KELLY SHAKE HANDS WITH MOORE 
Posted on 01/28/2016 6:20:30 AM PST by xzins
He is ahead in Iowa and up by double-digit margins in New Hampshire and South Carolina, a new poll finds; Democrats could see roller-coaster ride in first contests
Donald Trump is dominating the GOP presidential field in the first three states to vote in the 2016 campaign, including in Iowa where he has extinguished the lead once held by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC/Marist Poll finds.
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I agree completely about Huckabee being a really good guy. I sincerely hope he has a position in the next administration.
Without Trump to take him down Jeb would be set to do well enough in New Hampshire to outlast the also-rans and win the nomination with an average of 30% of the early primary vote. And if Jeb stumbled there was always Rubio or Kasich.
Cruz was always doomed to do terribly outside his evangelical core.
0bama and GOPe will bus in protesters, illegals and maybe throw in a ‘threat crisis’
We’ll see how Trump plays this. He is street smart.
SORRY FOLKS!
My post # 24 is wrong. CSPAN WILL CARRY!
What if Carson wins? :-)
KELLY SHAKE HANDS WITH MOORE
Thanks, this tidbit from you link below:
In Iowa, 61% of likely Republican Iowa caucus-goers with a candidate preference, including 76% of Trump backers but only 58% of Cruz supporters, are strongly committed to their choice of candidate. Three percent of likely Republican caucus-goers are still undecided, and 11% report they might vote differently.
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Here is what Trumpo has now accomplished with the run up to the Iowa vote:
1. All the news is about him and his decision to not attend. He is sucking all of the oxygen ouyt of any reports.
2. The debate tonight is going to be a lot about Trump...in essence they will be debating him when he is not even there.
3. Trump is holding a counter event that CNN will cover and draw viewership away from the Fox debate...and even two of the lower tier candidates have now said they will attend instead of the Fox debate.
Objectively, it is clear Trump is commanding the cycles...all of them, and there is little wonder his numbers continue to hold steady or rise.
One of the reasons that Trump has become my favorite candidate (anybody can check my posting history and see I favored Cruz until last week) is the seeming timidity of Cruz, that he may have a small amount of the Bush fixation to not want to confront the dems.
Cruz is a great debater, a great expositor of conservatism and one of our greatest current senators, he's a good conservative man.
I see his lack of executive experience, and his lack of a record of fighting for something and winning as showing a slight lack of strength.
I'll vote for Cruz if he wins, I like him, but that lack of strength may not be what we need right now.
What do you think? Are we past the point where we can say, “Coincidence; He just keeps getting lucky!”
Or is he actually this masterful at setting the media’s agenda for them?
I switched from Cruz about a month ago because the numbers told me he had waited too long to go on the offensive. I like Trump, but Cruz spoke to the social conservative side of me, to the religious conservative side of me, and his faults I just overlooked.
So, when he was evidently losing, I had to think my way through each of the others, and there really isn’t another America First candidate out there that had a chance to win.
And then Trump took after Hillary and shut her up. That sold me. He could win the nomination, but more importantly he could win the whole thing.
OPPS! That support is going to come to a fast end if Trump gets the nomination - "Some Africans are lazy fools only good at eating, lovemaking and Stealing" - Donald Trump
Hillary (or sanders) is going to have fun with this.
"Americans are very lazy. The best they can do is gallivanting around ghettoes, lamenting how they are discriminated. These are the people America doesn't need. They are the enemies of progress. "
We’ll see how Trump plays this. He is street smart.
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Ever since Citizens United, the people’s interests have been steamrolled by the big money free for all. More money than Donald Trump has. Don’t know if Trump will be enough, seriously.
A very similar observation to mine. I saw a link posted on a thread where Cruz had called the Clinton sex sleaze off limits several weeks before. Watching the media wade in, inadvertently damaging the Clintons after the Trump statement was eye opening.
That's when I came to the conclusion that strength and leadership were strong in one, and weak in the other.
I like them both, but for VERY different reasons. I dislike certain character attributes of both, VERY different kinds of things.
I see his lack of executive experience, and his lack of a record of fighting for something and winning as showing a slight lack of strength.
I’ll vote for Cruz if he wins, I like him, but that lack of strength may not be what we need right now.
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The enemies of the people are diabolical.
Ted Cruz is probably a good guy and a patriot. With a family. And a relatively small net worth.
Cruz is the kinda guy who could get squeezed because he cares about his family and their future. Cruz has stood in the Senate and publicly fought for certain things, but when push came to shove, he just did not strap on a political suicide vest and do that to his family.
I don’t blame him.
Who has been willing to take the heat? Trump. This is Trump’s last hurrah. Both of Trump’s parents are dead, he is a grandfather who sees himself as a guy “on the way out”.
Trump’s family is financially set and the family can manage without him, even if it costs him his life. (Trump wears a bullet proof vest in all of these events) http://www.christiantoday.com/article/donald.trump.beefs.up.security.after.drug.lord.offers.100.m.reward.for.his.head/66993.htm
In Europe free speech is becoming more and more limited. The Europeans are up against a mass invasion and how anyone who fight it is branded a nationalist or a Nazi.
Taking on the globalists is a job for a madman. Trump is that madman.
Charles de Gaulle was a highly regarded political hero of France, but ultimately resigned. These things do not end well for the hero, not ever.
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