Posted on 01/02/2016 9:44:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Montour, Iowa -- After candidate entries and candidate withdrawals, debates and debate-related controversies, campaign surges and campaign duds, and tens of millions spent and tens of millions wasted on broadcast advertisements, we finally have reached the actual election year.
No one expected Donald Trump to retain his high poll ratings. No one expected Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin to bomb. No one expected terrorism to emerge as a top issue. No one expected Republican politics to be so riveting.
But while some of the candidates have been on a fool's errand, 2015 was not a bootless errand. It taught us a lot about the nature of our politics, and there's a good argument to be made that last year was more valuable than any year preceding an election since 1975, when the country began to heal its Watergate wounds....
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
It never healed from the JFK wounds is more like it.
Wounds inflicted entirely by the lying media, the corrupt democrat party, and the communist 5th column in this country, and not to the betterment of this country — or Vietnam!
The establishment has done terrible things to this country.
It is clear that American politics has changed when the top two candidates on FreeRepublic are also the top two in the polls.
It is clear that American politics has changed when the top two candidates on FreeRepublic are also the top two in the polls.
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It is indeed. It’s great to see the GOPe RINOs completely befuddled and unable to understand the situation they face...let alone how they could deal with it or control it. They do not yet understand, although the first glimmers of recognition are appearing in them in this new year, that THEY no longer control either the base or the “situation”.
BUMP!
Really? Methinks the Blade is not all that sharp. Is this like a newspaper, or some blog?
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