I am happy Ted won Iowa but his victory speech wore me the hell out. Thank the volunteers, thank the endorsements, thank your family, and finally the voters, then on to New Hampshire. Short sweet and serious.
A forty + minute stump speech after a win is ridiculous and reminds some why they didn’t vote for you. Tighten’ it up Ted.
Face to face sincerity and honesty, a lost art, especially for a politician.
https://youtu.be/I6cUDscjrNg
Your Democratic front runners for President, a sloppy bum who couldn’t hold a job despite a college education, and a vile corrupt woman who would say or do anything too attain/keep power.
It wasn’t as bad as he says. His family managed to send him to the University of Chicago. Despite a prestigious degree, however, Sanders failed to earn a living, even as an adult. It took him 40 years to collect his first steady paycheck — and it was a government check.
Then he tried his hand freelancing for leftist rags, writing about “masturbation and rape” and other crudities for $50 a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working windshield wipers. Friends said he was “always poor” and his “electricity was turned off a lot.” They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment — and this is what his friends had to say about him.
The only thing he was good at was talking … non-stop … about socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off. “The whole quality of life in America is based on greed,” the bitter layabout said. “I believe in the redistribution of wealth in this nation.”
So he tried politics.
H/T Ace of Spades – Here…
Remember elections have consequences.
“The FBI sent 100 agents in 40 armored vehicles to murder one man in Oregon, but they haven’t even interviewed Hillary Clinton yet.”
….don’t you think.
The intelligence community has now deemed some of Hillary Clinton’s emails “too damaging” to national security to release under any circumstances, according to a U.S. government official close to the ongoing review. A second source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, backed up the finding.
The decision to withhold the documents in full, and not provide even a partial release with redactions, further undercuts claims by the State Department and the Clinton campaign that none of the intelligence in the emails was classified when it hit Clinton’s personal server.
On immigration policy, party elders were caught completely by surprise. Even canny operators like Ted Cruz didn’t appreciate the depth of voter anger on the subject. And why would they? If you live in an affluent ZIP code, it’s hard to see a downside to mass low-wage immigration. Your kids don’t go to public school. You don’t take the bus or use the emergency room for health care. No immigrant is competing for your job. (The day Hondurans start getting hired as green energy lobbyists is the day my neighbors become nativists.) Plus, you get cheap servants, and get to feel welcoming and virtuous while paying them less per hour than your kids make at a summer job on Nantucket. It’s all good.
Fuckin’ exhausting……you just want to hear a coherent plan spoken in English, not vague promises. Ughh.
As far as Frank Luntz focus groups….
My advice to Trump in a previous post was, if you are going to pick a fight with a Fox News moderator and threaten a boycott, then just do it. It makes no sense drawing a line in the sand if you continue to cross it.
So he’s not doing the debate, good for him. I didn’t think he would do it. I guess if you keep throwing Twitter bombs at Megyn Kelley, eventually you will have to back up the tough talk.
Now follow me on this. He picked a fight, Fox News punched back. If he shows up at the debate after the fact he looks bad. If he doesn’t show up he will be called a whiny little bitch not being able to face Ms. Kelley. It was a lose-lose scenario for him after he started the fight.
That begs the question, why? Why open up a healed wound? The first debate dust up was buried, Roger Ailes and Trump kissed and made up, all was well in the kingdom.
I think he bailed because he genuinely didn’t want to do the debate, didn’t want to face Cruz and the boys, and this was a good excuse. Why give Cruz another shot at him? Trump has a passionate following. He knows his backers would vote for him even if he showed up in a grass skirt and coconut bra, but some could turn if he has a major debate melt down or stumble. Why chance it?
So he doesn’t have to face Cruz, Jeb, or Rubio again, he doesn’t hurt himself in the last national debate when everybody on the stage will be taking shots at the front runner. He blows off spending the week in Iowa where poll numbers show he could lose, debate or not. He blasts through New Hampshire with a huge win and momentum heading south with the Iowa drama tossed in the dust bin of history, much like Santorum’s Iowa win back in 2012.
He took this lose-lose scenario, and in his mind, turned it into victory. And if the debate ratings tank, he successfully poked a stick in the eye of Megyn and Fox News.
So there you have it, in my humble opinion, Trump comes out of this unscathed……..but I’m a Cruz guy, so what do I know.
A tribe’s essence may sleep, but it never dies. It may lie dormant, but it will never go extinct.
As new immigrants gain numerical power and ruling class protection in their host nations, the tribal instinct within their second and third generation cousins already in the country is released from its artificial suppression. The few secular liberal minority tokens that equalist leftoids, in a pique of supreme naivete, assume are representative of all of the minority tribe’s people, will recede to nothingness as their half-hearted voices are drowned out by the ululations of their extended family.
To put it more bluntly, that smiling taxi driver praising America will revert with a quickness to the mores and standards of his race as soon as there are enough of his kind in close proximity to safely let his assimilationist mask slip.
UPDATE: That was quick, went to watch a nieces basketball game after this post and came home to find out Trumps out of debate, weird.
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Tough talk, snarky tweets, and mocking is all we have gotten so far out of Trump. If he is really that dedicated to the tough guy stance, then he should walk away from Thursdays final debate. Megyn Kelly did attack him in the first debate and they have been prodding each other ever since.
If Trump actually walks, it would show people he means what he says in a very substantial way, plus he sucks at debates, it would only help him if he didn’t show up.
Megyn has been the darling of talk shows and magazines before and after the first debate, her Vanity Fair spot read more like liberal lesbian love letter than a chick mag cover story.
Her occasional, yet highly entertaining, bucking of the conservative party line has attracted more independent-minded viewers and has even earned praise from liberals such as Chris Matthews, Joy Behar, and Gayle King. As of late, passersby have been calling out versions of “It’s not too late to come to the other side!” Still, some media types warn against getting too excited over Kelly. As Bill Maher put it, “We think of Megyn Kelly as the sane one over there at Fox News. It’s just because she’s surrounded by Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. She’s like the blonde dragon girl on Game of Thrones. Everyone else is a zombie or a dwarf or fucking their sister, so she looks normal.”
Jessica Yellin, a former chief White House correspondent for CNN, says, “She defies all the pigeonholing that usually happens to women on TV. She’s smart, strong, sexy, fierce, sympathetic all at once.”
Veteran newswoman Katie Couric praises her dogged interviewing skills, crucial when interrogating dodging politicians. “She takes no prisoners and takes no BS,” says Couric. “And I’ve noticed that she’s a really good listener. Sometimes the tendency is to go down a laundry list of questions and to not say, ‘Wait a minute.’ It requires you to think on your feet and to take the conversation in a totally different direction.”
Don’t get the wrong idea here, I like Megyn Kelly, very much so. But I also think she did Trump an injustice in the first debate, and Trump acknowledged the slight, a number of times. Now he is threatening a boycott of the debate…………well…………do it.
If I am to believe you will do what you say if elected POTUS, then knock off the social media red lines and don’t show up.
Do that Mr. Trump, and I will take another look at you for my vote, do it not, and your just another tough talking politician who doesn’t follow through with anything they say, we already have plenty of that in Washington.
Fox News head will let Trump walk before replacing Megyn Kelly as debate moderator – The Washington Post
Well, Ailes has news for Trump. If it comes down to a choice between Trump or Kelly, he’ll pick Kelly.
“Megyn Kelly is an excellent journalist, and the entire network stands behind her,” Ailes said in a statement to The Fix. “She will absolutely be on the debate stage on Thursday night.”
So there.
Balls in your court tough guy.