Will the Optimist Trump Run Away With the Election?

Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2020 | William Marshall

[Cobra64]

Yup. We need a 10% cushion against VOTER FRAUD. Unfortunately, no one does anything about it.

[Texas Eagle]

Nice.

[poconopundit]

Love that quote, Texas Eagle!

Trump is the eternal optimist... and it's because he knows like few people on Earth (Bezos, Gates, Musk included) the "user interface to the world" [Scott Adams].

And he received some of his winning attitude from Norman Vincent Peale, his pastor and author of The Power of Positive Thinking.

Good story on this subject: The Self-Help Guru Who Shaped Trump’s Worldview

[poconopundit]

Three questions I'd ask Bernie and Warren face-to-face as they are strapped to a chair and cannot refuse to hear:

1. Where would the human race be without greed -- or people wanting to make a decent living and get ahead in life?

2. Is the money rich people have squirreled away aimlessly?  No, it's being put to use in investments that provide jobs and prosperity for the commonwealth.

3. Did you ever hear this Emerson quote?
   The men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map, and survey,-- the monomaniacs, who talk up their project in marts, and offices, and entreat men to subscribe: -- how did our factories get built?  How did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators, who dragged all the prudent men in?

   This speculative genius is the madness of few for the gain of the world.  The projectors are sacrificed, but the public is the gainer.  Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could.  He is met and antagonized by other speculators, as hot as he.  The equilibrium is preserved by these counteractions, as one tree keeps down another in the forest, that it may not absorb all the sap in the ground.

[ThanhPhero]

It occurs to me that if candidate Bernie has his final heart attack in October then we are truly in a pickle because the Democrats will loudly and perhaps violently demand the right to ring in a substitute other than the VP nominee. Were it any Republican other than DJT at the helm they would get their way.

[School of Rational Thought]

Let’s not pretend.

It is going to be a tough battle, even for Trump, although expectations are a win.

Worse yet, will be elections in Senate and House.

Time to double down.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Trump is going to win yuge!