Posted on 12/20/2015 5:35:51 AM PST by Helicondelta
There's something the chattering classes along the Acela Corridor don't want to say about Donald Trump: He's the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.
For the Republican Party's conservative - in more ways than one - establishment, it's as if admitting that will make it come true. So instead, they squabble over who the "real front-runner is, whether it's Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. Perhaps, the parlor wisdom holds, a dark horse like Chris Christie can overtake the field at the New Hampshire turn.
For the first few months, the Trump deniers - loud on national television, insistent on Twitter and ever-present in the nation's leading print and digital outlets - could be called wishful thinkers. With the primaries just around the corner, as many otherwise smart political analysts keep waiting, aching, for conventional order to be restored, it's time to call them what they are: delusional.
Trump is leading national polls by more than 20 points in a field with more than a dozen candidates.
He's sitting on a double-digit lead in New Hampshire, holds a 20-point edge in South Carolina and runs 27 points ahead of his nearest competitor in Georgia. Though he's probably going to lose Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucus to Cruz, who's leading in the polls there, Trump could finish a strong second.
He's first or near it in Nevada, Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Missouri and Ohio. He's in the lead in nearly every state that has been polled. All those leads have held up after a dozen predicted collapses.
To anyone looking honestly at the hard numbers, Trump's lead in the Republican primary looks a lot like Hillary Clinton's in the Democratic primary. And no one is debating who will "really win" on the Democratic side.
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I’m going for the brass ring. That would be Cruz.
Right you are. And what really bothers me is how the GOP just accepts this in the general election debates. The moderators are all - without exception - left of center. Some are far left of center.
You’d think for every leftie moderator, the GOP would insist on someone like Rush or Levin. Wait a minute...we’re talking about the Uniparty GOPe here. Never mind.
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If enough Trump AND Cruz delegates are won and go to the national convention they could DOMINATE the convention, succeed in having Trump or Cruz (the way things look now, it would likely be Trump) as the Presidential candidate. And if our candidate won the Presidential election (which is likely IMHO) constitutional conservatives could begin the process of TAKING OVER the national Republican Party and its offices and its committees. I wish more conservatives would recognize this and NOT LOSE SIGHT OF IT in their zeal for their candidate. The more Trump AND Cruz squeeze out (in primary and caucus votes) the GOPe candidates who are pretending to be conservative, the more likely we can dominate the party.
And that is one reason I have no affiliation with the Grand Old Party.
Please continue to believe this.
Trump won’t get many crossover voters.
Please continue to believe this.
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I will, because I have a preference for fact over fiction.
“Because Trump won’t get many crossover voters.”
The man is a decade old household name in not only the U.S., but also in nearly every developed country on the globe, but won’t get “crossover voters”. Really ?
Good Lord...
He may be the overwhelming favorite of the citizenry but I would still bet on the establishment candidate, either Bush or Rubio. The RNC can outvote 100% of the primary voters if it chooses to and most if not all of the RNC and the gopes would prefer a Democrat president to a Conservative.
Trump will win a large majority of the legitimate vote and there is the rub.
For the short term consideration, I prefer to see Cruz debate Mrs. Bill. I might even go find a TV for that one. In the slightly longer term I want Trump to be the nominee and I want Cruz to be his VP. There you go! Pray for Trump/Cruz vs Sanders/Mrs.Bill.
That is still more likely than a Republican winning the vote count- as opposed to the actual legitimate vote. And then you have to take into account millions of new Democrat Citizens that are being sworn in even as we speculate.
With Soros counting the votes of a number of states out of sight of AMericans, who knows?
Illegals vote legally in California and Chicago, though that will not afect the Electoral College, at least not in Cali.
The Citizenship machine is being ramped up as it was by Mr. Bill in 1996 which sent a couple of million new citizens to the poll to pull the Democrat lever.
In any state whee voter I.D. has not been mandated by state law, any attempt to identify fraudulent voters will be quashed by the DoJ. There will therefore be armies of fraudulent and multiple voters in those states.. If Trump wins the election it will be because he has a 2-1 or better margin of legitimate legal votes.
The GOPe does not want to put the Democrats out of the White house. It would upset their deal with the Ruling Party. The Democrats would then move to actually destroy, physically even, Republicans. Yes, they can do it if the Republican winner is not extremely strong and aggressive from day 1.
The Democrat Party is not merely the politicians we see and hear and identifiable voting blocs and individuals. The Democrat Party IS the government. It is the Agencies, the entire Federal bureaucracy and most of the State bureaucracies. The Federal bureaucracy always works hard to stymie and neutralize anything a non Democrat President tries to do. Civil Service locks the placeholders and embezzlers and petty tyrants into their places. To remove them it is necessary to abolish their agencies and them.
Trump has not indicated yet a willingness to go far enough i.e. deportation of ALL Moslems of any provenance from the country.
She will be nominated if Hussein wants her to be nominated and has a good chance to be assigned a majority of the vote count.
Only rational choice given the realities of the current state of the Separation of Powers is Trump/Cruz.
Two good solid conservative appointments on the USSC will after a certain interval yield one or fewer conservative Justices.
Trump will get 0% of the wetback vote and not much more of the New Citizen vote.
There may be an additional, congruent and constructive approach to battling extreme Mohammedanism... Reform.
Mark Levin seems to think this organization is on the up and up and worthy of support.
Reform movements in Islam have either been killed off by the non-reformed or have devolved into small sects such as the Druze. Any call for reform is patent apostasy and the penalty for that is death. In the meantime orthodox Sunni Islam has been galloping through the Southeast Asian Moslem communities that a few decades ago were truly mostly local pagan with a Moslem veneer with some secular Moslem middle class in the cities like Jakarta. That sort of Islam is being forced into the orthodox mold by traditional orthodox methods.
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