Posted on 08/23/2015 12:24:17 PM PDT by entropy12
It’s 6 months before the first primary!
Just a little early to concede don’t you think?
Of course we all enjoy speculating... I think the important event when occur when the GOPe makes a deal.
They surely will but I don’t see, at this time, what they can get from a candidate that won’t make him unelectable.
Fun stuff, and all will be revealed in time.
Lol!
Oh yeah: YouGov is now teamed with Huffington Post.
It’s polls are not what they used to be.
It's because of his half century negotiating big deals and building great buildings, golf courses, author of best sellers, and TV programs.
To put it in technical terms...he is inside the OODA Loop of the Dims, GOPe, and the MSM.....and there is nothing they can do about it.
I think the Reuters/Isos poll answers your question of who gets the votes when lesser candidates drop out. Trump goes from 32% to 44% and Jeb gets 29%.
All these guys saying Trump is not a conservative are only helping his brand.
What’s Trump’s next Bomb? He has a wide open target in the Democratic Party as a whole. He needs to De-legitimize the whole party by saying radicals have taken it over and give specific examples. Then attack the Republican’s as the less worse party, and say he loathes going third party because of the Ross Perot effect. He needs to leave a big crap on the whole party system.
That would put some things to rest.
Do you really think it would be eight years? I could see Trump cleaning up the mess then going back to his business empire. He'll be in his mid-70s after one term.
Yes, it sticks because you know it’s true. A effeminate socialist phony is trying to hurt our country. I’m sorry I won’t back down against the Trumps, Jebs, Clintons etc. of this world. One day you will all deny you ever supported Trump it will be so obvious.
At this point in time, the only obstacle to The Donald going all the way would The Donald himself.
His to lose. And even his apparent “missteps” turn out to paradoxically give him even greater boosts in overall popularity. He may lose some people along the way, but at the same time, he continues to pick up more and more from previously relatively uncommitted individuals.
Jindal and Santorum will probably drop out first.
Jindal’s votes will go to Trump, Santorum’s to Huckabee.
Next to drop out will be Christie. His votes will split between Kasich and Bush.
Then Huckabee will drop out and his votes will split between Cruz and Trump.
Paul will stay in no matter what and the question becomes who will drop out first from this group:
Walker, Rubio, Bush, Fiorina and Kasich, and when will Cruz throw in with Trump?
The big question is, when the RINOs (Rubio, Bush, Fiorina and Kasich) start to fail, where will their votes go.
There will be several months remaining to attack democrats. By next April, it will be pretty obvious if Trump can win nomination, based on results of various primaries. Once nomination is secured, then trump can unload on democrats.
First things first. Trump has set the priorities as any good businessman would. 1) Nomination 2) General.
Right now Trump is correctly focusing on Bush.
Bush will not drop out. He will outlast all other RINO’s.
When that happens, Cruz should endorse Trump and drop out. Ditto with Carson.
We do not want Bush as the lone RINO and 2 or 3 others splitting the votes.
I get a kick out of many who proclaim Trump is not a conservative, or that he is
a false conservative. So why are these people powerless to elect a “true
conservative” as president?
What exactly have the “true conservatives” in congress accomplished?
Obamacare scrapped?
Illegals deported?
Wall built?
Abortion outlawed?
National debt reduced?
If Trump can deliver 3 or more of above, he is more than enough conservative for
me and most rational people.
“One day you will all deny you ever supported Trump it will be so obvious.”
Well, one thing for sure can’t be denied as of this very moment, and that is you are a pain in our collective butts, lol. We sure won’t deny that.
Aside from Cruz and Carson and maybe Walker…the others are all waiting for Trump to fall, that’s their plan I guess. But who would ever vote for a RINO now? Thanks to Trump we have a much clearer contrast than in 2012. It’s plain to see. Immigration is the issue at the forefront because it is economic as well. We know that aside from three or four candidates the rest are for open borders.
Granted that is the task at hand, but Independents and disaffected democrats need to at least view him as credible. They will be his psudo club. If Trump wins it will be after an internal Republican Bloodbath.
If Trump is not a conservative then I’d gladly shed that moniker also.
My own close relatives who have voted democrat for 30 years are considering going republican if Trump is the nominee. So looks like there are going to be lot of Trump-democrats in 2016. Similar to Reagan-democrats in 1980.
I don’t know if it will be NEXT, but Trump has Laffer and Forbes working on his Tax Platform.
Your relatives are exactly the type who see the “Not A Republican” as a positive. Probably followed by a fair number of Republicans. This is getting really interesting.
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