Posted on 10/02/2023 6:14:41 AM PDT by billorites
Let’s call the whole thing off.
The GOP presidential race is over, can we all agree on that? Spoiler alert: Trump won. It wasn’t even close.
Yeah, I know the old saying, it’s never over ‘til it’s over, but you know what? It’s over.
Could anything have been clearer after the Wednesday night debate on the RINO Fox Business Channel that nobody watched among the also-rans, has-beens and never-weres?
What did the headlines all say about the seven – seven! – candidates who showed up at the Reagan library in southern California?
They “sparred.” They “duked it out.” That’s the lede reporters write about a debate when nobody stood out and nothing happened to change the trajectory of the fight. MONETARY GOLD IN-POST AD
And it’s not like the race was very much in doubt before the debate.
As Trump’s spokesman pointed out afterwards, if you took the poll numbers of the other seven candidates and added them all together, they’d still be 20 points behind Orange Man Bad.
The political scrubs and jay-vees all went into that debate understanding those numbers. It was like the series last week between the Red Sox and the Yankees. The only thing at stake was avoiding finishing dead last in the division. (Another spoiler alert: the Red Sox lost.)
In California, the seven dwarfs were trying to limp towards the next one, to somehow meet the RNC requirements to make the third debate, whenever it is, wherever it is.
Nobody wants to be the next… Asa Hutchinson. Who will be eliminated next? Mike Pence? Krispy Kreme Christie? Whatisname – the governor of North Dakota?
It’s humiliating to be the first cut in either training camp or the presidential campaign. You want to be Trump’s last sparring partner – this cycle’s Ted Cruz. It means a bigger contract to become the token Republican in the green room on one of state-run media’s cable networks.
Maybe that’s why Dana Perino asked the stupid “Survivor” question. Ron DeSantis shot her down, just as he demolished the Charo-sounding Colombian leftist who was imported to ask some questions direct from the ESL School of Broadcasting, like “Why have you fleeped?”
So you had one of the three moderators from Great Britain, another from a failed Third World narco-nation, and one native-born citizen who worships the ground all members of the Bush family walk on.
No wonder the candidates didn’t get asked any questions about issues Americans actually care about, say, Bidenomics, or the Afghanistan debacle, or the sinister connections between COVID, the CIA and Fauci….
Somewhere Wednesday night, Candy Crowley and Chris Wallace were smiling. They couldn’t have done a better job themselves of sandbagging Republicans!
Incidentally, it wasn’t just Trump who counterprogrammed against Faux during that sad two-hour debate. Bill O’Reilly went on Tucker Carlson’s Twitter feed to discuss the parlous state of American media.
“They’re all afraid,” O’Reilly told Carlson. “Talent’s scared across the board.” MONETARY GOLD IN-POST AD
But as long as you try to make Republicans look bad, you’ll probably get another contract. That was another one of the lessons from the debate, so-called.
If this GOP campaign were a boxing match, the referee would have already stepped in and stopped the fight – TKO, technical knockout.
The winner wasn’t even back in his own corner when he won. He was three time zones away, in Michigan, addressing an audience of auto workers.
And yet Trump still delivered the best lines of the night:
“The only time Joe Biden has ever gotten his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries – which is quite often, actually.”
“Crooked Joe Biden is back like a wretched old vulture trying to finish off his prey.”
“Joe Biden only cares about enriching his own family. I care about enriching your family. That’s why I did this.”
Why can’t any of the other Republican candidates come up with soundbites like that? Is it that difficult? As Casey Stengel used to say of the 1962 Mets, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
Speaking of baseball again, if the debate had been a late-season game, the headline would have been:
“Seven candidates mathematically eliminated after latest loss.”
For months now, Faux News has been trying to prop up one or another of the GOP pretenders. For a while it Sen. Tim Scott, flush as he is with Larry Ellison’s millions. But his campaign is DOA. Then it was Nikki Haley, but she has a very low ceiling in the polling.
Occasionally the Faux RINOs try to resuscitate Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is, let’s face it, a victim of circumstance in this fight. But no matter how much the Murdochs try, they can’t seem to get DeSantis any traction either.
So now they’re again floating the name of VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Virginia has off-year legislative elections, so he’s out of pocket until at least Nov. 7. But, just as the Jets need a new quarterback, the never-Trumpers desperately need a new candidate now.
Update: as I write this, Youngkin has materialized live on Faux, doing commentary of the House impeachment inquiry. He’s sitting right there in the D.C. studio with one of the innumerable blonde anchor cupcakes.
Will Youngkin be the next… Brock Purdy? Maybe, but for every Brock Purdy, there’s a dozen bust-outs. Joe Louis used to fight the “Bum of the Month.” Will Glenn Youngkin be Trump’s next Bum of the Month?
Stay tuned. Or, if it’s like the Wednesday night debate, do what everybody else did. Don’t stay tuned.
Here in MA, Carr has jumped the shark. He is deep state cabal, supportive of RINOs.
If he is a Trumper here, it’s the old clock-is-right-twice-a-day story.
The GOPe had 7 years to make up a candidate that copied Trump’s platform but was easier to control (more foreigners and more wars) but instead they spent the time attacking him and his voters.
The political elites are dangerously stupid.
Trump will drag us all to defeat. Here’s the latest betting odds: https://electionbettingodds.com/PresidentialParty2024.html
RE: The GOP presidential race is over, can we all agree on that? Spoiler alert: Trump won. It wasn’t even close.
It’s not the GOP race that concerns me, it’s the ACTUAL presidential elections. I fear a repeat of the anomalies of 2020 and even 2022.
Like most conservative media, they just go where the clicks are
That's why the polling is so cooked, to give Republican primary voters the confidence to nominate Trump thinking he's a sure winner. FReepers, who never believed a poll in their lives, are eating these numbers up!
That's why there's a big push to get DeSantis to drop out now, before Iowa shows us exactly how accurate the polling is.
How much did you win when Hillary beat Trump?
In the radio biz, Howie is pretty much known as a douche.
He isn’t wrong here…but that doesn’t change what he is.
You just hit a home run! I don’t understand why the current love affair with polls. The memory of getting burned by polling is extremely short.
I don’t know if Trump wins, but I do know that if Trump is screwed out of the Nomination, either by the RNC, NeverTrumpers, Operatives here, judges, or Democrats...whoever replaces Trump at the top of the ticket will end up as a footnote.
...and that is because a huge chunk of Trump’s support base will go to RFK Jr., to ‘send a message’. So it will be RFK Jr. or the Democrat taking the White House, and by a landslide, at least over any Republican.
Only 400 days till Election Day.
Yeah when every national institution, agency and the majority of the federal gov is in the hands of Marxists it’s very difficult to win elections.
Yeah when every national institution, agency and the majority of the federal gov is in the hands of Marxists it’s very difficult to win elections.
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sad to say you are correct
even if Trump wins the general
he is just a speed bump on the road to tyranny
And Trump hasn't won anything since.
If DJT's "five months or less" statement is considered, could be 150 days (or less).
The Charo-sounding debate panelist.....a Colombian leftist.....
was imported from the border to ask some “sounds-like-latino” questions.
Her most memorable question?
“Why have you fleeped?”
bkmk
i made a fortune betting on trump in 2016 when the odds were two to one against him ...
Yes but the number of DeSantis threads make it look like some are scared that DeSantis may somehow get it. 40 threads on DeSantis is not a look that people are comfortable with the primary.
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