I’m outside of Scranton Pennsylvania tonight is this is written. I’ve been watching the results from Iowa, and listening to a few of the local stations out that way. It’s been a fascinating evening.
Im headed for Syracuse early in the morning and then probably back to Rochester to pick up another southbound load. The truck is running fine, and I am well pleased with it.
By the way, Donna birthday is on Saturday, so I’ll be taking Friday afternoon off and may or may not actually have a nightly ramble up for Friday night. We’ll see how that goes.
I’ve not had a chance to look at the raw numbers but on the surface it comes out Cruz, Trump, Rubio. To make matters even more interesting, Rubio very nearly took second.
I believe it was Ben Hogan, now many years ago, who said nobody remembers who came in second. More recently, June I believe… Donald Trump said those words on his Twitter account. I wonder if he’ll remember those words now that he’s come second in the Iowa caucuses.
In one of the Rocky movies, there is a moment where Rocky lands a glove on his Russian counterpart, cutting him in the process. His trainer says words to the effect of…. “You see? He’s not a machine. He’s just a man. Now go get him.”
What we have going on here is on that level. The idea that Donald Trump is the inevitable GOP nominee has been shown for the falsehood it is. Up until this moment, he’s been taking everything in sight on sheer momentum. That momentum is now broken. Not only did Ted Cruz hand Trump his hat, but Marco Rubio as unlikely as it sounds, came close to doing the same thing.
The upshot of these results is that Trump has far less in the way of Support then we were supposed to believe. And we now have a three man race on our hands for the GOP nomination.
That’s aura of inevitability has been benefiting the Donald for months now, in that the press has been salivating over every syllable uttered by The Donald. Going forward, that’s no longer true I think.
As for the Democrat side of things, what we have is essentially a dead heat between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Here again, the inevitability factor please large. Clinton, was considered the presumptive nominee until Benghazi, classified emails, and so on.
I see a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth that an open-faced communist like Bernie Sanders is coming so close to a presidential nomination. But I would ask IF Bernie Sanders and his outright socialism is such a step down for the party of FDR. As for his success as a measure of the deterioration of the culture as a whole, I don’t think I’d go quite so far. Ask yourself, would Sanders be doing nearly as well if it wasn’t so apparent that Hillary Rodham Clinton was melting down before our eyes? I don’t think so. Will Sanders do nearly as well in the general? I don’t think so.
It is quite true and will not be discounted by me that there has always been a certain level of support for socialism in these United States. But Sanders and his success is more about circumstances that have nothing to do with him than it does with political idealism.
The all too popular refrain of ” this election will be the end of the Republican Party” has it backwards. I’m starting to see the end of the Democrat Party.
And down the road I go. I’ll see you tomorrow. When given the intolerable choices of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton does anybody really suppose that most people aren’t going to be rushing headlong to the exits?
