I so want to see a showdown in 2016 between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.  Today in Iowa the contrast couldn’t be more stark.


Bernie’s vision for America is a collective society of moonbats sitting around the campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other.  Meanwhile Donald Trump arrives via his personal helicopter with a vision for every American to own one.  (WATCH THIS VIDEO) <— Inside this link is some awesome insight.


DES MOINES — There in the center of the sweaty, frothing mob of bodies and cameras and microphones, reaching and shoving and snapping away as state troopers guided the mass along the concourse, was the blonde-haired billionaire, his ruddy, sunken face shaded under the brim of a bright-red ballcap.
For the 45 minutes it took him to walk from Gate 8 to the Iowa Pork Tent, onlookers stood agape, corndogs in one hand and smartphones in the other, shouting, pleading for a handshake, taking it in.
“We love you Donald.”
“Give ‘em hell!”
“Kick Hillary’s ass!”
He’d landed several blocks away in a $7 million helicopter bearing his name. As he braved the sizzling midday heat, walking along in a navy blazer, khakis and shiny white spats, the chopper, still giving rides to groups of fawning children, swirled overhead.
Donald Trump, currently leading the polls for the Republican nomination and ready to spend $1 billion to win it all, was a long way from the gold-plated interior of New York City’s Trump Tower. But as a man who loves nothing more than to bask in the public’s adulation, he had come to the perfect place.
“My crowd is 10 times Hillary’s,” Trump gloated as he walked, having just been told the Democratic frontrunner, also campaigning at the fair Saturday, had taken note of his helicopter flying above.
For many who had come to see the prized heifers or the famed Butter Cow, the spectacle of Trump was the bigger thrill. In the same world in which candy bars are deep-fried, this billionaire Manhattan businessman is suddenly viewed as a blue-collar champion.
He speaks for the common man,” said Jeff Simms, a fairgoer from Grundy Center, Iowa, after watching Trump take a bite of a pork chop on a stick beneath a bright red tent that matched the ‘Make America Great Again’ hat he wore atop his golden mane. “He may be a millionaire, but he’s not beholden to the same special interests. And he tells it like it is.”
Every four years, the Iowa State Fair serves as a proving ground for aspiring presidential candidates, many of whom have tripped up trying to mask their elitism in a setting that requires a common touch. In 2007, Fred Thompson drew flak for showing up in fancy shoes. In 2011, Rick Perry was caught in an awkward photo-op because of the way he ate a corndog. Others have run afoul of voters by cutting long lines, misspeaking atop the famed soapbox, as Mitt Romney did, during encounters with lively spectators or for skipping certain rituals altogether.
Trump, as usual, did it his way — and the crowd ate it up.
“He landed in a helicopter with his name on the side of it,” boasted Chuck Laudner, the veteran GOP operative running Trump’s Iowa campaign, as he walked along the midway on the edges of the mob surrounding Trump. “Watch, the same press that’s harassing him to come up with policies is going to write that he wore fancy shoes. He’s No. 1 in the polls and it ain’t because of his goddamn shoes. It’s that message, baby.”  (read more)


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A bit too hot? Sanders wipes sweat from his forehead during an interview at Iowa State Fair on Saturday

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