Posted on 08/15/2015 10:34:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)—There are a few golden rules when it comes to campaigning in Iowa: never arrive by helicopter, leave your entourage at home and don't skip the Des Moines Register soapbox, even if you have to brave hecklers.
But the normal rules of politics don't apply to Donald Trump, who broke all of them during his visit to the Iowa State Fair on Saturday.
Trump made a grand entrance by touching down in a $7 million helicopter. He was thronged by supporters as he walked the fairgrounds and eschewed the soapbox -- where Iowans are encouraged to shout questions to candidates -- in favor of often random interactions with voters.
The day provided the latest illustration of how Trump, the GOP presidential frontrunner, is upending the race by ignoring conventional wisdom and running his campaign exactly how he wants to. The strategy stood in sharp contrast to Hillary Clinton, who lost the caucuses here in 2008 after she also broke some of this state's cherished rules.
She took fewer risks on Saturday....
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Waht rules? Trump can't be bought, influenced, threatened or controlled.
never arrive by helicopter, leave your entourage at home
There is an LZ there for candidates and I'm sure Hillbillary left her astroturf behind.
Not a particularly decorous post. “Broken at the wheel.” Really? How midieval.
“Not a particularly decorous post. “Broken at the wheel.” Really? How midieval.”
I like drawn and quartered myself. Or the rack, oh no, not the rack!
Interesting hypothesis. Would MS be consistent with that that minor stroke (or something like that) diagnosis a few years ago?
All I know is that Annette Funicello suffered from Multiple Scleroris, and was accused of being a drunk - which she was not. She staggered and fell,and slurred her speech - and finally came out and told America of her illness. So, I’m just saying either Hillary drinks a lot or has symptoms similar to MS.
CNN making stuff up out of whole cloth.
Trump copter landed near the Fair, not on the fairgrounds. No space for a large LZ on the fairgrounds itself at the last minute.
The Soapbox, like a lot of fair stuff, is just a bit of fun, and is sponsored by the little Democrat blog Des Moines Register. Sen Joni Ernst has shown the way by just ignoring the Register.
Having pork chop on a stick IS a rule, however.
So it's a little reckless to say, because someone stumbles, they have MS. And even it true, many, like Ann Romney, have a pretty normal life.
That was in the days before they really had any beta sermons tha slowed the progress of the disease. EVERY patient progresses-—or regresses-—differently. Some not at all. I know a woman who took no MS drugs, and after 20 years is pretty much “normal.” The pres of my university was diagnosed back in the 80s. I think he is on meds, but he still walks without a walker or cane. One new theory is that if it doesn’t really progress rapidly or steadily, some people go into a permanent kind of stasis with the disease and don’t get worse.
He’s got a quick wit, too.
Ha! I like this, Trump goes to lunch with the shrew of the NYTimes—and has himself spaghetti and meatballs with a side of pulled pork:
She drinks a lot. That was well known in Arkansas.
Forget the botox. Haven’t seen the video, but what SpaceBar describes sounds like Tardive Dyskinesia, as a result of prolonged taking of anti-pyschotic medicines.
Couple this with her behavior during Bill’s term, described in Aldritch’s book, indicates a long term psych ailment that has been treated with anti-psychotics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardive_dyskinesia
This BS about her doctor’s note stating she’s fit to campaign is a smoke screen.
She of course will not release any medical records.
I’ve seen this with a friend’s son before he was institutionalized. Sad and frightening. This is seen quite often in the street ‘crazies’.
I know Ms Reston, it just isn't fair.
SB, can you provide the link? I can’t find it... Thanks!
Now you’re talkin’
They're still working out the kinks in her software. It's hard to make an android look like-like.
The strategy stood in sharp contrast to Hillary Clinton, who lost the caucuses here in 2008 after she also broke some of this state's cherished rules.
Could also be a sign of eating rabid possums..............
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