Sober Post-IA Thoughts that Will Make No One Happy

self | 2/4/2016 | LS

[demshateGod]

Trump is only one running for the Republican ticket who’s for single payer universal healthcare.

[Jane Long]

Trump is only one running for the Republican ticket who’s for single payer universal healthcare.

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Keep posting that PACpaid meme....it won’t make it true and only exposes the sheer desperation of the Cheap Labor cabal.

[demshateGod]

What we would get with Trump is a megalomaniac who tweets like a 14 year old girl and would push single payer universal healthcare. That’s what we know we’d get. We have no idea what else we’d get.

[demshateGod]

I don’t want to hear anything else about amnesty until Trumpbots explain how single payer universal healthcare is conservative.

[demshateGod]

So it doesn’t matter to you that Trump says it himself? Of course it doesn’t. You don’t have to do this. Even if you’re getting paid by Trump, you can get another job. You’re embarrassing yourself.

[chae]

Totally agree with you, I’m a Cruz girl myself.

[Jane Long]

We know who the paid ones are, around here....and the ones who have embarrassed themselves, as well.

BTW, have you made your donation to FR, this month? It’s a new month, and FR is always looking for monthly donors...or one time donations are great, too!

https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/

[onyx]

I am NOT going to try to find fault with your analysis. I very much appreciate your efforts and very much respect your vast experience!

I think Mr. Donald Trump came in second in the weird Iowa Caucus' partially due to Iowa's much heralded, longest-serving, but terribly spiteful, Republican Governor Terry Branstad, who publicly railed against Ted Cruz over Cruz's principled stand regarding ethanol, which is more of a democrat issue. Call it a backlash!

IOW, I actually think CRUZ WON IOWA! Cruz campaigned in all 99 counties and Cruz had the best ground game.

I also think that TRUMP will better serve himself and all of his supporters if he will go back to emphasizing his campaign motto "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" by touting his massive strengths and limiting his attacks to Hillary, Bernie, demonics-rats and RINO rivals who ARE attacking him, like the pathetic Bush.

I am NOT against TRUMP attacking his chief rivals CRUZ and RUBIO but I think TRUMP will do best by keeping his message positive and uplifting! Were I Mr. Trump, I would be tempted to virtually ignore Cruz, save for a couple of zinging one liner's and ditto for Rubio. I think Voters prefer to VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE, NOT AGAINST a competing rival in primaries when they like two or more.

PLUS, if he goes after Hillary now, he will give primary voters a preview of what he will do to her when he's the GOP nominee.

I hope you understand what I am trying to relate to you. I am completely for Trump so whenever I find his remarks cringe-worthy I can only imagine the reaction of those who also like a rival or two of his, particularly that fast talking RUBE-io. Notice that his messages are always uplifting and positive?

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©



DEAREST Jane Long!!!!
I often wonder about the very same!
Have NO WAY of knowing ... *sigh* ...

[Jane Long]

;-)

[txhurl]

Don’t know either one... have to wait for the scoops.

[LS]

I absolutely agree. I didn’t mean to say that “Trump lost Iowa.” No, Cruz won it. I was only pointing out that Trump cannot make Iowa mistakes in NH or anywhere else.

[JediJones]

I couldn’t give two flips what a candidate’s relative says about them. A vote for Ronald Reagan isn’t a vote for Ron Reagan Jr.

[CPT Clay]

Outstanding article

[CPT Clay]

So, Must Win for Trump.
Must 2nd for Rubio, he must finish ahead of Kasich,Bush and Christie.
Since Kacish, Bush and Christi are ‘all in’ in NH, I believe Cruz survives a forth or even a close fifth place finish. .

New Hampshire is quirkey. Look at Green Papers, there are 30 candidates on the ballot. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/NH-R

I am thinking Trump 30ish
Rubio 18 high teens
Kacich 14
Cruz 12
Bush 10
Cristie 10

[HamiltonJay]

Yes, I think if Trump majorly underperforms in NH he’s in trouble.

if Cruz isn’t in top 3, he’s in trouble.

Rubio comes in behind any of the other establishment candidates, he’s in trouble.

Cruz will probably do better in strong red states, so a bad performance in NH doesn’t kill him, but it doesn’t help. He comes in a low number in NH, and then misses the top 3 in SC... I think its going to be hard for him to come back.

If Trump doesn’t score a solid undeniable win, not a squeaker, but a strong strong win by SC at the latest, Super Tuesday gets a log more interesting as well.

[CPT Clay]

If it is a close 4th, don’t think too much trouble. I’m going to S. Carolina to join Cruz’s ground game next week. I will let you know.

[Hawthorn]

>>Trump does not have the kind of cash he says he does, especially after the Resorts bankruptcy of 2014. Virtually all his assets are illiquid. He sure as hell can't sell or hock "goodwill."<<

Exactly: Just as in The Emperor's New Clothes, what you say is so obvious that most folks apparently will divert their attention and refuse to notice.

Anyway, the facts as you outline them are precisely why I think all this "self-funding" talk is a crock of record-breaking dimensions.

Still, let's not bother trying to persuade the dedicated Trumpsters. It's a waste of time and bandwidth, because they are basically impervious to both facts and logic.