BloggeRhythms

With the New Hampshire primary results now known, the Republican presidential race begins to take some real shape. 

There’s still plenty of time for Trump to disqualify himself, and self-destruct as people eventually tire of his unsubstantiated blustering. In any case, he most won’t likely won’t get any higher anywhere else than the 35% he did yesterday. 

With Cruz at 12% and Rubio at 11%, the “establishment” certainly isn’t dead by any means, whereas Bush also attained 11%. However, if you add up the three governors in the race, their total ties Trump, Kasich: 16%, Bush: 11%, Christie: 8% = 35% with 9 months to go for whichever one survives. 

Fiorina and Carson are probably soon gone, while if Christie drops out, voters will likely move toward Bush or Kasich. Meaning that there’s still plenty of time for things to sort out, while 65% of Republicans, so far, aren’t backing Trump and almost certainly won’t.  

On another issue, according to FoxNews.com, “A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday abruptly halted President Obama's controversial new power plant regulations, dealing a blow to the administration's sweeping plan to address global warming.  

“In a 5-4 decision, the court halted enforcement of the plan until after legal challenges are resolved.” 

27 mostly Republican-led states and industry opponents find the regulations "an unprecedented power grab." However: “By temporarily freezing the rule the high court's order signals that opponents have made a strong argument against the plan. A federal appeals court last month refused to put it on hold.” 

As a practical matter, though, appellate arguments are set to begin June 2, which means that, by then the POTUS will likely have already begun packing his golf clubs, soon to be leaving the White House. And that means the whole issue will probably have lost all momentum by then.  

In any case, the compliance period starts in 2022, although states must submit their plans to the Environmental Protection Administration by September or seek an extension. The six year time lag is another reason that this meaningless plan will almost certainly fade away on its own. 

At the same time, Mother Nature continues to disrupt canned pitches from global-warmist’s, by foisting cold weather across much of the nation. 

Jon Erdman @weather.com via Drudge writes: “The coldest air of the season is poised to plunge into the Northeast this coming Valentine's Day weekend. This Arctic blast will not only flirt with some daily records, but will also bring subzero cold to parts of the Midwest and reinforce the cold in the Southeast. 

A sharp southward nosedive of the polar jet stream will help tap an air mass originating from the Canadian Arctica and send it into the eastern half of the country from Friday through Valentine's Day. 

Which means that while global-warming activists continue sounding alarms, they still have a serious problem to contend with. Because if people open their windows, or actually walk outside, the shivering feeling they get may cause them to question the propaganda being shoveled at them while they shovel snow and dig out their vehicles. 

Then, a Facebook friend posted the following this morning:

 

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

For anyone doubting the impact Bernie Sanders is having on the race for the Democrat presidential nomination,  yesterday’s results in New Hampshire should certainly erase them. 

The final result showed Sanders at 60%, with Bill’s wife attaining a mere 39%. However, while the totals are impressive for Sanders, the details illustrate far deeper problems for Bill’s wife than just a primary loss in a small New England state.

According to David R. Jones @nytimes.com: “Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton among nearly every demographic group in the Democratic New Hampshire primary, according to exit polls. 

“He carried majorities of both men and women. He won among those with and without college degrees. He won among gun owners and non-gun owners. He beat Mrs. Clinton among previous primary voters and those participating for the first time. And he ran ahead among both moderates and liberals. 

“Even so, there were a few silver linings for Mrs. Clinton. While Mr. Sanders bested her among all age groups younger than 45, the two candidates polled evenly among voters aged 45 to 64.” 

What’s most interesting, and true to form is that, while Bill’s wife won the support of voters 65 and older, she lost every income group, except for one. This self-claiming ardent supporter of the needy and hopeless carried voters in families earning over $200,000 per year. 

Additionally, Dick Morris who knows both Clinton’s far better than most, wrote @thehill.com/opinion: “Sanders has a coherent, consistent and concise message: Incomes are stagnant because the economy is rigged by the top one-tenth of 1 percent that controls politics through massive campaign contributions. 

“Clinton has no competing message, just the charge that Sanders’s supporters are “sexist and vulgar.” 

Morris goes on to state: “Their strategy is laughable. After losing 84 percent of young voters in Iowa — and failing to recover them in New Hampshire — they sent in two aging fossils of feminism to insult and threaten young women. 

“The 81-year-old feminist Gloria Steinem charged that young women are only backing Sanders because that’s where they can meet boys. And 78-year-old Madeleine Albright threatened to consign to a “special place in hell” women who don’t back female candidates like Clinton. 

“Those are two great ways to attract young voters,” Morris opined. 

Then Morris went on to comment on Bill: “The aging and raging ex-president, meanwhile, speaking to a half-filled gym in a New Hampshire school, ranted about Sanders’s “hypocrisy” in condemning his wife’s paid speeches. Sanders, too, has given paid speeches, Bill Clinton claimed. 

“He’s got a point. In 2013, for example, Sanders made all of $1,500, which he donated to charity as required by federal law. In 2014, he raked in $1,850 for paid speeches. By contrast, Clinton made, and kept, over $21 million during the same time period. Sanders was only reimbursed for coach class airfare, while Clinton demanded private jets. Sanders’s hosts were the TV show “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Avalon Publishing and a machinists union. Clinton’s were Goldman Sachs, the big banks and the pharmaceutical and energy industries. What hypocrisy for Sanders to use that as an issue!” 

So, what we have here is history seeming about to repeat itself. Because it doesn’t appear to matter who the competition is against Bill’s wife. The longer she campaigns, the greater her rivals appeal increases, regardless of whom they may be. Which leads to the thought that it isn’t so much her rivals building popularity, but the reverse. In her case, familiarity builds dislike, distaste and repulsion that sends most voters toward others, time and again. 

Bringing up the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?    

That’s it for today folks.      

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