Posted on 03/04/2016 1:47:01 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
“I want to get to the elephant in the room, and I’m not talking about the Republican Party,” Sean Hannity told a slightly rowdy, tipsy crowd at the CPAC pre-debate party on Thursday night.
The Fox News host had warmed up the audience with his usual mixture of throwing foam footballs into the crowd...And now it was time to get to what truly was the “elephant in the room” on the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference: the extraordinary race for the Republican presidential primary.
The word Trump was uttered maybe two or three times throughout the opening day of the annual conservative conference, as though the ongoing presidential race was merely a fictional subplot on a TBS political drama.
“How many of you here support Ted Cruz?” Hannity asked. Loud cheers erupted from the conservative crowd.
“How many of you here support Donald Trump?” An extraordinary wave of boos arose.
“How many of you like Marco Rubio?” Mostly cheers, some boos mixed in.
“How many of you in this room want John Kasich to win?” A prevailing sense of indifference, tilting toward boos.
“I would say, in this order: Cruz, Trump, Rubio, Kasich, right?” The wrongness of that brought itself some boos, but Hannity moved on.
Sean Hannity is a Trump … what’s the word here ... shill. Near the end of Hannity’s warmup spiel—after he said he wished Mitt Romney were “as strong against Barack Hussein Obama as he was today” against Trump—he asked the crowd to stand up and pledge to support the Republican nominee for president, even if it’s Trump. Most of the crowd did. But they sure didn’t like the guy at all once the debate began......
CPAC gave Cruz the first standing ovation of the night. Here, he was the winner of the debate by a landslide...
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Trump voter?? You might want to look a bit more carefully.
Okay, so people don’t like your candidate...
Therefore they’re stupid.
...hmm, where have I heard THAT logic before.
Sorry. It looked like a Trump voter. :-)
Don stayed away from CPAC cause he knew he was gonna get creamed in their straw poll, which he was.
40% Cruz
30% Rubio
15% Trump
8% Gay’s Itch
2% Carson
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