[sagar]

Libtards are afraid. Finally, there is a conservative at the helm.

[RobbyS]

My, my. Quite a rant. They deserve a Trump.

[Persevero]

We can know a man by his enemies. This piece is like a Ted Cruz ad!

[Steelfish]

Wait. Trumpkins think Cruz is the candidate of the GOP-e, or they parrot Trump’s rhetoric that Cruz is a “Trojan Horse.” He can’t be both. But then again Trumpian logic is in a class by itself.

[txhurl]

Don’t we spell it Cruz’ when the last possesive letter sound is the same?

[BCrago66]

I’m Willing to forgive this woman for much because she has a cool middle name.

[Aria]

Lets start with TED CRUZ WAS BORN IN CANADA.

Even Obama went to the effort to prove he was born here.

I can’t believe you guys.

[867V309]

GO GLOBALISTS!

[karnage]

Every the left hates about Cruz is what I love about him.

[ConservativeTeen]

Given the title of the article, I figured this was yet another post from Conservative Treehouse or Gateway Pundit.

[Smokin' Joe]

It doesn’t take much to imagine the chaos and pain that would ensue as tens of millions of waitress moms and unemployed dads lose their insurance.

No, thanks to Obamacare, my insurance provider has quit carrying health policies. So it doesn't take much to imagine anything. What it takes imagination to see is having insurance again.

[wiggen]

I’ve been in finance some 35 years and while i support Cruz i do disagree with large swaths of his economic platform. That doesn’t bother me because i don’t think theres any chance of returning to a gold standard or implementing some of his other notions. But as to the rest of the article i say this. What does the author want? Is our current economic model working? Is our government working? The entire status quo has warped beyond repair. Can they defend the IRS? Sure we need some method to assure tax compliance but nothing says the current model works. Its what we have, like a vast number of other programs, it’s what we’re comfortable with, it’s whats been rigged to the benefit of the few. Our government needs a shakeup at the very least and i believe he’s the right man to do it.

[driftdiver]

Most detestable? Trump’s puppets said they loved Cruz. That Cruz was one with them.

[ronnie raygun]

He’s detestable because he’s a christian only and the gays are threatened

[G Larry]

It’s always good to have the right enemies.

[dynoman]

"Repackaging" - that's funny. It's necessary because Ted "A Time For Truth" Cruz isn't what he professed to be - "the only principled candidate in the race".

---

"Political consultant Jeff Roe, who is based in Kansas City, is Ted Cruz's campaign manager — and the architect of the Texas senator's surprising first-place finish.

Roe is hardly a household name even amongst the political chattering class. (He has less than 6,000 Twitter followers.) Locally, he's most famous for commissioning the mean-spirited ad that upset State Auditor Tom Schweich and may have factored into his suicide, at least according to former U.S. Senator John Danforth, who blasted "politics that has gone so hideously wrong" in his funeral oration. Roe has been labeled "the Karl Rove of Missouri" — and the people calling him that don't consider it a compliment.

But as last night's results proved, he knows what he's doing. Cruz didn't just hold off all the other candidates vying for Iowa's large block of conservative voters. He did it even while beating Donald Trump. It was a wild, complicated race, and you have to respect the guy who figured out how to propel any candidate, much less one who's thoroughly loathed by everyone he meets, to victory.

In an interview with Chris Wallace a few weeks ago, Roe discussed a few secrets to his success — namely, a simple message and strong branding. Roe comes across as intensely analytical. He doesn't just know how long the average voter looks at a mailer (17 seconds); he knows how long he wants you to look at one touting Cruz (45 seconds). "When we communicate with the voter, we want it to be simple, clear and reinforce our candidate's brand," he says. For Cruz, that was "strong Christian conservative leader."

A recent New York Times Magazine piece delved more deeply into how Roe & Co. made those words resonate for Cruz, who'd hitherto been identified mostly as a conservative, not necessarily a Christian. Writes Robert Draper,

"One morning early in January, in the lobby of a public library in Onawa, Iowa, I listened to Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, as he explained a central challenge of his previous few months. ‘‘Prior to March 23,’’ Roe said, ‘‘if you were to word-cloud ‘Ted Cruz,’ which we do every day — take all the Google mentions and Internet searches, dump them into a file and form a cloud — you can’t find ‘evangelical.’ ’’ In other words, voters were largely unaware of the Tea Party firebrand’s religious faith. To convince evangelicals that Ted Cruz was the ‘‘righteous’’ candidate, Roe told me, his team needed to sell him as such, from the very beginning: ‘‘Regardless of what you’ve got in the bank, you’d better determine the narrative of the campaign, and show that’s who we are, every day."

Last night's results suggest that effort worked beautifully.

Yes, Iowa is unusually dominated by evangelicals, and yes, if Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum are any indication, Cruz faces an uphill battle to get the Republican nomination, much less win a single state. But we have to hand it to Roe. Never before has a candidate that so many Americans find this intensely annoying managed to make it this far."

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/02/02/missouris-own-jeff-roe-was-the-wind-beneath-ted-cruzs-iowa-wings

---

Nothing like this is coming out about the Trump or Kasich campaigns. If there was anything like this going on with Trump the media would be screaming it from the rooftops.

[swampfox101]

From Salon.....lol Trumpsters are showing their true colors. True lefties with New York values.

[PreciousLiberty]

Salon's in a tizzy? Awesome! 👍🏻

[Donglalinger]

Why November? He will be back in the senate by then.

[McGruff]

Ted Cruz, the establishment candidate. Who would have thunk that.