I was pulling for Cruz and was happy to see him win fairly comfortably, but I appreciated the fact Trump showed some magnanimity in his speech last night. He was downright gracious in his concession to Cruz. All three speeches last night were outstanding. These are the three who need to go forward from here, so the winnowing process of those candidates with numbers south of Rubio’s should begin now.
Whoever emerges as the GOP nominee will be vastly superior to whichever bloated, festering, maggot-eaten carcass happens to float to the top in the democrat swamp.
I think Trump’s private polling must be much better than the media’s. He left Iowa early, and as he left he stated that Iowa had a very poor record of picking the eventual winner, so he knew what the results would be.
Maybe Donald is getting the idea that making America great DOES need to be more than shallowly personal pot shots, which also drag the entire national conversation down. He can afford to shoot bull about a building, which if it fails he can always erect another one. But this is for keeps.
I think many evangelicals who believed he could deliver (and I still do) still wished he wouldn’t carry on so arrogantly. This might be the lesson teaching him not to, while yet not damaging him fatally (he gets one less delegate than Cruz).
Cruz is not out of the woods yet with respect to his NBC shadow. All pontificating notwithstanding, what is going to matter may simply be what is going to go down, and Democrats are known for being pretty ruthless. I haven’t seen anyone yet try to take the Bellei issue by the horns, a case that proved in 1970 that if Congress had granted your citizenship by legislation concerning your birth, Congress could also deny it to you later, in circumstances that parallel Cruz until the point of his later presence in the USA. That’s not being natural born.
Anyhow. The death notice of Donald Trump has been highly exaggerated.
Kinda late getting here, but my take is the biggest loser in the Ioway caucuses is Chuck Grassley and the biggest winner is Steve King.
Grassley is a huge ethanol pimp and King endorsed Cruz and the anti-ethanol side.
Yes Trump has a problem. He is already 0ne delegate down and nothing but a 20 point lead in New Hampshire to look forward to, maybe he should go home now and let “Baggage Carrying Ted” and Senior Amnesty fight it out for who loses to Hillary Clinton.
So you guys are now for amnesty and the continuation of open borders?
Huck and Santorum won Iowa, not really important IMHO.
SC is important, Florida is important etc.
The people who suddenly love Rubio seem to forget history....like when Rubio teamed up with Grover Norquist and his immigration lawyer chief of Staff Cesar CONDA who used SPLC talking points to try to destroy anyone who opposed the gang of 8 amnesty! ‘Bitter Enders’ is what they called all of us!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3006017/posts
Rubio was the winner as he did much better than expected.
Cruz and Trump were within the margin of expected error. Not a win for either of them but certainly a confirmation that they both have support.
I’d say the bickering between Cruz and Trump meant more support went to Rubio. Just my opinion.
Well what Iowa really did show is that a first time newbie who is not the son of the preacher man came in a strong second in Iowa. Shocking actually.
It also showed some possible character flaws in the actual winner. Not one other GOP candidate that I know of has been reprimanded in writing by the the Sec of State of Iowa and accused of dirty tricks by another candidate. Its somewhat troubling especially since we are talking about the son of the preacher man. And it does speak to character.