Finally, the one we (well, some of us) were eagerly waiting for:
Ejected from the Clown Car
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Re: Ejected from the Clown Car
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Re: Ejected from the Clown Car
Sorry, was that dropping out or dripping out?
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Re: Ejected from the Clown Car
Scooter wrote:Sorry, was that dropping out or dripping out?
ew,
I thank you not for that image.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Ejected from the Clown Car
I figured that Huckabee and Santorum would drop out after Iowa, (they were hoping somehow that lightning would strike, but the much better financed Cruz sewed up the support they had ridden to win in Iowa in '08 and '12 respectively) after they tanked in Iowa they had no path forward.
I'm a little surprised by Paul; I thought he would hang in through New Hampshire, since his father had done so well there. Paul got hit by a triple whammy:
First, Donald Trump starting sucking up all the paranoids, cranks, and "blow the system up" types that had comprised much of his father's base. Then, thanks largely to ISIS and Vladimir Putin, the neo-Isolationist anti-defense anti-national security faction within the GOP shrunk considerably so there was a lot less receptivity to his defeatist message. (Good riddance; pacifist/defeatism is a much more natural fit for the left) Hell, he was even continuing to call for more defense cuts beyond the evisceration of our military readiness brought on by The Sequester.
For awhile Cruz also was embracing Paul's foolhardy and dangerous security positions, but unlike Paul who actually does have some principles, (I may not agree with them, but he does have them) he was able to completely reverse course when those positions fell in popularity.
And then the third whammy came from the popularity of Bernie Sanders, who appealed to the same young folks naive enough to buy what he was selling that he was counting on.
His original game plan at the time was a perfectly plausible scenario. (Pre-Trump polls had him doing quite well) He was starting with his father's substantial supporter and donor lists as a base, and he would be able build on that because he doesn't come across (in his public persona at least) as being as big a fruitcake as Ron...
But you can't always plan for events beyond your control...
I'm a little surprised by Paul; I thought he would hang in through New Hampshire, since his father had done so well there. Paul got hit by a triple whammy:
First, Donald Trump starting sucking up all the paranoids, cranks, and "blow the system up" types that had comprised much of his father's base. Then, thanks largely to ISIS and Vladimir Putin, the neo-Isolationist anti-defense anti-national security faction within the GOP shrunk considerably so there was a lot less receptivity to his defeatist message. (Good riddance; pacifist/defeatism is a much more natural fit for the left) Hell, he was even continuing to call for more defense cuts beyond the evisceration of our military readiness brought on by The Sequester.
For awhile Cruz also was embracing Paul's foolhardy and dangerous security positions, but unlike Paul who actually does have some principles, (I may not agree with them, but he does have them) he was able to completely reverse course when those positions fell in popularity.
And then the third whammy came from the popularity of Bernie Sanders, who appealed to the same young folks naive enough to buy what he was selling that he was counting on.
His original game plan at the time was a perfectly plausible scenario. (Pre-Trump polls had him doing quite well) He was starting with his father's substantial supporter and donor lists as a base, and he would be able build on that because he doesn't come across (in his public persona at least) as being as big a fruitcake as Ron...
But you can't always plan for events beyond your control...
