Posted on 01/11/2016 10:16:13 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Along with the dip in temperature and shortened daylight hours, fall and winter ushered in cooler heads and tempered hearts. And now the new year is a time of getting back to the business of living -- a cold dose of reality filled with managing schedules and cleaning up after the holidays.
Summer, by contrast, is the season of ephemeral pursuits, self-indulgence, and caprice. Donald Trump was meant to be all three. Supporters were going to love him then leave him -- that is, if he didn't dump them first. He would peak then spectacularly fall away, kicking the cat on his way off the national stage. He was supposed to be a blip in the primary process, a marker of how things can go horribly wrong and whose absence releases a deep-welled sigh of relief that all is right with the world again. Yet here we are, and here he is: still standing, still dominating, still tweeting away.
Despite every attempt to undermine Trump's candidacy, nothing seems to shake the man or his poll numbers -- not even his recent announcement about a moratorium on Muslim immigrants. So what's the reason for Trump's continued success? Is he the much-feared Trojan Horse foisted upon the Republican Party by the Svengali of all Svengalis, Bill Clinton? Is he empire-building to further enhance the brand that bears his name? Is he the worst of politicians -- a demagogue playing mercenary with our emotions for a few cheap giggles and grins and gobs and gobs of power? Are we mere dupes in one or more of these games?
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
May God protect Trump and his family!
Yes!
Go Trump
Go Cruz
WTP want the two of yous!
Make America great for all GREAT AMERICANS!]
PING!
Cruz is not going away either at this juncture.
So what’s the point of the thread?
Go Trump!!
Additional Trend Information
Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are locking in their lead among Iowa likely Republican Caucus participants, with Trump at 31 percent and Cruz at 29 percent, while U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida trails with 15 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Dr. Ben Carson has 7 percent, with no other candidate above New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie's 4 percent.
I like Samantha’s answer to why Trump is seeking the presidency: he sees incompetence in DC, especially amongst the GOP, and he believes he is capable of presiding over the country.
It just may be as simple as that.
Whoa. Q-pac is the outfit that first proclaimed Cruz leading Trump in Iowa. Now they see a lead change with Trump on top.
The cruznadians won’t be too happy.
31 percent??? - WOW! When did this happen???
Cruz was ahead!
Go Trump!
Breaking news....
Hot off the press---released TODAY!
Amen to that! May God protect Trump and his family!
What an excellent and perceptive article. Dead on.
“Trump made Trump; Trump can only take Trump out, no one can take Trump out except Trump”....Rush Limbaugh
OK.....
So where is it that I contradicted that....?
I think you just like to read your own posts....lol
It’s not a perceptive article. It’s a common refrain.
There have been dozens of them and they continue to write them as these morons come to the conclusion that the Trump candidacy is serious and real.
I think that was established many months ago.
To claim this is serious journalism with some new take on the election is just another example of the contortions that trump supporters are twisting themselves into.
It is a blatant attempt to attract serious Cruz supporters here to start the usual Trump supporters are idiots meme.
The fact that the title of the thread contains "Trump" is more than sufficient to start a 500 or 600 hundred thread responses.
If the article is favorable to Trump then there will be multiple posts that contain Trump/Cruz even as the Cruzers begin there usual diatribe of hate mongering, never considering they are directly inline with another pundit, frequently described by freepers as an idiot, "Glen Beck."
“Whoa. Q-pac is the outfit that first proclaimed Cruz leading Trump in Iowa”
You Trumpophiles need to get your facts straight....It was the Des Moines Register poll that had Cruz ahead by 8-10.
The last Quinipiac poll in Dec had Trump ahead by 1.
Thank you,itsahoot! That’s exactly how it’s done!
I just don’t know why people are doing this. It’s crazy!
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