A Brief One from Doug Draper
Posted February 2nd, 2016 on Niagara At Large
Ted Cruz – the Tea Party Senator from Texas who was born in Alberta, Canada to an American mom – came from behind to beat the so-called frontrunning contender Donald Trump in the State of Iowa Republican race for the presidential nomination this February 1st,.
Trump spent much of January pounding away at Cruz’s Canadian birth (at one point calling him an “anchor baby) in an effort to argue that he might not be eligible to run for an office where, by law, the President must be a native American. But in the end, the tactic didn’t work and Trump, who brags about always being a “winner,” fell to second place, raising the possibility that Cruz might crush him again next week in an all-important New Hampshire primary that sets a strong tone for the remainder of the presidential race.
The New York Daily News – a Manhattan-based tabloid that has mocked Trump’s candidacy since its start last June – published another attention-getting front page on the bombastic billionaire’s campaign follies, as it is want to do.
My parting question is this. Does the outcome in Iowa make Trump, who is famous for calling others who don’t finish first a loser, a loser? I doubt his inner narcissist would ever let him tell.
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I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Trump’s bid for office turns out to have been a carefully coordinated “straw man” tactic all along, intended to compel Republicans to opt for the apparent lesser of two evils. When the alternative is a fatuous blowhard with lunatic notions of grandeur and bad hair, of course people on the right are going to opt for a rabid fascist who looks less like a comic book parody.
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