GOP INSIDERS: TRUMP WILL BE OUT BEFORE IOWA
Iowa Begins!
GOP Insiders: "Wha...? He's still here?!"
Posted on 07/31/2015 2:53:34 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A new National Journal survey of “Republican insiders” finds that 57 percent of these political professionals think Donald Trump will bow out of the Presidential race before the Iowa Caucuses. This survey probably says more about the state of the Republican political class than anything about the 2016 race or Republican voters.
Interestingly, 65 percent of “Democrat insiders” believe Trump will compete in the Iowa Caucuses in February next year.
The survey results could easily be dismissed as both groups answering what they hope will happen. Some Republican campaign professionals offered comments beyond the question:
“No meteor or political candidate burns that brightly and survives very long.”
“Unscripted, he will crash and burn by Thanksgiving.”
“Flavor of the month.”
“Campaign will probably die of a self-inflicted wound.”
The easiest political prediction to make is that the Trump campaign will implode after some impolitic remark. To date, though, that hasn’t been the case, despite a full-throttled assault by the media and DC’s political class.
Trump currently leads all national polling in the race. His lead has apparently increased even after he made off-the-cuff remarks criticizing Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)43% ’s war record. That he has gained support after those remarks should be a sobering wake-up call to the political class.
Peggy Noonan, the Republican establishment’s Greek chorus, has woken up to the realization that the Trump phenomenon — and it is exactly that — is real. She understands something the political class doesn’t:
His rise is not due to his supporters’ anger at government. It is a gesture of contempt for government, for the men and women in Congress, the White House, the agencies.
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HaHaHa...Last week he would be out before school starts.
What happened folks?
GOPe is in bigger panic mode than we know.
Donald Derangement Syndrome number? LoL.
There are not enough fingies and toesies to cross among em...
It’s all about Jebbie birthright.
Yes he will ....................Be way OUT front
Boner and Ditch have only a few months left to start doing the will of The People before Palin, who now sits on Trump’s GOPee Death Panel, renders thumbs down judgement.
Who of us can predict the future?
Trump may or may not be out by Iowa.
However, the issues he has raised will not fade.
Are London bookies covering this, I know where I would put a few shekels.
It sure looks as if the GOP has disintegrated into a weak sister.
Noonan jumping ship from her Washington cronies? Too late, Peggy. Two votes for Obama count you out.
It wouldn’t surprise me to see him out by then. On the other hand, given the GOP insiders’ track record, it wouldn’t surprise me to see him do well in Iowa. In either case, Trump will not follow the GOP insiders’ script.
This quote of Peggy Noonan's actually rings true. I do feel contempt for them all.
That’s funny right there.
Last month he wasn’t going to release his financial statement on time.
His rise is also a gesture of contempt for the very “political professionals” who responded so dismissively to the poll. har har dee har har!
gopE doin what they do best. Suckin the life out of actual conservative.
Guess that’s why he’s leading in the latest poll, up over 10 over Walker.
Feh.
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