Posted on 03/23/2016 4:12:27 PM PDT by Washi
I was going to say “The image forgot Rubio’s name” but I realized that Rubio unhitched himself from those clowns once he left the race.
... Trump supporters can (and I’m sure they will) attack the messenger, but they can’t refute the point.
Rush was gentle with him, lol. Unbelievable what some Trump supporters believe.
Imagine this: A president Trump in charge of the IRS, FBI, CIA etc. He will make OBama and Nixon look like the Virgin Mary. Why would anyone in their right minds want him in charge to finish destroying anyone who disagrees with him? Difference is pubbies will help dems impeach and remove him if he gets caught in that and with his record of trying to destroy all who don’t kiss his a$$ it is pretty much guaranteed.
This is probably already in the Hillary campaign ad play book.
The bogus assumption is that because Vinny said feel therefore everyone who supports Trump is not being rational.
It's a cute insult tactic but easily caught by anyone being ... rational.
I respect Rush's opinion for the most part, his ability to reason etc. and he properly shoots down Vinnie,
So what? Vinny has stumbled upon the right conclusion with faulty (actually no real) reasoning. Rush identified it. We're glad to have his vote - good instincts Vinnie!
I think what he's actually reacting to, but doesn't know it, is that Cruz doesn't seem to utter a genuine word on stage. This is probably better identified as 'instinct' rather than feeling that Vinnie is displaying.
But believe what you want ... it's entirely possible that mine and a lot of other people's instincts (and rational thought) are all just messed up. Then again, maybe yours are. Maybe you're just missing something that the rest of us aren't. It's possible.
Cruz strikes me as slightly Aspergers/autism spectrum - very slightly - but you see it in his disconnectedness. Wouldn't surprise me if some of Heidi's problems are related to being married to a man who's entire life occurs in his head, no real connection.
My father was like Cruz in a lot of ways. A very good man, super smart, went to Harvard - all of that on-paper stuff, but that lack of connection was a real problem. Years after they divorced, my mother said "I could just never figure out what I was doing wrong." She wasn't doing anything wrong, she was married to a man who wasn't entirely there, smart as he was (and thought he was.)
Loved my Dad, but as a leader, and in the real world ... he couldn't make anything move ... people or things. Cruz worries me that way. He'll be right, on paper, in rhetoric, about everything, but that doesn't change the direction of thinking of a mob of people (America) to whom he can not connect.
Couple that with Cruz's increasingly close reliance on the Bush E machine ... and ... I just don't think he's going to be able to accomplish anything. No accomplishment is death at this point. (He would have been fine, great even, back in the GH days, but too much has changed.)
So, I've talked a little about connection. It's not all either 'rational' or 'feel' ... there is an instinctual connection that people feel, and without it, nothing great is accomplished. The risk of course is that bad things can be accomplished if those connected are deluded losers like liberals. But I don't sense that from Trump supporters. Many of us do a bit of a double take that we support him.
Who will go to bat for America - without a risk that they may throw the game for money or fame, and if they do go to bat, who can actually hit?
I don't see Cruz hitting, and I suspect he may think he's so smart that he'll make a deal with the Establishment thinking he can deliver to both sides. He's intellectually arrogant, hasn't fully grown up, and has zero humility, though he fakes it on stage a lot. Those without it fake it well - they don't even know they are faking it, because you can't learn it from a book, or through a cogent rational deductive or inductive argument. You have to have been there. Cruz ... does ... not ... have ... it.
Trump has failed in big big big ways, and come back.
Am I throwing too much feeling at you? Did you ever succeed at something that required something more than your book knowledge of how to accomplish it? Cruz DOESN'T have that thing. Trump does.
That’s a far, far worse dilemma in the long run for the supporters of Jeb Cruz. Because emotional people do really drastic and vindictive things when screwed over. Like going scorched earth on the gop.
You're making my point.
It's been nothing BUT scorched Earth in here since the first time Cruz said anything slightly less than complimentary about Trump.
Trump and the Cult aren’t Conservative.
Repeatedly since last summer supporters of Cruz and other candidates have been ridiculed and insulted by Trump and his rabid sycophants. Now that they think the nomination is in the bag they want us to meekly get in line to put him over the top. I will support the Republican nominee even if it is the worthless piece of human garbage known as Donald Trump. But guess what? Trump and the cult have so poisoned the water that many true Conservatives won’t. If he was half as bright as he is claimed to be he would be going on a charm offensive and ignoring little things like pinup pictures of his third wife. He needs us and he and the Cult better get their minds right on making us happy.
Stick it where the sun don't shine, pal. You want to vote for PIAPS, be my guest. Take your self-righteous attitude and hit the road!
Go to Hell, Bud.
I can't imagine why this sort of arrogance and condescension – which is a universal and unearned Cruz-backer trait – isn't persuasive.
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This has been a nasty, sick all out assault against a man who has the right to run for president, and against We the People who have a right to support a candidate of OUR choosing. It will not end well if the GOP is successful in denying Trump the nomination. We all know that if there wasn't a coordinated, massive effort to stop Trump, he would be winning by a massive majority. This BS has gone way beyond acceptable, or forgivable.
| Good analysis, odawg. The key question becomes: when will Rush (if ever) give up on this fruitless Ted! campaign. It's already known that Cruz must win 80% of the remaining delegates to win the nomination. It's nearly impossible. So this shows the idiocy of Rush's tactics. He's prolonging the attacks on Trump as long as possible and will cause damage to the party. Rush has become the stealth GOPe talk show host! |
Are you off your meds? OR have you just let your Trump hatred blind your reasoning faculties?
You know, it’s funny, but I have yet to hear of anyone on FR who has switched from Trump to Cruz.
Likewise “Bud”.
How can you be ‘stealth’ when you’re on the radio.
Cruz has a better chance of winning the remaining states than Trump does.
Trump has a following but it’s way short of 50% of the people. In fact, he’s never drawn 50% ... he would have lost Arizona but for early voting and Rubio staying in.
Fortunately, the rest of the country is thinking and they are thinking they don’t want Trump.
Fixed it for you.
He is prolonging the inevitable and it will only hurt the Republican nominee.
On the voting, how did Cruz do in other northeast states like Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts?
There are reasons for that that in no way conform to your implication.
I don't. He has a LONG record of supporting their candidates and causes.
I’m from New York and I agree with Cruz about New York values.
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