am i the only trump supporter on the board?

[wesw]

glad you clarified what ragbai was....

I would like riding in iowa I think.

flat, I would guess. its like that here too. very few hills.

I have to ride very upright and I set my grips very high, I ll switch the climbing handles from one side to the other and spin them up.

it s nice when the winds not in your face, you can use your body like a sail.

I ve thought for years about how to use some kind of actual sail, never come up with anything good tho, except to hold my jacket out with one arm....

any ideas?

[Gob]

Let me say that again. Unless there is a seismic shift in polling, Donald Trump stands to be nominated as the Republican candidate for the 2016 general election. Potentially the first ever president who has never held elected office or been in the military.

But let me go back to the assertion about the Republican establishment starting to cosy up to Trump. What's the evidence to support that?

As wise old owls, they don't come much wiser than Senator Bob Dole. The 92-year-old, decorated World War Two veteran and former presidential candidate has been there, seen it and done it all. And this week he said that Mr Cruz, a senator from Texas, would be "cataclysmic" as the candidate.

"If he's the nominee, we're going to have wholesale losses in Congress and state offices and governors and legislatures," said Mr Dole, who amassed 35 years' service in the House and Senate.

Meanwhile one of the senators who today epitomises the "establishment" is Orrin Hatch. He says he's "coming round" to Mr Trump. It turns out that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, from Kentucky, has also had conversations with Mr Trump.

Also, highly unusually, the serving governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, weighed in. When asked directly whether he wanted to see Ted Cruz defeated, he didn't equivocate . "Yes," he said.

At one of the first Republican debates, Cruz tried to make light of how people saw him: "If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy," he quipped. At the time it seemed like self-effacing modesty, but - wow - do the Republican high command loathe him. The ABC strategy seems to be Anyone But Cruz.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35388292

[Lord Jim]

If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy,"

Another nominee for The Understatement Of The Year Award...

[wesw]

bush and Kasich go after each other in new Hampshire.

bush started it, of course. link to bloombergpolitics

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... SlTwuu_ScQ

[Lord Jim]

The four candidates left in the race that could actually win the election are spending way too much energy beating up on each other...

Whoever among them does the best in New Hampshire should get a clear shot and the other three should withdraw and endorse him....