Lisa Schiffren writes on FB: “I was really put off by Rubio’s Catholic schoolboy interjection about how there is only one savior and he is JC who came to earth and died for our sins, at the debate last week. Pandering. Not to be outdone, today Cruz went on at length about how his supporters need to lift the country up in prayer –(tolerable so far) and if they do enough of this it will revive the country and reanimate the body of Christ. Or something like that. Ugh. Just a little too much.
As a Jew, I am more than happy to elect a serious Protestant or Catholic to be commander in chief and POTUS. But you must confine your public speech to broad ecumenical evocations of God, morality, prayer and blessings. Anything beyond that will cost you credibility with more Americans than it can possibly be worth. You are not a preacher.
Cruz’s father is a preacher, so it’s part of his background. That’s fine. This is a political contest and he needs to understand what people do and don’t want to hear in politics. If he wants to conduct prayer services at the White House in Sundays — more power to him.”
Luke Ford: “Should Israel’s PM similarly confine himself to ecumenical evocations? Or is Jewish nationalism super duper but Christian nationalism inappropriate? The more divided a country, the weaker.”
Lisa Schiffren: “No Israeli PM would speak so piously, though he might make reference to universally known, by Jews, stories and scripture.”
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Comment: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, at jta.org, is not “intended for the private consumption of Jews.” Nor are most communal Jewish papers, which get by on advertising dollars. The Jewish Journal, which publishes more Stormfront-fodder than JTA, has (or at least had for many years) a Christian as its main religion columnist in hope of getting more non-Jewish readers.
I know at one point they were also considering ways to get more readers from LA’s Koreatown, which sounds strange and was understandably abandoned.
Comment: “Wayne Madsen, who broke the Dennis Hastert gay pedophile scandal story about 10 years before Hastert got caught, reports on Marco Rubio’s proclivities:”
REPORT: Republican insiders have reported to WMR that Florida Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio was, as a high school and college student, known to be a very extroverted homosexual in both South Beach in Miami, a popular gay area, and at college in Gainesville, Florida.
In 1989, a year before Rubio was arrested with his friend Angel Barrios and another unidentified male friend in Alice Wainwright Park in south Miami, ostensibly for drinking beer in a car after closing time in a park known as a pickup locale for gays, Rubio sang and danced in a South Miami High School troupe. The song and dance troupe was based on the Chippendales but with a very gay theme: half Chippendales and half Village People. Rubio omitted his participation in the dance troupe in his biography, “American Son.”
It is also significant that Rubio did not have the best parent models in growing up in Florida and Las Vegas. His Cuban parents, according to GOP insiders, did not emigrate from Cuba to escape Fidel Castro and Communism — they left Cuba for America in 1956 — but were Havana casino workers employed by Jewish mob boss Meyer Lansky and brought to Florida. From Miami, they eventually left for Las Vegas to work in mob-owned casino hotels. Rubio’s father, Mario Rubio Reina, worked as a bartender in Las Vegas casinos while his mother, Oriales Rubio, was a hotel maid. Rubio has falsely claimed that his parents fled Castro and Communism. In 1956, the U.S.-supported fascist dictator, Fulgencio Batista, was fully in control of Cuba.
After flunking out of Tarkeo College in Missouri, Rubio returned to Miami where he hung around with his old high school friend Barrios. Barrios started an on-line gay porn business called Flava Works, which is still in business today live streaming sexual acts between black and Latino men.
Marco Rubio, 1989, dancing and singing in a South Miami troupe that combined the Chippendales with The Village People.
In order to prepare for the University of Florida, Rubio attended Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville. Republican sources have told WMR that Rubio, Barrios, and two other students shared a townhouse in Gainesville that was known locally as a “coke house,” where cocaine was readily available, as were almost non-stop parties in what amounted to an off-campus gay frat house. In 1987, Rubio’s brother-in-law, Orlando Cicilia, was busted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for his role as a key figure in a cocaine smuggling ring in south Florida.
After graduating from the University of Florida, Rubio attended the University of Miami Law School. In 1995, Rubio claims he met his wife, Miami Dolphins cheerleader Jeanette Dousdebes at a “foam party” in South Beach. There is one thing wrong with Rubio’s story: foam parties in South Beach were almost exclusively gay events held at gay clubs like “Warsaw Ballroom” and “Amnesia,” the latter name befitting some of Rubio’s memories of his time in Miami. The following is a description of foam parties in a Miami New Times article by reporter Steven Almond, titled “Foam Sex,” published in the June 8, 1995 issue:
“The scene generally features several hundred scantily clad bodies packed onto a dance floor and writhing to bone-rattling music under strobes and colored lights. Nothing new, right? Until suds come gushing out of a machine suspended over the dance floor. As if on cue, various forms of passionate embrace begin. Kissing. Petting. Rubbing. Because the foam froths up waist high, it acts both as a lubricant and camouflage. Mutual masturbation is an occasional component, generally beneath the cover of foam. As the evening wears on, a few men pair off and sit together in the foam that builds up outside the partitioned-off area.”
Although he is obscured by the man in front of him, Marco Rubio [arrow pointing to him] is believed to be in this 1995 photo of a gay South Beach foam party held at the Warsaw Ballroom. Rubio claims he met his wife at one such foam party in 1995.
At “Amnesia,” emcee “Kitty Meow, a drag queen, would officiate over the foam parties, directing participants what to do. Some foam party participants only wore jock straps. It is entirely possible that Rubio did meet his future wife at a foam party, but the women who attended these functions were largely what are known as “fag hags” out to have a good time while at the same time avoid being hit on by the gay men.
Rubio, who has four children and claims to be a devout Christian, alternately attending Catholic and Baptist churches in south Florida, appears to have a not-so-secret past. There is a Spanish word that aptly describes the presidential hopeful: Cristiano afeminado or Christian homosexual.
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* Because Rubio isn’t really running as “a Latino” (at least not in middle America) and Cruz isn’t running at all as one anywhere. It’s inconceivable, OTOH for a Latino Democrat to not wear his ethnic identity on his sleeve. Being a Democrat politician in the current year requires making a big show of one’s ethnic chauvinism (if considered an ethnic minority) or of one’s ethnic anti-chauvinism (if considered among the ethnic majority). This is because the GOP, at least on the surface, espouses universalist values that purportedly should appeal to all ethnic groups, whereas the Democrats are pretty explicitly the party of “white people suck, amirite”
* Again with the six-figure advances for a book by a nobody! First Obama, the colored kid protégé of the Pritzkers and Crowns. Now Rubio, the colored kid protégé of Brahman.
Is this the new way of laundering influence? Give the cute colored kid a six-figure advance on a worthless book to tide him over. Elect him. Then give him $200,000 a speech after he gets out (if he did good).
Rubio game is even better than Obama game.
Obama was a part-time law prof for UofC. A little sex appeal, not much.
Rubio is a Chippendale’s dancer and has the photos to prove it. That goes straight to voter girl gonads.
To Rubio if you are listening: my gal says you need to use a depilatory on your face to get the perfect boy-band look. Shoot some Putinesque muscle photos, too.
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* In her excellent African Laughter, detailing her journeys through postwar Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Doris Lessing confirms this. Zimbabwean women, she said, do literally almost all the work.
I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe or Subsaharan Africa generally.
* I would suggest that a lot of this stems from Black men being sort of a “canary in the coal mine”; they are the last hired and first fired from traditional manual labor jobs. Thus, as those jobs go away because of 1) immigration; 2) mechanization; 3) feminization of the work place; men of the lower SES cohorts are drifting out of the traditional economy.
* Knowing women, is it really surprising that no matter what we do, it’s never good enough as far as feminists are concerned?
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* Our current money is rife with slaveholders, sexists, and racists. I suggest a clean sweep:
$100 – Martin Luther King Jr.
$50 – Rosa Parks
$20 – Harriet Tubman
$10 – Frederick Douglass
$5 – W. E. B. Du Bois
$3 – Harvey Milk
$2 – Carrie Nation
$1 – Barack Obama
$1 coin – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Half-dollar – Abigail Adams
Quarter – Thurgood Marshall
Dime – Cesar Chavez
Nickle – Booker T. Washington
Penny – Malcolm X
* The “natural-born citizen” clause was introduced into the Constitution mostly to keep out the West Indian-born Hamilton, whom none of the other Framers could stand.
Guy was a genius, though.
* Rootless, illegitimate, ruthlessly ambitious, willing to run huge debts, spend lots of a military with an idea to self-aggrandizement, sexually amoral, good with figures- Hamilton would be seen as a sensible, moderate pol, a real statesman, by the NPR, CNN crowd and their audiences and the Chamber of Commerce sorts.
* Of all the great men depicted on present-day US currency, Hamilton is one of two who never owned slaves (the other, of course, is Abe Lincoln). That Washington, Jefferson and Jackson were slave owners is common knowledge. Less well known, however, is that Franklin and Grant were also slave owners. Grant owned slaves through his wife Julia (who was from Kentucky) and kept them until they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment. Ben Franklin owned slaves as a young man but later freed them and became an abolitionist in his old age.
So clearly, anyone who wishes to remove the plutocratic Hamilton from the currency is in favor of slavery. But if he is to be replaced by a woman, I would suggest Julia Dent Grant, a distinguished First Lady. BTW, Grant’s family refused to attend their wedding because the Dents were prominent slave owners.
* To comport with the essence of American culture, why not just use movie stars?
* I would rather use great American directors:
DW Griffith*
Buster Keaton
Howard Hawks
John Ford
Orson Welles
* 1/ I’m surprised that Steve didn’t mention that Hamilton was closer to being an immigrant than any of the other founding fathers having not only been born outside the 13 colonies, but having been born on an island that at one time wasn’t even British.
2/ Given this website’s current fondness for meritocracy you would think that Hamilton, born a poor bastard, would be lauded, certainly over his many rich born contemporaries. Indeed I see more than a few parallels between him and say Clinton (Bill not DeWitt), a favorite of the NY crowd.
* Alexander Hamilton brought central banking to the United States.
He didn’t wake up one morning and think “Wow, European-style central banking is exactly what this incipient republic needs!”
I’m sure Hamilton was well-compensated for his role in the establishment of the FBOTUS.
* Cuckservatives and libertardians have for almost a generation been flirting with the idea that inner city drug dealers- go-getting entrepreneurs trading in a product there is clearly a demand for but which a meddling nanny state has outlawed- are the REAL Americans, not those clock-watching, pink-complexioned stiffs working in auto plants or the Oakland docks for $65/hr. This is the implicit rationale behind Rand Paul’s claim that the justice system is unfairly incarcerating too many young, black males (too bad, BTW, since Paul seems like one of the smarter candidates; loved it when in one of the debates he pointed to Christie and said, “If you want WWIII, you have your candidate.”)
The Welfare Reform Act of 1996(?) was white America’s last great act of self-assertion; but then Michael Jordan hugged every single last white man and high-fived every single last white boy in the country, and we’ve been living under this dopey illusion of racial comity ever since. Actually, no, he didn’t hug or high-five them, he sent them a complimentary pair of sneakers made in a Third World sweat shop with his image on them. And actually, no, those sneakers weren’t free, but marked up like 2000%.
* There used to be only one face on American coinage, and that face happened to be female. She was Lady Liberty. If we need to put a woman on the folding green, I propose her. Besides, she’d focus attention on a rather neglected principle (at least in this day and age) instead of a individual person, and nobody would be able to argue that she’s not an appropriate selection.
* My wife and I have a running bet on how long one can be at a social event in Manhattan before talk turns to Hamilton. Usually it’s somewhere in the 5-10 minute range, but it can be as low as 2 minutes, and it almost never fails to happen.
* Seeing as how we are probably never going to get another (besides Franklin, of course) American man* who did significant work in the arts and the sciences on our money, I’m still going to plunk for putting one of these ladies on US currency:
Emily Dickinson
Edith Wharton
Willa Cather
Mary Cassatt
Hamilton as immigrant hero: Interesting reversal. American historiography used to see that as Hamilton’s weakness. It was thought that that prevented him from truly understanding the American mind.
Pop culture and Hamilton: Hamilton was depicted as something of a villain in the John Adams HBO miniseries. Wonder if that will be the last time that we will see a negative version of him.
Falling liberal idols: Who’s in bad odor these days: Jefferson (whole slavery thing), Madison (ditto), Jackson (slavery plus Amerinds),Woodrow Wilson (the vile racist who lauded Birth of a Nation), FDR (father of redlining, didn’t do enough to stop Hitler, Japanese internment), etc.
*Although I still think that it’s positively criminal that people like Edison, the Wright Bros, Mark Twain, William James, Poe, Melville, Howard Hawks, etc, have never been on US currency.
* I nominate Monica Lewinsky for the currency.
Nothing epitomizes the character of the postmodern U.S. better than Clinton getting a blow job in the Oval Office…
* It’s the work of one man, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who born into a upper-middle class Puerto Rican family in New York and educated at Wesleyan. He looks mostly, but not wholly, white, slightly less white than, say, Marco Rubio. You’d probably identify him as Latin-looking.
* For the same reason movies set in the past always involve sympathetic characters with modern 21st century US values. Most people don’t seem to have the imagination to hold it in their heads that many perfectly good people didn’t think like them, and indeed historical “heroes” usually had ideas not unlike those of their surrounding society.
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I had a very dispiriting conversation with a middle aged Swedish man. He tells me that now, when he returns to visit Sweden, he is afraid. Not of Muslims, but of all those blond haired blue eyed people. They represent a lack of diversity that literally frightens him.
Chaim Amalek: I wish you would lay off your race obsession and write more about the Kardashians.
Miriam Lilian D Or: That’s nice. Does he feel better living amongst all the bright pink, green, blue shacks in Los Angeles decorated by a line of underwear hanging out to dry in the porch- and a dirty broken down car in the front?
* I spend my day giving out STDs (soft turn downs).
Chaim Amalek: “I hope that with enough therapy, this boy will be able to rebuild his life and one day be able to trust age appropriate women. But until then, he will need a safe space free from triggers.”
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My friend Shmarya Rosenberg has sold his website Failed Messiah, and will no longer be blogging. I’ve known this since earlier today when he told me, but waited to post about it because 1) he asked me to wait and 2) I was worried he was pranking me, he frequently pranks me.
His swan song is way too left (for a change), but politics aside, Failed Messiah was the Zerohedge of the religious Jewish world. His role was so important because he broke important stories that no one else could…or would. He broke stories that changed the world for the better, or at least, made it just a tad less unfair. Failed Messiah fought for justice. Not social justice. Justice.
Anyway, it’s definitely the end of an era. I could have written a much, much juicier post…but I’m restraining myself. I’m staying positive and restrained.
I hope Shmarya comes to NYC in the future now that he’ll have some sort of real job and can afford to leave his Mom’s basement sometimes. Because a lot of people would like to meet him, and the hasidim will hopefully be less interested in beating him to a bloody pulp now that he stopped blogging.
Anyway, best of luck, Shmarya. Don’t be a stranger. Many people agreed that you were a brilliant light in independent Jewish media.
Of course, they would mostly prefer I don’t name them publicly.
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A diverse society has to become more censored or it will implode.
From Breitbart: A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what — and what not — to report.
National public service broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), which was recently forced into a humiliating apology for their silence on migrant violence and sex assault is being drawn into a fresh scandal after one of their former bureau chiefs admitted the company takes orders from the government on what it reports. He said journalists received instructions to write news that would be “to Ms. Merkel’s liking”.
Former head of ZDF Bonn Dr. Wolfgang Herles make the remarks during a radio event (from minute 27) in Berlin where journalists discussed the media landscape. Moving on to the freedom of the press, the panel chair asked Dr. Herles whether things in Germany had got “seriously out of whack”. With an honesty perhaps unusual in Germany, Dr. Herles replied that ordinary Germans were totally losing faith in the media, something he called a “scandal”. He said:
“We have the problem that – now I’m mainly talking about the public [state] media – we have a closeness to the government. Not only because commentary is mainly in line with the grand coalition (CSU, CDU, and SPD), with the spectrum of opinion, but also because we are completely taken in by the agenda laid down by the political class”.
Worse than the mainstream, government controlled and poll-tax funded media in Germany just agreeing with the ruling coalition, the stations actually took orders on what was and was not to be reported on. He said:
“…the topics about which are reported are laid down by the government.
“There are many topics that would be more important than what the government wants. But they, of course, want to deflect attention away from what doesn’t happen. Yet what doesn’t happen is often more important than what does happen – more important than gesture politics”.
While these orders are sent to media companies from unspecified places in the government, they are communicated to individual journalists by news executives using a new-speak jargon. Dr. Herles explains that while “there are, in fact, instructions from above”, when the editor in chief of ZDF communicated these instructions to his juniors he would merely say reporting should be framed in a way that “serves Europe and the public good”.
There would be no need to add in brackets that this actually means it should be reported “to Ms. Merkel’s liking”, as they would be understood as the true meaning.
“Today, one is not allowed to say anything negative about the refugees” said Dr. Herles, concluding: “This is government journalism and that leads to a situation in which people no longer trust us. This is a scandal.”
There has been very little reporting of the comments in the German media, and what there was has been critical of the remarks. Focus reported the comments of one centre-left media figure, Der Freitag newspaper editor Jakob Augstein who when asked whether there had ever been such “instructions from above”, said: “No, I deny vehemently there has ever been commands from the top”.
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You can either have a cohesive society with high social trust or a diverse society filled with distrust.
The only way to run a country with low social trust is with lots of laws and regulations. As America has become more diverse, it has had to become more regulated.
A 99% German Germany would not have the following issue:
BERLIN (AP) — The German government is considering introducing a limit of 5,000 euros ($5,450) on cash transactions in an effort to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism.
Deputy finance minister Michael Meister said Wednesday that Germany would like to see a European solution, but could introduce a national limit if none is achieved, news agency dpa reported. He said “we can imagine a level of 5,000 euros.”
Meister said there’s “the risk of terror financing and we also have the problem of how to clear up money-laundering offenses properly” when large transactions are conducted anonymously.
Germans tend to use cash more than many other Europeans. Opposition Green Party lawmaker Konstantin von Notz tweeted that trying to limit cash payments “is a new fundamental attack on data protection and privacy.”
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Jewish Republicans I know love Marco Rubio. Dennis Prager says he’s the most electable Republican candidate for president.
Bruce Bolton tweets: “John Edwards comparison is three-fer 1. Pretty boy light weight, 2. scandal floating under surface, 3. and he lost, unlike Obama.”
Steve Sailer writes: …Rubio has been pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of billionaire Miami auto dealer Norman Braman. This almost inevitably turned Rubio into the cabana boy for the Dade County Likud Party Billionaire Boosters Club. From the Jewish Telegraph Agency:
NEW YORK (JTA) – After Marco Rubio’s strong performance in Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate, many Americans are taking a second look at the U.S. senator from Florida. Here are a few things American Jews might want to know about him.
1. Rubio had humble beginnings — and rose quickly
The junior senator was born in Miami in 1971 to Cuban parents who moved to the United States in 1956 and later found work in bartending and housekeeping. After high school, Rubio paid for his first year of college with a football scholarship and then took out student loans. Rubio later repaid $100,000 in student debt out of the $800,000 advance he received for his 2012 book, “An American Son.” (He also sprung for a fishing boat.) While studying law at the University of Miami in the mid-1990s, Rubio interned for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R.-Fla., the first Cuban American elected to Congress and a staunch supporter of Israel. Rubio won election in 2000 to the state legislature, the Florida House of Representatives, and became its youngest-ever speaker in 2005. In 2010, Rubio was elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Florida’s governor, Charlie Crist.
Billionaire auto dealership magnate Norman Braman, a past president of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, isn’t just the single-largest backer of Rubio’s presidential campaign. Braman also helped finance the young senator’s legislative agenda, employed Rubio as a lawyer, hired Rubio’s wife (a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader) as a philanthropic adviser, helped fund Rubio’s position as a college instructor and assisted Rubio with his personal finances. In 2010, Braman and Rubio went to Israel together shortly after Rubio’s election to the U.S. Senate.
“Gee, Mr. Braman, I never thought about Israel like that before!”
A Rubio-Sanders race might be interesting in that Sanders is ethnically well-positioned as an old Jew from Brooklyn who was a kibbutznik for awhile in the 1960s to call out Rubio’s neocon extremism.
COMMENTS:
* By dropping the Os, he could be Marc Rubi, the Flaming Kid. That would endear him to two excitable minorities with lots of money to donate.
* Rubio hasn’t done anything or earned anything in his life that hasn’t come out of Braman’s pockets.
* The father of the EU was a rich aristocratic mongrel (Austrian-Japanese) married to a jewess, he wrote a book in the 1920s called ‘Practical Idealism’ where he imagined a future mongrelized Europe ruled by a Jewish elite.
* As Steve has pointed out before, when discussed in publications intended for the private consumption of Jews, the information contained in this article is considered interesting and important. If it were published in the New York Times, there would be an outcry about anti-semitism.
* Since Bush flamed out, Rubio has found a new and even richer sugar-daddy – the hedge-fund manager, sovereign-debt-collector, and gay-rights champion Paul Singer.
Rubio is the Republican Party’s rent-boy.
* The puppeteering of American politicians by wealthy Jews is progress!
And don’t you forget it!
And don’t you talk about it either!
* In opening for introducing Donald Trump tonight in New Hampshire, Ann Coulter took a lavender swipe at Lindsey Graham, and another at Marco Rubio, the latter with a carom at the Current Occupant.
* Politico came out with an article last week about how easy it is to rig elections in the US.
The takeaway is that it is really easy. Usually no one observes the actual counting of the ballots, which are often done anyway by computer programs run by companies that often are backing candidates competing in the same elections (eg Microsoft and Rubio). Sometimes these companies are foreign owned. It amazes me that no one seems to care much about this.
The article didn’t mention that unlike in other countries, where civil servants who are supposed to be neutral oversee the elections, elections in the US are run by boards composed of local Democratic and Republican hacks.
* There is some irony that the Jew in the race is the least pro Israel. And he is still very pro-Israel.
* Rubio’s first book that he received the $800,000 advance for, and which has sold a staggering 37,000 copies, was published by Sentinel. Looks like a donation to me though I am not in publishing.
As the web site says, “Meet Sentinel.”
http://www.penguin.com/meet/publishers/sentinel/
Adrian Zackheim
Founder, President, and Publisher
Will Weisser
Niki Papadopoulos
Natalie Horbachevsky
* [Tim] Carney is pretty sharp. He’s highlighting this for a good reason.
He’s been begging the Rs to go populist for a while: take an anti-crony capitalism stance after the 2008 crash…
He was featured as a prominent anti-war “conservative” more than a decade ago.
His insights have tracked Sailer-type insights, though Carney is more inside baseball with his ExIm bank crusade and beltway libertarianism…
* “Can you imagine how much better Trump would’ve done with competent GOTV effort?”
GOP turnout was 50% over the highest ever. If Trump hadn’t done a good job of getting out the vote, he’d have been running neck and neck with Ben Carson.
Cruz had a brilliant ground game. Cruz has run an excellent campaign, given his unappealing character. Rubio didnt’ turn voters; a lot of them came out specifically to vote for him because they hated Trump.
* Then that’s a regional prejudice thing. Let’s call it what it is. The same thing that worked to Cruz’s advantage will hurt him in NY; NJ; New England perhaps the Upper Midwestern states and possibly in CA; OR; WA.
Again, Trump may need to win the Northeast, the Pacific states, (except for Carly, no candidate hails from the Pacific so that region’s wide open), and carry the Upper Midwest.
Like in the November election, the Upper Midwest with its precious 60plus electoral votes, may just hold the balance for Trump to get the nomination.
If Cruz wants to go there with his “NY values” smear, Trump can match him in the Upper Midwest and Northeast with “You really want a dumb hick in the White House? Seriously? Is he even from America?”
Cruz started it. Let Trump finish it.
But yep, this year the CA/Pacific along with Upper Midwest states may just hold the cards for Trump. Be interested to know when CA/WA/OR/Pacific region hosts their primaries this yr.
* Trump is financing his own campaign and is trying to do it on the cheap. He didn’t want to spend the money needed to establish a ground game.
* For someone who is supposedly very good at “winning,” he certainly did not show much. He had virtually no “ground game” in Iowa, and essentially ran a celebrity campaign – all free (earned) media and giant rallies, but no serious organization or grassroots/ground-pounding hard work. He ended up fitting the NYC stereotype in the Midwest – all talk, no work.
And Cruz showed that he can organize. It’s not just that his locked up the “evangelicals” and turned them out. He had a highly organized and efficient team on the ground with excellent data analytics. And on top of all that, he WORKED. He and his wife personally called people who needed to be persuaded back to his cause. He showed that he wanted to win, could win, and did win. Cruz’s magna cum laude and editor of law review weren’t just affirmative action honorifics. He is definitely brains + hard work.
In Iowa, at least, Cruz showed that he could run the trains on time better than the supposed businessman with “real world” enterprise experience. New Hampshire will be a tougher slog for Cruz, for sure, but it will be VERY interesting how well his national organization performs versus Trump’s yet-to-materialize infrastructure.
As I mentioned here before, politics is a team endeavor. Candidates are merely the vessels through which the aspirations of others are channeled. I have yet to see any evidence that Trump gets this. He still seems to be stuck in the celebrity mode, not serious candidate mode, as his squabbles with a politically insignificant journalist immediately before the vote demonstrated. Calling someone else’s wife a “bimbo” is never a good look for anyone let alone someone running for the land’s highest elected office.
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