Politics

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Donald Trump won more votes in the Iowa caucuses than any Republican candidate in history.

Impressive, except Ted Cruz set the new all-time record.

And Marco Rubio exceeded all expectations by taking 23 percent.

Cruz won Tea Party types, Evangelicals, and the hard right.

Trump won the populists and nationalists who want the borders secure, no amnesty, and no more trade deals that enable rival powers like China to disembowel American industries.

The Democratic debate last night included some discussion of foreign policy, and the two candidates repeated their standard arguments against each other. As he often has before, Sanders keeps bringing up Clinton’s vote to authorize the Iraq war:

But experience is not the only point, judgment is. And once again, back in 2002, when we both looked at the same evidence about the wisdom of the war in Iraq, one of us voted the right way and one of us didn’t.

Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz who recently won in Iowa is advertising his credentials to the American public in an ad that spells COUNTRY as COUNRTY. No big deal you might say in this new era of political inexpediency, where there is a rush to reach bottom in all fields, including spelling. Let’s spell correctly before time runs out and we should lose our COUNTRY in a chaotic hostile world full of non god-loving evil folk and to meaningless words such as COUNRTY. One letter either way and its gone, forever, like Rome.

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