Posted on 02/03/2016 4:48:53 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Donald Trump normally projects the image of a guy with only one gear: warp drive. But on today's Morning Joe, Trump made an interesting admission, saying that in Iowa, "I sort of went through the motions a little bit." According to Trump, he went less than flat-out in the Hawkeye State because he had been told he couldn't win, until a poll at the very end of the campaign indicated that he could.
Note: there was an odd moment at the very beginning of the phone interview. When Mika Brzezinski began by asking "let's talk about Iowa. What happened?" there was an awkward pause on Trump's end. "O-k-a-a-a-y," he eventually responded. The pause was so strange that Joe Scarborough asked "can you hear us?" Trump said he could hear fine, and the interview went on from there. So . . . was Trump distracted, or might he have been annoyed by Mika's entirely reasonable opening question focusing on his second-place finish in Iowa?
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Yes, that is part of God’s judgment on nations that forget Him. My question is why you think compromising Christians is the key to making things better? It is compromise that has gotten us in the mess we are in now.
There is a steep cost to murdering millions of infants on the altar of human convenience. We only need look historically to the Baal worshipers to be reminded that God’s patience does run its course.
Donald was ill-advised to pursue a birther tactic with a side blow on Cruz being a maniac who couldn’t get along with McConnell.
I detest McConnell. Everything Cruz did to expose McConnell’s complicity in falling in line with funding Obama for everything and McConnell’s duplicity in show votes to make it look like the US Senate was powerless to act was heroic. Donald attacked the heroism of Ted Cruz. This was a huge mistake.
To be sure, the people behind Cruz are greedy and are not at all capable of inspiring Americans to unify to be great again. Ted Cruz is running on a ghost of Ronald Reagan when in fact Donald has the ability to inspire like Reagan.
A winning strategy for Donald against Cruz would be one that is genuine which is that Ted is a good guy who says all the right things but has no experience in actually getting things done. He could hammer it home that a large part of today’s electorate were children and teens when Reagan left office and they never knew or understood why Reagan was so great.
Ted is running on a playbook that is based on Reagan’s second term and not his first term. That’s the key fact for Ted Cruz to understand (he doesn’t get it now) and for Donald to hammer home. Donald hammers it home by pointing out that ‘words’ don’t bind the electorate to you, ‘actions’ do and that would be future actions not past actions. In other words, nobody can repeat Reagan until they’ve been in office for a few years and have made people proud to be Americans again.
Reagan did not get into the White House with ‘words’, he got there because of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, because he was viewed as a hardliner who would not negotiate with terrorists or the Soviets, and because Jimmy Carter was a gross incompetent.
Trump needs to get back on track with his message that he can turn the country around and make Americans be proud again by putting Americans first and that he has the right stuff whereas Ted has the right ‘words’ but not the experience.
Donald also needs to address his past transgressions, not by admission as he did with Marla Maples that it was all just ‘lust’ (it was a mixed up time in his life), nor by apology (which strong leaders are not to do) but by pointing out that in his life he has always strived to make the people that were close to him, who he loved, to make it good for them, to take care of them, not leave them to suffer, to always strive to leave things better than when he first encountered them. This is all true about Donald Trump. It is what sets his transgressions apart from others who are true scoundrels.
Really dude? Picking at nits?
Is this what we need. A President that sort of just goes through the motions?
wait trump had a smaller bible? since when has trump done anything small?
all of carsons votes going to cruz is like hillary winning 6 coin tosses in a row.
There is a YUGE difference between professors and possessors . . . and eventually the possessors realize that the professors are talking the talk, but are far from walking the walk.
Christians that are true to their convictions will continue to be such even if it means that this country implodes. God is simply not mocked, and America is ripe for judgment.
Obama is simply the first act.
“He came in second out of 11.”
There’s a word for that: LOSER.
Not my terminology, Trump’s.
I love the spin how this means nothing. Had Trump won by 1 vote, his supporters would be shouting from the rooftops that the race is OVER, and everybody should just quit now.
8 vs 7 delegates? That’s spin. Cruz won and winners aren’t losers.
Now, the shoe is on the other foot. Iowa was must-win for Cruz, NH is now must-win for Trump. Another loss and the two-time loser will be finished.
“That is true. However I believe Cruz is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Who, then, should a believer vote for?
Serious question.”
Why you would believe that about Cruz? Seriously. He’s the real deal.
>>>Good thing they don’t come across as judgmental and superior.<<<
As you are now?
Christians are faithful, if nothing else. So burn us.
We have RINOS and CINOS . . . so what’s your point?
But Carson’s increase could have been equal to Rubio’s or greater and some polls had Carson at 9%. So an increase of 4% is not totally unreasonable. But these are just numbers aren’t they. We can’t gloss over a despicable act by simply saying it would not have mattered.
Too hard to remove the plank, so you play the martyr. Okay.
Cruz spent 40 days in Iowa since Trump jumped in the race. Trump has spent 29 days in Iowa since then. You really think Trump hasn't had another 11 days of campaigning?
I’m sorry that I was condescending, but why do you want believers to sacrifice their beliefs? We understand that there is a true God Who transcends our puny political process. It is as though many are suggesting that we can improve our lot by putting God in the closet and embracing humanism.
Maybe do, yet many will not.
There still is a moral majority at play in America. They will be gone at some point.
It’s amazing how Cruz and Trump supporters(I’m for Trump) go at each other for causing the caucus results to be so unlike what the polls indicated and what was expected.
Fox News, the political propaganda machine, among others, is laughing itself silly. Rubio, the come from behind(can you guess why?)surprise of the night is what split and brought down the voting averages of both Cruz and Trump. That and the amazing numbers of Democrats who miraculously changed their party affiliation to vote Republican. It’s a pretty safe bet that most of them didn’t vote for Trump or Cruz.
Cruz got the majority of the delegates to mollify the Evangelicals, as is usually the case in Iowa.
Trump got taken down a peg, which was a much desired outcome for many Republicans and Democrats alike.
The preferred candidate of the GOP, Rubio, got a huge and astounding takeoff in the race. Rubio, with the help of his backers, Fox News, who spent the week running up to the caucus exclusively pushing their guy, came from the bottom rungs of the ladder up to third place. He very narrowly missed second.
What amazing results coming out of a “fair” system! It couldn’t have worked out better for the GOP uniparty OR the Democrats if it had been........(gasp) rigged.
I’m just saying that, true to form, most people are looking in the wrong place for the villain. The American voter is up against much more diabolic intrusion than they know. Unless we start being smarter ourselves, it doesn’t really matter who we wind up with as our representatives.
Hence my tagline.
I guess you could look at it that way. But look at the winner of the past several Republican caucuses vs the eventual nominee (which is bold/underlined).
1976 - Reagan 248 precincts vs Ford 264 precincts
1980 - Reagan 29.5% vs GHW Bush 31.6%
1988 - GHW Bush 18.6% vs Dole 37.4%
1996 - Bob Dole 26%
2000 - GW Bush 41%
2008 - Mitt Romney 25.2% vs Huckabee 34.4%
Half of the time, they pick the nominee correctly.
http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/caucus-history-past-years-results/
Trump’s constancy towards wives and principles is identical.
you know what else? I wonder if trump stopped beating his wives before or after he cheated on them?
(point being: Cruz never said anything about Carson leaving the race. His staffers did AFTER a CNN report. When Cruz learned of it, he dealt with it and apologized to Carson...try to be intellectually honest...for once)
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