Yup, we are here to caucus for Trump... I brung a few friends along...
Hey guys! I told ya we shoulda brought foldin chairs!
When does this rucus, er I mean caucus start?
Posted on 01/25/2016 10:03:50 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
FENNIMORE (WKOW) -- Despite polls showing billionaire businessman Donald Trump leading the Republican presidential race in Iowa, Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) feels Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has an edge in the Hawkeye State.
Iowa voters will caucus next Monday night in a race seen as pivotal to Sen. Cruz's chances for the GOP nomination.
In past month, Trump has gone from trailing Sen. Cruz to leading him by six points in an average of recent polls.
But Gov. Walker agrees with many experts who believe Cruz still has an advantage, because of the ground game he's set up in Iowa to make sure his supporters all get out to caucus.
Many believe Trump supporters are less committed to turn out.
Governor Walker, who advised others to follow his lead last September and get out of the race so that Trump could be defeated, still doesn't believe the reality TV star is a lock in Iowa or for the Republican nomination.
"I don't necessarily think the person in the lead represents the majority of the voters," Gov. Walker told 27 News Tuesday. "He may represent a plurality of a big field, but I think things will probably change if the field narrows."
But Gov. Walker said he isn't surprised there has been push back against Cruz from Gov. Terry Branstad (R-Iowa), since Cruz has called for an end to the Renewable Fuel Standard.
The RFS is a federal policy that mandates all gas sold in the U.S. include a certain percentage of biofuels like ethanol.
Ethanol is made with corn, and its production brings in millions to the Iowa economy.
Gov. Walker said he got similar push back for mentioning a plan to phase out that mandate, but feels Cruz is in the right on the issue.
Yup, we are here to caucus for Trump... I brung a few friends along...
Hey guys! I told ya we shoulda brought foldin chairs!
When does this rucus, er I mean caucus start?
Look it up for yourself...lots of people start walking out once he starts to blabbering and insulting.
That’s absolutely true. Everyone stays with their phones out trying to get pics and video. Also trying to get close to Donald who is usually signing autographs for a half our sometimes longer.
Deace is saying the R party there are expecting 300,000+ Caucus goers to show up. Sounds like a mother load of new voters of which the vast majority are the Trump crowd. If its a massive crowd you can bet that it’ll be a good night for Trump.
Freepers have been to many of his rallies and post "after rally reports". And IF you dare say that they are the ones
I believe some Iowans are happy to have a chance to vote on “ethanol.”
There was a survey that put it dead last in a list of 10 things they were concerned about.
Gov. Brandstad’s son is a lobbyist for the corn-ethanol industry - loves those taxpayer subsidies.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/poll-ethanol-not-a-huge-issue-for-iowans/article/2581242
Yes, they did and the Texas parents were up in arms about it!And they were correct to be so angry.
Of course that poster is lying; what else would you expect from him?
Yes he’s lying without a doubt. As if lying will help.
Like I said D.O., Perry never pursued it and it is now an optional vaccination that doctors offer parents.
https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/hivstd/info/hpv/default.shtm
Walker supporters are unlikely to show up
This is from the guy who dropped a 22 point head start in the primary and who s last gasp on exiting was a not so subtle plea to keep Trump from winning at all costs?
Yea, he was my favorite going in.
His bitterness is difficult to hide.
And isn’t it interesting that before Donald Trump got in the race, almost everyone on that list who “hates” Cruz, we would have considered it a badge of honor that such was the case?
Isn’t it interesting that if such a article would be printed about Trump, it would barely be read and immediate labelled a hit piece?
Isn’t it interesting that indeed it probably is a hit piece since they mention some screen writer roommate, but neglect to mention roommate David Panton, who was Cruz’s best man at his wedding and endorsed him for president, in a thread also that can be found last year on Free Republic?
If EVERYONE hated him at Princeton, how, pray tell, did he get elected to University Council at Princeton University, which he says he later chaired, in his book A Time for Truth?
In that same book, if I recall, Cruz himself admits that he was probably, I’ll say, a little too “eager” when working on Bush’s campaign team.
I don’t think Cruz is a perfect person or a perfect candidate... merely the best in this year’s field.
Isn’t jealousy a “lovely” thing?
There ARE, apparently btw, people who can be found who associated with Mr. Trump, either having worked for him in the past or who had some other dealings with him, who hate him as well.
This is all fascinating and frustrating to watch as Donald Trump comes in and does two things.
He successfully divides the conservative or Republican base and turns us against one another.
He drags, ever so slightly and ever so discretely, but bit by bit, his part of the conservative base who have jumped on his bandwagon slightly but increasingly to the left of where you probably all once were. And everyone on that ride leftward goes “Wheeeee!”, being none the wiser. The things the GOPe said we HAD to do as a party, or as a base, moving more toward the middle, Donald is doing that for them, all while screaming about a wall and Muslims so that no one on that bandwagon really notices.
Scott Walker hardly “hid” his opposition to Trump - a position held by many.
Voters going to the polls will tell us more.
Why would you assume so?
What do you mean he never persuade it?
LOL
He certainly did. The legislature stepped in and shot his plan down.
Frankly, I don’t understand why some posters lie, when it is so easy to disprove their spurious posts.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/15/rick-perry-admits-mistake-on-gardasil-hpv-vaccine-decision/
“On his first day on the campaign trail, Texas Gov. Rick Perry admitted he made a mistake on the sole issue some pro-life advocates bring up as a concern despite his sterling pro-life record.
Perry, in a conversation with a New Hampshire voter, walked back his decision to mandate the vaccine Gardasil to 11-year old girls. According to a Politico report, a voter confronted him on the issue - explaining his remorse for the decision and indicating he put an opt-out provision in place allowing parents to decide not to have their young girls receive the vaccine.
Perry explained that, in his zeal to protect children, he went too far.
“I signed an executive order that allowed for an opt-out, but the fact of the matter is I didn’t do my research well enough to understand that we needed to have a substantial conversation with our citizenry,” he said. “I hate cancer. Let me tell you, as a son who has a mother and father who are both cancer survivors.”
“I hate cancer. And this HPV, we were seeing young ladies die at the early age. What we should have done was a program that frankly should have allowed them to opt in, or some type of program like that, but here’s what I learned - when you get too far out in front of the parade they will let you know. And that’s exactly what our legislature did.”
“I made a mistake on that,” Perry told Iowa Radio later in the day Monday, calling it “an error in not having a conversation with the people of the state of Texas.”
“I agreed with their decision. I don’t always get it right, but I darn sure listen,” he said of the legislature responding to his decision.
“One of the things I do pride myself on, I listen. When the electorate says, ‘Hey, that’s not what we want to do,’” Perry told Houston’s ABC affiliate on Monday. “We backed up, took a look at what we did. I understand I work for the people, not the other way around. There was a better way to do that, I realize that now.”....
Trump is NOT the "divider" at all; he is a UNITER !
As to Ted's book, he did lie about some things...or perhaps was lied to about what he wrote. Whose to say that there aren't more lies, therein, that we don't know about...yet.
Yes they did, but sshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....facts only confuse some posters here.
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