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Is Palin the key to victory in Iowa for Trump?
The Greensboro Record ^ | Sunday, January 31, 2016 12:00 | associated press

Posted on 01/31/2016 3:36:21 PM PST by drewh

Edited on 01/31/2016 3:38:09 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Even if Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Republican caucuses do not always pick the winner, they have been known to derail front-runners. Trump knows this. So does Cruz. So do the pundits. And so do Republicans across the country.

Trump could really use a win in Iowa. If he gets it, along with the wins he has a good shot at securing in the ensuing New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries, he could be well on his way to becoming the Republican nominee.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2016election; iowa; palin; trump
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To: Smokin' Joe

No, I pay them. Donate dick.


61 posted on 01/31/2016 5:15:53 PM PST by Eddie01 (If you burnin' bandwidth with your mind, find time to pay the organ grind - Donate to FreeRepublc)
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To: patq; P-Marlowe

Beck stunk up the place. UFOs to the rescue!

A case could be made that Beck derailed Cruz.

I think he shares DNA with Dick Morris


62 posted on 01/31/2016 5:16:21 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: drewh

Trump went up six percentage points in Iowa and Cruz dropped five in the immediate aftermath of Palin’s endorsement. Other factors may have come in to play, but she sure as hell didn’t affect him the way Cruz’s affiliation with the Dying Ember did.


63 posted on 01/31/2016 5:16:55 PM PST by Company Man (Trump shot Fox News in the middle of Fifth Ave.)
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To: mkjessup

Good grief, Ted looks like he’s about to be executed in that picture. I almost feels sorry for the guy. Between Glenn Beck and his dad’s messianic vision of him, it seems like he has lost himself in all of it. It reminds me of the way so many charismatics in Christianity, speak their own prophecies and then try to manipulate God and everything else to get those prophecies fulfilled. Someone needs to remind Ted Cruz that if GOD has ordained that he be president, then he will be our next president. However, if God has not ordained him to be president, then no amount of declarations or prophecies will make him president.

As for Sarah Palin, I love her! And can’t wait to see her campaigning with The Donald tomorrow. I’m so, so proud of her for endorsing him. She is one smart lady.


64 posted on 01/31/2016 5:17:28 PM PST by Southnsoul
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To: Eddie01

Donate what?


65 posted on 01/31/2016 5:17:35 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: daisy12

Cruz isn’t Catholic? But his family is from Cuba - I mean, not many protestants that I know come from Cuba! Come on - Cuba? /s


66 posted on 01/31/2016 5:18:51 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: drewh

She went full Ann Coulter by endorsing Mr Single Payor 2000.


67 posted on 01/31/2016 5:26:49 PM PST by momincombatboots (Trump... The only Democrat who can win. Well played democrats. Mr single payer 2000!? Trump!)
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To: eCSMaster
That was Tina Fey mocking Sarah who said that.

True-fact bump. What Sarah said was, you can see Siberia from Alaska. That's true -- from Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, people can walk across the ice to Big Diomede, which is Russian, and might even (I'm not sure) see the mountains of the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia on a clear day.

Sarah's statement was factual, Tina's was comic hyperbolization of what Sarah said.

68 posted on 01/31/2016 5:31:33 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Bodleian_Girl
She's a high negative for me.

Of course. You took for your screen name a reference to an old, high-snoot library at Oxford. Of course Sarah is a fishwife to you, a know-nothing nobody once lampooned as a moron blundering around with a salmon in her boot. Your character, personality, existence -- the whole package -- is totally invested in snobbery.

Of course you don't respect her; she needs to respect you, right?

Tons and tons of Atlantic-Slope women despise Sarah Palin right down to the ground. I read their blowtorch comments about Palin when Commentary threw the subject up for discussion five years ago this month. The more Mid-Atlantic they are, the more one-foot-still-on-the-boat they are, the less those critics, especially the women, respect, admire, or like "flyover" America and people.

"High negative" yourself. I'm an American. Bite me.

69 posted on 01/31/2016 5:48:55 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: lentulusgracchus

I picked the screen name because I love to read and I love libraries.

Palin has a high negative with me because she’s done a horrible job of raising her kids.


70 posted on 01/31/2016 6:25:06 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Don't be a sheep.)
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To: bobby.223; doldrumsforgop; KC_Lion

Treasured you, bobby.223!

Pay no mind to the catty remarks by the new member, doldrumsforgop.

I think he's merely upset that Governor Sarah Palin endorsed her close friend, Mr. Donald Trump instead of her other close friend, Senator Cruz in this hotly contested GOP presidential primary race.

Dollars to donuts says that doldrumsforgop resides in Texas and that he backs Cruz, so put his ornery remarks in the basket labeled "sour grapes."

:)


71 posted on 01/31/2016 6:27:17 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION TODAY - GO MONTHLY - JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Wouldn't have anything to do with PDS, of course. Her glasses frames (MoDo), her shoes, her voice, her accent, her coming from Nowheresville and getting a bachelorette's degree from Nowhere Special College ..... none of that made a mark, eh?

Well, maybe it was the "package", and oh, by the way, her kids made some crummy choices and her son has PTSD.

Yeah, I can see how that would be off-putting.

72 posted on 01/31/2016 6:39:15 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: lentulusgracchus
Erratum: Six years ago this month. My bad.
73 posted on 01/31/2016 6:42:41 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: LS

Cruz is a Southern Baptist.

Kasich was raised Catholic but he’s now an Anglican.
(I read his book: Every Other Monday)

Rubio was once a Mormon, but now Catholic again.
(In fact, Rubio was also a Baptist at one time)

Trump is a Presbyterian.

Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist.

Christie is a Catholic.

Jeb Bush is a Catholic.


74 posted on 01/31/2016 6:54:06 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION TODAY - GO MONTHLY - JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: lentulusgracchus

She didn’t stay home with her children. They didn’t receive much guidance from her. They’re all big drinkers and partiers. That’s how they live, that’s not how I live.

I don’t really care what kind of glasses she wears and I’ve never even noticed the frames.

But she couldn’t raise her kids right, so no, she isn’t anyone who’s endorsement I’d give any value.


75 posted on 01/31/2016 7:05:35 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Don't be a sheep.)
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To: Fungi

Well sure can’t disagree with that....I was being a bit generous


76 posted on 01/31/2016 7:37:37 PM PST by fingers_crossed
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To: Southnsoul
As for Sarah Palin, I love her! And can't wait to see her campaigning with The Donald tomorrow. I'm so, so proud of her for endorsing him. She is one smart lady.

Yup, can't wait here too. Chris Matthews says he's feeling butterflies. Wait until he see this!

C'mon Donald, make it Official!

77 posted on 01/31/2016 8:09:38 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Southnsoul

You nailed it. Ted looks pained. Lots of things look forced - Beck, some family pics/videos, his flat jokes at the debate, defending indefensible mailers.

I think this guy is cauught between his own ego and what everyone (dad, donors, etc) are expecting him to do.

Who knows? All I know is he is circling the drain.


78 posted on 01/31/2016 8:13:34 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: over3Owithabrain

Which is sad.

He could have been perfectly positioned to be great. Even if he didn’t make it this year, he’d have been able to set up for so many future runs if it worked out and probably won easily.

But something happened. Don’t know if it was sabotage, or the urge to win RIGHT NOW, or the inability to address some of the stupider things he or his campaign has done, but as of tomorrow I suspect Cruz will be in free-fall.

And despite all of my very loud arguments with Cruz supporters on FR, I don’t want to see the man crash and burn.

We’ll see.


79 posted on 01/31/2016 10:23:43 PM PST by Luircin (The difference between lesser evil and greater good is who gets schlonged in the end.)
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To: drewh

I have lot much respect for Palin over the last 7 or 8 years!


80 posted on 01/31/2016 11:15:26 PM PST by longhorn too
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