And it often goes unnoticed due to the stealth.

I certainly hope your intuition is correct.

I’m very nervous about Iowa and New Hampshire (and the rest, too, I guess, but they’re the first indication we get of the way the winds are really blowing). And thank you for all your hard work.

I will spend Friday and Saturday on the road. Sunday I will head south for a Cruz event in Johnson County and sit with Eastern Iowa Cruz precinct captains. Caucus day will be on the phone until 6pm, then going to the caucus site before the doors are close and locked at 7pm. I may be wrong, but it feels like victory is in the air.

Blert — Cruz would lose massively to Hillary, Bernie, or Good Old Uncle Joe (TM). He would get no Reagan Democrats and no independents. And the kids, the single women, and the African-Americans would turn out in droves against him.

We don’t need to see what happens when you run a principled conservative for President. We tried it in ’64. Lost the election 62-38%.

“The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result.” — (It turns out that this wasn’t said by) Albert Einstein.

Their bashing only cranks UP Trumps appeal in the hustings.

http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/reagan-would-be-vomiting.html/

They also think that Trump will lose to Hillary.

If pigs fly — they can deal with the wheeler dealer.

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If Trump were taken out of the equation — the odds favor Cruz running the tables.

Even Hillary sees that.

That’s when she raised a clarion call for more funding — and a swarm attack on Ted Cruz.

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I don’t think that Donald has a political ‘center’ to his personality.

His personality is the center of his politics.

He is very much of the old school — Sulla style.

That’s pretty spooky — since all of the worst tyrants in history had that exact same tic.

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Scott Adams is predicting a blow out for Trump.

I think Adams needs sedatives.

Trump is extremely likely to have an INVERSE blow out — losing to a socialist.

I left the timeline in your 3:00 PM comment intact, even though the comment is longer than I usually would leave, because I wanted to respond to something in the timeline.

In 2006, when the project had not been built (and before Trump even had approval for it), Trump knew they were probably going to build a windfarm. He didn’t know for sure—I’m sure he was told a host of different things about the probabilities. But he knew it was planned and he knew it could happen.

He gambled and lost, and later he cut his losses. Nothing wrong with that; that’s business.

In the process, he made grandiose promises, in order to get HIS own environmental waiver for the government. He promised to invest a certain amount of money and that the project would create a certain amount of jobs. He turned out to be incorrect. We’ll never know if it was because of the wind farm (I’ve read plenty of stuff that says it was for other reasons, having more to do with his business choices and the fact that the area could not sustain or support another expensive golf course for the high rollers).. Let’s just say for the sake of argument that the wind farm did impact negatively on his business. He knew it was a risk, and he lost. He then fought it in court and lost. He never invested what he said he would, and it never employed many people at all. But then—and this is the important part—he lied about how much money he actually had invested. It was documented, and he lied about it—not what he thought he might spend, but what he had spent.

Right through the whole process, he publicly insulted anyone who crossed him, including the farmers who wouldn’t sell. He knew they were there before he made the plans and described the project. He knew they might not sell. He knew all these things. He rolled the dice and lost, made some bad deals, and then insulted people and lied about them and about his own finances.

That’s his choice. Many businessmen do such things, but I don’t trust them and they are not running for president. Trump is.

At this point, the people of Scotland mostly hate Trump. Rightly or wrongly. I think rightly, but that’s not the point either. The point is that he’s selling himself as a great deal maker who gets everyone to like him, and who’s not nasty.

I ditto your thinking.

The gravy train has to be pulled over and given a rest.

Dole, et. al. are terrified of either Cruz or Rubio halting the slush — with Cruz at the top of their hit list.

I’m of the opinion that the GOPe would LOVE to lose to Hillary… if it meant keeping Ted Cruz out of the Oval Office.

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The economy is contracting globally.

By tradition, the markets usually swoon in the late Summer or Fall. (August thru November)

So the election is for the GOP to lose.

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It may not occur to many, but the GOPe is institutionally suited to being the pitied, minority party.

For the players are then relieved of any need to produce results.

Hence, McConnell.