Posted on 02/01/2016 3:07:17 PM PST by markomalley
A search shows that nobody's opened up a live thread for tonight's caucuses. So here goes.
Predictions? For both the GOP and Dem nominations?
Eyewitness Accounts? See any funny business going on?
>> I am of the opinion that both her and Bill are demonically possessed.
Oh come on... you believe that some people are actually inhabited by DEMONS??!?
Me too. :-)
satan and his minions are alive and well in Washington.
Barack Obama too. Since birth. Through his daddy’s side of the family.
Yes, the establishment is back in the saddle again but without its beloved Jebbie. Otherwise, pretty much normal for uninformed voters.
“But he has other Big Deals to go on to.”
Not really.
He’s failed at just about everything he’s done.
Except being a professional celebrity in the Kardashian mode.
GFY
LMAO!!!! That’s great!!
"Last Tuesday Rush stopped being fair and balanced and went whole hog for Ted cruz.Rush's brother is a cruz bot and his lawyer mark levin has a daughter who is engaged to a guy that works full time for cruz.
Anyway after doing that crap for all Tuesday Limbaugh comes on to the radio the next day and claims "he is not for any one candidate."
He might as well have slugged us all in the face it was such a blatant lie.
It's been down hill for rush ever since.
Throw in beck supporting cruz since the Donald won't come on his show and you have a huge talk radio clusterfork.
Name the last time a real conservative lost the general election.
This mailer posed to look like an official Iowa state doc is an example of just how slimy a Cruz can get.
Add in he told people Carson was quitting and you have a true slimeball.
About an hour ago Morning Joe bimbo asked Cruz's campaign mgr. about both issues and he couldn't answer either question.
Who had the good sense to get out. First generation Americans make great patriots. There must be plenty who are eligible.
That’s silly. The elites do not have the numbers, and the people will decide among the insurgents. It’s simple math, 38% < 62%.
Oh, I’m backing Trump, but if Cruz wins the nomination, we should back him against the Socialist/Communist candidate. I can’t hack Rubio too much but even he would be better than what the Dems prop up.
God is still on his throne. The world is getting darker but his glory and abundant prosperity are rising upon us, His people (Isaiah 60). “All things work together for good” for his people and “nothing by any means will hurt you” (Luke 10:19). I personally am holding out for recovery in America. Either way we, his people, will flourish. Take heart.
I haven't asked to be convinced, only to have someone explain precisely what Cruz supposedly did to defeat the Gang-of-Eight bill, and what he did that amounted to a poison pill.
No one has explained it because they can't. It's just a rewrite of history by Cruz, who actually tried to add amendments that would have improved the bill in some ways. And, as video from 2013 showed, he did want the bill to pass.
The article you linked is all about how he tried to improve the bill, and the Cruz poison pill explanations never surfaced until this presidential campaign and Trump's elevation of the immigration issue.
I really like Carson, and I can think of nothing critical of him as a man of principle and character. I just think Cruz is the best man for the job. It really is that simple.
Carson’s paid staff in NH all quit and are now volunteering for Cruz. I think Carson just doesn’t have the money to continue and if he dropped out now because he doesn’t want to owe any money after he is out, that is extremely honorable.
That said, here's the recent Iowa Record of who they picked and who went on to win:
Here is Iowa’s track Record:
1976 (January 19): Gerald Ford (45%) and Ronald Reagan (43%)Iowa has a great knack for picking candidates that go on to lose. The exception is GW Bush - after the Clinton Scandals with with benefit of the Bush name and the idea that he was conservative.
1980 (January 21): George H. W. Bush (32%), Ronald Reagan (30%), Howard Baker (15%), John Connally (9%), Phil Crane (7%), John B. Anderson (4%), and Bob Dole (2%) 1984 (February 20): Ronald Reagan (unopposed)
1988 (February 8): Bob Dole (37%), Pat Robertson (25%), George H. W. Bush (19%), Jack Kemp (11%), and Pete DuPont (7%)
1992 (February 10): George H. W. Bush (unopposed)
1996 (February 12): Bob Dole (26%), Pat Buchanan (23%), Lamar Alexander (18%), Steve Forbes (10%), Phil Gramm (9%), Alan Keyes (7%), Richard Lugar (4%), and Morry Taylor (1%)
2000 (January 24): George W. Bush (41%), Steve Forbes (31%), Alan Keyes (14%), Gary Bauer (9%), John McCain (5%), and Orrin Hatch (1%)
2004 (January 19): George W. Bush (unopposed)
2008 (January 3): Mike Huckabee (34%), Mitt Romney (25%), Fred Thompson (13%), John McCain (13%), Ron Paul (10%), Rudy Giuliani (4%), and Duncan Hunter (1%)
2012 (January 3): Rick Santorum (25%), Mitt Romney (25%), Ron Paul (21%), Newt Gingrich (13%), Rick Perry (10%), Michele Bachmann (5%), and Jon Huntsman (0.6%)
2016 (February 1): Ted Cruz (27.7%), Donald Trump (24.3%), Marco Rubio (23.1%), Ben Carson (9.3%), Rand Paul (4.5%), Jeb Bush (2.8%), Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, and Chris Chritie each had 2% of the vote, Rick Santorum had 1%, and Jim Gilmore had 0%.
The lesson appears to be that the message that appeals in Iowa doesn't resonate with the rest of the country.
I'd be a bit surprised if Cruz isn't the nominee. Cruz is the second choice of all the candidates, so as people drop out, Cruz will benefit. Trump is far and away the most unlikable candidate, so who's votes is he going to pick up? Once the debate state gets down to 3-4, Trump will be forced to answer serious questions about his past, and even recent positions, for which he has no good answers. Just look at the recent Steven Colbert video of Trump debating Trump.
As of now, the race is between Cruz, Trump, and Rubio. Rubio has the Washington cartel backing, and If Trump drops out, his voters will mostly go to Cruz. At some point, the Trumpites will realize that Cruz will actually do what Trump claims he would do; because so far, Cruz has done everything he promised in his Senatorial campaign.
It saddens me to say this, but Sarah Palin was the biggest loser last night.
Cruz was very gracious towards her when Sarah came out for Trump which leaves an opening for Sarah to endorse Cruz later on when Trump is eliminated.
As the bride of a Vietnam Vet, I still don’t like Draft Dodgers, I don’t care what reason they chose to do it by.
As a career Military spouse I’ll chose the Veteran over any who is.
I still loath Hanoi Jane and think she should have been stripped of US Citizenship and tried as a traitor.
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