Posted on 12/12/2015 11:05:14 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Ted Cruz has opened up a firm lead over rival Donald Trump in first-in-the-nation state Iowa, 31 to 21, according to a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll released Saturday.
The poll is closely watched by political analysts who consider it a reliable measure of Iowa caucus voters.....
Cruz's ascension represents the largest spike for one candidate between Des Moines Register polls in at least the last five presidential elections.
Though fifth overall, Jeb Bush records the highest negative ratings in the poll, with 54 percent of likely Caucus-goers disapproving of him....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“.....As a long-time listener who has been entertained and informed by Rush’s prodigious “talent on loan from God” for years, this protracted game of footsie with Trump is deeply demoralizing. They’re both hyper-successful Alpha Males and occasional golf partners, so perhaps there’s some personal solidarity and friendship in the mix, but Rush’s calling card has always been the fierce defense of conservative principles. He excoriates “establishment” politicians for ideological deviations and heresies, shreds liberal strawmen, and exposes posers. Trump is a self-serving, unprincipled, unreliable political shape-shifter. He’s a walking, bloviating strawman, habitually arming the Left with ammunition to claim vindication for their cartoonish characterizations of conservatives. And he’s the ultimate conservative poser. He may be pushing the right buttons to suit a segment of the populace’s mood, but he evinces exceedingly tenuous knowledge of issues, and displays little in the way of loyalty to any core convictions beyond, “what benefits Donald J. Trump at this exact moment?” The above quote from Rush’s Tuesday monologue attributes conservative criticisms of Trump to some deep-seated desire to earn “respect and admiration” from the biased mainstream media — the “drive-bys” as Rush calls them, a moniker that is often infuriatingly apt. This is a variation of the tired “Beltway cocktail party” refrain, wherein right-of-center figures deemed insufficiently devoted to the cause are presumed to be in the thrall of coastal elitists. That template isn’t always inaccurate, it must be said, but it’s been overused and abused as a means of impugning motives, rather than engaging arguments.....”
It looks like a LOT of FReepers are excited with this development.
Well, thank God, you are singlehandedly, saving your owness, from the United States of America.
Where, We the People vote, and jeb,hillary,bernie are given the exit ramp.
The unobstructed path of Sen. Cruz- should at least be acknowledgement, to true conservative values.
Regardless, you continue the snivel, over candidate- not ideals.
Hecky durn, I almost wonder why?
Selzers secret (sauce) is basically proper homework. Can’t knock it.
Under the radar is the ethanol question, at least in the Iowa caucus.
Trump is all in on ethanol subsidies (disagree strongly). and Cruz is against them.
In Iowa this is a major issue.
Trump is trading in practicality, Cruz in altruism.
My brother-in-law farms a massive acreage in north central Iowa. He sells about 2/3 of his corn crop to ethanol suppliers.
He also votes dem every time. It will be interesting.
“........If you read the Federalist Papers, you know that the Founders had a very healthy distrust of un-channeled populism. That’s why we have divided government. That’s why we are a democratic republic. The U.S. Constitution begins with the single most important populist statement in human history, “We the people.” It marked a revolutionary and incandescently wonderful break with the barbarisms - refined and not so-refined - of the past. But the rest of the document is dedicated to finding healthy and principled ways to constrain and channel populism.
Back during the early tea-party days, I often said that “libertarian populism” was the first populist movement, at least since abolition, that I could get behind because it was aimed at overthrowing statism and the arbitrary rule of the administrative state. In truth, there have been other good populisms. The dethroning of aristocracy in Europe was arguably the first flourishing of populism in the modern West, and it was mostly a very good thing. But one only need study the French Revolution to understand that populism can chew through its leash and start eating its own (to use a slightly mixed metaphor). John Lukacs, that great champion of the anti-populist conservative tradition, argued that the Hungarian Revolution was an example of good populism.
But he also understood that fascism and Communism were examples of bad populism. When populism is yoked to a cult of personality, the mob defines success as success for their leader, principle be damned. The leader becomes a repository for resentments, a vehicle for power, both cultural and political. As Willie Stark says to the adoring crowd in All the King’s Men: “Your will is my strength. Your need is my justice.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428408/donald-trump-populism-corruption-conservatism
If Trump wins IA it’s over nomination wise. If Cruz wins who knows. I admire btw guys. I think Trump is far more capable of winning blue dogs (lol) etc. Cruz is probably too religious for a lot of ppl. But hey, spoil of riches for us.
“4. There were rows of empty chairs on Friday night”
Do you have a photograph of that? And not the one from an hour before it started.
GO to that link to read the content.
There is a video.
Not to stray too far from your statement, but ,the GOPe must die. Trump is our last,best hope.
The combination of Trump and Cruz cover all the important categories listed.
Iowa is as exciting as the first game of spring training when the Major league teams play college kids.. And I thought that when Trump was dominating the state.. In the Republican party it has never meant squat.. South Carolina is when the rubber meets the road
Texas is finally in play for a change.
Trumps' old pal Hillary certainly would high-five you on that.
yes good for Texas!
So you are all in with the GOPe?
can you name the only candidate running who says Hillary should be in prison?..
Guy Benson is a fag. No its’true. A real pole smoker.
Do you dream of Reince at night?
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