Posted on 08/03/2016 2:09:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: Now, back to Bill Hemmer's question earlier today on Fox. He was talking to Karl Rove, and he said (summarized), "Karl, what if everything we think we know and understand about politics is wrong this year? What if every way we look at it is not at all correct? What if what's going on out there," meaning in America, "is so foreign, and so different, and so unique that the ways we...?" He really meant Rove and the whole Washington establishment political apparatus.
"What if the way you look and analyze things, you can't possibly predict or poll it because you don't know what is animating people. You don't know what's driving them. You don't know..." In other words, the normal things that you would think would make a candidate stronger don't even apply. That was the essence of the question. Look at this. There were a couple of primary election days yesterday. One was in Missouri, and there was one in Kansas, and a Never Trumpist -- an ardent Never Trumpist -- lost.
Tim Huelskamp, who was a rabidly anti-Trump incumbent (many thought of him as a Tea Party Republican) got skunked in the primary. He was defeated by somebody named Roger Marshall. And it wasn't even close. It was a 12-point landslide defeat for an incumbent Republican who went big on being a Never Trumper. Tim Huelskamp, Republican incumbent, got 44% of the vote. Roger Marshall -- and this was with all the votes counted, 100% of the precincts reporting -- got 56% of the vote.
Now, I wouldn't say that this is along the lines of Eric Cantor losing, but I will venture to say that this has stunned and shocked a lot of people in the Republican Party in Washington.
Nothing against Huelskamp here. That's not my point here. I'm just pointing out that a relative unknown in a Republican primary ran against somebody on the basis that he loved Trump. He liked Trump, he wants Trump, and he's running against an incumbent who's making a big deal out of being a Never Trumper. And the Never Trumper lost in a landslide. It's just one state. Could be an outlier; we don't know. There haven't enough of these primaries to know so we can't draw any conclusions from it, but it does raise eyebrows out there within the elite circles of the elite.
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That would only hold true if the RATs calculate that they would win the House, which is unlikely. No, they'd want to keep Ryan - he's the best thing that ever happened to their agenda.
what was the polls before the election?
Look how Ryan has treated veterans across all states! He lives in a walled mansion but won’t let all Americans be protected from invasion like his family is. Sorry his election affects us all. Go Nehlen!
Well, imagine that!
We, the people, have been communicating to a deaf Republican establishment our expectations and desires for decades now. After refusing to listen to us for so long, the establishment should not be surprised that support for a man who DOES listen to us is so strong.
Ironically, the establishment seems to have turned against us because they thought they would get more power that way. Yet, if they had listened to us, they would have had as much power and influence as they could want. But they wouldn’t listen, and we no longer want them.
He’s not a never Trump, he endorsed Trump last month.
The winner is a RINO who will serve Kansas poorly. This was part of a jihad against conservatives by Kansas RINOs, it has nothing to do with Trump. Horrible horrible result.
Thanks for that. It warmed my Heart. Lol.
GO TRUMP
“Both candidates made it clear they support Trump and vehemently oppose Clinton. But they offered contrasting approaches to a Trump presidency.
“Marshall: “I will support the president and work with him to get things done.”
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article86352772.html#storylink=cpy
This is hilarious...you do understand Huelskamp was very conservative. His only son amongst the populists was that he was never Trump. Sad really because his opponent a Chicago liberal was backed and bankrolled by the US chamber of commerce.
So ya...ya I say! Damn that never Trumper! I want that US chamber guy
Yeah, it is hilarious. These SOBs in Congress have sat on their asses and watched this prick in the Blight House destroy the country—unchecked and unchallenged.
May that scumbag Ryan and that rat McCain and other rodent Ayotte follow him.
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