Posted on 02/12/2020 4:19:16 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Tired of all this WINNING yet? – While the Dow closed down by less than 1 percent, while both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 managed record high closes for the second straight day despite indications from Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell that the Fed will not be lowering interest rates again at its next meeting.
Speaking of WINNING, Democrat looooosers were dropping like flies after poor finishes in last night’s New Hampshire primary. Andrew Yang was the first to end his campaign, in which he attempted to bribe his way to the nomination with the false promise of paying a “living wage” to every adult of $1,000. Just a few minutes behind Yang was Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, who most people didn’t know was in the race in any event.
A little bit later in the evening, some corrupt reporter – I never did find out who it was – tweeted a “scoop” that he/she had actually listened as billionaire Tom Steyer told his supporters that he was leaving the race, and many others picked up the “story” and repeated it. It turned out to be false, as Steyer, who has already wasted more than $200 million in the race to get to 1% in Iowa and 3% in New Hampshire, seems intent on wasting another few hundred million before finally giving up his ghost of a campaign. Cool.
The winner, of course, was The Commie, Bernie Sanders. The old Bolshevik managed to outpace Preacher Pete Buttigieg by about 4,000 votes, similar to his initial vote margin in the Iowa Caucuses, where Preacher Pete ended up being awarded one more delegate by the Party’s “counters.” Despite his edge in the New Hampshire vote, The Commie was awarded the same number of delegates as the Preacher, leaving him still one behind in the Party’s bizarre method of awarding delegates, despite having collected about 10,000 more votes.
Because this is how the Democrat Party operates in the year 2020.
But the real stories of the night came with who finished in third place, and who didn’t manage to crack the top 3.
As I predicted yesterday, Amy Klobuchar had a strong showing, coming in third behind Preacher Pete and dominating the analyst panels on CNN and MSNBC.
Klobuchar probably shouldn’t get too used to grabbing so much of the spotlight, though. In New Hampshire, she benefited from an indecisive voter base in which almost half of Democrat voters didn’t make up their minds until the three days prior to Tuesday. This enabled her to benefit from a strong debate performance on Friday night, as well as the implosions being experienced by the previous favorites in the race.
The campaign moves next to Nevada, a caucus state in which heavy organizing is key. Klobuchar hasn’t had the funding needed to build much of an organization there, and is thus unlikely to do as well. With just 10 days left before that event, she has little time to really get into that race even if her strong NH finish results in a pile of new cash coming into her campaign.
South Carolina comes a week later, and she is barely even registering in polls there. Where Bill Clinton could finish an also-ran in New Hampshire in 1992 and then be pushed by the fawning news media into front-runner status, today’s corrupt media is too bought-in to promoting Preacher Pete and Mini-Mike Bloomberg as the great hopes to head off The Commie to spend much time pushing Sen. Klobuchar as an alternative. So, expect the talk around Klobuchar in the coming days to focus on the viability of her becoming a potential “moderate” running mate to balance a ticket headed by The Commie.
Then, of course, there were the big, big loooooosers of the night: Quid Pro Joe and Lieawatha, the two former “front-runners” in the race.
Think about this: Amy Klobuchar, who finished third, received more votes than both Crazy Uncle Joe and Fauxcahontas, combined. Neither candidate could even crack 10% of the vote. Given that these two had polled neck-and-neck in the state with The Commie since last April, that is a stunning result.
Biden was so certain he would have a horrible finish in New Hampshire that he cancelled his “celebration” party there and fled to South Carolina Tuesday afternoon so he could deliver a despicably pandering speech to a crowd that actually had some – as he calls them – “black and brown folks” in it.
After delivering her own concession speech, Little Mouth Always Running was seen trying to score some peyote and heading off to the nearest sweat lodge so she could re-calibrate her campaign’s strategy.
While all the drama in New Hampshire was taking place, Billionaire Bloomberg was spending another $30 million or so on ads in the big Super Tuesday states, which are the first ones where he will actually be on the ballot. By the time these other folks get to that point in the calendar, they’ll all be either broke or exhausted.
This is chaos, folks, a chaos that is setting up perfectly for a brokered convention in Milwaukee in July.
Finally, the story the media is ignoring this morning is the story about turnout. Total Democrat turnout was once again lower than expected, with 280,000 total votes cast in that primary, compared to expectations of more than 300,000. This is a depressed and floundering Party.
Meanwhile, GOP turnout wildly exceeded expectations, with more than 130,000 votes cast compared to projections of something around 100,000. The President received twice as many votes as Barack Obama, Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan received in New Hampshire in their re-election bids.
And that is what President Donald Trump calls WINNING.
Here are my updated, post-New Hampshire odds for the ultimate winner of the Democrat nomination:
The Commie: 5 to 2
Mini-Mike: 3 to 1
Preacher Pete: 15 to 1
Klobuchar: 20 to 1
Quid Pro Joe: 100 to 1
Fauxcahontas: 100 to 1
Hillary Clinton at a brokered convention: 5 to 4
That is all.
“Hillary Clinton at a brokered convention: 5 to 4 “
And that’s why she’s so vocal. That old bat pulling that off is a real probability.
I am hoping against hope that Her Hideousness pulls it off and gets the nomination.
I would LOVE a Trump v Wicked Witch round 2.
Question: Is the hundreds of millions being self funded by the billionaires an income tax event? They have to cash out their stocks do they not?
Much as I’d like to see that, I’d rather see a national debate that demonstrates to the world the unequivocal failure of Marxist socialism once and for all. Trump could lead that and the scales would fall from the eyes of many of its believers.
It would take 3 generations to reappear, if even then...
Klobucar and Buttigieg are vying for the VP slot.
This is Sanders race.
If Bloomberg or Steyer get any momentum and win the nomination, Bernie-bots will burn the DNC down.
Can you imagine socialist lovers accepting defeat at the hands of a billionaire?
The DNC would not recover for at least a generation and the Bernie-bots would start their own party...or join Green.
The Big Mike strategy is working perfectly. The brokered convention goes to Big Mike, easily, and there will be nary a peep from any of the others.
Then the transformation can be completed.
Plus Adali Stevenson did so much better when he ran against Eisenhower for the second time.
“Biden was so certain he would have a horrible finish in New Hampshire that he cancelled his “celebration” party there and fled to South Carolina Tuesday afternoon so he could deliver a despicably pandering speech to a crowd that actually had some – as he calls them – “black and brown folks” in it.”
And refererred to New Hampshire as Nevada.
“The winner, of course, was The Commie, Bernie Sanders.”
If the dems are so incensed by Russian interference in our elections, why are they flocking to a socialist who honeymooned in Russia?
It may be chaotic but it is the focus of the LSM.
My guess is it will be:
Pete for Pres
Klobacher for VP
or Visa Versa.
I just don’t think Bernie will win in the South.
It depends on how they hold their assets. More likely than not, they will be selling some assets, such as stocks, and will generated capital gains.
That's a taxable event.
Unless, somehow contributing to your own campaign, or your own PAC, is tax deductible, which I doubt.
So, the taxes generated by liquidating assets with embedded gains are the same as one would pay for buying an office as one would pay for buying a yacht.
That is a pipe dream. No way the demonrat bosses allow Bernie.
And Pete will?
May be a pipe dream, but if the DNC denies Bernie, Antifa will burn Milwaukee and the party’s chances will go down in flames with it.
Interesting to note that Hillary will gladly destroy Bernie, the city of Milwaukee, and the party itself to claw her way into the White House.
Lincoln described it as ‘a mighty thing’ when that desire takes hold.
It will be at once a horrifying and delightful spectacle, regardless.
I just don’t see it. The DNC is going make sure Bernie does not get It unless he gets too many votes to screw him but they don’t want the witch either her negatives are just too high. They will use Bernie to try-angulate off of. At moment it looks like Poofter Pete, they paint him as the voice of reason versus crazy Bernie. It’s BS of course there’s no real difference between them. MSM including FNC is already pushing the narrative.
The problem with the Bernie Burns Down the Rat Party theory (as nice and warm and fuzzy as that theory is for all of us patriotic Americans) is that Bernie got far fewer votes in NH 2020 than he did in NH 2016.
I think Bernie is a cooling ember of his former Burn. Support for him is strong for a shrinking core of idiots who don’t see how certain his defeat to Trump would be.
The majority of dems — as stupid as they are on all other subjects — do want to win in 2020 and know they can’t win with Bernie.
I predict that Bernie will be in a much weaker position after Super Tuesday 2020 than he was after Super Tuesday 2016.
I hope I’m wrong. But I think I’m right.
Could that be an outcome of 8 or so candidates splitting the vote? Now that 3 more have given up and Tulsi will now take a mall percentage it's Bernie, Buttguy and AMY for now and Amy knocked out Pocahontas and may do the same to ole Joe in SC. Then as she is not really that popular she will fade playing the role of knocking out two frontrunners, Biden and Warren.
I think Adam Schiff is much more likely to emerge as the nominee from a brokered convention than Hillary Clinton.
I hope your scenario plays out.
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