“not very scientific”
What’s Trump’s position on mashed potato volcanos, scientific or a delicious waste of time?
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Last month - polls favor me a bunch!
This week - unscientific polls!
Next week - totally unscientific and they are all left wing!
Gee, they weren’t left wing when you were leading now were they?
What changed?
Hahahaha!
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What’s Trump’s position on mashed potato volcanos, scientific or a delicious waste of time?
Trump’s position on everything:
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From what I’ve read, it’s Jeebus. The last two winners in Iowa were Santorum and Huckabee. Trump barely even bothers to pretend to be religious.
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Carson is most likely to be the continuation of the GOP Iowa syndrome. Like Santorum and Huckabee, the Iowa GOP elects some fundy friendly candidate with no national organization who proceeds to lose rest of the primaries.
The narrative turns, indeed is turning, on Trump after months of how cool it is that he is the front runner, of course. But if he is actually building a national campaign, and all indications are that he is, he can weather a Carson victory in Iowa no problem. He is up by 15/16 points in NH and SC, and 9 points in FL. And he has been campaigning pretty heavily in the South. Carson barely shows up anywhere outside of Iowa and in interviews. His organization is practically non existent beyond NH, and its hardly intimidating in NH.
And finally, Carson is peaking too early. We have 3 months to go, and everyone knows the boom and bust pattern of fringe candidates in the GOP.
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LOL. Trump’s real problem with the core GOP primary voters? He doesn’t pray enough … at least in public.
Like fat babies, Trump has no pride.
(apologies to Lyle)
That is one thing I like about the guy. One day a loud and proud non-theist will run for office. Before then we need a few John the Baptists to lay the ground work. Trump is helping tremendously in that regard.
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Carson barely shows up anywhere outside of Iowa and in interviews.
The nature of the grift. Get enough notoriety, win a caucus or primary the fade away to the six-figure speaking fees, book tours, and your own Fox News show or contributorship.
Again, this shit is clear as day. You’d think the conservative voters would get tired of getting pwned like this every cycle.
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You know, I’m a little surprised that the conservative primary voters in Iowa haven’t awakened to reality that the GOP higher-ups long ago decided those voters are nothing more than jokes … jokes to be fleeced. Seriously. Unless someone is hocking a book or some such works of thought, they pay Iowans nothing more than a passing smile and glance. That’s it–and, it’s been that way for years now.
I could make some conservative religion/common sense/education jokes here, but I do find this sad. I can remember a time–what three decades ago??–when the Iowa caucuses/primary actually meant something and was taken seriously. The GOP leadership plays these people for serious dimwits.
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Just what would Donnie know about “scientific”?
I agree with you. In my book, one big plus in Trump’s column is that he doesn’t seem to care about pushing any type of religious dogma.
There is still a teensy tiny part of me that wonders if Trump is not major trolling the GOP. In years past (prior to the black man in the White House), Trump appeared to always land smack dab in the middle – politically-speaking. The man has benefited tremendously from Democratic economic policies – and he’s fully aware of that.
Oh, well. Trump does appear to be doing the Lord’s work here. In a very loud, mean-spirited, racist way.
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Religious Iowans would be offended, I think, when they read Trump saying…“I take a little wine and that little cracker and feel like I’m forgiven.” To a true believer that’s a very insulting comment. It belittles the core belief of the religion.
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Good to see you back Beatty!
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The real travesty is that the media and the rest of us take Iowa seriously. Its like thinking a kid will get signed to the Royals because he won a Pitch, Hit, and Run trophy at the local rec center.
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Halperin lobs a softball. Dump whiffs!
Anytime it proves he’s right, otherwise something is wrong with it.
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Oink!
The statement didn’t seem to reveal any understanding at all of the ritual; it sounded like something a child would say. The question was whether he’d ever asked God for forgiveness, and that was the best he could do. Any moderately religious Christian would do better; I think it’s open to question whether Trump understands the role of Christ himself in the Christian world view. The religious part of the electorate also raised an eyebrow when he couldn’t—well, let’s say was oddly reluctant to—name a favorite Bible verse. So he went home, dug up an old Bible, and literally waved it at the Values Voter Summit, but by then the evangelicals had him pegged, correctly, as not their kind of Christian.
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So, the Republican base in Iowa had a brief flirtation with the brash loudmouth from the big city out east, but eventually adjudged him insufficiently religious. Now they’re all sweaty over the quiet former doctor whose calm brand of bug-fuck crazy Bible talk is like psychological Viagra to them.
These people would be perfectly at home in the 16th century.
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