New Hampshire: End of the Line!

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 was already in trouble having to lay off staff , and neither he nor Haley got a Gary Hart bounce from Iowa.  DeSantis' polls are now in the toilet with Haley's polls not much better.

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.  

 

He then had the nerve to claim the Democrats want Trump to be the nominee, which seems to me he's saying you must vote for me because Biden can beat Trump but he can't beat me.  Yeah, right, and I think he just might believe that.  That's the kind of thinking that occurs when listening to sycophants and hearing only what one wants to hear, failing to understanding what people really want, and what's really happening. 

 

I've said from the beginning I have no idea what was going on in his mind deciding to run against Trump.  Unlike Haley, he could have had a chance in 2028.  If he had waited that time could have given him a priceless opportunity to build a real and broad political base for such a run, and it's likely Trump would have helped him, or at the very least not opposed him.  As it were, he was sounding more and more like a Liz Cheney Never Trumper, along with both George Conway and Mitt Romney who think it's the Trump supporters who are out of touch with reality.   He's toast, and from now on.

 

Nikki Haley claimed Iowa was an aberration, and the media claimed the problem was that there were just entirely too many white people and Christians living in Iowa.  Outrageous!  How dare they vote for Trump?  Haley was sure New Hampshire was going to correct that aberration.  Well, she's wrong, and she's crashing in the New Hampshire polls also.  Hannah Bleau Knudson saying Trump towers over Haley.

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 issues 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, her 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.

"Biden is a symptom, not a cause of America’s illness.  The cause lies in the embrace by the Democrat party of a Marxist/fascist hybrid collectivism, to be elevated by any means necessary..............Our enemies are within the gates; indeed, they have taken control of the gates and are opening them wide to nearly every external threat they can find.  They’re fully aware of the catastrophic consequences to our nation of their treachery and accepting of it as simply the cost of “fundamental transformation.” ..............Trump is the disruptor of all this.  He’s the only true threat to the existence and further hegemony of the “uniparty.”  However, unless we aim him toward the true enemy — the Democrat party as a whole....."

 

Steve McCann noted in his article, Donald Trump and the Fate of the Nation:

 

No American president since Abraham Lincoln has ever carried more scars of office than Donald Trump. However, it is these scars of battle, his larger-than-life persona, and the reality of dealing with a well-armed Democrat war machine that Trump, if he accepts the nomination, will face in November of 2024. Thus, thrusting him into a win or be solely responsible for the fate of nation situation.............There can be no question that Donald Trump harbors a deep affection for this country and its people. He, therefore, is well aware of the dire consequences for this nation and his legacy if he loses. It is vital that Trump, despite his ongoing legal battles, begins to immediately focus on doing everything he can to ensure a victory in November...........

 

Decades of leftist leadership is destroying America, but that can be reversed with strategic leadership. 

 

Without a monolithic black vote, Democrats can't get elected, and we're seeing a surge in black voter support for Trump.   Senators like Ted Cruz are endorsing Trump, and the big hit came when Senator Tim Scott's endorsed Trump.  He's black, he's Republican, he's conservative, he was initially a candidate, and he's from South Carolina where Haley was governor.  If she stays in, she'll be humiliated in South Carolina.  The fact is, Donald Trump owns the Republican party, so get over it, because the fat lady sung, and it’s over!!! 

 

Update:  DeSantis has dropped out and endorsed Trump.  He went on to say:

 

......that he "signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, [and he] will honor that pledge....because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear — a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.....The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology are over,"................

 

At this point I'm not going to beat on him, because I think that would be really tacky, but, as the reporter in Charlie Wilson's War said:  We'll see!  

 

As for Nikki, she says, ‘May the Best Woman Win’........

The Fat Lady Sung, and It's Over!

By Rich Kozlovich

"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, which outraged Rachel Maddow saying Trump is a dangerous fascist, but his supporters are even worse.  Imagine that!  And why are they worse?  According to that MSNBC's resident racist, Joy Reid, Iowa has entirely too many whites and Christians. Imagine that. 

I often wonder if these nitwits even know what the definition of fascism is, because if they don't that means they're stupid.  If the do, and yet keep making that claim, it means they're deliberately lying and stupid.

Well, Maddow has just under 4 million viewers, and in a nation of 332 million people that means 328 million people didn't hear a thing she said, and the ones who did, already believed her nonsense, and like her, they're either stupid, or stupid liars.    So, who cares what she thinks?  And if I didn't read news sites I couldn't have known what she said, and I was even surprised to find she's still on the air. 

Let's start with Chris Christie.  Even as stupid as he is, he knew what was coming and no matter what he would say afterwards, it wouldn't erase the humiliation of getting almost no votes, and finally did something smart for a change, and dropped out ahead of time. Something former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson failed to do and got less than 1% of the vote, even less than Ryan Binkley, and I have no idea who he is, but he got .07%.  How much less did Hutchinson get?  I have no idea, but get this:

“We plan on going to New Hampshire. I’ve got my flight booked there. But we’re going to reevaluate after this evening. We’ll see where we finally end up and if we’ve got the strength to carry on this campaign beyond Iowa,” Hutchinson told KCCI in Des Moines.

Remarkable, what's going on in this nitwit's head?

As for As of 11:30 pm ET, last night with 95% of the vote counted, Trump had 51.0%, Ron DeSantis came in a distant second, 21.3% and Nikki Haley getting 19.1%, and Vivek Ramaswamy also ran.  He ended up with 7.7%.  He wisely ended the pain, and I'm a bit surprised he didn't finish closer to Haley as he beat her up badly during the campaign. 

While Vivek Ramaswamy has dropped out, he has given his full endorsement to Trump, and Trump is being gracious in return saying, "He did a hell of a job".  Not only did he call Trump to tell him he was out and fully supporting him, he'll be appearing with him to campaign in New Hampshire. 

He'll get a spot in the administration if he wants it, no matter what he's said about that in the past.  Perhaps being appointed to be the "Gut the Deep State Czar" might be a good spot, especially to see who and what he really is, which I think was the knock on him.  He had history that concerned conservatives.   I found that whole campaign bizarre to tell you the truth, but then again, I've found this entire run by Republicans bizarre, especially DeSantis.   What is going on in their heads? 

DeSantis came in second, a distant second, and whined about it trying to put a smiley face on this failure for his staff.  Even claiming the media was in the tank for Trump.  Huh?  The media's in the tank for Trump?  Ya just gotta be kidden me!  He can't really believe that...can he?  If he does it further shows he's delusional, which I've believed from the beginning of his campaign, and he's toast from now on nationally.  However, at this point it seems clear he plans of staying in the race.  

I think that's called masochism?  

Talking about masochism, there's Nikki Haley, who practically groveled to the Iowa voters and they dumped her into third position, and probably only did as well as she did because Democrats could vote in the Iowa Republican primary, which is stupid, and she's the Republican candidate for Democrats.

Now she's dissing them and saying New Hampshire will correct these Iowa nitwits, and she's getting support from Never Trumpers Bill Kristol, and Governor Chris Sununu.  Now, let's see a show of hands on how many conservatives will change over to Haley due to those endorsements!  She actually thinks these Iowa results make this a two person race.  She must think Trump is going to drop out.  

Here's a thought worth noting.  Combined, DeSantis and Haley spent 72 million dollars, far more money than Trump to come in a far second and third.  Where's that money coming from?

Rand Paul has been ripping Haley, but Sununu says no one in America cares what Rand Paul thinks about Nikki Haley. Really?  Well here's what he thinks, Here, Here, and Here, and it ain't pretty.

Which in effect, affirms what I said from the beginning, she's not to be trusted.  While she seemed to have been outstanding as the Ambassador to the United Nations, she proved to be a leaky vessel, and turned on Trump for reasons I never understood, although here are her excuses, which I think tells the whole story on Nikki Haley.  

I think she's a as slippery as an eel, unwilling to state a man can't be a woman, and is on board with the climate change climatistas, and is weak on every issue that's important to conservatives.  She's a "make believe conservative", all too common among Republicans, and if Nikki Haley, is the Establishment’s last hope, they're toast.  But here's a thought worth exploring.

Final thought.  I've said over and over again I have no idea what's going on in the heads of these two nitwits.  If DeSantis had stayed out of it he had a chance in 2028, and he's still young enough, but Haley was toast from the beginning because she's shown just how untrustworthy she is.  Who were these two listening to?  Why would they believe they actually had a chance against Trump? 

Answer?   They weren't connected to the base, and isolated themselves in a echo chamber of head nodding self promoters, and now both are toast nationally, and DeSantis will be another also ran former governor like John Kasich who no one wants anything to do with, except the main stream media who trots him out like the talking head he is to smear Trump.  

The only political future I see for all these people is the No Labels Party, better named the No Future Party. 

 

Time for the GOP to serve Democrats a taste of their own medicine

April 4, 2023 By Rajan Laad

This weekend, Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R-VA) and Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher.  When Maher asked them about President Trump’s indictment, both skirted the topic.  Sears said they hadn’t seen the charges and didn't comment any further. Sununu called the indictment a circus but immediately proceeded to attack Trump,  claiming he didn’t think Trump will be the GOP nominee in 2024 and that Trump can’t win the general election. `Maher’s show was a great opportunity for Sears and Sununu to explain Democrat voters how Trump is being targeted, but alas it was squandered as they opted to sit on the fence..............It is time these Republicans stop being indecisive by feigning ignorance or remaining silent or talking about letting the law take its course or allowing the courts to decide or letting the investigations continue or being open to new information.............Let process become the punishment for the Democrats. Let the Democrats face hardship by having to travel to flyover country for appearances in courts or during investigations.  Let the Democrats realize that the unwritten rule of not going after political opponents is in their interests.  This is an occasion for the GOP to stop being reactive to Democrat narratives, and instead become drivers of their narrative................To Read More.....