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.
Noting that I will vote for Trump or Cruz, Trump explained in his concession speech that his advisors told him not to bother campaigning in Iowa and that he was happy to come in second (my words).
Regarding the polls, I have now seen a bit of evidence that Iowa politics may be controlled by the bully pulpit, Iowans possibly telling the pollsters what they perceived that the pollsters wanted to hear.
I am glad that Trump got burned by the faulty poll numbers because Trump learns from his mistakes.
is NH proportionate? why are they all different?
Some of them were never really in the game.
True. Of all the candidates last night, the biggest shock to me was Rand Paul. I can’t believe he only got 5 percent. I thought he was a big college guy with the students? I am glad but just surprised he ended up so low.
rubio’s strong showing?
he came in third!!
Trump didn’t even try that hard for Iowa and came in second and Cruz came in first!!
they are going to GO GUNG HO with rubio.
Its amazing the muzzies didn't head for the Trump Tower instead!
To really cripple America's spirit.
His supporters all said dropping pot of the debate and picking a fight with a woman was genius.
They were wrong.
Imagine. A coin toss.
Defines every president in our entire history. Perhaps not a good quality but certainly an indispensable one.
Stickers. You need stickers.
100000000000 percent correct. I was sadden the day Walker dropped out. He would have been excellent. One thing we do have is a wide variety of good Conservative Republicans. Heck we could do Trump/Santorum or Trump/Walker or Trump/Cotton or Trump/Duffy. We really are very lucky. The Democrats have really a very small pool to work with because a good majority of their candidates have been whipped out at the state and federal level. Which is why they have a 68 year old and a 74 year old running and that is it.....Ok O’Malley who is 55 but received .05 last night. Their future is not bright regardless of what they think.
Their lead security guy (Rick Rescorla), was the one of many others I'm sure, went back up to get all staff out but never returned. Rick predicted another attack on the towers after the 1993 bomb blast and had been training all employees to be ready for rapid action in case his prediction came true!
Rick was a great guy and missed by many who loved him dearly for his dedication and now sacrifice. Numbers of dead in MS would have been much larger had Rick not prepared his chargees for a speedy evacuation!
You can forgive me for not knowing of Trump's involvement as we were concerned about our many friends there at the time!
RE:”You can forgive me for not knowing of Trump’s involvement as we were concerned about our many friends there at the time! “
:)
Great story!
they are going to GO GUNG HO with rubio.
They are because they want a youthful candidate because if you look at every Presidential election, the younger one wins at least lately. We can’t have an old Trump or Cruz going against an old Bernie and Hillary and win. We need youth at least according to the media.
We were all shocked, scared and angered.
We were all Americans - and thought we'd be forever friends. Liberals, of course, could only pretend to pull together for the sake of the memory of the lost.
Sorry the unity of spirit lasted such a short time!
Which leads me to believe that Trump being up by 20 points in NH is more crap. Trump will win NH only because it will be there that Cruz and Rubio split the vote. In the NE, Rubio is a conservative.
Cruz and Rubio are practically the same age Ted’s ONE year older.
but i know. Marco is better looking and younger looking
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