Posted on 09/26/2015 6:37:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sounds like a football fan at the end of the NFL season when they’re team is 7-9 and has a shot at the playoffs if every other team in the league loses that day.
* Their - Fingers too fast for brain.
One more thing Bush would have to do. And that is he would need to do a “McCain”. He would have to state that Hilary Clinton is a “decent person” and would make a “fine” President.
From what I understand, Bush needs only 20% to take it in the SEC primary. If the rest of the filed splits and leaves Jeb with 20%, the elites get their guy in for the nomination. But, perhaps, I just don’t really get it.
it would appear the target should be not Jeb, but Karl
if karl is missing the plan falls apart
The sooner The Donald is actually engaged in collecting votes in the primaries, the sooner he shall have the necessary delegates to take the nomination on the first vote at the convention.
The Donald is by no means inevitable at this point, but he is sure beating the heck out of whoever happens to be in second place on any given day.
And nobody remembers who came in second.
The Donald has a stump speech that still draws HUGE crowds, just about everywhere he sets up shop. And since he has begun waving his Bible around, the crowds just keep getting more and more enthusiastic.
Even Mike Huckster was not that much of a showman.
If the GOPe succeeds they will lose again
And die
Conservatives are used to living in a foreign land by now and won’t accept this
Not me or my wyfe anyhow
Best Assessment!
States moving their primaries up and making them winner take all actually helps Trump.
my thots as well
If the GOP forces Yeb down my throat, I will either write in Trump or just vote for the Democrat.
100% agree
Bush will not get the votes of Republicans even not conservatives. They will sit home.
So Rove who is a complete failure will after losing with have a billion last time will spend another half billion to lose this time again?
When will they hit the ignore button on Rove and dispatch his sorry butt to a senior living facility of his choosing?
Ah, say what?
Our primary was in May (Winner take all).
It’s been moved to March 15th (winner take all).
It used to be the candidate was picked way before we got to vote (in a mostly red sate). Most times my vote was a protest vote.
Doesn’t bother me a bit we get to have some say in March.
I am having a very hard time also, believing all these candidates have been strategically plucked up and strewn onto the path of the primary, only to assure that the GOP selected nominee comes out on the other end, just to feign a contest that never really was.
These candidates are ambitious and deadly serious, egotistical and self possessed, to the extent that most have been planning to run for years.
It seems to me it will be the corruption of the primary that could cause the trouble. The voting machines, the state rules, the committee rules, the RNC rules, all designed to herd us, and deliver the candidate of choice to the GOP. I am quite concerned about all that.
I predict the DC political establishment will try to assassinate Trump. If they’re willing to throw Boehner and Jeb under the bus, they will stop at nothing.
Rubio will likely emerge as a ‘compromise’ candidate, fooling enough conservatives to gain their ‘hold your nose’ vote.
I wonder if neither side wants it.
Whoever gets in is going to have a big mess to mop up.
WHY WOULD WE ELECT PRESIDENT A GUY WHO...?
Why would this country elect as president some guy who was known to regale friends with nigger* jokes, had a history of depression, was suicidal from time to time (in his defense, probably due to the death of his young son, but suicidal nonetheless) and eventually started an internecine war that took the lives of over 700,000 troops and civilians and...
What? Oh, yeah. That was LINCOLN! never mind!
* A corruption of another word now freely used by blacks around the world when referring to one another. To NOT have written the word here would be to accord the dark forces of political correctness an inappropriate and destructive victory of which Orwell’s Thought Police would be proud.
Why would we elect president some guy who was not healthy and smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day, married his fifth cousin then had a notorious affair with his secretary and...
What? Oh, sorry, that was FDR!
And why would the American people put in the Oval Office a man who, while overseas running the war in Europe another 3 pack-a-day smoker who was schtupping his secretary while his wife was back here tending to the family and...
Oh, sorry. That was Republican DWIGHT EISENHOWER. Moving on...
How about another Democrat who, to his credit served honorably in the Pacific but DID manage to get his PT boat sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer but redeemed himself by getting his crew rescued. Running against Nixon in the 1960 race, this same married chap, whose handlers thought he was a bit “tense” before the first televised debate, took him out and got him laid. (That certainly relaxed him as he won the debate.) Once in office, this fellow had numerous extramarital affairs with mob molls and several Hollywood stars, Marilyn Monroe among them and...
Oh yeah. That was JFK. never mind.
(For an interesting aside re. that event and the role a leftist media type played in that debate, please see the footnote below. If you’ve watched the current debates, you understand that THEY STILL DO.)
And then there was this character from Texas who, after his friends counted the ballots and reported him barely ahead in a close race for the Senate, was shocked – just shocked –that the very night before the recount, would you believe it? — the courthouse burned down, destroying the ballots! Like Lincoln, “nigger” was a regular part of his crude vocabulary. This fellow was a notorious womanizer and drunk whose favorite technique for reprimanding errant subordinates was to call them into the lavatory while he moved his bowels. Classy, huh?
Then he...What? You say that was LBJ? never mind.
How in the WORLD could we elect to the presidency some guy who was a 60s socialist radical, later married one even more radical than himself, wangled multiple deferments from MILITARY SERVICE while other kids his age were humping through the bush in Vietnam dodging bullets and who was a woman abuser and engaged in sexual misconduct in the Oval Office with a young intern then, under oath, perjured himself about it and...
What? Oh, right, that was BILL CLINTON! never mind!
But why the heck would we elect some guy raised by grandparents and some pornographer — all three of whom were on FBI “Communist Watch” lists in the 50s and 60s (back when the FBI actually did its job of trying to protect US) – and whose mother posed nude for the pornographer before abandoning him and who has openly admitted to have been – and probably still is – a pot head and user of harder illegal substances and whose every action bespeaks a hatred for the nation he allegedly heads...
What? Oh, right. That’s BARACK OBAMA! never mind!
I haven’t researched all the other folks we elevated to the highest elected office in this country. If I did, I’m sure I’d find warts and blemishes on ALL OF THEM. And why would that be? BECAUSE, LIKE YOU AND ME, THEY’RE ALL IMPERFECT HUMAN BEINGS AND ALL FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY.
Until some leftist “journalist” comes up with a fully documented list of reprehensible things MY candidate – who doesn’t drink or smoke and has raised his kids to be responsible, successful adults – has done to other folks, I’ll stick with TRUMP. And until these same media mavens provide me with a list of associates, friends, employees, clients and others he has screwed over and, further, convince me that he is attempting to prevaricate his way into the presidency (as the last guy did!) or that his profession of LOVE for America is as egregious a lie as the last guy told us, I’LL HANG IN THERE WITH TRUMP.
But my support for The Donald is based more on how the current crop (or is that crAp) of political elites and their media lapdogs and handmaidens are GOING NUTS because he is articulating problems in terms WE USE IN OUR CONVERSATIONS OUT HERE IN “FLYOVER COUNTRY”, AND NOT TALKING ABOUT HOW BEST TO ARRANGE THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE FOUNDERING SHIP CALLED “AMERICA”.
Because the entrenched forces he faces have a 3 way program for dealing with outsiders (1. IGNORE; 2. DISCREDIT; 3. ELIMINATE), all we have to do is pray he REMAINS ABOVE AMBIENT TEMPERATURE through the debates, the election and, hopefully, on to January 20th, 2017 and an inauguration.
Dick Bachert 9/26/2015
FOOTNOTE:
The 1960 Nixon-Kennedy Debates were directed by one Don Hewitt, creator of CBS’ “60 Minutes”. Hewitt told Nixon, who had a serious “5 O’clock Shadow” (beard, for you youngsters not familiar with that phrase) that he didn’t need to shave just prior to the program. Hewitt then directed the studio lighting to flatter Kennedy while arranging Nixon’s to make him look like an extra from “The Walking Dead”. Not satisfied, Hewitt slowly tightened the shot each time Nixon spoke so that his head loomed and filled the entire screen on TV sets all over the country. And as we all know, things that “loom” are clearly dangerous and should be avoided. The voters did so and, as we all know, Kennedy won.
I need to add that, warts and all, Kennedy did a pretty good job. While he got it completely wrong at the Bay of Pigs, he defused the Cuban Missile show down with the Soviets. And he was moving in the direction of unhooking our monetary system from the Fed (to which we PAY INTEREST on the currency they create from THIN AIR!), had begun speaking out about lowering taxes and getting us out of Vietnam. Some of us believe that’s why some folks blew off the top of his head on November 22, 1963. As with so many events like these, we may never know the truth.
Wow, post of the day. Maybe post of the year.
Many thanks. Share by all means.
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