Trump claiming victory and moving on:
Wow, new polls just out have Trump up and Cruz down - he is a nervous wreck!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2016
"Not so fast!" say the neo-cons:
Must read from @JayCostTWS on "Trump v. Cruz: Game On!" https://t.co/b8PzuweRj6
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 19, 2016
It looks increasingly like Trump will be the GOP's nominee. It shows how desperate people are that this ridiculous figure will contest the 2016 election. Since Sanders has very little chance of beating Clinton, it'll be a Trump Clinton showdown. What a horrible choice: eat shit or eat shit with a cherry on top.
ReplyDeleteI suspect Clinton will win easily. Trump's attacks on the disabled, women, Mexicans, Chinese, Muslims, etc will come back to haunt him. Every Republican says reactionary stuff to get the nomination and then tacks back to the so-called "centre". There is no tacking back to the centre for Trump.
It looks like it'll be a nasty election, far more nasty than any other. Trump will make personal attacks on Clinton and she'll happily do the same. Although you can imagine Clinton wiping the floor with Trump on policies. Clinton knows the nitty-gritty while Trump is so utterly vague it's embarrassing. Ask Trump a question on healthcare, he'll take about Mexicans, Chinese, how he's a great property developer and that all we need is Carl Icahn as treasury secretary, as if Carl Icahn will want to be treasury secretary. His whole campaign is beyond surreal. Americans are so desperate that they'll vote for surrealism. Forget Carl Icahn, dig up Salvador Dali and give him the hot seat at treasury.
Trump says that a "big endorsement" is coming soon. A rumor on twitter has it that this big endorsement is from ... Kim Jong-Un! ;)
ReplyDeletegreek looks like it was Palin....
ReplyDeleteNeo-cons in repsonse: "the Tea Party is dead" ????
Perhaps should be "the neo-con wing is dead..."
She got a lot of Evangelical support back with McCain in 2008...
Plain endorses Trump.
ReplyDeleteTrump promises her the VP slot?
That would be a smart move. Secures the Evangelical base and counters the women's vote with HRC likely to be the Dem nominee.
Matt, Tom,
ReplyDeleteGood points by https://twitter.com/NateSilver538
Level of attention to Trump already so high that Palin isn't increasing searches for him much. But huge for Palin!
If Trump wins the nomination, footage of him with Palin today will make a lot of Democratic attack ads.
Donald Trump Is Sarah Palin 2.0
Other than a few issues that liberals wet their collective pants over (illegal immigration, and their new found love for Muslims), Trump is to the left of most Republicans.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to cast my vote for him :)
A Trump-Palin ticket? Surely that would be courting annihilation at the election? Many republicans now look back at 2008 and wince. What seemed like an inspired move in adding Palin to the ticket backfired. Too many people were repelled by Palin's horrifying stupidity and ignorance.
ReplyDeleteOther than the weird Lindsey Graham, Trump could choose pretty much anybody else from the current candidates as his running mate and they'd be better than Palin, who may not want it now she's made it in television. Not that it matters. Clinton will beat Trump.
I'm quite stunned by the other GOP candidates inability to lay a glove on Trump. The man clearly knows nothing, yet he seemingly wipes the floor with the other candidates. Trump can say the most absurd things and get away with it. Who else could claim that he would get Mexico to build and pay for a many thousand mile wall? Who else could claim that he will forcibly take half of Iraq's oil, and not all, because he's a generous guy? Possibly Reagan, another colossal dunce. Forget the surreal policies and his ignorance of just about everything other than how to play bankruptcy law to enrich himself, he just makes shit up. And none of the other candidates pulls him up on it!
No one truly believed ever Trump would get this far, probably not The Donald himself, so President Trump is a possibility. President Clinton looks much more likely. Trump is a total ignoramus. Clinton is a total lunatic. Take your pick.
Because watching the other Repub candidates is like watching paint dry.
ReplyDeleteTrump: Sarah Palin would serve a role in my administration if she wanted to
ReplyDelete“I haven’t discussed anything with her about what she’d do, but she’s somebody I really like and I respect, and certainly she could play a position if she wanted to,” Trump said Wednesday on NBC’s “Today.”
The Republican frontrunner said he hasn’t considered a possible running mate yet, but he said Palin — who endorsed her fellow reality TV star Tuesday in Iowa — would certainly be considered.
“She’s been through that,” he said, referring to Palin’s unsuccessful 2008 vice-presidential bid with Sen. John McCain. “Every candidate wanted Sarah — everybody. They all respect her a lot.”
emphasis added