I can't believe he hadn't fizzled out yet. But I want him to take out Cruz. That's another reason why I am glad dr Carson is still in to take votes from Cruz in South Carolina.

But I hope he stays in to the bitter end to continue to screw things up for the Repubs.

Others can't believe Chump is still the GOPuke frontrunner.

One of the few things I can agree with the pundits about is that both Bernie and Chump have tapped into a vast pool of anger and resentment among the American people, including older people who are smart enough to understand how thoroughly they've been fucked by the establishment and younger people who are smart enough to know its their turn to drop trou and bend over next (sorry, but that is a memory of the first really big screwing of the young back in the VietNam era--that was what the docs told us to do during the physical at Whitehall Street).

Like the guy from Network said, we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore.

Pathetically, the PTB never see it coming.

Staggering tuition rates, crippling student loan debt. Stagnant wages. Until very recently, a crappy job market.

I told my daughter, who is 25, that her generation has been screwed and it's up to them to unscrew themselves.

the controls on him as president, as he would prefer a CEO type dictatorship. He also says absolutely nothing of substance. He says the SOS over and over again, dog whistles, just loud boorish barking and that's it. I think he's clueless once one gets beyond his facade that's supposed to scare people off.

is a person who wants to serve the public interest, since they could always be rich and without that stress otherwise.

The Donald seems to me not at all to want to do anything in the public interest.

He looked lost and stunned. I believe it dawned on him that he is not knowledgeable enough to do this.

If he does, I agree.

If he wins NH, he obviously keeps going.

And he is dropping out to protect his family.

Isn't that the excuse Ross Perot used?

Whatever it is, it has to make him look like a superhero. Nothing short of that would do.

He claimed the RNC had hired a Vietnamese hit squad to kidnap his daughter at her wedding. What they were going to do with her was left unsaid. He did get back in later but the damage was done.

Let's see if the Donald can top that.

When Perot first dropped out of the 1992 campaign, he said it was to avoid throwing the election into the House of Representatives.

He later claimed it was to prevent "Republican operatives" from releasing "compromising photographs" that would disrupt his daughter's wedding.

And its not indicated in news accounts that I have found.

But I did misremember the Vietnamese connection.

Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot accused President Bush's campaign Sunday of plotting to fake a photograph to smear his youngest daughter, of conspiring to disrupt her wedding and of hiring an ex-CIA employee to wiretap his computerized stock trading program and ruin him.

Perot identified only one source for his information--a man named Scott Barnes, who he said called to pass along information about Americans missing in action in Vietnam. In the early 1980s, Barnes joined a team to hunt for POWs in Southeast Asia. Barnes claimed at the time that the team got involved in a plot to kill CIA agents being held in Laos. A Times investigation showed his claims were not true.

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-26/news/mn-761_1_bush-campaign

I've blown way too many predictions figuring out when his demise was going to come. I still think it will, he has a pathetic ground game, but I can no longer figure out how long the crazy bastards he courts will hold on to him.

I doubt that he ever expected to get this far.

go out a loser so he will quit after a win...

is to pay some doctor friend to phony up a medical report, indicating he has had a heart attack. He would be able to bow out without "quitting".

There is no way he wants to job of President.

He figures it was all a giant publicity stunt but then people fell in love with him and it forced him to stick around way longer than he ever wanted to.

He "misunderestimated" the intelligence (or lack thereof) of Teabag 'Murica.

i don't think he is dropping anytime soon. he will win nh and is still leading nationally. he has tapped into the same anger that bernie has. and he knows it. i think he is in it to win. and lets face it. he is a very experienced manager and ceo. anything he doesn't want to to as president he will delegate. he can make it a fairly easy job for himself if he "hires the best people" to do the heavy lifting. and talk about an ego trip....president? yeah, he is staying in.

Ever. No matter what he says, no matter what the simple-minded binary thinkers think. It's not a business...the CEO can't just go telling everyone what to do, the way T-Rump does. Further, he won't be able to walk away and declare bankruptcy when he fucks up. He'll be humiliated every day in the press, and his fragile ego won't be able to take it. He does not want this job. He just wanted to sell some books and get a new TV deal.

but he wants the presidency too.

besides, it is in our best interest that he stays in...he is one of the easiest to beat. rubio will be a problem.

better trump

If it ceases to be fun he will drop.. and for sure losing is not fun for the Trumpster.

...has been my hypothesis...in the vein of there is no Bad Press for a bombastic narcissist...

My only real question is will he turn on his supporters in the end and expose them for the fools laughing all the way to the bank they are or let them down easy?

I mean he is not a complete idiot and I presume he doesn't have a death wish, so my money would be on down easy.

That is the big question.

...and the look on her face...


And then Cruz could swallow his pride and com in to save the day, like mighty mouse...

...or not....

His ego simply won't allow it.

...he finds an excuse to drop out early before he can be officially branded "a loser."