Posted on 01/15/2016 4:28:34 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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Very Few seem to understand the BRILLIANT political theater orchestrated by Ted Cruz and Donald Trump ...
The entire controversy over Natural Born Citizen and New York Values, raised by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz respectively ...
is POLITICAL GENIUS ...
Donald Trump gives Ted Cruz a National Prime-Time TV Audience to properly defend his genuine Natural Born Citizen status ...
Ted Cruz gives Donald Trump a National Prime-Time TV Audience for Donald to defend that ALL New Yorkers ARE NOT Liberal Scumbags ...
At the end of the Two-Act Play ... both Ted Cruz and Donald Trump WIN - WIN - WIN ...
Both are Smiling as if they've won a Hollywood Oscar award ...
And if you look at today's Drudge Report debate poll ... you'll see that GOPe political outsiders Ted Cruz and Donald Trump TOGETHER have OVER EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT of the votes !!!!
The entire Ted Cruz - Donald Trump ACT over natural born citizen and New York Values is a brilliant masterpiece ....
they DEVOURED over 10:00 minutes of debate time with their ACT ...
while Kasich, Marco, Jeb, Christy and Ben Carson were condemned to SILENCE ...
meanwhile Ted Cruz for the FIRST TIME showed his comic genius, with Donald Trump as the straight man ...
Finally, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump took the STRATEGIC opportunity to select each other as their Vice Presidential candidate ...
Sheer political genius !!!!
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Iowa Caucus Predictions (30 GOP Delegates) : February 1, 2016
Ted Cruz ..... 40 %
Donald Trump ..... 30 %
Ben Carson ..... 10 %
Marco Rubio ..... 10 %
Chris Christy ..... 5 %
Jeb Bush ..... 5 %
New Hampshire Primary Predictions (23 GOP Delegates) : February 9, 2016
Donald Trump ..... 35 %
Ted Cruz ..... 30 %
Chris Christy ..... 10 %
Jeb Bush ..... 10 %
Marco Rubio 10 %
Ben Carson 5 %
South Carolina Primary Predictions (50 GOP Delegates) : February 20, 2016
Ted Cruz ..... 45 %
Donald Trump ..... 35 %
Chris Christy ..... 5 %
Jeb Bush ..... 5 %
Marco Rubio ..... 5 %
Ben Carson ..... 5 %
Florida Primary Predictions (99 Winner-Take-All GOP Delegates) : March 15, 2016
Ted Cruz ..... 40 %
Donald Trump ..... 30 %
Jeb Bush ..... 15 %
Marco Rubio ..... 15 %
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Trump will win IA, NH, SC and NV, and then steamroll FL.
Even if your scenario with the birther issue were true, the other issue isn't going away. That's the Goldman Sachs low-interest loan. That in combination with Cruz's previous support of increased H1B visas and his strong support of the first TAP is just too much. The Cruz narrative is crumbling.
Also, it would be easier for Trump, if he wins the nomination, to ask for and get either a declarative judgment or a Congressional resolution, or both, completely erasing the Cruz birther issue.
I see a Trump/Cruz ticket forming in the distance.
Trump rebutted with his characteristic mastery of insult-comic performance. "Here's the problem," Trump said. "We're running. He does great. I win. I choose him as my vice presidential candidate, and the Democrats sue and we can't take him along for the ride. I don't like that. OK?"For all the handwringing here at FR, people haven't thought this through. Trump has in as many words told you that this whole birther flap was to clear the deck for a Trump/Cruz ticket and disarm the democrats of what would be their best shot at derailing the ticket. That's strategic thinking at it's finest, as well as grand political theater.
Trump/Cruz 2016 is pretty much a done deal.
Whether Trump wins the nomination or not, his presence in the race makes it possible for a conservative to be nominated this time around, I still expect the RNC to pull some wires and try to nominate their preferred gope no matter what happens in the primaries.
Agreed on the patton comment... numbers pulled straight out of his butt.
At least he isn’t one of the rabidly anti Trump TDS sufferers.
Thanks Patton@Bastogne, and Bravo!
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