Stump trump. I don't think so, Tim.
Posted on 01/08/2016 9:58:52 AM PST by xzins
GOP leaders increasingly see South Carolina as their last best chance to stop Donald Trump's populist political juggernaut.
On Wednesday, influential South Carolina Republican Katon Dawson issued a plea for former President George W. Bush to step into the ring in the Palmetto State's Feb. 20 primary. Bush is quite popular among South Carolina Republicans, and Dawson called his involvement a potential "game changer."
"If {George W. Bush} engages, it will matter for his brother {Jeb Bush}, but really, it will matter for the entire team," Dawson told Bloomberg News.
The Palmetto State appears uniquely positioned this cycle. While it follows Iowa and New Hampshire on the primary calendar, but is already drawing intense attention from candidates and pundits alike.
The pro-Jeb Bush Right to Rise PAC recently announced a $4 million TV ad buy in South Carolina.
On Tuesday, Rubio's Conservative Solutions PAC unveiled its first TV ad there, touting the Florida senator's strong support for the U.S. military. The dollar value of that ad buy was not announced.
owery, the conservative InsiderAdvantage pollster, says it's obvious the GOP establishment won't be doing Trump any favors.
"The establishment Republican Party -- most of whom I know well, and I'm not putting them down -- but they make their bread and butter out of controlling people, or at least being hired to help them package themselves.
"So far, Trump has basically thumbed his nose at all of them and doesn't need them," he adds. "So of course they're all going to band together -- because this is their last stand."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Trump will blow through their silly ‘’firewall’ several times over.
Yeah, he wasn't quite Al Gore, and he wasn't quite John Kerry. Other than that...
...I'm trying to remember what he did domestically that wasn't a cave to libs or special interests.
+1,000
First degree my kid got in the USAF was Business. She has a few technical certs in some specialized aircraft stuff. She got snapped up fairly quick when she left the service because of it and a year later is in the process of a Lockheed interview process. It definitely matters to have something technical or marketable.
Philosophy on it’s own, I think is worthless for job prospects unless you have a tenured position waiting for you. But how it teaches you to think gives such an edge. A lot of people simply cannot do abstraction. And abstraction is by definition ‘out of the box’ thinking. A valuable quality in any endeavor.
Speaking as a Cruzer, yes he will. Because the whole of the GOP machine is hidebound at best. They are nowhere near adaptable enough to deal with a guy like DT. Or Ted for that matter. Or are they smart enough.
Cunning yes. Manipulative yes. But effectively only against those who play by their rules.
Stump trump. I don't think so, Tim.
Tickets to see Donald Trump at Winthrop Coliseum Friday night are sold out, according to the GOP presidential candidate’s event website.
Winthrop University says the coliseum seats more than 6,000 people and there won’t be an empty seat at Trump’s Rock Hill rally.
Be sure to study Vattel and Blaise pascal, both geniuses.
NewsMax really knows how to pavlov a reaction out of the trumpoids. It’s really not much of a grand conspiracy against The Donald when a candidate’s brother gives a speech for him.
And they’ll be use the best munitions the Acme Dynamite Company can provide. But fear not that will blow up in their faces as well.
And they’ll be use the best munitions the Acme Dynamite Company can provide. But fear not that will blow up in their faces as well.
On December 12, I posted this about Republican voter fraud:
As funny as that sounds, it may be the only way to stop Trump. Make the voter fraud so yuge and obvious as to throw the entire election in doubt. Then have Congress declare that the 22nd amendment failure to qualify clause is in force and throw the election to the House to decide. Messy, but arguable.
Republicans don't need to out-fraud Democrats to beat them; they only need to fraud the vote enough to throw the honesty of the election into doubt.
-PJ
“I think all of this will backfire big time!”
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Not for Hillary! Trump is likely to bolt to third party, consequently helping her thighness. But he might just play it out as a Republican, with him anything is possible. And he might still win, even bigger.
Anyone who will look at this thing realistically knows that the GOP contest is pretty much down to Trump vs. Cruz at this point.
Rubio, Carson and possibly Cristie have the opportunity to be factors, but that is pretty much it at this point.
You are absolutely correct. Sadly, philosophy has given way to “pre-canned” or “boxed” indoctrination. People in general are too lazy to think for themselves and consequently have no skills at abstraction.
From Predict - looks like Cruz took a hit after NBA
Donald Trump 33
Marco Rubio 30
Ted Cruz 27
https://www.predictit.org/Market/1233/Who-will-win-the-2016-Republican-presidential-nomination
This is one of the most stupid ideas I’ve seen from them. If this is true they are even more dense then they already appear. South Carolina is one of Trump’s strongest states. He’s at 38% +15. Anyone who thinks that GW Bush is going to change that needs to have their brain evaluated. Also if they are serious about trying to stop Trump they need to pull some of the GOP-E candidates aside and get them to drop out. There is no reason for Kasich to still be in the race nor Jeb. They are losers and nothing they will say or do will get the base to embrace them. If they stay in through the SEC primary then Trump will be the nominee unless something happens and he under performs in Iowa and New Hampshire. If Trump wins both Iowa and New Hampshire he’s going to win South Carolina without a doubt and after that the die will have been cast.
It’s pretty sad to realize that (with some exceptions of course) GenX, who grew up on Heavy metal, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Freddie Kruger, art the last generation as a whole, capable of thinking independently. But it appears to be true. Not that we were a bunch of Platos ourselves.
I don’t blame millenials for their circumstance per se. They can only go with what they were taught. GIGO. Very few seem to break their programming because they don’t have the tools to do so.
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