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Second-Degree Bern
Steynonline ^ | February 1, 2016 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/02/2016 7:22:23 AM PST by tlozo

Thank God that's over. You don't have to be an Amtrak conductor to want to punch the next guy who says, "There are three tickets out of Iowa." In the end, Ted Cruz won eight delegates and Donald Trump seven. Which doesn't sound so bad for Trump. Except that Marco Rubio also won seven delegates. Had the caucus been held 24 hours later, Rubementum might have pushed Trump to third place.

There's no point pretending it wasn't a setback for the billionaire party-crasher. Who knows why it happened? Perhaps he should have taken his own advice and shot a guy on Fifth Avenue: That's gotta be worth a couple of points in Polk County. For over six months, each supposedly fatal misstep - from McCain to Muslims - only made him stronger. Now the first actual votes of this interminable process have made him weaker. For a candidate running on the platform that he's a winner and the other guys are losers, the aura of invincibility depended on the perception of invincibility. So it's not helpful to let five thousand hayseeds shuck Trump Tower like a corncob. Doing without consultants, doing with ads, doing without Fox News, doing without National Review, doing without debates ...great, great, love it. But doing without voters is a trickier proposition. This week the Trump campaign sent my 15-year-old kid, who lives in New Hampshire, a reminder to make sure he caucuses in Iowa.

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: election; president; steyn

1 posted on 02/02/2016 7:22:23 AM PST by tlozo
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To: tlozo

Trump should just quit, I guess.

haha


2 posted on 02/02/2016 7:26:49 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

“Trump is not a serious candidate.”


3 posted on 02/02/2016 7:27:48 AM PST by Rebelbase (A new batch of harpies has hatched in time for the 2016 election.)
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To: Rebelbase

Stein not a Trump man?


4 posted on 02/02/2016 7:33:00 AM PST by refermech
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To: Rebelbase

“Who knows why it happened? Perhaps he should have taken his own advice and shot a guy on Fifth Avenue:”

I am not a Trump supporter but I heard it differently. It was not Trump who said that but someone else. Trump just quoted what was said and is attributed with the act. To say that is to lie. See my tag line. I hate lies!


5 posted on 02/02/2016 7:35:13 AM PST by Tomato lover (Machiavelli, "Truth is more hated and feared than Lies" suggested reading, John 14:6)
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To: Tomato lover

“There’s no point pretending it wasn’t a setback for the billionaire party-crasher. Who knows why it happened?”

Because Iowa is an evangelical state and Trump is not an evangelical? Because Cruz has been there campaigning as an evangelical for almost 3 years?

Other than that, I have no clue why Trump didn’t win Iowa.


6 posted on 02/02/2016 7:39:19 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (The Trump/Cruz war is a media generated war so the establishment can stay in power.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Other than that, I have no clue why Trump didn’t win Iowa.
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Based on the record turnout, I would go for the easiest answer. The voters found Trump wanting and went with Cruz and Rubio instead.


7 posted on 02/02/2016 7:52:28 AM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: EQAndyBuzz
I have no clue why Trump didn't win Iowa.

I do.

It was because the blowhard who campaigned on "competence" incompetently managed his campaign.

It was because the sturdy Iowa folks recognize Trump for what he is, a walking Potemkin village.

It was because he couldn't close the deal.

Now the gas is leaking out of the gasbag.


8 posted on 02/02/2016 8:05:15 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

Read the whole article for what he says about the others. Everyone got a smacking.


9 posted on 02/02/2016 8:14:35 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: All

Steyn is a riot.

Read the article. He hammers everyone.


10 posted on 02/02/2016 8:18:17 AM PST by kidd
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To: RightGeek

I should also mention that while Steyn has been approving of the Donald, he was upset that Trump apparently tweeted support for Hockey Stick Michael Mann in the Global Warming lawsuit against Steyn and National Review to get back at National Review. See the last portion of the article.


11 posted on 02/02/2016 8:19:59 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: tlozo

Great article. I definitely want to be hanging around with Mark Steyn and plenty of beer when everyone finally notices the debt problem.


12 posted on 02/02/2016 8:25:16 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Government employees are the single most important Democrat interest group."~Kevin Williamson)
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To: RightGeek
Everyone got a smacking.

That's because they're all dweebs and dinglebobs.

13 posted on 02/02/2016 8:26:20 AM PST by Tax-chick ("Government employees are the single most important Democrat interest group."~Kevin Williamson)
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To: tlozo

“Hillary, by contrast, is in trouble not because she’s a sleazy, corrupt, cronyist, money-laundering, Saud-kissing liar. Democrats have a strong stomach and boundless tolerance for all of that and wouldn’t care were it not for the fact that she’s a dud and a bore .... Hillary is a wooden charmless stiff who supposedly has enough money to be carefully managed across the finish line. But that requires Democratic electors to agree to be managed, too, and the Sanders surge is a strong sign that, while they’re relaxed about voting for an unprincipled arrogant phony marinated in ever more malodorous and toxic corruption, they draw the line at such a tedious and charisma-free specimen thereof.”

... good summary of Hillary


14 posted on 02/02/2016 8:42:48 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: tlozo

In before: Steyn isn’t a real conservative.


15 posted on 02/02/2016 9:55:48 AM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: tlozo

Shhhhhh. Trump lost because the establishment started to back him. And he accepted them.


16 posted on 02/02/2016 1:56:09 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: justa-hairyape

I saw John Sununu and he is backing the bottom 4

he thinks there will be hell and damnation if one of them does not prevail


17 posted on 02/02/2016 2:01:55 PM PST by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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