Posted on 02/02/2016 1:25:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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".........Trump Nation is tired of failed transactions leaving only humiliation, disrespect, hardship, and despair. Trump Nation wants a transaction president.
Donald Trump knows transactions. Donald Trump advertises that he's not only a high stakes negotiator. Trump will save the nation in the grandest transaction yet.
It is that simple.
Just like Trump Airlines.
Recall Trump's promises in 1988 -- a lot more than a simple transaction in keeping the aging Eastern Airlines shuttle fleet flying. Trump promised luxury, convenience, style, personal touches, affinity to grandeur, and profitability.
Except for convenience, Trump delivered nothing else for which customers were willing to pay. The Trump Shuttle was a flaming financial wreck. Customers had already defected to upstart Pan Am. In desperation Trump trashed his rival, claiming Pam Am execs were losers, and Pan Am was unsafe. (Sound familiar?)
Soon enough, Donald Trump's transaction to transform the airline business was a bust. His most important transaction was confounding third party creditors in bailing out his personal guarantees.
Donald Trump's prefabricated brand is of the quintessential transactional leader. He's a master, even negotiating brilliant escape hatches when he fails.
Trump Airlines, perhaps Trump's boldest venture far removed from his core expertise, still displayed Trump's leitmotif -- engineering a brash makeover for an overvalued transaction to get into the airline game, unable to command the nuts-and-bolts knowhow needed to gain market share and stop bleeding margins, thus in desperation finally piloting a perilous landing, coaxed to the ground by Citibank controllers leaving the third party creditors, and employees, to find the exit row chutes, fending for themselves.".......
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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
He’s down 7 delegates to Cruz’s 8.
He’s over! Finished! Pack it in!
... with a 20 point lead in New Hampshire and 16 point one in South Carolina...
Congratulations to all Cruz supporters and to the people of Iowa for getting out in record numbers.
Cruz: 50,649 votes
The stupid was strong in Iowa. And they still pick corn.
So much for the parade lap, time to start the race!
Watch the caucus on the Hillary fraud thread I posted. Pretty idiotic way of voting. Lot of room for dirty tricks and Hillary learned them all from Obama.
Bernie will trounce her in New Hampshire.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/when_anger_trumps_all.html
“One of the most dangerous effects of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is the venomous anger his demagoguery has cultivated among his more engaged supporters, to be spewed at anyone who dares to express concern about any of their idol’s (yes, idol’s) soft spots.
Just click on any article, on any website, critical of anything about Trump, and navigate to the readers’ comments. First, notice the unusually large number of them. Then observe the tone: rarely logical, thoughtful, or truly argumentative, the Trump defenders (granting honorable exceptions) simply attack — personally, irrelevantly, uncivilly — any writer or fellow commenter, no matter how unimpeachably serious (even Thomas Sowell, for heaven’s sake!) who dares to suggest Trump may be a poor nominee.
That’s their prerogative, of course, and anyone who writes for public consumption must be thick-skinned enough to stand by his ideas and let the spewers spew. The problem, however, lies in the way this true believer invective is smothering meaningful political discourse precisely when such discourse is most urgently needed.
This is the moment for freedom-loving people to debate the statements and substance of each candidate with all the open-mindedness they can muster, leaving the hypnotized cultist behavior to the progressives, where it belongs. Instead, serious public discussion, which is the heart of the representative element of representative republicanism, has been hijacked by idol-worshippers for whom there is nothing Trump could do or say that would cause them one second of self-doubt........................”
**See also** Trump/United States Football League (USFL) back in mid-80s.
Y’otta google it.
beaten wife syndrome.
I am at the point where I will never vote Cruz ever again. If he is primaried here in Texas and I hope he is I'll vote for his opponent. If he is the GOP nominee I'll vote third party before I would vote Cruz. Nice job CW.
The Trumpets...thought he had a lead in Iowa..too.
Trump was the better candidate.
Cruz was thumping a bigger bible.
I would rather have the hot passion of from the heart zeal than to be an ice cold rutabaga.
“How many did Hillary take”
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/iowa-caucus-presidential-election-2016/
That’s It, Folks (Well, For A Couple Hours, Anyway)
Okay folks, we’re shutting down the live blog. The Democratic race remains unresolved with 12 precincts yet to be counted. It is unclear when we will get those results. For now, Hillary Clinton maintains a 49.9 percent to 49.6 percent lead over Bernie Sanders in state delegate equivalents. For all intents and purposes, the race is basically a tie. We’ll have more analysis as to what that means, as well as the implications of Ted Cruz’s victory over Donald Trump - and the strong third place finish for Marco Rubio - over the next few days.
Thanks for sticking with us!
" Say a litle prayer for me ! "
Please post the link to your thread.
Sleazy DIRTY TRICKS won't help poor Teddy in N.H. nor S.C.!
Now, I don’t visit here very often anymore, preferring other sites to what seems to pass for conversation here regarding this election and especially Mr. Trump so I cannot comment on whether or not the original poster brings articles which always bash Mr. Trump, but I think I’ll just leave this quote from the posted article right here.
“One of the most dangerous effects of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is the venomous anger his demagoguery has cultivated among his more engaged supporters, to be spewed at anyone who dares to express concern about any of their idol’s (yes, idol’s) soft spots.”
One last thought—Does it not bother some of you supporters that you sound exactly like and are being just as divisive as the Obama supporters in 2008? Anyone?
Compared to you and your ilk, Trump supporters look like SAINTS !
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