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THE TRUTH ABOUT TED CRUZ

What insiders say about Cruz

Kit Daniels – MARCH 24, 2016 614 Comments

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A lot of libertarians and conservatives fully support Ted Cruz, but here’s why they should reconsider:

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MUST WATCH! IF THIS DOES NOT LAY IT OUT FOR YOU, YOU MAY BE BRAINDEAD

DONALD TRUMP SNAKE WARNING GOES VIRAL

GOP frontrunner warns of Trojan horse invasion

Infowars.com – MARCH 24, 2016

Donald Trump Snake Warning Goes Viral

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A YouTube video depicting a stark warning from presidential candidate Donald Trump regarding the refugee crisis is continuing to go viral across the web.

Reciting lyrics from the 1968 song “The Snake” by Al Wilson, based off Aesop’s fable of The Farmer and the Viper, the business mogul explains how Europe is being slowly overtaken by radical jihadists.

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“People don’t see the real Donald Trump,” son tells 2News

BY AMY NAY SATURDAY, MARCH 19TH 2016

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“People don’t see the real Donald Trump,” son tells 2News

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(KUTV) Donald Trump, Junior, in town to help his father campaign ahead of the Tuesday caucus in Utah, sat down with 2News this weekend to talk about what he says are misconceptions about his dad.

“People don’t see the real Donald Trump. They see the guy that’s being brash, but they don’t see the guy around the dinner table with his family. They don’t see the guy swinging a golf club with his 20 month old granddaughter. They don’t see that guy – that’s just family first. They don’t see the guy that cares deeply about this country.. the great human being.”

Sitting down Saturday with 2News the morning after what he says was an awesome rally in Salt Lake, he says he was thrilled to be able to bring the campaign to Utah – a state he says he loves and visits often.

“I was just here last month with my whole family, my kids, for their vacation. I was like, guys, we’ve got to bring the campaign here. We’ve got to show some love to Utah.”

Despite lagging in recent polls, including a new survey out Saturday which show Trump behind Senator Ted Cruz and even Governor John Kasich, he says Utahns have a lot in common with the Trumps, namely a strong work ethic.

“All the guys I know that are Utahns – either LDS or just from the state – there’s a work ethic here. It’s a work ethic that my father brought us up with.”

His father he described as a ‘blue collar billionaire’. He says he is giving a voice to the working class, a class he says is the only unprotected class in America.

“My father is giving these people a voice. The people who built America, these people are finally getting a voice and that’s why they’re so passionate.”

But Donald Trump, Junior blamed many of the recent clashes, including Friday night in Salt Lake outside Trump’s rally where police came in clad with riot gear, on the loud left.

“He’s not the one throwing stones. He’s not the one, you know, they’re bringing out the riot gear. It’s not for our people. It’s for the people who are trying to stop him!”

He says those same people are now attacking Trump’s family, including a recent incident this week with his brother Eric who was sent a letter with a white powdery substance inside. Donald Trump, Jr. said he, too, was the recipient of multiple personal attacks, citing an instance when he posted a picture of he and his daughter.

“They said horrible things like I hope she gets cancer or she or your whole family dies… things I wouldn’t say to my worst enemy! Say what you want to me. I’m a big boy, I can take it. But to say those things, to direct them at an 8 year old girl, a 20 month old girl… it’s disgraceful.”

Trump refuted claims that much of the fury comes in response to his father’s often heated statements made to supporters.

“There comes a time in your life, in your country, when you have to put your fist down and be loud. To make a point and you have to do that. That’s what he’s doing.”

He said his father has brought to light many issues that had previously been taboo, including immigration. But he insisted his father is not a racist.

“It’s been difficult for me as a son to watch people try to say that stuff about my father because it couldn’t be further from the truth, because I’ve seen who he is, who he hangs out with, who he employs. Really, there’s nothing further from the truth, and it does a real disservice because I think that’s still a real issue in this country.”

On Mitt Romney’s attacks and the back and forth between the former GOP presidential candidate and his father, Trump, Jr. said it was sad.

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“Honestly, It’s a shame. I was there not that long ago, when Mitt was in my father’s office, begging for money… from him, from me, from my brother, from my sister. I was there at a press conference when he was saying I’ve been a very good businessman, but I haven’t been the businessman that Donald Trump is. It’s a shame that he’s had to take this establishment party line… because what my father is doing that’s unique is giving a voice to the people. So for him to say that he’s for the people, I think it’s sad and I think it’s really disingenuous.”

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COME ON CALI!!! CALIFORNIA PRIMARY COULD SEAL THE DEAL FOR DONALD TRUMP

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San Diego Union Tribune

After all sorts of hand-wringing over the placement of our primary at the useless end of the presidential election cycle, California — the state with the most delegates to give and one of the final six states to award them on June 7 — may very well decide whether Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. That’s a lot of power and responsibility, for Trump and for California.

The New York Times projected Wednesday that if Trump maintains his current level of support in the remaining races, he “would almost certainly secure the nomination.” Not only that, but the projection shows him securing it in California — with this caveat, “If Mr. Trump loses California, he could narrowly miss the delegate cutoff.” Brace yourselves.

Trump is already saying that if he just misses closing the deal and an open convention goes against him there would be “riots” and “problems like you’ve never seen before” and “I wouldn’t lead it, but I think bad things would happen.” So much for him asking supporters to act peacefully as we urged candidates on both sides of the aisle to do this week.
Even as Hillary Clinton solidified her hold on the Democratic nomination Tuesday, Trump remained the clear GOP frontrunner. So will he win the nomination outright by claiming 1,237 of the 2,472 Republican delegates before the party’s Cleveland convention in mid-July?

Trump is more than halfway to the magic number now. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is about a third of the way there but faces near impossible odds of hitting the necessary target. And Ohio Gov. John Kasich sounds resurgent after winning all of Ohio’s 66 delegates Tuesday.
Where does that leave us? That leaves the establishment candidate, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, bowing out of the race after Trump trounced him in his home state and Kasich “getting ready to rent a covered wagon” and head west “to California,” despite needing a mathematically impossible 112 percent of the remaining delegates to win the nomination on a first ballot at the Republican convention.

That leaves Trump, Cruz and Kasich thinking about how they might corral sufficient delegates on a potential second or third or — as was needed in 1880 — 36th vote at the GOP convention.

That leaves House Speaker Paul Ryan, 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick, denying he’d accept the 2016 GOP nomination, if it were offered to him at the convention. (Ryan, also previously said, of course, that he wouldn’t run for speaker last year.)

And that leaves Ron Nehring, California chairman and national spokesman for the Cruz campaign, crowing. In a post Wednesday on FlashReport, he wrote that 14 of the remaining 22 contests are closed primaries like California’s, meaning only registered Republicans can vote. Four other contests allow independents to vote in the Republican primary and four others allow Democrats to vote for a Republican, if they so choose.

Trump, Nehring notes, has won just six of 16 closed primaries so far and does better when Democrats can vote in GOP primaries.

Will enough California Republicans want a contested convention? Or will they rally around Trump to prevent one? Will any candidate run the table in California, or will results be mixed? The state awards 159 of its 172 GOP delegates by congressional district — three delegates per winner in each of the 53 districts — and 13 to whoever wins the state.

All this is a wonky way of saying you decide. You.

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Suicide of the GOP — or Rebirth?

Thursday – March 17, 2016 at 10:48 pm

By Patrick Buchanan

“If his poll numbers hold, Trump will be there six months from now when the Sweet 16 is cut to the Final Four, and he will likely be in the finals.”

My prediction, in July of 2015, looks pretty good right now.

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Herewith, a second prediction. Republican wailing over his prospective nomination aside, Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton like a drum in November.

Indeed, only the fear that Trump can win explains the hysteria in this city.

Here is The Washington Post of March 18: “As a moral question it is straightforward. The mission of any responsible Republican should be to block a Trump nomination and election.”

The Orwellian headline over that editorial: “To defend our democracy, the GOP must aim for a brokered convention.”

Beautiful. Defending democracy requires Republicans to cancel the democratic decision of the largest voter turnout of any primaries in American history. And this is now a moral imperative for Republicans.

Like the Third World leaders it lectures, the Post celebrates democracy — so long as the voters get it right.

Whatever one may think of the Donald, he has exposed not only how far out of touch our political elites are, but how insular is the audience that listens to our media elite.

Understandably, Trump’s rivals were hesitant to take him on, seeing the number he did on “little Marco,” “low energy” Jeb and “Lyin’ Ted.”

But the Big Media — the Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times — have been relentless and ruthless.

Yet Trump’s strength with voters seemed to grow, pari passu, with the savagery of their attacks. As for National Review, The Weekly Standard and the accredited conservative columnists of the big op-ed pages, their hostility to Trump seems to rise, commensurate with Trump’s rising polls.

As the Wizard of Oz was exposed as a little man behind a curtain with a big megaphone, our media establishment is unlikely ever again to be seen as formidable as it once was.

And the GOP?

Those Republicans who assert that a Trump nomination would be a moral stain, a scarlet letter, the death of the party, they are most likely describing what a Trump nomination would mean to their own ideologies and interests.

Barry Goldwater lost 44 states in 1964, and the GOP fell to less than a third of Congress. “The Republican Party is dead,” wailed the Rockefeller wing. Actually, it wasn’t. Only the Rockefeller wing was dead.

After the great Yellowstone fire in the summer of ’88, the spring of ’89 produced astonishing green growth everywhere. 1964 was the Yellowstone fire of the GOP, burning up a million acres of dead wood, preparing the path for party renewal. Renewal often follows rebellion.

Republican strength today, on Capitol Hill and in state offices, is at levels unseen since Calvin Coolidge. Turnout in the GOP primaries has been running at levels unseen in American history, while turnout in the Democratic primaries is below what it was in the Obama-Clinton race of 2008.

This opportunity for Republicans should be a cause for rejoicing, not all this weeping and gnashing of teeth. If the party in Cleveland can bring together the Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich forces, the White House, Supreme Court and Congress are all within reach.

Consider. Clinton was beaten by Bernie Sanders in Michigan, and pressed in Ohio and Illinois, on her support for NAFTA and the trade deals of the Clinton-Bush-Obama era that eviscerated American manufacturing and led to the loss of millions of factory jobs and the stagnation of wages.

Sanders’ issues are Trump’s issues.

A Trump campaign across the industrial Midwest, Pennsylvania and New Jersey featuring attacks on Hillary Clinton’s support for NAFTA, the WTO, MFN for China — and her backing of amnesty and citizenship for illegal immigrants, and for the Iraq and Libyan debacles — is a winning hand.

Lately, 116 architects and subcontractors of the Bush I and II foreign policy took their own version of the Oxford Oath. They will not vote for, nor serve in a Trump administration.

Talking heads are bobbing up on cable TV to declare that if Trump is nominee, they will not vote for him and may vote for Clinton.

This is not unwelcome news. Let them go.

Their departure testifies that Trump is offering something new and different from the foreign policy failures this crowd did so much to produce.

The worst mistake Trump could make would be to tailor his winning positions on trade, immigration and intervention — to court such losers.

While Trump should reach out to the defeated establishment of the party, he cannot compromise the issues that brought him where he is, or embrace the failed policies that establishment produced. This would be throwing away his aces.

The Trump campaign is not a hostile takeover of the Republican Party. It is a rebellion of shareholders who are voting to throw out the corporate officers and board of directors that ran the company into the ground.

Only the company here is our country.

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Ben Stein: “I Have Not Heard A Racist Word” Out Of Donald Trump’s Mouth Stein: Trump Is “Not A Ranting, Blubbering, Fool, He’s Making A Lot Of Sense, And I Don’t See What’s Anti-Democratic About Him”

Video ››› March 15, 2016 5:20 PM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF

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BEN STEIN: People talk about Trump as if he’s some sort of lunatic. What he’s saying makes a lot of sense. 

NEIL CAVUTO (HOST): But it bothers a lot of folks who say — even in the Republican Party, Ben, that he might be alienating Latino voters who he seems to be targeting. He says no, he’s just talking about illegals. It’s very clear in his statements and press releases that’s exactly what he is saying, but it’s sort of been morphed together, as sort of an anti-Hispanic rant. What do you say? 

STEIN: [INAUDIBLE] Morphed together by the Democratic establishment. There’s so much talk about the Republican establishment, and I don’t even know who is in the Republican establishment. I would think I would be, by virtue of age and the fact that both my father and grandfather were fairly prominent Republicans. But, what I’m looking at here is the Democratic establishment, is the one trying to cut off debate, trying to keep Mr. Trump from speaking. I don’t think there’s ever been a case before where a major political party in the US has had, on a systematic basis, an attempt to silence the other party’s leading presidential candidate. That is an outrage. That is the real anti-Democratic thing that is going on here. It’s not Trump, who is the anti-democratic here, it is the other side. My old childhood next door neighbor, dear friend Carl Bernstein, obviously on very different sides of the fence politically, says Mr. Trump is a neo-fascist. He’s the exact opposite of a neo-fascist. He wants government of, by, and for the people. It’s the other side trying to shout him down, and have government by a screaming, un-elected elite. 

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CAVUTO:  Do you know, or see right now, Ben, any dangers for Donald Trump? I mean, you know, If he has a good night tonight, wins five out of the six, you know, big events here, he could be well on his way. And you hear the establishment trying to make overtures to him, kind of, Donald Trump trying to make overtures to him, kind of. Can they all get along and hug, when all is said and done? 

STEIN: I think they can get along and hug, and I think Mr. Trump is a rising star. I think he has caught on to the national mood, I think Mrs. Clinton is a falling star, trying to play race based, identity based politics. Mr. Trump is saying let’s all stand together as Americans. I have not heard a racist word out of that man’s mouth. He wants a peaceful, calm America, he wants a strong military. How’s he going to pay for it with his tax plan, god only knows, and I certainly don’t know. But I think people should be listening to him. He’s not a ranting, blubbering fool. He’s making a lot of sense, and I don’t see what’s anti-democratic about him. 

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Previously:
Ben Stein: “It’s A Ridiculous Thing” To Call Donald Trump Racist
Ben Stein On Fox: Obama Is “The Most Racist President There Has Ever Been In America”
Ben Stein: Obama’s “Hatred Of America” May Be “Because He’s Part Black”

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Full Speech: Donald Trump Rally in Kansas City, MO (3-12-16)

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Saturday, March 12, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Kansas City, MO at Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland. Mr. Trump was interrupted by protesters several times, but eventually they shut up after he threatened to have them arrested.

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FULL SPEECH: Trump Rally March 11, 2016 St Louis, MO

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Friday, March 11, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally in St. Louis, MO at the Peabody Opera House. He was endorsed by conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly at the event.

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‘A TOTAL DISGRACE’: TRUMP CALLS OUT ‘DISHONESTY OF PRESS’ FOR EQUATING SUPPORTERS WITH NAZIS

“What they did on the Today Show was a disgrace”

Adan Salazar | Infowars.com – MARCH 11, 2016 21 Comments

‘A total disgrace’: Trump Calls Out ‘dishonesty of press’ for Equating Supporters with Nazis

Leading GOP candidate Donald Trump lambasted the media Thursday for attempting to draw comparisons between fervent supporters at his rallies and Nazi Germany.

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After condemning violence at his campaign assemblies during the CNN debate in Miami, Trump went on to criticize the media and in particular the Today Show for suggesting his supporters were signaling a Nazi salute.

Here’s the transcript via CNN:

TRUMP: It shows the total dishonesty of the press. We were having — on a few occasions, again massive crowds. And we’re talking and I’m saying who is going to vote on Tuesday? Who is going to vote? The place goes crazy. Then I say, hey, do me a favor. Raise your right hand. Do you swear you’re going to vote for Donald Trump?

Everyone’s laughing, we’re all having a good time. That’s why I have much bigger crowds than Ted, because we have a good time at mine.

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TRUMP: But we’re all having a good time and the next day, on the Today Show and a couple of other place, not too many. Because when you look at it, everyone’s smiling, laughing. Their arms are raised like this. They had pictures, still pictures of people and they tried to equate it to Nazi Germany.

(BELL RINGS)

It is a disgrace. It was a total disgrace. And I’ve had reporters, people that you know, come up to me and said that — what they did on the Today Show was a disgrace.

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MASS EXODUS: THOUSANDS OF LIFELONG DEMOCRATS JUMP TO TRUMP

Thousands of Democrats also propelled Reagan to White House

Kit Daniels | Infowars.com – MARCH 10, 2016

Mass Exodus: Thousands of Lifelong Democrats Jump to Trump

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Over 46,000 Pennsylvania Democrats have switched parties to vote for Donald Trump, joining thousands of other lifelong Democrats in blue states doing the exact same thing.

In Massachusetts alone, at least 20,000 Democrats have defected to support Trump and another 1,000 blue-collar Ohio Democrats are also jumping ship to Trump, and no Republican president has ever won the White House without Ohio.

The movement, called “Ditch and Switch,” was promoted in Sept. by the YouTube duo Diamond and Silk and explains why Trump is winning so many open primary states where voters don’t have register as Republicans to cast GOP ballots.

“For many years the Democratic Party has promoted agendas that most Americans did not agree with,” Diamond and Silk declared in a video. “Our country is deeply divided, and the silent majority has been bullied into silence by political posturing and underhanded agendas that favor the few while excluding the majority.”

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The last time a similar movement erupted was likely during the 1980 presidential race when switchover Democrats helped propel Ronald Reagan into the oval office.

“The labor unions, who usually support the Democrats, a lot of our members, and a lot of their families, are supporting Trump,” said Keith Strobelt with the United Steelworkers local union in Canton, Ohio. “It could be that several hundred of our members will back Trump.”

“A lot find him refreshing. He says a lot of things they say around their dinner tables.”

And that’s scaring Democratic Party leaders.

“Trump put together a coalition in Massachusetts that elects Democratic governors,” Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh said, pointing out that Trump has won big in blue-collar, union cities across the rust belt. “He won among Catholics, a week after picking a fight with the Pope.”

“I absolutely think he can put the rust belt into play.”

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TRUMP CALLS FOR GOP ESTABLISHMENT TO “COME TOGETHER” BEHIND HIM

“I’m a unifier. I get along with people.”

Steve Watson | Infowars.com – MARCH 9, 2016

Trump Calls For GOP Establishment To "Come Together" Behind Him

Following primary wins in Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii Tuesday night, Donald Trump called on establishment Republicans to quit the in fighting and rally behind him.

“I’d say, let’s come together folks. We’re going to win,” Trump said during his victory speech.

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When asked if he needs GOP insiders like Mitt Romney to get behind him in order to win a general election, Trump replied “Not 100 percent, but largely I would say yes.”

“Some people you’re just not going to get along with. … But largely I would like to do that.” Trump added.

“And believe it or not, I am a unifier. I unify. I mean you look at all of the things I built all over the world. I’m a unifier. I get along with people.” the billionaire frontrunner declared.

Trump added that “whether you call them the establishment or not, they should embrace” the popularity of his campaign.

“The Democrats would love to have what’s happening. … There’s no spirit there,” Trump urged.

“We’re way up with millions of people. So what I say to the Republicans is embrace it. We will win the election easily.” Trump stated.

“The turnout has been just massive, every week,” Trump said. “I actually think it’s the biggest story in politics today, and I hope the Republicans will embrace it.”

This past weekend, it was reported that scores of establishment GOP figures and major donors flew to an exclusive resort off the coast of Georgia on private jets to meet up and discuss how they can stop Trump from winning the GOP nomination.

Also addressing the aggressive campaign to compare Trump to Hitler this week, The Donald noted “I don’t think I’ve ever had so many horrible things said about me in one week… It shows you how brilliant the public is because they knew they were lies.”

“The bottom line is we have something going that’s so good,” Trump said, adding, “We should grab each other and we should unify the party.”

Trump reiterated the idea of unity Wednesday morning, telling CNN’s New Day, “I would love to see the party come together and unify.”

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“I am a uniter, but I have to finish off the project,” he said. “You have to finish off what you have to finish off.”

Speaking of Hillary Clinton, following her own primary victories, Trump declared that “She’ll definitely get the nomination… But losing Michigan is more than a bump in the general, because it’s just the people don’t want her.”

He added that Clinton is seeing “no enthusiasm.”

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey indicates, however, that both Clinton and Bernie Sanders would comfortably beat Trump in a general election by double digits.

The survey found that at this time Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz would both fare better against the Democratic front-runner, but would still be defeated. Could this be a possible reason for Trump’s calls for the GOP establishment to get behind him?

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Steve Watson is a London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com.

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TALKING-HEAD TWIT OF THE YEAR CONTEST

ELECTION 2016

Ann Coulter cites examples of punditocracy repeatedly blowing Trump predictions

Published: 9 hours ago

 

The cluelessness of the GOP pundit class is infuriating but may ultimately be our salvation. Nothing they say about anything is ever right, even accidentally.

This is making the TV news shows resemble Monty Python’s “Upperclass Twit of the Year” contest. The twits don’t notice the starting gun, run into one another, fall down, run themselves over with their own cars, and, then, the remaining contestants all shoot themselves in the head.

Anyone who talks about politics on TV isn’t going to win them all, but when your horse takes a dump in every single race, week after week, why should we listen to you next time?

If you tuned into ABC’s “This Week” the morning after Trump’s tremendous victory in South Carolina, you’d find George Stephanopoulos promising analysis from a “powerhouse roundtable,” by which I assume he was referring to the table itself.

He then turned to the sort of clueless morons who have gotten everything wrong for the past seven months so they could tell viewers “what’s next.”

I’ve picked these two “Republican strategists” at random for reasons of efficiency, but it could have been any of the Karl Rove-Matthew Dowd-Steve Hayes-Hugh Hewitt-George Will-Rich Lowry dream team.

Prepare to be dazzled by the analysis!

Republican strategist Sara Fagen:

  • July 26, 2015, NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “At the end of the day, (Trump) is not going to be the Republican nominee.”
  • Aug. 9, 2015, ABC’s “This Week”: Trump “just feels like that summer fling in high school that your parents tell you not to do, but you can’t help yourself. But by the time we get back to school, I think Donald is going to be fading well into the background of this race.”
  • Sept. 13, 2015, NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “Ultimately, I believe a governor, a Jeb Bush or a Chris Christie or someone is going to emerge.”
  • Nov. 1, 2015, ABC’s “This Week”: Jeb “has the most money. He has the most organization. He has the most endorsements, and … he’s been through the fire before. And that is incredibly valuable in the long run. … He will be able to weather this storm, and I think he’ll be stronger for it when he does.”
  • Jan. 3, 2016, NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “As this field continues to narrow and it’s Donald Trump versus one or two other candidates, that’s when this race will really come into focus. … After Iowa, this thing is going to jumble again. … Christie, to me, is one that I would watch.”

If you cut out words from a magazine and randomly pasted them on a piece of paper, you would produce a better analysis of what is happening in this election than anything said by Fagen.

Republican strategist Alex Castellanos:

  • Aug. 7, 2015, CNN’s “Newsroom”: “The Megyn Kelly moment … killed Trump’s opportunity for growth. The fire that is Donald Trump is now contained. It’s not going anywhere. He is not growing. He was just going to hang on to that white-hot core. His numbers may dip or rise a tiny bit. He is no longer a huge threat to dominate and control the Republican Party.”
  • Aug. 17, 2015, CNN’s “Anderson Cooper”: “In a general election, though, Trump is not going to be the nominee. When he leaves, he will be defeated by an anti-Trump. So, there will be a cleansing that will go on, once he is knocked out of primaries.”
  • Aug. 23, 2015, NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “And Donald Trump – who is not going to be the nominee … Look, the average winner of a Republican primary caucus I think, first of all, gets what? – 40, 41 percent. So Donald Trump is not going to grow to that.”
  • Aug. 24, 2015, CNN’s “Wolf”: “Frankly, Jeb Bush has a majority Republican position on immigration, on securing the border, on not deporting 4 and a half million children who are U.S. citizens.”
  • Aug. 26, 2015, CNN’s “Newsroom”: Trump’s voters are “not a majority in the Republican Party. This may be the summer of Trump, but we vote in the winter.”
  • Sept. 16, 2015, CNN’s “New Day”: Jeb is “still a Bush. He’s still got 100 million bucks in the bank and TV. We are moving to a new phase of the campaign. Candidates are going to have TV ads now. So it’s not just news media with Trump and debates.”
  • Dec. 6, 2015, ABC’s “This Week”: “It’s entirely possible that Donald Trump is the nominee.” (By then, Trump had spent five months at No. 1 in the polls, and even CNN was calling him “the undisputed leader of the Republican presidential pack.”)
  • Dec. 6, 2015, ABC’s “This Week”: “Marco Rubio is the future of the Republican Party, a different Republican Party, if there’s a little shot that if this is a Trump-Rubio race, we could see the beginning of a better Republican. … But it’s not about issues with Trump.”

You will find the exact same idiocy on any other political program. For hours of fun, take a week off, call in sick and search Nexis for the words, “Republican strategist” and “Trump.”

Chimps throwing darts at a dictionary would be right more often. Why are these people still allowed in the building? The FCC ought to force the TV networks into a massive settlement for promoting snake oil salesmen.

If I were a career counselor, I’d tell my students to become “Republican strategists.” You can be terrible at what you do – and the phone will never stop ringing! In no other profession, even fields that require a fair amount of speculation like oil wildcatting or weather forecasting, can you be so consistently wrong and never lose work.

“Adios, America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole” is Ann Coulter’s latest best-selling book driving the left nuts — hard, cold facts about immigration’s impact

After Trump’s huge victory in New Hampshire and then in South Carolina, did it occur to TV bookers to call any of the people who got it right?

Alex Marlow, editor in chief of Breitbart News, explained everything that was about to happen in this race back on the Sept. 14 edition of CNN’s Erin Burnett show.

While all the other “strategists” gibbered about Trump losing the Hispanic vote, Marlow said: “Trump is growing the big tent. … Trump’s policies are appealing to blacks. There are even some polls out there, like a survey USA poll, saying Trump is actually doing fine with Latinos.”

In the Nevada primary on Tuesday, Trump not only won the Hispanic vote; he not only won 17 points more of the Hispanic vote than his next closest rival; but his Latino vote nearly matched that of the two Latino candidates combined.

In one of the few times you might have heard this point expressed on television airwaves, Marlow said that the No. 1 issue for Breitbart News’ 20 million readers, “has consistently been – since last year – immigration. They are looking for someone who is going to seal the border and prioritize border security as No. 1.”

Obviously, Marlow was right about everything. According to Nexis, that was the last time he appeared on TV.

It would be as if, after discovering America, Christopher Columbus reported back to the king and queen of Spain, but the booker for Ferdinand and Isabella decided that, instead of Columbus, she’d get the guy who never actually set sail for the New World because he was afraid he’d fall off the edge of the Earth into a fiery pit.

Fantastic – that’s great. You’re going to be our go-to expert on the discovery of the New World. Can you be here early Sunday morning?

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/talking-head-twit-of-the-year-contest/#G3A4qivPP2gjO05g.99

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DONALD TRUMP IS A BIGGER FRONTRUNNER TO BE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE THAN YOU THINK

– FEBRUARY 18, 2016 –

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Barring some sort of cataclysm, Donald Trump is going to easily win Saturday’s Republican presidential primary in South Carolina. It would be his second straight large victory out of three contests so far in the presidential contest. In the other — the Iowa caucuses — Trump got the second most votes of any Republican candidate ever, but he finished second behind the guy who got the most votes in the history of the caucuses: Ted Cruz. Three days after the South Carolina vote, the race will move to Nevada where a poll released on Wednesday showed Trump ahead by almost 30 points. Then comes the March 1 “SEC” primary, when voters in 13 states across the country — including six Southern states — vote. Polling puts Trump first in most, if not all, of those states.

Al of which raises a simple but profound question: Why isn’t Trump being covered as the overwhelming favorite to be the Republican nominee?

Substitute any other Republican in the race into Trump’s current position. There is a 100 percent chance that that person would be touted as the prohibitive favorite or the odds-on nominee. Imagine Marco Rubio — he of the third-place finish in Iowa and fifth-place finish in New Hampshire — with the same poll numbers as Trump in South Carolina, Nevada and beyond. The coronation would be on. Hell, Rubio is now seen as a likely third-place finisher in South Carolina — behind Trump and Cruz — and laurels are virtually being thrown at his feet.

Why isn’t Trump getting the credit and coverage he deserves? Because, at root, there is still a belief within the party establishment and the ranks of the media that he will somehow implode or voters will “wise up” or “get real” or something. The problem with that theory is that, well, Trump has done lots and lots of things that would a) be described as “gaffes” and b) would have ended or severely compromised other campaigns. And yet, none of it has touched him. In fact, his willingness to say anything — no matter the underlying facts — seems to affirm to his supporters just how “independent” from the political system he really is.

Trump has been the front-runner — in South Carolina and nationally — for a very long time. And nothing seems to move his numbers.

Here’s South Carolina.

Now ask yourself: What could Trump possibly do or say that would somehow be considered a large enough mistake to peel away large amounts of support from him? There is some internal polling done for rival candidates in South Carolina that suggests Trump is losing some altitude in the state after his not-good-at-all performance in the debate last Saturday. Okay, maybe. But, losing some altitude in a single state where you are ahead by 20-plus points is not exactly a campaign-ending problem.

The idea that Trump will either derail himself or be derailed given the steadiness of his numbers seems like the most wishful of thinking by establishment Republicans. Ditto the idea — that I still hear nearly every day in D.C. — that the establishment will “figure out” a way to stop Trump. Trust me: If they could have stopped Trump, they would have done it a long time ago. They can’t.

Wishful thinking is not the same thing as plausible strategy. And, at this point, it appears that wishful thinking is what is keeping Trump from getting the coverage he deserves as the clear front-runner for the Republican nomination. Front-runners can — and do — lose on occasion. And it’s possible that Trump — perhaps when/if the race narrows to a one-on-one contest with Rubio — loses.

But, it is an undeniable fact that Trump has by far the easiest path to the Republican nomination from here on out. Waiting and hoping for him to collapse is, to borrow a Trump-ism, a loser’s game.

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