Posted on 02/03/2016 4:40:06 PM PST by mak5
Rick Santorum endorsed Marco Rubio for president on Wednesday evening, just hours after announcing he’d drop out of the race himself.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
You will be proven wrong next Tuesday. Do not go by a caucus where less than 5 percent of eligible people bother to show up and spend 3 to 4 hours to vote.
Most women go by whether the candidate is "hot" or not. Which will probably explain most of the votes for Rubio.
I am sure Santorum collected a few dollars in campaign cash, over which he has considerable control. And, he keeps his name in the news, may be write a book, or offered a position in the Rubio admin.
You are not kidding.
I think Trump does Rallies because they’re easy for him to pull off.....and costs less for sure......but the crowds have not reflected the voting as we saw in Iowa. many go just to see a celebrity.....and it’s free ta boot!
I noticed Trumps back to showing his polls and his crowds In NH now....but the news isn’t giving him what he wants.....I wonder if his emergency plane landing was real or if a means of getting the press again?
Obama had huge rallies and was a winner. Monday night was one primary with many more to come. Trump came in a strong second and got one less delegate than Cruz. Starting on March 15, the primaries become winner take all.
I am affluent and well-educated and support Trump. So what is wrong with Trump appealing to the less educated and "non-affluent"? You sound like some arrogant snob who fails to understand that the GOP must attract more uneducated and less affluent voters if it ever hopes to win the WH again. The GOP has lost the popular vote in five out of the last six elections. Obama has the two highest vote totals in US history.
Perhaps you should read this two year old article by Jeff Sessions who provided the template for victory: Becoming the Party of Work--How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself. It appears Trump has.
When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.
And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat? They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a “comprehensive immigration reform†that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost.
Over the past four decades, as factories were shuttered and blue-collar jobs were outsourced or automated, net immigration quadrupled. Yet the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem. A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred.
Perhaps the most important political development now unfolding in the U.S. is the public’s growing loss of faith in our political and financial elites of both parties. To open the ears of disaffected voters, the GOP must break publicly from the elite immigration consensus of Wall Street and Davos. Republicans have a clear path to building a conservative majority if they free themselves from the corporate consultants and demonstrate to the American public that the GOP is the only party aligned with the core interests, concerns, and beliefs of everyday hardworking citizens.
But the immigration “principles†offered by House GOP leaders imply that record immigration levels must be increased further to meet “the needs of employers.†One such GOP proposal — to provide the food industry with half a million low-skilled workers each year — was polled by Rasmussen. Nearly 70 percent of independent voters opposed it.
“Most business leaders have long favored more open immigration. Different businesses want different kinds of people,†a prominent GOP fundraiser declared on TV. “A restaurant may want waiters and cooks; a hospital wants nurses and doctors; a university wants physicists; a business like Exelon needs more engineers.†Asked by the interviewer about hiring U.S. workers for open jobs, he replied that many of those now unemployed are “unable to compete for them.â€
Is that the message of a winning party? It might win a majority of votes at a dinner party in a gated community in Bel Air, but it is an act of profound delusion to think that plan can form the basis of a nationwide Republican resurgence.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/373230/becoming-party-work-senator-jeff-sessions
You Cruz people. I keep heaving a little in my mouth. Just despicable behavior. I swear to you that when NH and SC and FL and NV come in..... each in their turn, I will be gracious and welcome you back to a modicum of sanity. As is, you have lost your collective minds because we won IOWA????? Holy bat turds Buttman. Weses got GEEENIOOOOOSES.
Trump came in a strong second receiving more votes than any other previous Rep winner. The Reps had a turnout of 180,000 beating the record of 120,000. Trump received 45,000 votes. He got one less delegate than Cruz.
.I wonder if his emergency plane landing was real or if a means of getting the press again?
Is it tinfoil hat time?
Trump lost and that’s all there is to it......you and other Trump supporters can drag out any figures you want but it will not put Trump in ‘the Winners circle’....he lost.
Thanks for your post. Unfortunately, you are spot on.
Lost what? One primary does not select the nominee. The last two winners of the Iowa GOP primary did not win the nomination. We have more than 50 to go.
Trump said...”I will WIN Iowa”...he didn’t.
I was an active supporter...registering voters and attending meetings. Here in Florida we have a closed primary. My voice box was full with calls from Trump supporters and they are NOT happy.
If he is the nom I’ll vote for him but as far as the primaries Ill support, with reservations, Cruz.
Trump had the presidency, IMO, and he may have been a great pres if it wasnt for one very important flaw....his big mouth(and the thinking behind it).
Sad day for so many supporters including myself.
correct..good point.
Indeed...I'm grateful to read the comments. Thanks everyone
BEAT SHILLARY
Hillarious!
I missed you at the party.
;o)
OOPS I spoke too soon..FR returned to regular programming.
:O)
Thanks for posting the excellent Jeff Sessions article.
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