Posted on 02/10/2016 2:48:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
As I was saying at the dawn of this day:
1) Trump;
2) Kasich;
3) Rubio;
4) Bush;
5) Cruz.
Number One and Two were correct, and at this hour Numbers Three, Four and Five are all jostling together at 11 per cent, but with Cruz third and Rubio fifth. On the Democrat side I noted the midnight vote tallies from Dixville Notch, Hart's Location and Millsfield:
Sanders 17
Clinton 9
[snipped text about Dem race]
On the Republican side, Trump won yuge: 35 per cent in a nine-man race, and more than twice as many votes as the second-placed Kasich. On the latter, I wrote three weeks ago:
>>>On the "moderate" side of the GOP, the thinking since debate season began is that Rubio is the alternative to Bush, and Christie is the alternative to Rubio. But it could be that Kasich is the alternative to all three of them.<<<
And so it proved. Good for Kasich. But a nightmare for the GOP's Donor-Industrial Complex: Trump has the populist lane, Cruz the conservative, and both are reviled by the so-called "establishment". All New Hampshire had to do was sort out the so-called "moderate" lane by anointing Rubio, and, in a three-way race, he'd eliminate the Trump-Cruz problem. That was the theory.
Instead, Chris Christie's kamikaze mission took out Rubio, and killed his Iowa Rubementum stone dead. As a result, Kasich had a solid second-place finish and Jeb had a marginally less worse than expected fourth-place finish that will keep him and his SuperPac in the game a few states longer. And, until the mod squad consolidates behind one of these guys, the GOP establishment will be stuck with a frontrunner it despises, and a runner-up it despises even more.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Wait until the college kids realize those high taxes Bernie wants will apply to them if and when they get a job and mommy and daddy won’t be footing that bill.
Well then, we know where to place our bets, don't we??
With all the drama of who's up and who's down, this is Steyn's most frightening line.
This is what happened with Obama, and the demographics for us are worse today than in 2008. There are millions more totally clueless people, parasitic aliens, and economically hopeless and desperate people in this country today than then. Eight years of poisoning America's Constitutional wellspring with fascism and relentless propaganda has taken it's toll.
Sanders last night repeated his promise to heavily tax “Wall Street speculators”. Those are dangerous words. He’d better be careful in the days and months ahead if he remains a serious contender.
“Kids” - for about 2 generations now, have been taught that the America is bad. Add to that, how the economy is being smothered on purpose (so big government looks necessary) and you have the mess we’re facing (and voters who don’t understand our government or the history of governments - good and bad).
All they need to hear is that it’s going to be “free,” or that “I will get it for you.”
He’s a Jewish socialist.
Well said in post 56.
That simple reality keeps flying over their heads. It’s no longer the old tired game of right vs left - it’s US against THEM and the majority of people of sick to death of THEM.
This is not rocket science.
“Sanders last night repeated his promise to heavily tax “Wall Street speculatorsâ€. Those are dangerous words. He’d better be careful in the days and months ahead if he remains a serious contender.”
Sanders simply WILL NOT be permitted the nomination...will NEVER be allowed.
DITTO
“Some of us are SICK OF running ‘gentlemen’ that either lose because they’re idiots that don’t want hurt the feelings of their opponents (Romney, in the second debate), are more interested in losing with ‘dignity’ to the first black president (McCain), or are so interested in a ‘new tone’ that they REFUSE to fight back when viciously attacked (Bush-43).
I’d rather run someone that WANTS TO WIN and will do what it takes to win, and if it hurts the feelings of some ‘sensitive’ people, SO BE IT.”
Yet we had the trump cult crying about cruzs mailers and screwing Carson...both of which were absolutely tame
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