Posted on 02/03/2016 9:11:54 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
As far as I can tell, Donald Trump's grieving process works more or less completely in the reverse order from what you would expect from a rational human being. Immediately after the event, Trump was more or less in acceptance mode, saying he was proud of finishing second, he loved the people of Iowa, he was going to come back and buy a farm there.
Then he went into depression, secluding himself for an uncharacteristically long time from twitter and the media.
Working backwards, he skipped over bargaining and went straight to anger, blaming the media and their unfair treatment of him.
Then this morning, he went into denial mode, basically saying that the Iowa loss never even happened and there should be a do over.
But if you look deeper into Trump's twitter rant this morning, and you have some understanding of both his neuroses and the cynical way he plays his followers, you can see that Trump has already decided how he will react to a loss in the GOP primaries, if he suffers one: he will refuse to accept the results and run third party.
Look at what Trump is doing here. He is complaining about a series of events that are, by any objective measure, ordinary politics, and he is treating them as evidence of "fraud" or that the results of Iowa were somehow completely illegitimate.
As Trump always does, he is clearly pre-complaining about anything even potentially damaging to him as the result of "unfair" treatment or a fixed, "unfair" process. If he should lose New Hampshire, he will do it again, even though the RNC booted National Review from the upcoming debate in order to mollify him (and yet allowed an openly anti-Cruz moderator onto the stage).
Trump is prepping his followers to bolt with him for a third party run if he loses the nomination. In fact, if he loses New Hampshire and South Carolina, he may just do it pre-emptively. I suspect this is a decision he has already made. Now, I know that he will probably not be able to get on the ballot at this late date in many states, but the point will not be to win, it will be to damage the Republican nominee, which has been Trump's goal from the beginning of this process.
Personally, I think a three way race between Cruz/Rubio, Trump, and Hillary will end up pretty well for the GOP. There's a lot of evidence that a majority of Trump's support comes from disaffected Democrats, and there are plenty of Democrats who are less than enthused about voting for Hillary.
I just wish that if Trump were not man enough to accept the will of the electorate, that he would go ahead and declare that he's running third party and save us all a lot of trouble.
If there are such things as paid operatives Id like to know how it works ...I could use the $
I just wondered. Someone claimed I was a Hillary plant. It’s ridiculous but people do wonder about posters.
One state caucus doesn’t mean squat, especially Iowa.
The only result was a three-way division of delegates.
When we get to the “winner takes all” states is when things will begin to get interesting.
Crus certainly has the disorder as bad or worse then Obama, and; he can lie just as well. Both Cruz and Obama are know it all’s.
I doubt it will come to that . Cruz won’t be able to pull his dirty tricks twice and I don’t think Microsoft is going to be counting any more ballots for Marco.
If anyone should think about third party it should be be Bernie “coin flip” sanders , he is clearly going to be screwed out of votes
More Red State diarrhea of the brain.
If you find out let me know.
His cryptic tweet yesterday and his total melt down today sure seems to give an indication that he might be taking his toys elsewhere.
Little Leon must of been up all night, he’s go a couple screeds going!
Oh good ole cw, ever the GOPe cheerleader. Carry on, let the games begin!
Front runner? There has been one vote. He came in second.
Ha also said ‘until death do us part’ to the fist two of three wives. See how that turned out?
Exactly.
It should, but at the same time, as so many Trump people have said countless times “Politics ain’t beanbag”.
You have Bush and Rubio who are totally GOP-E going after Trump, but they are also gong after Cruz as well. Cruz is not GOP-E and he was pretty much hands-off on Trump until Trump started going after him.
Cruz however isn’t saying his going to take his ball and go home if he loses.
If Trump is not nominated he will run third party because that is the kind of guy he is. He only thinks of himself and thinks everyone loves him. The man is sick.
“Then he went into depression, secluding himself for an uncharacteristically long time from twitter and the media.”
Depression? Trump depressed?
Think he might have been resting? Duh.
Correct.
Texas has a “Sore Loser” primary law. Here’s how it works:
In order to be on the Ballot for the March 1st primary, you must file by Dec 14, 2015.
If you are an independent candidate for the Nov, 2016 General, you must also file by Dec 14, 2015.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3315594/posts
but that’s not what this article is about, now is it? instead of hijacking the thread why don’t you illuminate us, and your motives, with your thoughts about the article: trump running 3rd party.
This is how most people would react when at first they think that they were beaten fair and square and then they find out that it was dirty tricks and outright lies that shifted the election. Cruz has put together a team of people who specialize in manipulation through unsavory means. Its not very hard to find examples of the types who are easily manipulated by these types of tactics, just read through this thread.
Doesn’t third party always end up just splitting votes?
Isn’t that the way Hitler-y will likely win?
Trump has pledged and stated publicly, more than once, that he would not run third party and that he would support the Republican nominee. And Trump is a man of his word, is he not?
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