“Ted Cruz enjoy your tainted victory. It will be your last.”
The overwrought melodrama of that brought a smile and a chuckle.
Thanks.
>> The overwrought melodrama of that brought a smile and a chuckle.
LOL!
All that’s missing was the Darth Vader helmet and cape. :-)
LOL! I twirled the end of my imaginary handlebar mustache when I read that line
1976 (January 19): Gerald Ford (45%) and Ronald Reagan (43%)
GOP Winner - Reagan
1980 (January 21): George H. W. Bush (32%), Ronald Reagan (30%), Howard Baker (15%), John Connally (9%), Phil Crane (7%), John B. Anderson (4%), and Bob Dole (2%)
GOP Winner - Reagan
1984 (February 20): Ronald Reagan (unopposed)
1988 (February 8): Bob Dole (37%), Pat Robertson (25%), George H. W. Bush (19%), Jack Kemp (11%), and Pete DuPont (7%)
GOP Winner - Bush 1992 (February 10): George H. W. Bush (unopposed)
1996 (February 12): Bob Dole (26%), Pat Buchanan (23%), Lamar Alexander (18%), Steve Forbes (10%), Phil Gramm (9%), Alan Keyes (7%), Richard Lugar (4%), and Morry Taylor (1%)
GOP Winner - Dole
2000 (January 24): George W. Bush (41%), Steve Forbes (31%), Alan Keyes (14%), Gary Bauer (9%), John McCain (5%), and Orrin Hatch (1%)
GOP Winner - W
2004 (January 19): George W. Bush (unopposed)
2008 (January 3): Mike Huckabee (34%), Mitt Romney (25%), Fred Thompson (13%), John McCain (13%), Ron Paul (10%), Rudy Giuliani (4%), and Duncan Hunter (1%)
GOP Winner - McCain
2012 (January 3): Rick Santorum (25%), Mitt Romney (25%), Ron Paul (21%), Newt Gingrich (13%), Rick Perry (10%), Michele Bachmann (5%), and Jon Huntsman (0.6%)[22]
GOP Winner - Romney
2016 (February 1): Ted Cruz (27.7%), Donald Trump (24.3%), Marco Rubio (23.1%), Ben Carson (9.3%), Rand Paul (4.5%), Jeb Bush (2.8%) [28]
Not counting the times where the incumbent was unopposed, they have a success rate of 29% (since 1980) of picking the eventual GOP winner. Not saying that Cruz's win was bad, I'm just saying that Iowa is nothing more than the opening kickoff.