Posted on 05/10/2016 4:19:08 PM PDT by GilGil
One of the few things Hillary Clinton has going for her is that she’s inevitable. But for how long? She will win the Democratic presidential nomination barring the unlikely event that we still live in a country governed by the rule of law. But will she inevitably win in November? We’ve long said no, and at last there’s a poll to back us up.
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“Laws do not apply to those with plenty of political power.”
Should Trump win Obama will be giving out pardons like candy.
Don’t forget the stake.
If Hillary is waiting for Bill to counter Trump’s mind games and psychological warfare against her, she will be waiting forever.
He probably secretly loves seeing her get her comeuppance.
Hillary has NEVER WON any political office in her life. All the while, the dems and the media acting like she is the ‘smartest woman in the world’.
She lost to obama 8 years ago when she was ‘supposed’ to be the inevitable nominee and is now losing to a old socialist when she should have the nomination wrapped up now.
Put a conservative candidate who will not pull punches on attacking her and she is toast. The only way she wins is if a RINO runs against her who will not attack her because it would ‘be mean and automatically drive all the women and independents to her,’ as per what Karl Rove and his white board says.
Coal mining concerns extend beyond West Virginia. While the union bosses are splitting on Hillary and Bernie, more union members support Trump than Hillary and Bernie combined. Union membership going Trump could flip Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Kentucky and Indiana already solid Trump.
Oddly enough, people may actually vote their true interests this time around.
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Then there was Old Man Bush 20+% ahead of Clinton in ‘92. Early polls don’t mean much, either way.
Trump should spend a weak or two bashing Bern as if he is now the frontrunner. Downplay Hillary and grind her down. Ask if she might be Bern running mate.
Trump’s history with the Wollman Ice Skating Rink.
Faster And Cheaper, Trump Finishes N.y.c. Ice Rink
By Rick Lyman, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: November 01, 1986
NEW YORK — Score one for the Trumpster.
Back in June, when the city’s bungled, six-year effort to renovate the Wollman Ice-Skating Rink in Central Park was $12 million over budget with no end in sight, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump stepped forward.
Just give the project to me, he said, and I’ll finish the rink by Christmas. This Christmas. And for free.
“I have total confidence that we will be able to do it,” Trump said at the time. “I am going on record as saying that I will not be embarrassed.”
Yesterday morning, in a gala ceremony down in the sunken, tree-shrouded gulch just off Central Park South, Trump unveiled his completed rink - the ‘’largest man-made skating rink in the world,” glistening with a mirror- perfect sheath of virgin ice.
He was two months ahead of schedule, and $750,000 under budget.
“This serves as an example of what New York, the wealthiest city in the world, can do in terms of saving money - if things are done right,” an exuberant Trump said. “If we could just plan and execute, it would be billions and billions of dollars that would be saved.”
Even the weather gods cooperate with Donald Trump. Yesterday’s chilly, aquamarine morning was perfect for the occasion, the first day of the season that made ice-skating seem like a pretty good idea.
Skating champions Dick Button and Aja Zanova-Steindler were the first to test the rink. Button did a few graceful turns on the massive rink and declared the ice “velvet.”
The near-circular skating area, built in 1951, was closed in 1980 for repairs, but the project quickly fell behind schedule. By the spring of this year, with a bankrupt general contractor and an expensive, experimental refrigeration system that didn’t work, Wollman rink was left to rot.
Parks officials announced they were back at “square one,” and predicted it would take another year-and-a-half to complete the renovations.
That’s when Trump came forward.
The completed complex, near the southeast corner of the park, includes a red-brick concession stand and a rental building wrapping around the slightly sunken rink’s north end, and a massive brick-and-concrete patio overlooking the ice.
The highest towers along Central Park South are just visible over the edge of the surrounding tree line.
Trump and New York Parks Commissioner Henry Stern said the rink would be open to the public in about two weeks, giving Trump time to finish work on the concessions building and for thousands of new, rental skates to be shipped to the site.
Under the agreement, Trump will operate the rink for one year, donating any profits to a “mutually agreed charity.” He announced yesterday that the Ice Capades organization had been hired to handle the day-to-day operation.
Trump said he “knew very little about ice rinks” when he stepped into the project, but was tired of hearing about the botched city efforts and “wanted to get it open.”
He is rehabilitating a huge building on nearby Central Park South into luxury condominiums. The view from many of the more expensive units is of Wollman rink - which before Trump’s efforts had been a rusty, concrete scar on the park’s southern perimeter.
“We completed two months ahead of schedule and that’s a little change of pace and a nice thing to hear for a lot of New Yorkers,” Trump said. “We pushed very hard. We had very good men . . . and it was something we really
put a lot of oomph into.”
City officials said Trump was able to finish the project so quickly because he’s a private developer, not encumbered by city regulations governing public construction projects.
Trump attributed his success to the inclusion of “really tough penalties” against contractors who fell behind schedule - penalties that would have put them out of business.
Under his agreement with the city, Trump paid for the entire renovation out of his own pocket, with the understanding that he’d be reimbursed upon completion up to an agreed-upon limit. The finished rink came in at $1.95 million, Trump said, which was $750,000 below the limit.
Button also announced yesterday that the rink would host an invitation-only fund-raising gala Nov. 22, featuring such Olympic champions as Peggy Fleming, Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill.
“We did a job here and we put a lot of guts into it and we’re proud of it,” Trump said.
My theory is that the 'rats know they will lose regardless of whether their candidate is Hillary, Bernie, or Biden. They're willing to sacrifice the Presidency for control of both Houses again.
Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer: "I cannot vote for Trump. He's a swinger."
It makes one wonder...
It seems to me, if the “establishment” thinks Hillary will win, they won’t bother prosecuting her.
Yet, if they think there’s a good chance she’ll lose to Trump, they’ll have to at least charge her very soon, so Obama can pardon her.
There’s a ton of cover-up going on as we speak, but will it be enough to satisfy everyone who stands the chance of prosecution were the wrong things to be over-looked? We’ve got a lot of people, on both sides of the aisle, who have colluded in illegal ways in IRS, Fast-n-Furious, Benghazi, Email, border security, refugee resettlement, terrorism funding, etc...
I’ve been wearing my tinfoil hat for some time now, and take it off once in awhile.
I have also said, I’ll be surprised if we get to November this year and/or January next year without some surprises.
I’ll happily be wrong and we can all laugh at my expense come next February.
Because I’d much rather be wrong than right on this one.
IOW, I agree with you.
N00b, that was all over this site, for YEARS about the Clintons and they left. So will Obama.
Putin might be holding on to the email for now so he can do an “October Suprise” on Hillary!
That would be an interesting “October Surprise”. Maybe, Putin could let Obozo know, that if he doesn’t drop the treason bomb on Clintoon, they will.
There is NO WAY that Putin would prefer Trump to Hillary. Hillary has been part of the most inept administration on foreign policy in my lifetime and Russia (weakened as she is) has gained in power and influence. Another 4 or 8 years of this bunch on foreign policy and the damage will be permanent. Another 4 or 8 years of spending like we have had under Obama and we won’t be able to afford a military.
Sorry FRiend, but I am 100% confident about this. Putin wants us weakened so I would be stunned if he helped Trump unless he believes Trump is inevitable.
“Trump should spend a weak or two bashing Bern as if he is now the frontrunner. Downplay Hillary and grind her down. Ask if she might be Bern running mate.”
There is a certain amusement in that thought.
However, since upwards of 20% of Sanders voters have Trump as their second choice he’d have to be careful
“There is NO WAY that Putin would prefer Trump to Hillary.”
I am not sure that is true. I can see PIAPS trying to impose sanctions on Russia for not bending to the homo agendas. I can also imagine that Putin might like a more coherent policy in the mid-East than PIAPS would provide.
There are several reasons that Russia might prefer a competently led US ad not the least of them is that Russian the US have a lot of common interest
I’d beware that Q poll that came out in the past few days. I saw it on FoxNews and it was shown as a poll of “American voters”, not registered voters, not likely voters, just voters. That raises a big red flag for me. FYI
They do the same thing here in Fairfax County Virginia
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