Posted on 01/14/2016 1:17:56 PM PST by conservativejoy
There will be one candidate tonight on stage with 0.0% chance of winning Iowa, 0.0% chance of winning New Hampshire and 100% chance of being an obnoxious jerk. His name is John Kasich. Kasich thinks his road to the White House is through New Hampshire. Sure, according to the RCP average, Kasich is polling in 3rd. But when you dig a little deeper, the picture is not so rosy. Bush's support has doubled in the state, Cruz's support has nearly doubled, Chris Christie is on a meteoric rise according to Frank Luntz and Kasich is still around 20 points behind Trump. Kasich also has the the lowest percent of firmly committed (34%) and totally committed (7%) voters of the field in the Granite state. On top of all of this, Kasich is 7th out of 7 in tonights debate and will be positioned on the far left hand side of the stage.
All of this combined is the perfect storm.
John Kasich is going to be an absolute obnoxious jerk tonight. He is clearly desperate and already has a propensity to talk over moderators and cut off other candidates. This morning Politico reported that the moderators are going to get aggressive, pin candidates down and take control of the debate. The last Fox Business debate was after the disastrous CNBC debate and the moderators took it easy by their own admission. Expect major fireworks tonight between Neil Cavuto/Maria Bartiromo and John Kasich.
The perfect storm is coming.
1% to 2%?
Rand Paul, hardest hit.
Did you hear...Kasich’s dad was a mailman!!!
True
Ninja.
FBN moderators will be throwing all sorts of government accounting economics and budget questions at Trump to make him look out of touch with all the intricate details of running government that Bush and Kasich are so expert in.
I was a mailman, too! Or mail lady. I will let my kids know they should start preparing their campaigns. :)
I agree, and the next person who will come across as chaotic and desperate will be Jeb. Both will be off the stage soon.
J. Kasich does not appear to have all his marbles.
Expect major *lovemaking* tonight between Neil Cavuto/Maria Bartiromo and John Kasich...
Agreed Kasich is there and one can only wonder why.
Christie and Bush too have no chance anywhere.
I think they all go after Rubio, and maybe even Cruz.
Carson is such a nice guy I don’t think he will mix it up.
We hope Cruz doesn’t go after Trump, we like them both.
Tonight is about Finance, and Maria and Neal I hope ask lots of good economic questions. This could be good for Trump since he is the only one who is an expert on economics, he went to the Wharton Business School and was a top student. Trump has written several business books and his deals are studied by many to learn how he wins deals.
If John Kasich goes Postal its because his father was a postal worker. Me I wish it was just Trump, Cruz, Carson and Rubio. The rest don’t interest me.
Christie said he mostly did security issues as prosecutor, he was mostly going after criminals not terrorists.
Christie also has seen several downgrades of his state, is anti gun and the state has the highest taxes.
JEB, is an embarrassment to the family, his stance on illegals, common core and raising money has given him the bought person reputation.
Maria can be the tough school teacher and Cavuto can put a verbal smack down on you that half the dolts won’t even get.
Just this week Cavuto made Pawlenty go jibberjab with a Dr. Evil reference. It was hysterical
FBN moderators will be throwing all sorts of government accounting economics and budget questions at Trump to make him look out of touch with all the intricate details of running government that Bush and Kasich are so expert in.
Simple for Trump, the federal budget, the few Reed allowed to be passed, and the few that McConnell did nothing but pass continuing resolutions giving huge margins of increases to Obama because they lack the stones to shut down the government. The house of Cards is in shambles.
Intricate details of a policy that led to the highest increase of deficits so Trump can just say try it my way I know how to run things.
Understand this Trump has a net worth of $10 Billion but his companies and assets are over 100 billion dollars.
Trump has run assets higher in value than even the Florida budget.
I would so rather see Rand Paul up there than K-Sick.
If Trump really cared about an actual, real DEBATE format with the moderators basically out of the picture, they would probably have that now, because the rest are just status-quo types and Trump has what it takes to actually force these yokels to change their approach.
But Trump doesn’t care about the stupid debate format - he does well in spite of it. Trump is more into DOING than TALKING.
What a refreshing change.
I only watch these ghastly “debates” because Trump is in there.
Initially I had positive views of Paul. Then I discovered he favored amnesty. Still, he used to make some good points. The other day, however, in an interview he babbled silly things. I forgot what it he said, just wondered how he got so wound up over some triviality.
KASICH is the GOPe diversion. Tonight he will try to make JEB look good.
Me too!
Kasic’s 2nd wife is a high-maintenance, nasty piece of work.
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