Posted on 02/02/2016 8:57:16 AM PST by conservativejoy
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Not really. He shut it down before campaigning.
Trump spent a lot of money on an Iowa ground game, only ignoring it more recently.
And somebody spent millions advertising for Trump in Iowa. Who was it?
Trump’s style of campaigning is fine for normal states, but not for Iowa where people expect to be wooed, cuddled and coddled for months. He tried to change that, and it didn’t work. Skipping the debate probably cost him some votes, as did his incessant attacks on Cruz. But, for all of his mistakes, he still came in 2nd.
Hopefully, he’ll learn from his mistakes, and go on to victory elsewhere.
“Trump needs to curtail the post-Iowa grousing.”
He can’t.
His supporters will become bored unless he constantly ratchets up his rhetoric.
His campaign is a one issue campaign based strictly on emotions.
Build the wall nothing else matters, pure emotion.
“I don’t worry about it. It is the equivalent of watching an almost 70 year old man have a two year old’s fit. :)”
Yeah, that is about how I look at it, too! ;-)
Well that’s just Trump. I have not seen any tweets out of bounds.
Let’s hope he learns what he needs to learn and moves on.
I wasn't aware that anybody but Trump spent any money on his Campaign. Since you implied they exist, who are they?
Cruz had the best ground game and his Campaign spent a year setting it up from what I've read here. His calculation obviously paid off in Iowa big time. Great Campaign tactics.
BEST Campaign Season ever. To be frank, I find the Democrat situation much more compelling at this stage of the game.
Operation Chaos part two, Bolsheviks for Bernie!
I’m not real worried about it. Trump is a smart guy. He did well in Iowa and he knows it. I don’t think he really thought he was going to win the most evangelical state in the Union.
Trump got the second highest Iowa votes ever. Many of those people were self identified Evangelicals and conservatives. Many good FReepers support him too as do many fine Americans everywhere.
But yeah puff out your chest over a one delegate victory and call everyone idiots in the process.
i bet you’re one who claims to be so put off by Trump’s insults but you have no problem crapping on many good people of which you know nothing of their motives and intellect.
Two out of the last four picks. Cruz will take those odds.
In the past few weeks, “outsider” Trump started to get chummy with the establishment, and people realized that Trump was all about Trump. He looked like just another part of the corrupt oligarchy. He also got soft on abortion. Cruz, meanwhile, proved that a principled stance on ethanol defeats King Corn.
Somebody spent at least $3.2 million in Iowa advertising for Trump. (The final spending totals won’t actually be reported for a while. If it wasn’t Trump (I’m asking YOU), who spent that money?
Who hired Chuck Laudner and his staff, and what did they do?
"Lazy" is probably not the right word. Unconventional, maybe, perhaps even radical, but not lazy.
-PJ
No. Cruz beat Trump in and around Des Moines.
Those citing that Trump is only one delegate behind are missing the point: Trump underperformed expectations and lost the impression of inevitability. The NH polls will tighten dramatically this week. Don’t focus on the raw numbers, the trend will forecast the result next Tue. It’s still competitive but the winners need to build on their success and the others need to adjust. Trump will be making a mistake if he thinks last weeks polls are relevant. It’s like holding a stock - it’s value is only on paper until you sell...
I’ve always considered Trump a 2 bit blowhard.
Someone gives him talking points on a subject and he tries to BS his way through acting like he knows what he’s talking about.
I have no idea. Never heard it before you asked the question.
I’m not here to prove your accusations. You said it, you prove it, not that I really care.
Did you read my disclaimer? Too bad it seems to be a necessity around here. Maybe you need to get the Vaccine.
Luckily, I am Immune to BOTH the dreaded CDS and TDS Virus Strains. That being said, I may have to get the RDS Shot, don’t trust that guy as far as I can throw him.
Heading to work. I’ll leave it to you to sort it out. #;^)
Yet the issues that Trump stuck his neck out and raised since last summer are still the biggest ones driving this election season.
He put immigration at the top of the American consciousness.
He went more hardline than anyone on our Muslim invasion which is literally destroying Europe.
He has called our trade deals into account when even Senators like Cruz were going along with Obama.
He has preemptively ended the Democrat War on Woman meme by boldly calling Bill Clinton out and thus neutering that issue for whoever wins the GOP nomination.
So yeah sure Trump is all BS. Thank god for his BS then I say.
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