Posted on 02/03/2016 9:11:54 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
As far as I can tell, Donald Trump's grieving process works more or less completely in the reverse order from what you would expect from a rational human being. Immediately after the event, Trump was more or less in acceptance mode, saying he was proud of finishing second, he loved the people of Iowa, he was going to come back and buy a farm there.
Then he went into depression, secluding himself for an uncharacteristically long time from twitter and the media.
Working backwards, he skipped over bargaining and went straight to anger, blaming the media and their unfair treatment of him.
Then this morning, he went into denial mode, basically saying that the Iowa loss never even happened and there should be a do over.
But if you look deeper into Trump's twitter rant this morning, and you have some understanding of both his neuroses and the cynical way he plays his followers, you can see that Trump has already decided how he will react to a loss in the GOP primaries, if he suffers one: he will refuse to accept the results and run third party.
Look at what Trump is doing here. He is complaining about a series of events that are, by any objective measure, ordinary politics, and he is treating them as evidence of "fraud" or that the results of Iowa were somehow completely illegitimate.
As Trump always does, he is clearly pre-complaining about anything even potentially damaging to him as the result of "unfair" treatment or a fixed, "unfair" process. If he should lose New Hampshire, he will do it again, even though the RNC booted National Review from the upcoming debate in order to mollify him (and yet allowed an openly anti-Cruz moderator onto the stage).
Trump is prepping his followers to bolt with him for a third party run if he loses the nomination. In fact, if he loses New Hampshire and South Carolina, he may just do it pre-emptively. I suspect this is a decision he has already made. Now, I know that he will probably not be able to get on the ballot at this late date in many states, but the point will not be to win, it will be to damage the Republican nominee, which has been Trump's goal from the beginning of this process.
Personally, I think a three way race between Cruz/Rubio, Trump, and Hillary will end up pretty well for the GOP. There's a lot of evidence that a majority of Trump's support comes from disaffected Democrats, and there are plenty of Democrats who are less than enthused about voting for Hillary.
I just wish that if Trump were not man enough to accept the will of the electorate, that he would go ahead and declare that he's running third party and save us all a lot of trouble.
Well, after all, the Republicans aren’t treating The Don fairly. He didn’t win Iowa — and he’s a winner.
As Rush said today, “In Donald Trump’s world, any election he doesn’t win is illegitimate.”
You do remember Reagan had two wives, the second gave him to vile spawn that actually campaigned against him. Nancy also played a big part in denying Ollie North a Senate seat. So how good was Reagan's second choice?
LOL!! A nearly 70-year-old man makes almost daily personal appearances in every corner of the country, sometimes two or three a day (plus wireless interviews from the plane for mainstream broadcasts) for SIX MONTHS SOLID, and the only small break he took since 11/2/15 that I've seen -- and I've been documenting his news twice daily on this Forum -- was Christmas Day.
In that case, I predict NM goes for Mrs. Bill, which it would do anyway.
Read that guy’s timeline. There are also others that are altright and WS. I’ve spent some time on this. At work, though, so I can’t dig into it now. But it’s there, and that Jeb sign wasn’t the only one.
In Reagan’s defense, Jane Wyman divorced him. The children from the second marriage seemed to hate their supposedly “distant” father. That was much less true of the children with Jane, Maureen and Michael.
Has David Duke endorsed Trump? I don’t think Duke lives in the USA any more.
Double Bingo!
Not to the degree Cruz is.
Living in Seattle explains it.
You prefer these long fruity kind?
Well no, but they’re just so stubby.
Fear porn.
Probably.
The way I hear it The Donald endorsed David Duke. /s
“If Trump runs 3rd party, then he will guarantee a demonrat victory in the general election the way H Ross Perot did in 1992 and again in 1996.”
Yup, Trump is another old, rich brat, who will ruin the country for the sake of his own ego, and maybe revenge.
“I honestly don’t think he looks at these accounts before he retweets them... he just likes what they write in support of him.”
Well of course he doesn’t, he’s just repeating comments that they send to him. None of which are out of line contrary to demshateGod’s phony charges of Trump endorsing racism and bigotry (I guess God turns a blind eye to bearing false witness these days).
It’s dishonest to hold any candidate accountable for something that their supporters are doing that they don’t know about. Assuming that they even are actual supporters and not someone’s dirty trick squad getting creative on twitter.
EVERYONE needs to look at Post #17, and here’s a link to the actual CNN TWEET:
Obviously Trump is lying, and/or doesn’t know what is going on.
And why aren’t CNN and Rubio the ones apologizing to Ben Carson?
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