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The South Carolina primary results don't mean Trump will be the nominee
The Brookings Institute ^ | February 20, 2016 | John Hudak

Posted on 02/20/2016 8:55:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: xzins

The only way Trump loses now is if he makes a big mistake....

like saying he likes the Mandate, or

that Bush Lied to get us into a war.

Something like that.


261 posted on 02/21/2016 11:30:47 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Tagline Pending)
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To: Elsie
Good cartoon. I've never seen that one before.
262 posted on 02/21/2016 11:32:22 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: moehoward

Who dat Hudak?


263 posted on 02/21/2016 11:34:15 AM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: higgmeister
The other effect of abject defeat is that we hate losing. Because of our heightened nationalistic pride, we feel acutely that the impact of unfettered illegal immigration, the threat of Islamic terrorism, the harsh economy on our poorer region of the country is a loss of our sovereignty under the US Constitution.

Which is not to mention that Southerners are acutely aware of abuse of the People, by these devices, by high hats in New York and Washington and their Chamber of Commerce allies nationwide.

Star Chamber or Chamber of Commerce, what's the difference? They're issuing Orders in Council just like 250 years ago, ruling by God and by right -- and Congressmen taking their money are their servants, not ours.

264 posted on 02/21/2016 11:52:26 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Elsie
I don't believe your poll results. I don't think it's representative, and oh by the way, I didn't hear about that poll when it was being taken.

You Trumpsters get together and do a little something off on the side?

This is Free Republic, not Atlantic City or the Upper West Side.

265 posted on 02/21/2016 12:01:22 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: trebb
March is about here and that's when i was expecting things to clear up a bit - with Jeb out too, things are looking like Trump/Cruz/Rubio duking it out to settle the dust and Rubio will have the support of the insiders and others who really want Hillary. [Emphasis added.]

There it is. In the end, Trump just becomes another way to shove the People aside. The People who didn't want Trump, didn't want Rubio, didn't want Beastwoman.

Rigged game. At some point, people walk away and don't come back.

266 posted on 02/21/2016 12:08:05 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Eva

Where Trump is despised here and there is because he has exposed the Cheap Labor Express, tracked their money from Wall Street to their GOP connections in Congress (McConnell/Cornyn), to the Chamber of Commerce, over through K Street, (even to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and their direct line to Paul Ryan, in the HoR).

All that wealth and agenda funded every single Republican candidate, all 17, except for Carson and TRUMP.

Republicans know it and are furious about it, thus the easy path for someone like TRUMP, who can name names when he is ready. All of his nemesis know it’s coming if they can ever pose a real challenge to the TRUMP numbers.

Texas will go TRUMP, maybe narrowly, but personally,I see no real difference between Texas and South Carolina white Evangelicals, blue collar, and military voters.

Should TRUMP actually sweep on Super Tuesday and then go into the winner takes all states, on the 15th, then it is a shut out on the delegate count. All the shouting is over.

And, TRUMP smartly, LIVES in Florida! THAT is the UUUUUGE.


267 posted on 02/21/2016 12:11:59 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: LS

I don’t necessarily believe that Trump and Cruz made a deal. I just don’t.


268 posted on 02/21/2016 12:14:02 PM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: AndyJackson; Liz; LS; Rebelbase
Cruz's position is that Trump lied about him lying about Trump lying about Cruz lying. Oh and that Crewzoids claim he is the "true conservative," and that voters think that is largely irrelevant. We know Trump's views quite well.

So what is Cruz's position really? Do you know what his talking points are? Really?

Unless you live in an area where Cruz has made a substantive media buy, you haven't heard him -- that's the MSM at work.

I posted what Mark Halperin of The Daily Beast bragged to Gwen Ifill and Charlie Rose in 2012 during the GOP convention, about suppressing Mitt Romney's message to the Electorate and suppressing Clint Eastwood's great "Empty Chair" takedown of Obama's non-leadership.

Halperin bragged that all the public would see of either Eastwood and Mitt Romney would be what he and his colleagues "sliced and diced and spun" into unintelligibility.

That's what the Media do to people they don't like. They mute them, they scramble them, they screw them.

If you don't know by now that Trump's a 60's liberal, a Democrat running in the GOP primaries to screw conservatives with a "Ballyhoo" campaign devoid of substance like the original "Ballyhoo" in 1840, then you haven't been paying attention. And you've had help. From the LSM.

Once Trump got your attention with two or three things that sounded good (counterfeit! -- he's a liberal, leopards don't change their spots!), you were toast. It's been all ballyhoo -- I accidentally typed "ballygoo", and that's about right, too -- ever since, and all LSM media spin.

You're getting schlonged.

269 posted on 02/21/2016 12:30:39 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Thanks. You just made the best case for Trump I’ve heard in a while. Trump can supercede the Halperin’s and his media buddies, and they hate it. He can do this at least two ways: 1) they have to cover him and his events, and he’s a master at forcing them to show the crowds, and 2) when necessary he can spend his own money.

But it’s really the former that terrifies them. BECAUSE he is a celebrity, they have to cover him. If they don’t, they get attacked by their viewers/readers, plus they want to. It’s the old “frog and scorpion” thing. It’s in their blood. They (to quote Ann Richards) “kain’t hep it.”

So, what I have said for eight months. The GOP finally has a guy on the field, and a force that the media can’t control, define, or really challenge. Make America Great Again.

Thanks for making that point.


270 posted on 02/21/2016 12:43:12 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Catsrus

You don’t hang out in NYC, . . . TWICE . . . BY DESIGN . . . if you aren’t making a deal.


271 posted on 02/21/2016 12:43:43 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: P-Marlowe

We went thru the mandate part.

Did I give you my Bush lied presentation? It really hacked off more than a few freepers this past week.


272 posted on 02/21/2016 12:53:06 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: RitaOK
Texas will go TRUMP, maybe narrowly, but personally,I see no real difference between Texas and South Carolina white Evangelicals, blue collar, and military voters.

The big difference is that Texas voters know Ted Cruz. He hasn't been defined by the LieStreamMedia here, or by Trump. People know and will vote for Ted, winner take all.

That's why, in 2012, the 'Rats instigated a federal lawsuit to stop or delay the Texas primary 'cuz we wuz being meeeeeaan to black fokes and po' fokes and puhhsuns of cullah, in the 2011 redistricting. It was b.s., the Supreme Court itself prorogated (how often do you hear that? Like, never!) and slapped it down and sent it back charred and flaming, with instructions not to present that litigation again.

The 'Rats were back in court the very next day, before a forum-shopped 'Rat judge, with another lawsuit.

As a result of this extreme maneuvering and plotting, the Texas GOP primary was delayed by over a month, by which time the shouting had pretty much died down, and the 'Rats had the nominee they wanted, the weakest man in the field -- Mitt Romney.

And the e-GOP dominated Texas Republican Party never lifted a finger.

They were the other complicit party, that didn't want Texas to weigh in on the primary campaign, because Texas is a conservative State with proud people, and they're going to be a much tougher sell for Donald Trump. In Texas, "New York City" is a swear word.

But early voting here has already begun, so let's get it on. Come dance with the one what brung you!

273 posted on 02/21/2016 12:59:21 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: RitaOK

Don’t fool yourself, sure there are some who fear Trump for disrupting the cheap kabob cores, but mostly Trump is despised for being Trump, a crass, unrefined, conspicuous consumer with no manners.


274 posted on 02/21/2016 1:21:58 PM PST by Eva
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To: RitaOK

It is possible that Trump could take Texas because there has been a strong anti- Cruz campaign there among Libertarians and Rove Republicans. That is really what this campaign is about, joining the atheist Libertarians with the Statist Insiders to take over the Republican Party and get rid of the social Conservatives and Christians.


275 posted on 02/21/2016 1:26:31 PM PST by Eva
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To: xzins
I was just joking.

THE TEFLON DON

Mark this page. You heard it first right here. Unless someone else has already used it. :-)

276 posted on 02/21/2016 1:26:35 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Tagline Pending)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Butt hurt much? You mad bro?


277 posted on 02/21/2016 1:57:15 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: P-Marlowe

I’m having a ah ha moment, my FRiend


278 posted on 02/21/2016 2:01:46 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Eva

I believe TRUMP is at his best in a conversation, in a private interview, in a more formal setting. There have not been that many, but it happens that I have missed none of them. I don’t know that voters in general have even been able to view him in those settings. They are pretty wonderful, given his bigger than life persona, to see him quietly unfold a story, like what changed his New York idea on abortion, for example. He is a secular man clearly, but he is a believer, as was his family.

His sister did a cameo, saying he was a mess, a stinker, as a kid. That was when Dad shipped off to military school. That story was also insightful.

That type of setting is polar opposite of the rally atmosphere, the noise and the crowd feedback, the one liners, the necessary but constant repetition of his simple themes, willingness to brawl with the powers to restore America’s “can do” spirit, because if nothing else is true, it is true that we win nothing anymore— conservatives in particular.


279 posted on 02/21/2016 2:30:11 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Ditto. Trump has the right enemies and he’s flushing out RINOs like crazy. I have also chosen well. Trump has the most loyal supporters around. Nothing will prevent me from voting from him. Will crawl 5 miles to the polls on broken glass to vote for him, the only one besides Carson, not owned by big time donors.


280 posted on 02/21/2016 3:00:22 PM PST by TheConservativeParty (TRUMPNADO)
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