[Kickass Conservative]

Don’t worry, they only do it on purpose.

[2ndDivisionVet]

New NBC Poll Shows Ted Cruz at No. 2, But So the Sunday Shows Stiffed Him

Fixed it.

[ought-six]

Cruz terrifies the Washington cartel, that’s why Fox stiffed him at the debate and the drive-bys stiffed him on their Sunday morning shows.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Bad luck. I’m sure

[over3Owithabrain]

I’ve said it before - Trump is Cruz’s “John the Baptist”. Paving the way.

Cruz could not withstand the onslaught that Trump’s media savvy, bluster, money and bravado is doing.

If you support Cruz you should be celebrating what Trump is doing and support it also as far as it can go.

Trump put 24 million people in front of the TV that heard Cruz’s Christian testimony and overall intelligence.

God is working here folks and you may not like who He is using but He has a plan.

[NonValueAdded]

Fear is the number one answer.

[DaxtonBrown]

Wall Street Journal completely snubbed Cruz on debate reporting. At this point, I believe it is deliberate.

[nathanbedford]

As I predicted in the vanity before the debate Trump's Ponzi Bubble :

The upcoming debates might expose Trump to be a shallow opportunist who has diagnosed the problem but who has failed to rigorously think through his soundbite solutions. Most likely, the upcoming debates will not derail Trump's circus, it is still too early in the media cycle bubble, but it will begin the process.

I have also many times conjectured (rather than predicted) that Trump's numbers might continue to ascend but at a decelerating rate signaling that they were approaching a topping. These numbers indicate that that might well be the case.

CYA: one poll ain't enough to make clear judgments. We want to see a trend to do that. So far it looks like Trump is at best horizontal and perhaps declining and Cruz is ascending. Yes, I do indeed like those trends as one poster has suggested-but one dare not call them that yet.

I would argue that if the trends are real it signals that the folks are beginning to understand that Trump is not the only alternative to Jeb Bush and the Republican establishment. They are beginning to see Ted Cruz as that viable alternative without all of the baggage of Donald Trump. If so, that is the beginning of the end for Trump.

The decline of Jeb Bush, if that is a trend which continues and one might venture that there is a lot of evidence found in earlier polls to declare that a trend, it means that the need for Donald Trump as the only way to stop Jeb Bush and the Republican establishment is abating and will be seen to be abating. If Jeb Bush is no threat, conservatives need not take a risk with Donald Trump; Ted Cruz will do very nicely.

I say one more time, it's too early to tell but the first signs are encouraging.

[RginTN]

this is like the Hunger Games...may the odds be ever in Ted Cruz’s favor

[timestax]

bttt

[Gaffer]

They’ve known all along that their worst nightmare is Ted Cruz. The last thing they want to see is Ted up on a debate stage with Hillary. The last thing they want to do is to give Ted any opportunity to be heard by a large audience or viewership.

If I were to put the tactic in terms of battle space management, I’d call it ensuring “air superiority.” With the ‘superiority’ being “no air-time for Ted.”

[trebb]

By next March nobody will be able to snub him and stay viable....

Donate often and generously...

https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/

2ndDivisionVet - I should have asked first - any issue with me handing out your link?

[Dr. Sivana]

If you watch the Sunday shows as I do not just for Twitter fodder, but as a proxy for how the (bipartisanly progressive) political establishment sees the world, and seeks to craft narratives to ensure that its vision remains preeminent, you will note that Sen. Ted Cruz was among the only Republican presidential hopefuls not appearing on any of this morning’s programs.

I saw Ted Cruz Saturday night in Columbus, GA. Earlier, he made stops that weekend in Savannah, Red State, Macon and Newnan. At each stop (Except Red State) he spoke for about 45 minutes, took questions for half an hour, did local media interviews for 15 minutes, shook hands and signed books and took pictures for another 45 minutes, and then back to the bus. I got exhausted just watching him.

Some of these shows are pre-recorded on Saturday. Cruz was obviously out of town and busy meeting fuitutre primary voters. If the Senator wants to take Sunday morning to go to a religious service and skip the shows, that's fine.

He picked a good time to be on the road instead of on the tube. What's the point of spending 20 minutes with someone who just wants you to talk about Donald trump?

[jmaroneps37]

And they would stiff the whole field if it weren’t for Trump.