Posted on 02/24/2016 12:09:03 PM PST by Hojczyk
And so we are now being treated to a wave of Donald Trump fatalism. Yes, he's defied expectations in a pretty remarkable way. Yes, he's won three of the first four GOP contests. Yes, he's ahead in the polls in the states coming up. Yes, he has an easier path to victory than any other candidate.
But only four states about 1.2 million people have actually cast ballots. Trump has won about a third of the votes cast; Cruz and Rubio have each won a bit over a fifth. Trump leads in delegates with 79 out of the 110 selected less than seven percent of those he needs to win the nomination. He trails Cruz in the biggest of the Super Tuesday states, Texas, and while Trump will almost certainly take the most delegates on March 1, it's unclear whether he'll win more like half or two-thirds of them. Even if he wins two-thirds, the March 15 winner-take-all states of Ohio, Florida, and Illinois will be fiercely contested.
And this is all before further debates, before any sustained television advertising assault on Trump, while the other candidates are still (foolishly) sniping at each other instead of taking on Trump. And in a circumstance where the frontrunner has unusual vulnerabilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Bargaining stage.
Compared to Rubio?
Compared to Cruz?
There’s no intelligent argument there
People are so silly to think that a man who created all that he has, on an education and discipline from Wharton, a multi billion dollar fortune, and everything since, including being and remaining so high in the polls, can be gained by inheriting money from ones father thirty years prior, but that is just silly
Silly
Thanks very much, DoughtyOne!
These 2 month + FReepathons are ridiculous and shameful.
Were every regular user to donate $20.00 EVERY FReepathon would be over and done within a matter of DAYS, not even WEEKS!
As it is, ONLY .03 - .05 percent (3% - 5%) actually Donate.
Utterly shameful.
People are procrastinators. They put things off.
They’ve become accustomed to seeing the Freepathons go for 2.5 months. They reason they have time.
That needs to stop at this point.
It’s time to finish it off so we can have a break before the next one.
Glad to help out. I value the forum quite a bit.
Undisciplined jerks would never win a presidential primary, much less three of them in a row, with double-digit leads.
Recheck your math.
He already has...that's how this article was produced!
Bill Kristol could be productively fed into a plastic shredder. This guy is a flaming turd who should have been laughed out of his position a decade ago. He’s basically a Karl Rove of conservatism.
No, Trump has no self-control. He's erratic and acts on his irrational instincts. He does not have presidential timbre. He is as undisciplined as a 4th grader.
Your "silly" statement about his popularity (...high in the polls...) - Do you seriously think that a huge following makes something right or even good? Really?
TTTIT.
I have to add Jonah Goldberg and Steven Hayes into that little club of denial bots. LOL!
“Hiro Onoda - Onoda Hiro?, March 19, 1922 - January 16, 2014) was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and a Japanese holdout who did not surrender in 1945.
After Onoda spent nearly 30 years holding out in the Philippines, his former commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty in 1974.[1][2] He held the rank of second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army.”
Bill Kristol - the last holdout...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
FRiend, I don’t know what area of FR you’ve been roaming around, but if you haven’t seen the persistent attacks, rage, irrational rants and bombast directed by Cruz supporters at Trump, I gently suggest you need to check out this week’s specials at your local Pearle Vision Center.
Hostile comments directed at Cruz by Trump supporters are in the majority of cases, appropriate and proportional responses to the toxic attacks spewed out by Cruz fanatics 24 hours a day.
I would still vote for Cruz if he were to somehow prevail and secure the nomination, but unfortunately for Cruz, that isn’t going to happen.
Pretty cool vid. Thanks
So now it’s Krystal along with Levin, Rush, Beck and countless others being thrown under the bus that Freepers once respected....no doubt there will be more added.
I will only vote for Trump pending on who he announces as potential cabinet members.....and that’s more than a stretch at this point. Will have to see if he even wins the nomination...I vote Cruz.
Show me where I’ve thrown either Rush or Levin under the bus? I respect and admire both and I listen to their programs. I’ve had several disagreements with Levin but I love him nonetheless.
I long ago gave up on Kristol (at least I know how to spell his name) because he always picks the wrong candidates and is often mistaken on the issues. Beck I’ve never respected; he’s insane.
Pick on someone else, caw; you, as always, don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
The last stand for the Trotskyite commie traitor Bill Kristol.
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