Posted on 02/03/2016 1:59:20 PM PST by Biggirl
I can’t disagree with anything you’ve said. I’ve never been inside a campaign so don’t know how decisions of who tweets what and when are made, but I would think in this age that tweets have the potential to make or break. Cruz said he didn’t know about the tweet until it was already out there. We have no reason to doubt that, and no way to prove it either. Whatever the case, it would have been wise for the staffer to call Carson’s people and check it out.
As for Trump insinuating himself into this mess, it was, in my opinion, “stupid”... as he would say. I was originally quite interested in him as a candidate back in July. I paid very close attention and changed my mind about him. I like all our guys, except for Kasich, but none for president.
guess I am a muzzie and did not know it
they follow the kwqhorahhhhhn
“The voters say who wins. That’s all that matters in the end.”
Unvarnished truth.
after a tour on the rape circuit
Yeah.
Personally, I wouldn’t have done it. Advantage to me or no advantage to me, what matters to me is can I respect what I’ve done. If I can’t, I ain’t doing it.
As far as Trump being stupid on this. Yep.
What got you where you are, Donald? Why are you no longer doing that?
What is it that you are doing now, and why do I want that in a president?
Your guess is as good as mine.
I got so caught up in Trump’s theme of illegal immigration and what his plan on the website said that I began to project. I found myself believing outlandish things, somehow equating my beliefs and ideas with his. I made excuses for his outrageous statements and championed his good ones. I was kind of possessed by this idea that the sheer power of his personality could change entrenched power structures. But I slowly learned that we had differents goals. I heard what I WANTED to hear. My hopes outran my brain.
I don’t try to change anyone’s mind, but simply hope we all pay ATTENTION.
That is a very interesting post, I must say.
I appreciate the insight into your thought process regarding Trump, and I confess that I see similarities in my own.
I’ll say this about the sheer power of Trump’s personality.
It (his personality) does possess the unique ability to win the presidency for him, and it possesses the ability to lose it for him.
It is his gift and his curse.
Right now the sheer power of his personality is working against him IMO.
I know we always say this, but NO election in my lifetime (my first vote was for George McGovern!!) will be as consequential as this one. So I’ve read and listened carefully. I do agree with Mark that the opposite side of the aisle is no longer just our adversary. It IS our enemy. They’re even their enemy, unbeknownst to them. I mean dear God, Hillary ? Sanders? Bloomberg? A resurrected Biden?
And yet, I honestly see no one on our side who’s up to the task. But that’s just me. It’s done me some good though, I’m more objective than I’ve ever been!
I want to be persuaded by even one of them. I hope I will be.
What won IOWA, for Ted Cruz was Congressman Steve King he’s a master politician, and his support helped big time.
That could very well be true. I don’t know enough about Iowa in particular to really say.
But speaking strictly in terms of Trump, I think it’s safe to say that he lost, because he failed to convince enough Iowans that he and his vision is the right way to go at this time.
Had he been more effective at closing the deal, he could have overcome an King endorsement, I think.
I keep relating this to sales, because as author of the Art of the Deal, he should know that sometimes a salesman has to go into utterly hostile territory that is owned by another salesperson competitor.
All those potential customers are loyal to their current sales rep, and they are not even interested in talking with you about anything. How do you turn that around and make them your loyal customers?
A good salesman can do this. They use wit, charm, humor, whatever aspects of their personality set them apart and can get them an opening through which they then illustrate the benefit of their product or service to new customers that may otherwise not be interested.
Trump failed to do this, he was not able to close the deal in sufficient enough numbers to turn the territory away from others and toward him.
With all due respect, Trump actually did show grace on MOnday night when he thought he lost to a clean fair fight.
However, as the facts began to emerge regarding the Tweets about Carson by Cruz staffers and Congressman King during the caucus sessions, it became clear that it was not a clean fair election.
Trump and Carson have every right to be upset. The character flaw is with and Cruz, who mislead caucusers into believing that Carson was out.
I can’t argue that both Cruz and Rubio revealed themselves to be opportunists in that election.
If I was Trump and Carson, what I would learn from that is this is who they are, and they will take any opportunity, and expect more of this from them.
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