BloggeRhythms

Well, the results from South Carolina are finally in, and two major developments occurred, both affecting the Republican presidential race.   

As it turns out, unfortunately for the nation, the most highly qualified candidate dropped out. Jeb Bush has had enough. On the winning side, however, the current leader, Trump, seems to have topped out despite his victory. 

Trump continues to earn only about a third of voter’s picks, meaning that the now remaining five others in the race were chosen by a significant majority of 2-1 (67.5%). The statistics were, Trump 32.5%, Rubio 22.5, Cruz 22.3, Bush 7.8, Kasich 7.6, and Carson 7.2.

So, if Republicans truly want to win the upcoming election, and prevent their party from becoming a laughing stock, they’re going to have to narrow the field to one competitor against Trump. Which at this point seems to be either Cruz or Rubio. And when they do that, Trump will start to fade into whatever political sideshow he came from. 

On another matter, which also should be of considerable importance to Republican candidates in general, is some statistical data about a major Democrat campaign point. 

Both Democrats in the presidential race continually badger the “rich,” claiming they’re going to tax them as much as they can. However, as usual, their logic is so far beyond just being upside down, it’s absolutely moronic.  

Some research yesterday at Forbes Magazine on-line shows that, regarding the nation’s top 400 wealthiest: “Each of these people’’s success has a ripple effect. Consider Andrew and Peggy Cherng, the founders of restaurant chain Panda Express, who debut with a combined net worth of $2 billion. Their restaurants employ approximately 21,000 people. The gas and convenience stores owned by Tom and Judy Love, also new entrants, employ another 10,000. Other notable newcomers showing there is no shortage of ingenious ideas are Under Armour’’s Kevin Plank, 5Hour Energy’’s Manoj Bhargava and Twitter’’s Jack Dorsey, who gets the bulk of his fortune not from social media but from his mobile bill payment company Square.” 

And then some additional statistics show that among the first 45 businesses shown, owned or controlled by one’s in the top 400 list,  2,182,400 individuals are employed in total. Bill Gates’ Microsoft employs 128,000, Larry Page’s Google 61,000 +, Pierre Omidyar’s eBay 11,600, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway 302,000, Victoria B. Mars’ Mars Candy 75,000, Michael Dell’s Dell Computer 108,800, Sumner Redstone’s Viacom 10,580 (2011), James M. Cox’s Cox Enterprises 55,000, Abigail Johnson’s Fidelity Investment 41,000, while Jim Walton’s Wal-Mart has 1.4 million workers in the U.S. 

Then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook with 12,691 employees, Larry Ellison’s Oracle with 135,070 more, and farther down the Forbes list: Nike employs another 56,500, Enterprise Rental 83,000, and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon another 154,100. And what’s really amusing, is that major Democrat backer Spielberg’s DreamWorks had only 80 employees in 2012.  

So, perhaps what these “rich” owners and entrepreneurs should say is: “I’ve had enough, I’m tired of being pestered and being demonized by Democrats, and so I’m closing my business down.” 

After all, these tremendously successful people have figured out how to make their fortunes, while providing work for millions of others. So now, let the Democrat politicians find a way to do it themselves. Go out and hire millions, paying their own way without those at the top. However, that’s not very likely at all. Because at present, not one of these loud-mouthed politico’s works for a living, most never have, and all they’re really good at is constant blabbering about what others should do, while continually picking their pockets for more.

 

Which brings us to the biggest fraud of all, Bill’s Clinton’s wife and the daily update on her. 

The Nevada caucus results show Bill’s wife obtaining 52.7% of the vote while Sanders at 47.2% wasn’t very far behind. The heavily unionized state was expected to be a runaway for her. But that didn’t happen. 

What's worse, and perhaps an indication of greater problems to come, is that she may have won the caucus, but entrance polls illustrate what is considered her chief weakness heading into a general election: trustworthiness.

Curt Mills @washingtonexaminer.com, reports that: “Among the 25 percent of Nevada Democratic voters who cited "honest and trustworthy" as the top quality they were seeking in a president, they favored Sen. Bernie Sanders 82-12 percent, according to the CNN entrance poll.” 

On top of that bad news for her, Evan Halper, Contact Reporter @latimes.com writes: “Now, at a critical point in the race, Clinton finds herself under financial stress. The Bernie Sanders money machine keeps churning, sweeping up millions of dollars more than the Clinton campaign has been able to find of late, positioning the democratic socialist from Vermont to compete in states where he was never expected to be a threat. 

“As Clinton’s network of fundraisers in cash-rich regions like Los Angeles and the Bay Area struggle to fill events where tickets typically cost $2,700 -- the maximum a donor can give in the primary -- Sanders is not holding any. His money comes almost entirely online, and keeps coming and coming, far faster and more steadily than small donations do on Clinton’s website.

“Clinton’s rainmakers have grown anxious. She began the year with $10 million more in the bank than Sanders, but that cushion is disappearing fast.”

So, maybe she’ll have to borrow some bucks from the family foundation, which has plenty. Because when you keep 90% of the multi-millions donated, you can afford practically anything. Even an election.

But, just in case she really does go broke: 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.    

Adios