>It would have worked, too, if not for his bad luck of trying it the same year as some guy named Trump.
It wouldn’t have worked. The media went easy on Cruz once he was the only chance against Trump. They overlooked so many easy smears and attacked Trump with all thier might. Compare the way Megan Kelly treated Cruz and Trump for reference. If Cruz won the nomination they would have branded him a religious nut case with plenty of video from his father and Glenn Beck and he would have gone down in flames. The same would have happened if he became a threat to Jeb. Cruz or Rubio was desinged to be Jeb’s “Conservative” running mate to suck up the base why Jeb ran against the base.
Cruz never had any chance of at the whitehouse.
Cruznadians are still not realizing how unelectable Cruz is to the majority of the voters. We need much more than a candidate who appeals to conservative evangelicals in prairie states in order to win. They fail to look at the big picture. And we just had 50,000 more vote for him & Kasich last night in Oregon.
You are correct: “media went easy on Cruz .. overlooked so many easy smears and attacked Trump with all their might....note Megan Kelly’s treatment Cruz vs. Trump. If Cruz won, they would have branded him a religious nut case with video from his father & Glenn Beck. <-yep. He would have been so, so easy to relegate a fanatic. He would have gone down in flames. Cruz or Rubio were designed to be Jeb’s “Conservative” running mate to suck up the base, while Jeb ran against the base.”
And either one would have been sucking up to Jeb for the VP position.
Cruz never had any chance of at the WH, plus they can disqualify him in a heartbeat.
Without all the hundreds of millions of dollars, he would have been long gone by Super Tuesday. These PACs are ridiculous and are completely unrepresentative of the people.
Go back and read my comments again and you’ll see I was discussing the GOP nomination, not the general election. Sometimes I fail to state theobvious: cRuz would’ve been slaughtered in the general if he’d been allowed to steal enough delegates to “win” the GOP nomination.
Even further, it’s my opinion that he’ll get slaughtered in his Texas Senate reelection bid. Hopefully, someone will step up to primary him out of public office. All that’s needed is a warm body. He has betrayed his adopted home state by pretending to be what he is not. Some things are just not forgivable in the political arena.
Many, many Texans would vote for a Texas Horned Toad before we’d ever vote for that charlatan again.