Steve Deace: Trump Is Trolling You

Conservative Review ^ | 12/8/2015 | CR Wire

[parksstp]

You don’t understand how Elections work, do you?

First off:

IA - Big Evangelical State. The polls saying Trump getting 33% are bogus. Evangelicals make up over half of caucus goers and Huckabee got more votes (38,000) than any Caucus candidate in GOP History. For Trump to get 33% he would have to get well over 45,000 votes which is 20,000 more than Romney got both times. The votes aren’t there for him. Cruz, however, WILL beat Huckabee’s 08 total and will probably get close to 40% in the final result. Throw in unpredictable weather in February and the lead wouod grow.

NH - You’re joking right. NH is not a conservative state. If Cruz gets anything close to 20% that’s a win considering Santorum-Gingrich got around 20% well behind Romney, Huntsman, and Paul, all leftists or doves.

SC - This is where Cruz wins if he wins IA, rather easily and the polls will shift dramatically after the first caucus. The reason is Cruz has the ground game to capitalize on his win in IA, something Santorum and Huckabee did not. Santorum’s organization was so weak that it allowed Newt to survive after he gobbled up some of Perry’s network when Perry dropped out before the primary. You can take it to the bank Trump won’t get 35% here. SC will be in the Cruz column.

Other than a contest in NV which Cruz will either win or finish 2nd (depending if Trump is ok losing 2 or all states bfeore this), comes Super Tuesday. If Cruz wins IA & SC like many expect he will be the favorite in all Super Tuesday states except maybe Vermont, Mass, and American Samoa.

Cruz then follows up with wins in LA, MS.

The big test (if Trump is still in it by then) is Michigan. This is the state that if Cruz wins the race will effectively be over.

Michigan will be the do or die state based on it’s place in the calendar.

Oddly enough, every state I mentioned as a VERY strong Cruz presence, especially Michigan. Cruz would have racked up so many victories before FL and OH that his delegate lead will be far and wide.

Trump doesn’t like to lose anything and I strongly suspect that if he loses IA, he will leave the race and endorse Cruz.

[Isara]

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[joshua c]

His Cruz endorsement wasn’t mentioned in the link? Then it is bad form. It should have been disclosed.

[Albion Wilde]

What crap.

[conservativejoy]

I posted everything that was at the link.

[Poser]

Trump says things in an outrageous way for the purpose of getting free media attention. It works like a charm. He’s running the least expensive successful presidential campaign ever.

[hinckley buzzard]

Steve Deace is apparently stymied by simple truths. The truth is, America has been sold a pig in a poke by both parties for decades. Trump is letting the cat out of the bag and the con-men on all sides fear and hate him for it.

Why should anyone think Trump does not mean what he says? All that is required is to believe that he loves his country and has had enough of the bulls*t peddled by the likes of Deace.

[hinckley buzzard]

Never read "Conservative Review." A lot less likely to ever begin, after seeing this job.

[CatherineofAragon]

“The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration - and a very effective form of promotion.”

Yep. Sounds very familiar.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Got a problem with people that protect their kids from homo-indoctrination centers called Public School?

[Georgia Girl 2]

“You don’t understand how Elections work, do you?”

Yes actually I do. LOL!

You are running a scenario for Ted Cruz that is not substantiated by anything empirical. Its all emotion. I like Ted but this GOP race is 8 mos or more old and Ted Cruz has not polled well from the Beginning and he’s only marginally better now.

Since I actually do know how elections work let me inform you that historically the average GOP voter is middle of the road or slightly right of center. The same thing goes for the independent voter. Ted Cruz’s problem is not Donald Trump its Ted Cruz. He’s just too conservative for the average GOP voter. Most Republicans are finding Donald Trump a better fit. He is going to run away with the SEC because they are open primaries and the Indies will all vote for Trump. Cruz simply has no chance in SC. So if he wins Iowa he will die in NH and SC and for sure in Fl where he has no real support. After that he will just be the guy who won Iowa and I wouldn’t put money on that happening.

Unless a miracle of unknown origin happens Ted Cruz has no viable path to the nomination.

[Jan_Sobieski]

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[odawg]

“Iowa based conservative talk radio host Steve Deace announced on his radio program today that he is endorsing Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)for the Republican Presidential nomination.”

Well that explains everything. Typical Cruz supporter. The way Cruz supporters support Cruz is to attack Donald Trump.

And, it is amazing that so many Cruz supporters have the divine prerogative to look deeply into Trump’s innermost heart life and read it like it is a billboard.

[Duchess47]

Funny how that works isn’t it? I’ve started looking up the author of a lot of these articles. A lot of them go back to Cruz, one way or another.

[Vision Thing]

Everything Trump says is designed to make Trump president.

what a blockhead.

So according to this so-called genius, a candidate should say things designed NOT to win an election for himself or herself.

whoever hired this guy needs to fire him.

[tenger]

This "trolling". What's this about? The term gets thrown around so much that different people have different definitions for it depending on who or what they like.
Is a troll a bad thing? Seem like it is.
Does a troll have a purpose? Seems like he does. But what? To distract?

So if Deace is saying Trump's trolling us, what does it mean? That we're being played? That we're suckers? That he's got something else up his sleeve? If so, what? I'm confused.

[GraceG]

Even if trump was trolling us.... doesnt his success so far prove that a conservative message is a winning message?

[The Westerner]

Frankly, how many people who've been on FR for a long time take any politician seriously? We can hope that the politician loves the USA, and we can hope they know the difference between a Republic and a democracy. At the best, we'd “trust, but verify” and at the worst, we keep ours eyes open and pay attention. This poster does not grasp the fact that we're a bunch of individuals who think for ourselves, thus argue a lot amongst ourselves, vehemently. This post was insulting. As for myself, I love the way Trump keeps making formerly taboo or politically incorrect topics now wide open for discussion .

[jjotto]

I have more respect for drug dealers who sell crack to children than for anyone who supports in any way the government schools.

[trebb]

There we go again - taking some unknown with an opinion that he can't back up as a sign that there's something nefarious about Trump.

I think Steve Deace is a Hillary or Bush troll who will say anything to insure we don't get a conservative choise come November - I have at least as much proof of that as he has for his comments on Trump - maybe more...