Trump Sweeps South Carolina

All fifty precincts.

Quote :

Trump's resounding victory isn’t simply a boon to his prospects for winning the Republican presidential nomination, an outcome once thought impossible that is looking increasingly more plausible. It is also an embarrassing repudiation of conservative orthodoxy that has dominated Republican politics for decades. It suggests that the party's intellectual leaders, who organized the base around the National Review/Weekly Standard consensus -- small government, free trade, pro-Israel, deregulation, low taxes, social conservatism and an aggressive foreign policy -- have been generals of a phantom army.

The troops, instead, are marching with Trump, who bested his rivals in South Carolina by campaigning against nearly everything the Bush family, the Republican Party and neoconservatives who supported military interventions advocated for. Among his many breaks with the elite consensus, Trump declared that former President George W. Bush had lied about weapons of mass destruction to march the country to war; blamed Bush for the 9/11 attacks, arguing that he ignored intelligence community warnings; defended Planned Parenthood; boasted that he was the only Republican who would not cut Social Security or Medicare; said he approved of the individual mandate in Obamacare; and promised to slap onerous tariffs on companies who outsource jobs.

What a year this is turning out to be.

And now he has kicked ass in Nevada.

What is wrong with these people?

Ummm, they're Republicans? That implies a certain level of disengagement from the real world, like Christians, so I guess we really shouldn't be surprised.

The real question is, with Trump popular with a third, or maybe 38% of the party, can the other 62-66% come together to defeat him? And with whom? No other candidate looks very good, and certainly none approaches 60% support.

They're saying the convention might be brokered, if Trump does not win enough delegates beforehand to clinch the nomination.

But even that possibility is looking more and more remote now. On Super Tuesday his lead may well become insurmountable.

Of course he does - they work for low wages.

And they vote for buffoons.

Let's hope so.

The CLUE is that this nimrod says he successfully predicted every election for the past 104 years.

Think about that for a second.

I'm sure they just meant that his methodology is applicable to the earlier elections. More sloppy writing.

Just looking at the pattern of alternating party victories indicates that the Republicans will win.