Posted on 02/02/2016 10:49:53 AM PST by nathanbedford
Like a downfield receiver who turns to run before securing the ball and muffs the catch, Trump turned his eye to the general election and began to run toward the middle and so he muffed the election in Iowa.
Trump believed the polls, he thought he had Iowa in the bag, he was counting on New Hampshire and almost immediately thereafter South Carolina; he thought he was unstoppable all the way to the nomination. All candidates by necessity project confidence in their ultimate victory but Trump went beyond that, in describing his upcoming tenure in the Oval Office he assumed he had already won the election. His narcissism kicked into high gear.
Like all narcissists he abandoned his friends and betrayed his supporters immediately it was more profitable to seduce a new group of potential friends, supporters and voters.
So Trump began to run toward the middle. He told us what great people Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were. He had praise for Mitch McConnell. He told us how he could "make deals" with all of them. He flirted with single-payer healthcare. He became less definite on immigration. Trump attacked Cruz from the left on the issue of biofuels in Iowa thus betraying an unseemly eagerness to pander. Trump demonstrated that as president his dalliances with big government crony capitalism would not stop, he would simply be playing the same game from the other side of the table.
The candidate who had achieved front runner status by pretending to champion the cause of disenfranchised conservatives against the GOPe/unitary party abandoned those who had supported him as the new Messiah to pander after a new pool of voters in the broader, richer, land of crony capitalism and government largess.
In short, Donald Trump unwittingly betrayed the kind of president he would be if elected, he would not be loyal to any conservative principles, he would not be loyal to the Republican Party, he would not be faithful to any cause except the advancement of Donald Trump. He did it because his ego told him he could get away with it because he believed he had already won the nomination and because it advanced, he thought, the fortunes of Donald Trump.
You can’t run a campaign from 30,000 above the ground and hit and run speeches. Sorry, It actually takes some effort and a ground game.
I don’t know man. The polls went back and forth. And he got 7 votes. I’m voting for Ted but I don’t see yesterday as doing much for anyone except Rubio which concerns me
BS
Kasich dropped the ball. Fiorino dropped the ball. Huckabee dropped the ball, Santorum dropped the ball. Jeb dropped the ball! Christi dropped the ball. Get the drift bucko?
Polls don’t track cell phone users very well from what I hear.
The younger conservatives I know use only cell phones and lean heavily to Cruz and Paul.
Poor guy got 45,000 votes and 2nd place. Why are we feeling sorry for him. That is great considering he didn’t go to all 99 counties and really didn’t spend much time in Iowa. I think he did great under the circumstances. It was a better bang for his buck compared to Cruz who spend 2 years and huge amounts of money for 4 percent win. I don’t think this does much of anything in regards to the nomination except Trump needs to make up that 1 delegate deficit which he probably will in New Hampshire.
Some of them were never really in the game.
If the media elite build up expectations and they are not met by reality, why blame the candidate? There is a distinct probablility that our news is engineered. They are called editors for a reason.
Yep, it's the old GOP-e two step:
Split the conservative vote.
Run the RINO up the middle.
One of these days us on the right will learn to avoid the circular firing squads and keep the debates and exchanges on the high road. The GOP-e wants us duking it out in the mud.
He must of underestimated the IQ of those corn growing hay-seeds. he offered them ethanol $$$ at our expense and they spurned him.
Now when he gets in the WH he will kill ethanol to teach them a lesson.
Fortunately NY appreciates him.
Trump personally sent his private helicopter to the the top of the world Trade Center to rescue those folks while the Mussies in NJ were chanting ‘Die American Pigs Die’
At least in Trump-world....
Then why did Republicans allowed it? Cause the pared off votes, that’s why. Democrat Party is smarter.
The guy got damn close to winning that way and I think this will be a wake up call for NH. I don’t expect Trump to make the same mistake twice. I know Cruz set up a great ground game in IA (learned his lessons well in Texas) and I hope he has done the same in NH or Trump will eat his lunch.
We're not even supposed to touch the ball (unless we're goalies) so how can anyone drop the ball?
Trump could have spent another month there, he wasn’t beating Cruz.
And Cruz is most likely to pick up votes after the Rino candidates drop out.
that’s why I am preaching like Robert Duvall today on the threads. We’re going to lose and trump and Ted will come in second and third. And that will do a lot of good for both of us...s
TO Donald trump,
To use your own words “ Your Fired”
We shall see. We shall see. Kate Smith not even on the bench yet.
He leaves Iowa with one less delegate than Cruz, and will be ahead of him in one week.
I can’t wait for the editorials calling Cruz a loser and that he needs to leave the race.
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