worry about the looks

If it looks like a Duck, walks like a Duck and quacks like a Duck, it usually is a Duck.

It even says it right in the article. "Annual Meeting" means it happens every year.

Eve here maybe this is what I was referencing...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d

Anyone watching the Rubio town hall??

Yes, I see it. Do you see anything else that might be going on there? I think the focus of the meeting may have changed for this year.

It makes me a little hinkey, you?

Ya think

Oh I don't debate they will be talking about Trump. I just think the title of the article makes it sounds like they called a meeting just to talk about him when they were actually going to be meeting any way.

It's semantics. And not much worth arguing about.

And that is why I asked.

FB is running around willey-Nilley but I am remaining calm about that meeting. Just seems odd, all that power come together like that.

I would think these meetings happen a lot. The back door deals have to happen somehow.

Ive read a ton of articles on the leadership plotting to ruin Trump so it wouldnt surpise me if this "annual" meeting was a Trump mental masturbation fest on how to stop him...I think youre right about it 40.

Im calm about it...the more they do the more it seems to help Trump..they are all out of touch.

Somehow I always pictured a smoke filled room at the bottom of an old Nuke Silo.

FB, you ok? Stop running in circles will ya.

Its been a long day and I just medicated myself so I should be pretty mellow in 3...2...1

Though if I keep watching the robot Rubio...well I might just die from laughing at this clown thinking he has a chance.

English, please. This isn't Mexico.

I stopped watching it. It's a complete joke. It's just endless pandering to Latinos.

Thank you Eve!!! We turned it off as well.

Just felt like a sleazy, pandering, spanish speaking, enabling intellect of a network.

Really?? An interpreter for English when most of this country is English speaking? What a total and complete farce.

I am waiting for Obama to proclaim that America is no longer an English speaking nation. Joke #2 in line after CNN.

Ted Cruz should just go be a preacher...that guy just strikes me as slimy...maybe I'm wrong..but man I dislike this guy.

Funny, I feel that way watching Ted Cruz right now..

That's why I'm going to bed. Night night!

Guess I should add I'm watching him with Kelly lady on FOX...its been non stop Trump bashing...YOU SUCK TED!!

Good night I should also.

This debate was put on by Univision . What exactly did you think was going to be the focus ? Having said there is still a part of me that rankles at the thought of these people coming to this country living here for years and still unable to speak the language .

Bernie and Hillary's answers to those immigration questions just might buy Trump some more votes.

Well I guess I'll watch Trump with Hannity then go to bed...did I say Ted Cruz is slimy??

I shouldve watched that debate instead of Rubio and Ted's town hall stuff.

Yeah, Trump isn't the personification of slime, or anything...

Yeah I was wondering when you was showing up...right on cue..Good night.. insert what ever derogatory term you can come up with here>>