Hello!
And hopefully, it'll be Trump/Cruz.
I think that that's a powerful ticket!
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
Posted on 01/06/2016 1:20:10 PM PST by JSDude1
With the next Republican debate scheduled for later this month, I thought it might be worth stepping back to ask about the state of play on the political field. The first item of business is
TRUMPERY. I last wrote at any length about The Donald at the end of July when he was first really soaring in the polls. “I don’t think Donald Trump will be the GOP candidate in 2016,†I wrote then, and I still believe that.
But I also continue to believe, as I said then, that Donald Trump “has raised some issues that the high and mighty dispensers of conventional wisdom would do well to ponder.†Sure, Trump is the walking epitome of vulgarity, a veritable Platonic Form of the gilded comb-over. But what repels the Volvo-driving, Ivy-League-aspiring, SNL-watching, post-Christian, gun-hating, illiberal liberal elite often plays well in flyover country where, mirabile dictu, many folks who still possess
the franchise reside. They kind of liked it when Donald Trump said, à propos John McCain, that he preferred war heroes who did not get captured by the enemy. They liked it when he called Rosie O’Donnell a “fat pigâ€: between us, they think she is a fat pig, too. The mot about the dishy Megyn Kelly bleeding from “the eyes or wherever†was kind of gross, but CNN got it exactly wrong when they said that Trump’s comment “draws outrage.â€
What it drew were titters, partly of admiration (in the old sense), partly of relief. At a time when politicians, like academics, like journalists, are enjoined to walk about on a field of eggshells, worried about offending feministsblackscripplesgaysmexicansinjunsmuslimsweirdosofalldescriptions, Trump’s bravado was . . . refreshing.
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“But I believe I was correct in my final prediction, namely that Trump’s sudden, unexpected, impossible rise told us something far different from the narrative woven by the Minders, by our masters in Washington. They said, they are saying still, that Trump’s success tells us chiefly how stupid people are, how much they need to be guided by the suits in Washington, the blowhards in academia, the preening self-important megaphones in the media. ‘If you believe that,’ I concluded back in July, ‘you are going to be profoundly disappointed come November 2016.’”
I fixed his “I before E” problem in “chiefly”. Go Trump/Cruz!
I can’t see Trump playing second fiddle to anyone. But Cruz might be willing to be VP for 8 years then run for president in 2024.
He’s already said he won’t.
Hello!
And hopefully, it'll be Trump/Cruz.
I think that that's a powerful ticket!
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
I am done with the debates.
No more are needed.
Rubio was never a serious consideration for anyone who didn’t want the country given away.
I agree. Trump is the next nominee. Its too late for any of the others to catch up. Let the voting commence. :-)
It will never, ever be "Cruz AND Trump," unless you're talking about a 3rd party candidacy.
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