Posted on 12/12/2015 3:04:41 PM PST by VinL
Here is the link to the above satirical article written in 2013 but which still has currency:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-kornbluth/a-fantasy-the-ceo-of-gold_b_4060796.html
You see what I mean by Cruz being vulnerable to all kinds of blackmail? Not so the Trumpster.
Republican winers of Iowa primary
2012 - Rick Santorum (25%), Mitt Romney (25%), Ron Paul (21%), Newt Gingrich (13%), Rick Perry (10%), Michele Bachmann (5%), and Jon Huntsman (0.6%)[14]
2008 – Mike Huckabee (34%), Mitt Romney (25%), Fred Thompson (13%), John McCain (13%), Ron Paul (10%), Rudy Giuliani (4%), and Duncan Hunter (1%)
2004 – George W. Bush (unopposed)
2000 – George W. Bush (41%), Steve Forbes (31%), Alan Keyes (14%), Gary Bauer (9%), John McCain (5%), and Orrin Hatch (1%)
1996 – Bob Dole (26%), Pat Buchanan (23%), Lamar Alexander (18%), Steve Forbes (10%), Phil Gramm (9%), Alan Keyes (7%), Richard Lugar (4%), and Morry Taylor (1%)
1992 – George H. W. Bush (unopposed)
1988 – Bob Dole (37%), Pat Robertson (25%), George H. W. Bush (19%), Jack Kemp (11%), and Pete DuPont (7%)
1984 – Ronald Reagan (unopposed)
1980 – George H. W. Bush (32%), Ronald Reagan (30%), Howard Baker (15%), John Connally (9%), Phil Crane (7%), John B. Anderson (4%), and Bob Dole (2%)
1976 – Gerald Ford (45%) and Ronald Reagan (43%)
I’m sure they love the Rats every time they increase the food stamps program.
I never thought Trump would even be close in Iowa.. We’ll see.
Scoll down to the bottom the poll for some interesting comparison of the candidates with regards to abilities, etc.
more here:
https://www.scribd.com/embeds/293112953/content
Yes. Really strange internals.
If Trump leads in those top five questions, how can someone else be in the lead? That makes no sense.
Those five questions are the biggest issues of the campaign.
The Des Moines Register is a lieing rag. It is to be put down for cats to poop on. This poll id totally made up. Yesterdat Trump was ahead by 17 points by CNN— What changed. Cruz is against Ethonol!! This poll is a fabrication of imagination.
Yeah, but Cruz did wake up in a Holiday Inn last night, so he has that going for him.
I don’t think any of the candidates would be wise to go with the how I run my campaign shows how I will do as president gambit, because then it highlights just how Mr. Trump has run his campaign. He has spent $300,000 to $400,000, I think, whereas the other candidates have spent millions. Might be best for the rest of them to just not go there.
Cue Trump comments on how the Iowa voters would be “stupid” to support Cruz.
Hard to believe.
Craig Robinson knows all about Iowa - and he rejects this phony poll.
Trump has commanding leads on the issues but the poll has Cruz in lead? This is RNC activism.
Certainly, you’re right. The poll is obviously a “fabrication of imagination.” I’ll wait for the next Reuters poll.
Funny how most of the national polls have Cruz doing better than Trump against Clinton. So double Hoooray!
Trump leads Iowa by 13 in CNN poll. And CNN didn’t call for Trump to drop out of the race
In first plus second choices Cruz is at 51, a majority of those polled! Trump is at 35, Carson 27, Rubio 24. The other notable odd things in the poll were that Jeb’s numbers for first actually went up from their prior poll, all the way from 5 to 6. Carly was tied with Santorum at 1 and Christie with Huckabee at 3 with Kasich between at 2.
I’d love to see a real fight between a strong POTUS and the bucket of maggoty horsed dung that is Congress. Shoot at their feet all day with executive orders, shut down targeted pork pipelines. Make ‘em work.
LMBO
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