Friday, March 4, 2016
Sorry Sean Hannity, Ted Cruz has no path to 1237
Ted Cruz currently has 226 delegates committed to him. This is 33% of the 688 already allocated in the contests to date.
Cruz still needs 1011 delegates to get to 1237, which is 57% of the 1784 delegates still up for grabs, not 33%.
Ted Cruz is going to ramp up his support by 24 points in all the future contests? I don't think so. Improving his wins by 73% is not in the cards.
Ted Cruz needs to think about an eventual alliance, or hope for a brokered convention.
Michael Goodwin calls Mitt Romney a coward
Here in "Romney is too much a coward to say what’s really on his mind":
Romney wants back in, but doesn’t have the nerve to come out and say it. So typical, and another example of what so many Republicans like about Trump. As writer and Fox commentator Monica Crowley put it, frustrated GOP voters “want a street fighter,” and in Trump, they finally have one. ... [Romney] stood mute as a biased moderator sided with President Obama on Benghazi in the crucial second debate. ...
[W]hat he hoped would be seen as a principled stand against Trump was, in fact, a disingenuous and selfish act. His failure to endorse either Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz is most revealing. Romney’s only hope for stealing the nomination is a brokered GOP convention where nobody has a majority of delegates on the first ballot and he emerges as a compromise. And the only way for that to happen is for both Rubio and Cruz to collect enough delegates so that Trump can’t reach the magic number of 1,237.
Rubio after Detroit debate polls LAST at Drudge, Kasich does surprisingly well
Once again I thought Kasich did himself proud at the debate.
It's sad "adult behavior" like his is now the exception rather than the rule.
In the old days, however, everyone acted like Kasich, or tried to, and they were judged on fundamentals of policy as opposed to behavioral standards which were simply expected of everyone and taken for granted.
Being the adult in the room does not make Kasich right today.
Boots on the ground again in the Middle East is not going to cut it.
The Excommunicators: Republicans have a fractured party because of people like Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney
And Paul Ryan and Ben Sasse and Bill Kristol, Tim Carney, Erick Erickson, Jennifer Rubin, Jim Geraghty, Jonah Goldberg, Glenn Beck, Montel Williams, Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood, Max Boot, Van Jones, National Review, Christine Todd Whitman, Meg Whitman, Steve Deace, Conservative Review, Rick Wilson, Ken Mehlman, Mona Charen, Daniel Pipes, Lawyers for Rubio, Neal Boortz, Conn Carroll, Pete Wehner, Wipe Out GOP 2016 . . .
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Interesting theory from Mark Levin, but it's not at all convincing
Today's speech by Romney was a campaign speech for himself because Romney didn't endorse anyone in it, says Levin. In other words, Romney's saying he's available at convention.
Maybe, but this doesn't explain why Romney didn't move earlier to stop Trump, nor does it cohere with the well known fact that Romney had to be persuaded to run in 2012. He didn't have the fire in the belly then, and he doesn't now.
Jeb dropped out 11 days ago (seems like an eternity, right?), but has been on the ropes since July 2015 when Trump began to eclipse him. That's seven long months ago and $150 million goes only so far. But crickets from Romney all during that time. The establishment hasn't had a viable alternative the whole time, either. Certainly not in Rubio, who fancies himself a Reagan conservative but who has only cozied up to the establishment as a political calculation late in the game.
Romney didn't move earlier because he's always been a spineless coward. He decided to act now because he felt he had enough cover from the many elites who had finally expressed their opposition to Trump in adequate number.
Romney wouldn't fight Obama for a similar reason. He didn't have enough any cover. Republicans have given Obama a pass every single day. Romney wouldn't even fight Candy Crowley. That's because establishment Republicans want media approval. They never fight the media.
Romney is a follower, not a leader, and that's why he's a loser.
But Trump is a leader and a fighter, and he's taking over the party. And he's going to be a winner, and already is.
Wake up people: Trump is outperforming Romney in primaries to date by 1.8 to 1
Data here.
Not only could Trump buy Romney 40 times over, he's outperforming the failed politician by 80%.
Not only could Trump buy Romney 40 times over, he's outperforming the failed politician by 80%.
Hillary's private server set-up man, Bryan Pagliano, reportedly given immunity after pleading the 5th last fall
WaPo story reported here in USA Today.
Trump 2016 trounces Romney 2012 in 13 states which have already voted by 1.8 to 1: 2.5 million votes to 1.4 million
The only state Mitt Romney won over Trump so far is liberal Vermont!
Georgia: Trump .501m / Romney .233m
Tennessee: Trump .332m / Romney .154m
Virginia: Trump .355m / Romney .158m
Massachusetts: Trump .311m / Romney .265m
Vermont: Trump .019m / Romney .023m
Minnesota: Trump .024m / Romney .008m
Alabama: Trump .371m / Romney .180m
Oklahoma: Trump .130m / Romney .080m
Alaska: Trump .007m / Romney .004m
Iowa: Trump .045m / Romney .029m
South Carolina: Trump .239m / Romney .168m
New Hampshire: Trump .100m/ Romney .097m
Nevada: Trump .034m / Romney .016m
The Texas primary was a late primary in 2012 after all other challengers had been vanquished, on May 29, instead of early in 2016. Romney took 1m votes vs. Trump's .757m in 2016. But Ted Cruz has won the Texas primary in 2016 with 1.239m votes, beating Romney by almost 24%.
The Arkansas primary was also late in 2012, on May 22. Romney took .104m votes vs. Trump's .133m in 2016.
Add in these two contests and Trump in 2016 beats Romney in 2012 3.358m votes to 2.519m to date, or 1.3 to 1, which in other words is by 33%.
Mitt. Romney. Loser.
Donald Trump has already eclipsed the total votes received by either Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul in 2012
Trump already has 3.36 million votes in the first 15 contests.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
GOP delegate update: Trump 319, Cruz 226, Rubio 110
1237 delegates are needed to win on the first ballot at convention.
Trump is almost 26% of the way home.
Cruz is 18% of the way home.
Rubio, teh establishment mouthpiece, is 9% of the way home. That's why little Marco makes so much noise. He's trying to get attention.
Trump has won 49.73% of delegates to date, needs to capture just 50.13% of the remaining to clinch it
Trump to date has 285 of 573 = 49.73%.
Trump needs 952 more to get to 1237.
That's 50.13% of the remaining 1899 delegates up for grabs.
That means doing only about 1% better than he's been doing.
How hard is that?
Keep stressing respect for law and order in the streets and at the borders, economic growth from new capital attracted to a US low tax haven, and jobs for America's abused and dispossessed working class.
Cruz would have to up his game from 28% now to 57% to win it.
Rubio would have to up his game from 15% now to 61% to win it.
Like that's going to happen.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Trump's base, working poor and blue collar Americans, is ENORMOUS: At least 57% of all earners!
The average blue collar worker makes $32,000 a year in 2016.
In 2014 up to 90 million workers made only that much, or less.
They're YUGE!
Rush Limbaugh drinks the Charles Murray KoolAid
In the segment airing right now.
Americanism is an ideology. What does this ideology — Huntington called
it the ‘American creed’ — consist of? Its three core values may be
summarized as egalitarianism, liberty and individualism.
Remembrance Project says Marco Rubio is the single most egregious promoter of open borders in Congress
A Voice for the Victims Killed by illegal aliens
_____________________________________________________
February 28, 2016
Open Letter to All GOP Voters
Dear Republican Voter:
We write to you today as American citizens, and as The Remembrance Project’s “stolen lives” families who have lost our children, siblings, parents and other close family members to senseless illegal alien killings. To bury your own child or loved one causes a pain beyond description or imagination, and a suffering we will carry every day of our lives.
As surviving families, we ask “Why was this allowed to be done to our innocent loved ones?” The inconvenient truth is that we have been betrayed by politicians who have not merely failed, but who have intentionally refused to enforce our immigration laws that would protect our families. Consequently, the people we so dearly loved have been sacrificed, many murdered in cold blood, by violent criminal illegal aliens who should never have been allowed into our communities.
Sadly, the single most egregious Congressional promoter of open borders is GOP Senator Marco Rubio. As a key member of the notorious “immigration reform” Gang of Eight committee, Rubio’s amnesty plan was hatched, not only to give mass amnesty to illegals, but was done through daily lies about its contents:
· Rubio boldly claimed it was security first - but it was amnesty first, security never.
· Rubio said no amnesty for criminals - but in reality it allowed amnesty to some of the most dangerous criminals in America.
· Rubio said it was the toughest bill ever - it was the worst bill ever, supported by virtually every open borders politicians inside and outside Congress.
Through this process, Senator Rubio steadfastly ignored our families and the warnings of law enforcement. Not once did he reach out to our families, or other families whose loved ones’ were killed by the illegal aliens. In the aftermath of 2013, and even today, each time Rubio has a chance to do something on behalf of American victims, he chooses instead to push amnesty and side with open borders and foreign interests to make life harder and more dangerous for law-abiding American families.
We do not want other families to die at the hands of illegal aliens. We want to end the massacre of innocents in exchange for enriching open border self-interest cartels. We are pleading with the Republican voter: Reject Rubio.
Send a message to every politician in Washington D.C.: if you betray American citizens, you will never occupy the Oval Office.
Sincerely,
Maria Espinoza
Co-founder and Nat’l Director
Juan Benavides – His brother, Jessie 32, was shot nine (9) times at a children’s birthday party. His young son witnessed the murder. Jesse was his only living family member. Dallas, Texas, is a sanctuary city.
Deborah Benson Benton – Her brother, David 55, was run over by illegal who had been drinking all night in parking lot of local Mexican restaurant. The impact severed David’s legs. David became lodged in the windshield. Illegal drove around trying to dislodge his body.
Jim and JoAnne Binger – Daughter, Brittany16, raped and viciously murdered. Illegal crushed her face with rock. Brittany was their only surviving child.
Jeri Countryman – Daughter, Dani 16, raped and viciously murdered by 2 illegals.
Sabine Durden – Son, Dominic 32 pilot and EMS personnel was, run over while motorcycling to work by an illegal with priors. Dominic was her only child.
Michael Fromer - Son, Joshua 19, run over while motorcycling to work by an illegal alien.
Dan Golvach – Son, Spencer 25 year old, shot in the head by illegal while sitting in his truck at a traffic light. Only child of
Charlene Gonzalez – Husband, Dr. Mario Gonzalez 56, shot several times by 4 illegals who attempted kidnap of Mrs. Gonzales, who was pregnant.
Patricia and Daniel Gonzalez – Son, Reece 24, stabbed to death during home invasion while visiting his disabled uncle.
Bill and Teri Hartzell – Grandmother, Louise Sollowin 93, raped and beaten to death.
Billy and Cathy Inman – Son, Dustin 16, family was rear-ended by alleged drunk illegal alien. Cathy is permanently disabled and sustained brain injury. Dustin was their only child.
Merrell and Mona Kilborn – Mother, Margaret 90, killed by illegal alien driving drunk.
Sue Krentz – Husband, Robert 58, shot by illegal alien “south-bounder” who had delivered drugs into USA, robbed two homes, and used stolen gun to shoot Rob, a father and grandfather.
Kisha and Chris Lambert – daughter, Shatavia 14, shot in the back during robbery. Illegal stole her pendant, an earring, and $7.
Maureen Grossi Laquerre – Brother, Richard, killed when illegal ran stop sign and flashing red light, slamming into Richard’s motorcycle near his home. He died 6 weeks later.
Elaine Lofink – Husband, Robert 75, tire from trailer driven by illegal crashed into their car.
Vickie Schermock Lyon – Daughter, Dennielle 25 and mother of 2, head on collision by drunk illegal alien. Illegals family removed him from hospital in middle of night and remains at large.
Maureen Maloney – Son, Matthew 23, while on his motorcycle, a drunk illegal alien crashed into Matthew. Matthew became lodged in the fender of the truck and dragged over ¼ mile while illegal attempted to flee from scene.
Brian McCann – Brother, Denny McCann 66, while walking he was hit and dragged by drunk illegal alien.
Mary Ann Mendoza – Son, Sgt. Brandon Mendoza, crashed into by drunk illegal alien driving wrong way on several different freeways.
Angie Moreno – Son, Ruben Morfin 13__, shot in the head by illegal while walking to his grandmothers
Don Rosenberg – Son, Drew 23, run over 3 times by illegal alien while motorcycling.
Carrie and Lou Ruiz – Daughter, Felicia 16, stabbed over 39 times by an illegal alien who fled and remains free.
Brenda Sparks – Son, Eric Zepeda 22, while motorcycling with his girlfriend, illegal alien crashed into them. Eric succumbed to his injuries 6 weeks later.
Ray Tranchant – Daughter, Tessa 16, rear-ended by drunk illegal alien. Tessa and her best friend, Allyson Kunhardt was also killed.
Carol Vizzi – Son, Justin Goodman32,father and husband, killed by illegal alien while motorcycling to work. Jason was Carol’s only child.
Rhonda West – Son, Kendrick 14, killed by drunk illegal alien while walking to school with a friend.
Laura and George Wilkerson – Son, Joshua 17, choked, tortured, dumped in a field and burned by illegal DREAMer classmate whom he gave a ride home from school.
Clarissa Winchester – Rachel Click, killed in car crash by drunk illegal alien.
Kathy Woods – Son, Steven 17, killed when gang of illegals attacked him and his friends. Smashed window with iron pipe, then pierced Steven’s skull with a sharpened paint roller handle.
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How about Republicans demand the Khalidi/Obama video from the LA Times, huh?
"Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama", April 10th, 2008:
At Khalidi's going-away party in 2003, the scholar lavished praise on Obama, telling the mostly Palestinian American crowd that the state senator deserved their help in winning a U.S. Senate seat. "You will not have a better senator under any circumstances," Khalidi said.
The event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times.
Senator Ben Sasse, race-baiting, lying liberal suck-up who believes in amnesty for illegal aliens
Interviewed here:
CHUCK TODD: I believe you are the only Republican [senator] right now who was said you will not vote for Donald Trump under any circumstances...
SEN. BEN SASSE (R-NE): . . . This guy believes in abortion on demand, this guy says that he hates the concept of guns, this guy's been for single-payer health care, he's for a $6 trillion tax increase. ... [W]hen you listen to Donald Trump, all you really hear is more Donald Trump, more tear it down, and a lot of praise of foreign dictators. ... [Y]ou did a great service to people by talking about the history of the Whigs and the Republicans. This is, in some ways, an 1860 moment. ... [I]f this becomes the Donald Trump/David Duke party, there are a lot of us who are out.
Mark Levin's Conservative Review gives Ben Sasse an "A" rating:
Sasse also supports legal status for illegal immigrants.
Marco Rubio violates his pledge to support the party's nominee
WaPo reports here:
Rubio and his aides have been promoting a #NeverTrump campaign on Twitter. Trump said Sunday that the opposition was the latest slight against him from party insiders and a “total violation” of the Republican National Committee pledge each candidate signed vowing to support the party’s eventual nominee.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Dumb shit Senate absentee Marco Rubio doesn't realize decades-old oil export ban was already rescinded last December
Noted here:
Rubio told supporters he would lift the ban as president at a private fundraiser in Texas Friday, and his campaign website has an entire page devoted to the need to lift the ban. “I would also allow American oil producers to be able to export,” Rubio said, when asked what he would do about poor oil prices as president. “Right now we’re not allowed to export.”
Congress lifted the ban in December as part of the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill it passed. “Oil companies rush to exploit end of U.S. crude export ban,” reported Reuters in the wake of the vote that ended a 40-year ban on crude oil exports. ...
Rubio missed the omnibus vote, opting to campaign for president instead. He later chalked up his absence to a vote against a bill full of “garbage.” “The outcome is already predetermined,” he told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News in December.
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Rubio is so out of touch he doesn't even realize Republicans gave away the store just to get the export ban lifted.
Whites outperformed for Obama in 2012 despite 2009 Porkulus and 2010 Obamacare, stiffing Romney by 18%
Romney received 59% of the white vote nationally in 2012 according to CNN Politics exit polling figures (which do not exist for 19 states), but underperformed that with whites in 21 states, losing the white vote outright in 8 of them:
California 53%
Colorado 54%
Connecticut 48%
Illinois 52%
Iowa 47%
Maine 40%
Maryland 55%
Massachusetts 42%
Michigan 55%
Minnesota 49%
Nevada 56%
New Hampshire 47%
New Jersey 56%
New Mexico 56%
New York 49%
Ohio 57%
Oregon 44%
Pennsylvania 57%
Vermont 33%
Washington 46%
Wisconsin 51%.
On an average percentage basis, Romney garnered just under 50% of the white vote in these states, losing them all to Obama, underperforming his own national showing among whites by 18% on average.
The white vote is especially interesting in the four states in the east which Romney lost by just 429,522 votes in the aggregate (2.3% of the total votes cast), which together with his 206 electoral college votes would have given him the 270 necessary to win the election:
Florida, lost by 74,309 votes (0.87% of the total vote cast there in 2012)
Virginia, lost by 149,298 (3.87%)
New Hampshire, lost by 39,643 (5.57%)
Ohio, lost by 166,272 (2.97%).
In Florida Romney outperformed himself with whites, getting 61% of the white vote (67%), but needed 62.4% of it to win. In Florida Romney needed to do 2.3% better with whites to win than he did.
In Virginia Romney also outperformed himself with whites, getting 61% of the white vote (70%), but needed 66.53% of whites to win. That meant doing 9.1% better with whites in Virginia than he did.
In New Hampshire Romney severely underperformed himself with whites, getting just 47% of the white vote (93%). He needed to increase that to 53% to win it. In other words, Romney needed to do 13% better with whites in New Hampshire than he did.
And in Ohio Romney also underperformed himself with whites, getting 57% of the white vote in 2012 (79%). To win it he needed 60.8%. In other words, Romney needed to do 6.7% better among whites in Ohio to win than he did.
So on average Romney needed to do about 8% better with whites than he did in order to win these four states and with them the election. But overall it was Romney's severe underperformance with whites from California to Vermont which meant that even that was highly unlikely to happen in the end.
On an average percentage basis, Romney garnered just under 50% of the white vote in these states, losing them all to Obama, underperforming his own national showing among whites by 18% on average.
The white vote is especially interesting in the four states in the east which Romney lost by just 429,522 votes in the aggregate (2.3% of the total votes cast), which together with his 206 electoral college votes would have given him the 270 necessary to win the election:
Florida, lost by 74,309 votes (0.87% of the total vote cast there in 2012)
Virginia, lost by 149,298 (3.87%)
New Hampshire, lost by 39,643 (5.57%)
Ohio, lost by 166,272 (2.97%).
In Florida Romney outperformed himself with whites, getting 61% of the white vote (67%), but needed 62.4% of it to win. In Florida Romney needed to do 2.3% better with whites to win than he did.
In Virginia Romney also outperformed himself with whites, getting 61% of the white vote (70%), but needed 66.53% of whites to win. That meant doing 9.1% better with whites in Virginia than he did.
In New Hampshire Romney severely underperformed himself with whites, getting just 47% of the white vote (93%). He needed to increase that to 53% to win it. In other words, Romney needed to do 13% better with whites in New Hampshire than he did.
And in Ohio Romney also underperformed himself with whites, getting 57% of the white vote in 2012 (79%). To win it he needed 60.8%. In other words, Romney needed to do 6.7% better among whites in Ohio to win than he did.
So on average Romney needed to do about 8% better with whites than he did in order to win these four states and with them the election. But overall it was Romney's severe underperformance with whites from California to Vermont which meant that even that was highly unlikely to happen in the end.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Hannity and Limbaugh deserve the beating administered in re Marco Rubio @AnnCoulter
Both care more about their brands than they do about the country.
Why Marco Rubio sweats: The New York Times details how he tried to convince conservative talk radio to accept the Gang of Eight bill
Here.
It's worth remembering the full court press Rubio made on behalf of his bill, especially now that he's running away from it as fast as he can.
Maybe that's why he sweats so much.
Rush Limbaugh comes off looking like a total dupe, but the truth is Limbaugh remained skeptical of yet another promise to secure the border first. As I remember it Rush had to have Rubio on a second time to clarify that.
More generally, the only conservative talk radio show to oppose the Gang of Eight bill consistently and forthrightly was Laura Ingraham's. Nobody on radio has done more to prepare the way for Trump's message on the issue, and to kill the terrible reform efforts of Bush in 2007 and Rubio's in 2013.
Elite conservative opinion about Hillary Clinton translated into working class
Clinton carries the baggage of the Obama administration and has scarcely uttered a sentence of unchallengeable truthfulness since she was first noticed in the crucifixion party that bustled Richard Nixon to his Golgotha more than 40 years ago.
Translation:
That cunt Hillary Clinton has been a liar for 40 fucking years.
Coulter in July 2015: Trump's enormously popular with the working class, people who need the jobs being given to illegal immigrants
Here:
"He’s enormously popular with the working class. He’s quite popular with black people who want those jobs.”
Trump in August 2013: The people I resonate best with, my base, are poor people and blue collar people, working class people
Here, with Greta Van Susteren during one of Obama's sumptuous, too long vacations in August 2013.
Trump is winning today because he has long understood who is his base, what to say to it, and how to keep it.
The histrionic invectives against Trump by elites in the political parties, government, the media, entertainment, the academy and the church are really invectives against the people who still work, who make this country work.
If elites want to stop Trump, the only way they can do it is to co-opt the support of the working class, and unfortunately for the elites, they've erected an entire system over decades designed explicitly to screw the working class.
The chickens . . . have come home . . . to roost.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Marco Rubio's new instructions to his robot army
In Marco Rubio's bubble world he only imagines that he unmasked Donald Trump in the Houston debate Thursday night. Just because he says so, it must be true.
Here:
I said it last night, if he had not inherited $200 million, right now he would be selling watches in Times Square or doing a Saturday morning infomercial where he teaches you how to flip properties. So we unmasked him last night. It's time for you to unmask him as well. You all have friends, you all have friends thinking about voting for Donald Trump. Friends do not let friends vote for con artists.
So repeat after me Rubio Robot Army:
"Donald Trump inherited $200 million".
"Donald Trump inherited $200 million".
"Donald Trump inherited $200 million".
"Donald Trump inherited $200 million".
"Donald Trump inherited $200 million".
"Donald Trump inherited $200 million".
"Donald Trump inherited $200 million".
"Donald . . .
John O'Sullivan: Rubio is the poster boy for the liberal immigration policies which Trump launched his campaign to oppose
Green card holder John O'Sullivan at National Review prefers Trump to the ever mendacious Marco Rubio, here:
[N]one of the three leading Republicans have been exactly models of truth-telling in this campaign. So the relevant question then becomes “Compared with whom?” Let’s compare Trump’s boastful and evasive untruths with the very different lies of Marco Rubio on various immigration bills he has tried to sell to conservatives (as detailed by John Fonte on NRO on Wednesday.) These amounted to a long campaign of deliberate mendacity intended to deceive allies on a matter of the greatest public interest so that they would unknowingly support what they really oppose.
O'Sullivan correctly acknowledges that Trump's is a non-ideological conservatism which is widely shared among Americans:
Conservatives in practice accept that their realism about human nature shouldn’t (or can’t) stop at the door of the voting booth. What there is of Trump’s conservatism seems to be of that kind. And that seems also to be true of “ordinary” conservatives outside Washington, as several writers such as Rod Dreher have pointed out. They tend not to have highly consistent ideologies but to tolerate contradictions within a broadly conservative outlook. One very likely effect of a GOP conservatism influenced by Trumpery, therefore, is that it will remain conservative but in a less consistently ideological way. It is likely to be more spasmodically interventionist in economic policy, more concerned with directly protecting the interests of Americans (and especially the voting groups who have surged up to back Trump), more anxious about how to solve the problems identified by Charles Murray in Fishtown without spending too much more on them, more protective of entitlements, and more loudly patriotic in general. As a fully paid-up Thatcherite, I will find a lot of this irksome and mistaken. It will remind me of the pre-Thatcher Tory party and its bumbling resistance to economic rationality. And I’m beginning to feel grouchily that I want to hear a little less about American exceptionalism until the U.S. manages not to lose a war.
Gov. Chris Christie's endorsement of Donald Trump pisses off fake conservative Jennifer Rubin, impresses Newt Gingrich
From the story here:
The decision drew a sharply worded critique from Washington Post conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin, who quickly penned a rebuke of “Christie’s despicable endorsement.”
Other GOP figures described the endorsement as a big move coming ahead of Super Tuesday next week, when Trump seems poised to increase his delegate lead.
“This is a huge step for Trump and will impact Super Tuesday [big] time,” 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said on Twitter.
“This Chris Christie endorsement of Trump is real signal to GOP establishment that they had better begin thinking about Trump as the future.”
For a two-faced lying phony, you can't beat badly aging Michael Medved and his smear job of Trump
From the story here:
In 2012, Medved called Sen. Harry Reid a scumbag the worst man in politics for using Romney's tax returns as an attack on the candidate. Medved said Reid was using the tax return attack as a "distraction" from President Obama's failed administration.
"This attempt to smear and distract, and what is this all about?" Medved rhetorically asked.
Friday, February 26, 2016
Ted Cruz is still for legalizing illegals as non-citizens
In other words, make them the equivalent of Metics.
Chutzpah: Trump one ups Carson's answer for IRS tax audits
Ben Carson implied in the Republican debate last night that he was politically targeted for an IRS audit after speaking out publicly against Obamacare.
Donald Trump seemed to like the answer so much he decided to go for it for himself.
In remarks made to Chris Cuomo on CNN immediately after the debate, Trump blamed his long history of tax audits on the fact that he was being targeted for being a Christian.
Yeah, like the whole world thinks that's the reason.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Elites in both parties are so over the top against Trump because if he gets into the White House . . .
. . . he's likely to acquire information he'll get access to which proves their self-serving betrayal of their country. Information is power. Don't forget Filegate.
Can't wait.
P.O.S. Mitt Romney does a Dirty Harry Reid on Donald Trump . . .
. . . says there may be something hiding in Trump's tax returns.
Must be payback for eventually saying Romney was a lousy candidate even though at the time Trump supported Romney and even defended him against Reid.
Story here.
Marco Rubio, the very intelligent imbecile: "You don't win the nomination by how many states you win"
No, obviously you win the nomination by losing all the states!
You Republicans who are promoting this moron better find a new candidate because this one is umbday in any language.
Video available here.
John McCain's writer Mark Salter says don't vote for Trump even if that means Hillary becomes president
Here:
Trump is not trying to make great America great. He’s trying to make us the worst we can be to satisfy his own vainglory. There’s no dealing with him, no trying to encourage him to behave like a grown-up, much less a statesman. If you can see him plainly and you love our country, you must vote against him. Even if that means electing Hillary Clinton.
P.O.S.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: Russia should be our natural ally, but instead Obama is being belligerent
Here in The National Interest:
Today, we have . . . a waning military capacity coupled with petulant policies towards Russia, a country that could be an ally against such mutual enemies as radical Islam and, potentially, an expanding China.
It represents a stunning and total failure of vision, moral and strategic. We must cast aside such absurd, costly, unachievable and un-American ambitions that would have us policing and garrisoning the planet, intervening in every conflict. We must favor a policy that cultivates mutually beneficial relations with nations of like culture and values, negotiating smartly in the national interest—all, of course, while maintaining a defensive military posture second to none.
Mr. Money Mustache: Obsessive compulsive, and a bunch of other enthusiasms
From the story in The New Yorker, here:
The blog, which he started five years ago, is really an attack on consumerism and waste—a theology of conservation—disguised as a personal-finance advice column. The prospect of retirement is in some respects just a lure—the carrot, as opposed to the stick of his relentless polemical thrashing of anyone who thinks it’s O.K. to buy lattes at Starbucks or drive “a gigantic piece of shit that can barely navigate a parking lot.” He told me, “I’m really just trying to get rich people to stop destroying the planet.” ... [A]t one point I realized that he was almost angry at me for my half-witting participation in the destruction of the world. ... When you play devil’s advocate—for instance, if you suggest that if everyone lived the way he does the economy would shrivel up—he can get riled . . .. [Peter] Adeney has the behavioral-economics view that we should set our policies to encourage sensible behavior—the obvious example being a carbon tax. “It’s libertarian paternalism, or maybe it’s paternalistic libertarianism,” he said. “I am trying to improve the commons.” On his blog, he dispenses deep thoughts, product recommendations (credit cards, brokerages, laser printers), and D.I.Y. work-arounds (“How to Carry Major Appliances on Your Bike”—“It is absolutely ridiculous to buy even your first bottle of wine or restaurant meal if you do not yet have a good bicycle and a bike trailer”).
Trump is outpolling both Mitt Romney in 2012 and John McCain in 2008
The Weekly Standard reports here:
All told, Trump has now won approximately 420,000 votes. After the first four states had voted in 2012, Mitt Romney had won about 387,000 votes. Back in 2008, meanwhile, eventual nominee John McCain had won a little more than 250,000 votes after Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada had voted.
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