By Rich Kozlovich
On January 16th I published this piece, The Fat Lady Sung, And it's Over saying:"It ain't over till the fat lady sings"! Well, the fat lady sung, and it's all over in Iowa, and Donald Trump won massively...."
What I should have titled that piece as, "It's Now Over, Period!"
There was a lot of talk about how cold it was in Iowa, and because there was so much snow many would stay home and not vote. Where do these people live? Iowa, just like Ohio, gets a lot of cold days and lot's of snow, and guess what? They don't stay home, they're used to it, they know how to navigate it.
As for the outcome, that was as predictable as night follows day, and if DeSantis and Haley had any class at all, they would have dropped out afterward just like Vivek did. But they didn't because unlike Vivek, they've been attacking Trump making all sorts of claims, sounding more like Democrats than Republicans.
DeSantis claims he made mistakes in Iowa but the fact is, what he did, didn't do, or could have done, wouldn't have mattered. Nothing can save him. O'Reilly claims his problem was he's the worst campaigner since Herbert Hoover’. I disagree.
He lost because he betrayed the conservative base by running in the first place, and then criticized Trump's policies, successful policies, and in effect denigrated and insulted the base. He made himself high smelling and low down to conservatives.
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Why?
Well, Haley has no real following among conservatives in America. For one thing she gushes over misanthropes like Bill Gates, and she's weak on every conservative issue of concern. She's sounds more like a Democrat, or at the very least a "Me Too" Republican.
"She supports open borders. She is a supporter of amnesty. She was opposed to President Trump’s border wall in 2015. She had the audacity to say that in many cases, quote, ‘Illegal immigrants are more patriotic than American citizens.’ She also said illegal immigrants are not criminals. By definition, they are in fact criminals, and they are wreaking havoc on American communities every single day."
It's also clear her support really is coming from
Democrats, and neo-con Never Trumpers. She's their Republican candidate. Her big donors are as delusional
as Haley, pushing Democrats to switch parties in order to vote for her. And as always, the Democrats just can't take a chance on fair play and actually letting the masses express their views, after all, they might not have the right view.
How do people that stupid get so wealthy?
There's talk claiming her refusal to attend another debate is big negative for her campaign. Horsepucky. It seems to me she realizes it just doesn't matter. Plus, she's
not very good at it. With all the negatives her opponents keep
beating her with, why bother? And no matter what the the pundits are saying failing to do another debate won't have a thing to do with keeping her in the race. She's toast, and from now on.
At the beginning of this campaign I wondered if her past history of infidelity was going to become an issue. I knew about that, and even posted articles dealing with it years ago, but Trump certainly couldn't bring this up with his history. I am a bit surprised it's coming up now, except South Carolina is next, and when she was Governor there and that infidelity was common knowledge in her state.
If she stays in, I'm betting that was going to be discussed with Republicans in that state. But no matter, even Governor Sununu, who shot off his Never Trumper mouth about how she was going to crush Trump, and how damaging Trump is to the party and to the nation, is now forecasting her loss in New Hampshire.
As Jack Hellner over at American Thinker observed, Nikki Haley and the Never-Trumpers couldn’t be more wrong about Trump saying:
He's "not a loser and has not harmed the Republican Party; he has given it a backbone, and his policies are popular because they were very successful."
We'll come back to that, but let's start with the fact Joe Biden isn't Trump’s real opponent, and the more they attacked him, and the more they corrupted the legal system against him simply solidified their support because American's hate cheaters and bullies.
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