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There was never any public support for these guys. Walker actually had non-GOPe popular support, but his campaign imploded for whatever reason. My guess is more inside politics were involved. Fiorina and Carson, they never threatened the pathway for Jeb or Rubio. Of the remaining placeholders, they are polling nationally at a combined 5% if you count Christie, and 9% if you count Huckabee. And they are flatlined in the Michigan poll, just 5% between the four of them. Huckabee and Santorum are the only placeholders with a legitimate reason to still be in (they have won Iowa before) but the rest? Hah. Every one of the placeholders would still be in if it wasn't for Trump. Their money dried up once it became so bleeding obvious what was going on. Seriously, when was the last time in your memory when there was 17 funded primary candidates in one party? I mean, come on! Think of the placeholders as splitters. All of this was figured out very early in the campaign by some people who have been uncanny accurate since then. Even Nate Silver noticed. |
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Americans were lead to believe that Iraq would have been similar to Panama....short and easy. It wasn't. America elected Obama to stop the body bags from coming home. He did, with notable ex eptions like Benghazi. |
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Whoever callex those planes back from Italy should be in Leavenworth right now, as well as everyone else who was in on it. The last time I remember anything that horrificwas when LBJ called back the rescue planes when the USS Liberty sailors were being murdered.
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A whole zeries of Libertarian candidates have stood up to do exactly that, what's right. And guess what? Besides me and a dozen others, no one even remembers who they are now.
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...and to do that, they'll have to stop smoking weed. |
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Read that first link in that block of text you quoted. Read the whole thing. That was written last August. It has held up perfectly. Sure, some of the players have dropped out, but only because even back then Trump's surging campaign had utterly derailed carefully laid 2 year old plans. The reason there were so many funded candidates was to split states where Jeb would maybe only get 25% of the vote, so that nobody else would get any more than 25%. And with only the first 8 states, paltry states delegate-wise, being awarded proportionally, the remaining states were all winner-take-all. So the idea was to carefully split as needed, allowing Jeb to win the nomination but never actually get a simple majority of the votes in any given state. Really. It was just that simple, and it would have worked, if not for that meddling Trump. |
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His tax plan isn't half bad either, and he doesn't support the terrible Pacific Trade Agreement, and the Chamber of Commerce hates him. They are pathetic and do not have American's interests at heart. Right there is enough for me to support him and not any of the others. Cruz would be challenged as not elligible (it's OK for Democrats to do that, trust me), and probably Rubio too. Paul isn't going anywhere this cycle, none of the others do a thing for me, and I wouldn't cast a vote for Jeb! if you paid me. A lot.
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I'm not trying to convince people who, for various reasons, think Trump is a bad idea to just start supporting Trump. That would be like trying to tell your 17-year-old daughter that her boyfriend is bad for her and she should break up with him. No. I want them to figure it out on their own that the GOPe has been playing them for fools this election cycle, even more so than they do usually. And you have to hand it to Trump. He has exposed even Fox News' machinations and conflicts. He has exposed all sorts of behind the scenes things. He has exposed radio talk show hosts as being secretly (and not so secretly) in the tank for one of the candidates. For instance, Mark Levin's financee' is the mother of Ted Cruz's chief senate staffer. Did you know that? I didn't until Team Trump tweeted that out.
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