From the story here:
“Too many of us, including members of the Register editorial board who were observing caucuses, saw opportunities for error amid Monday night’s chaos.”
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Iowa Governor accuses Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Steve King of unethical and unfair behavior during Iowa Caucus
Here:
“This thing that they distributed on Caucus night saying that Dr. Carson was likely to drop out and his supporters should support Cruz, that is, I think, unethical and unfair,” Branstad said this morning. “I think there’ll be repercussions to that.” Cruz has apologized to Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who finished fourth in the Caucuses on Monday night.
Iowa Congressman Steve King, a Cruz backer, helped spread the drop out rumor and Branstad said King owes Carson an apology. “You know, we have a strong sense of fairness in Iowa,” Branstad said during an interview with Radio Iowa. “Distributing information that was not true about a candidate right at the time people are voting in the Caucuses is an inappropriate thing.”
Republican Iowa Caucus polling was off on average by 23%
Republican Iowa Caucus actual final results v Real Clear Politics poll averages on the day of the election:
Trump: 24.3 v 28.6, overestimated by 17.7%
Cruz: 27.6 v 23.9, underestimated by 13.4%
Rubio: 23.1 v 16.9, underestimated by 36.7%
Carson: 9.3 v 7.7, underestimated by 17.2%
Paul: 4.5 v 4.1, underestimated by 8.9%
Bush: 2.8 v 4.1, overestimated by 46.4%
Average miss for the top six: 23.4%
Average miss for the top three: 22.6%
Smoking gun: Here's the message Ted Cruz sent to 1500 precinct captains before Iowa voting began
From the story here:
"There are 1,500 precincts. Do the math… If that message cost Carson four votes per precinct to switch to Cruz, then Cruz beats Trump. If he doesn’t switch four, then he loses."
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Santorum drops out of GOP presidential primary, endorses RUBIO
CNN has the story here.
That tells you what kind of president Santorum would have made: A president who, like Rubio, would have settled for the Gang of Eight amnesty bill because it was all he could get at the time.
Rush Limbaugh can protest all he wants about Rubio giving up his Senate seat as a sign he's not committed to time-serving the establishment. The truth is as president Rubio would disappoint on illegal immigration to the point of destroying the Republican Party and the country as we have known it.
Establishment support for Rubio will now accelerate. The conservative vote will be split between Cruz and Trump.
Rubio will win the nomination like Romney did, through attrition on the right as neither Trump nor Cruz wins enough delegates to secure the nomination just as Santorum and Gingrich and Paul did not.
In this election, Ted Cruz, the illegal immigration flip-flopper, will be Donald Trump's spoiler.
In the immortal words of Mickey Kaus, Cruz is just in it for Cruz.
Sarah Palin accuses Rep. Steve King of being Ted Cruz' dirty little trickster
Here:
'Cruz's campaign chairman, U.S. Representative Steve King, is lying, and good for Dr. Ben Carson for calling this out. King, who's previously asked for and received my endorsement, time and resources to support his own election, is still lying about my altruistic support of Mr. Trump, and he's refused to provide any evidence to the contrary. And, this U.S. Congressman actually lied to his own constituents on behalf of Cruz, regarding a good man, Dr. Carson. He told voters Carson was dropping out of the Presidential race immediately before the Iowa caucus, causing a relative uproar inside the process, so the word would spread and he could rack up more votes for his candidate, Cruz. That's a dirty trick. Dr. Carson deserved better. The voters deserved better!'
Trump says skipping the last debate was a mistake, and that he should have had a ground game in Iowa
Statements here.
It was the ground game, that's all. He didn't have one, and others did. The massive turnout proves that.
Taking the battle to FOX remains important, especially when they insult you. Skipping the debate was the right thing to do.
Media remains the enemy.
The howler of the day comes from Pamela Anderson: Intellectuals were at the Playboy Mansion, you know, like politicians
What a train wreck this woman is.
Here:
"I loved being at the Playboy Mansion. Intellectuals were at the Playboy Mansion. You were talking to the best artists and musicians and actors and politicians." ... I ask Anderson about rumors she might want to segue into politics one day. “No, I don’t!” she laughs. “Politicians are evil. No, no, no, no, no. Just look at some of Vivienne Westwood’s blogs. Politicians are criminals."... She previously threw her support behind President Obama, but hints at her frustrations as she looks toward November’s election. “I think politicians’ hands are tied a lot of the time,” she says. “I’m a Democrat. You have to vote. I love Bernie, but I don’t think he’ll get the nomination. I still think Hillary has a better shot. I think she’s going to be the President. A female President would be pretty awesome. We need that kind of energy in the world.”
Intellectuals? Politicians? Evil? Criminals? Obama? Bernie Sanders? Hillary? Energy?
Awesome.
Well, at least we know Pamela can read:
Rand Paul drops out of the presidential race to concentrate on reelection to the Senate
Story here.
And so dies his dream of uniting libertarians from all parties, which Donald Trump seems to be doing in spades but people like Rand Paul still don't get.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Override of Obama's veto of Obamacare repeal fails in the US House along party lines
"The result was expected, given that an override would have required Democratic support to succeed, but Republicans praised the vote as showing what could happen next year if their party wins back the White House. The veto override failed by a vote of 241 to 186."
More here.
Stupid white liberals: Our insane leaders are preparing to require women to register for the draft
The Military Times reports here:
The Army and Marine Corps' top uniformed leaders both backed making women register for the draft as all combat roles are opened to them in coming months, a sweeping social change that could complicate the military’s gender integration plans. ...
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Jr. said there needs to be “a national debate” over what the changes mean, balancing social concerns over the idea of drafting women with the reality of national security and military readiness. ...
“It's my personal view in light of integration that every American physically qualified should register for the draft,” Neller said. Milley echoed those remarks, saying “all eligible men and women” should be required to register.
The faces of the insane:
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| Sec. Ray Mabus |
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| Gen. Robert Neller |
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| Gen. Mark Milley |
The dirty tweeter: Republican US Rep. Steve King (IA-4) was Ted Cruz' dirty trickster last night
King spread a rumor in a tweet that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race, even though he wasn't, in order to queer the vote.
Story here:
"The tweet was sent at 8:20pm EST, when the caucuses were ongoing."
That's right. Real Clear Politics did not call the race until 10:30pm EST.
Up on average by 7.5 points in four poll reversals, Trump loses to Cruz by 3.4 points in Iowa after atypical 50% higher turnout
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| Before Trump reversed them, Cruz had been ahead in 4 polls by an average of 5.8 points per Real Clear Politics |
The Cruz campaign made a liar of the polls which showed his lead reversed by Trump in the weeks leading up to the Iowa Caucus last night. His superior ground game helped spur a massive turnout in excess of 185,000 when closer to 120,000 typically show. Trump had nothing similar on the ground and narrowly came in second ahead of the surging Marco Rubio. Look for more establishment money to get behind Rubio in coming days in an effort to stop Trump in New Hampshire and South Carolina. It's gut check time for Trump.
Meanwhile Bernie Sanders is making life very difficult for Hillary Clinton.
Monday, February 1, 2016
Trump is speaking right now on The Savage Nation
He's thanking Savage for his support from the beginning.
Grand Rapids, MI begins 2016 with January 1.6 degrees F above normal on average at 26.0
Precipitation was 0.06 inches above normal, coming in at 2.15 inches.
Snowfall was 20.8 inches, 2.3 inches above the mean average of 18.5 for the month calculated going back to the beginning of the record. January is typically the snowiest month, followed by December at 15.9 and then February at 13.1.
Heating degree days were nearly normal for January at 1200 but cumulatively for the season are running 652 below normal, about 17.6% to date, thanks to the El Nino.
The Trump Doctrine: not neoconservative meddling like Bush, but Realpolitik like Reagan instead
From the story by Josh Rogin, here:
“This is a long game; it’s not a short game,” [Sam] Clovis said. He faulted neoconservatives who "think you can go out there and in three weeks after Iraq collapses you can create a constitutional democracy over there." ...
Sam Nunberg, who advised Trump on foreign policy early in the campaign before having a falling out with [Corey] Lewandowski, told me that Trump’s foreign policy was “Reagan-esque realpolitik,” a stance designed to be able to make policies based on circumstances without being burdened by ideology.
Sam Clovis, chief policy adviser to Donald Trump, calls himself a Russell Kirk conservative
Just now on the Laura Ingraham show.
Sam Clovis said as much on Anderson Cooper on January 22nd here, defending Trump against National Review's anti-Trump issue.
WaPo editorial board half-truths about Trump illustrate why circulation continues to decline
Here's just one:
'Early on, he touted his unprincipled past as a demanding financial supporter of both parties — “I give to everybody; they do whatever I want” — as if acknowledging participation in corruption qualified him to fix it.'
I'd call it a hopeful sign if the editorial board of The Washington Post painted every contribution to a political candidate as participation in corruption if it meant especially to Hillary Clinton, but it didn't.
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