Posted on 10/12/2015 5:28:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the silly season continues, CBS News reports that Trump is still on top and Ben Carson is still second. The real lede, however, is buried in paragraph two. Guess who’s #3? If you didn’t read the headline, I won’t keep you in suspense any longer:
The rest of the Republican field is in single digits, with Texas Senator Ted Cruz inching up into third place with nine percent, followed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio with eight percent. Businesswoman Carly Fiorina and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush follow at six percent each. Former Governor Mike Huckabee has also slipped considerably since the summer, from eight percent in August to just two percent today.
Cruz has been running a very strong ground game in Iowa and is well poised for the SEC primaries. Also, as the flash-in-the-pans start to fade (hopefully), and Cruz gets more facetime with the American people, voters will start to see that he doesn’t come across like the nasty guy Big Media says he is.
And he is smart as a whip. He would crucify Hillary Clinton in any debate. Rubio can’t. He’s too callow.
I’m still banking on Cruz. In my morose moods I worry a little that the electorate will fall for the empty celebrity of a Trump. But on an early Sunday afternoon on this lovely Columbus Day weekend, I am feeling good about Ted Cruz.
IMO Cruz will be the nominee. Watch. Just watch.
Cruz is what he is...a legal beagle.
Carson...he just goes off on tangents. It comes out as blah, blah, blah. And it drives me nuts that Carson closes his eyes when he speaks...as if he had his speech on the back of his eyeballs.
I was hoping this would not happen so soon. I’d prefer to have seen a couple more candidates drop before Cruz hit third place.
Frey being a fan of Cruz surprises me. I pictured him as less conservative. I’m pleasantly surprised.
Rubio is what he is: A an establishment sellout.
It’s possible, his “slow play” strategy hasn’t failed yet, and he is making steady progress.
However, it really all hinges on whether Trump can hold the lead or not. If Trump stays in, Cruz may rise steadily as others drop out, but I don’t know if that will be enough in a 3-way match between Trump, Cruz, and the establishment pick (Rubio at the moment I guess).
At some point, if it is down to Trump & Cruz vs the establishment, then one of them is going to have to bow out and endorse the other or the establishment wins, just like McCain and Romney did.
Vet, the pundits finally realized that he has built the best organization and he raises money at will.
He’s got a full tank— just waiting for the newbies to give him his opening—
Actually one shouldn’t really need to be all that conservative to support a constitutionalist.
John Jay was called an establishment sellout for his Jay’s Treaty with England in 1794 too. Sellouts never cease, it seems. But the American people don’t know that.
Good analysis: the establishment always gets its man, but they may have to find a non-Jebbie this year. GHWB and Barbara will not be amused.
Rubio is surging, SURGING, ahead!
How would the average American feel having to choose between a hardcore Socialist and a firebrand like Trump? Personally, I like Trump just fine. But I can see a whole lot of people (Reagan Democrats and country club Republicans included) just deciding that a Socialist is not their cup of tea, but that nice Ted Cruz sure seems solid and normal and patriotic, so why not vote for him?
I think both Trump and Cruz have solid shots, and I'm fine with either. Cruz will seem "safer" to many.
Rubio is a better speaker, but Cruz is a better debater.
He will outreagan Reagan.
Care to guess who was sponsoring this sap-happy gag-inducing uber-liberal nonsense?
HINT: The "North American Union task force," was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.
NOTE: that means adios US sovereignty....eradicate all US borders.
That’s why I believe Cruz should be the AG. It’ll bring some honesty back to the position and put black and white on an even footing again.
Cruz has a tough row to hoe this fall. It will make or break his candidacy.
If he can fight the congressional debt/budget/spending battles without the media turning every moderate against him he’ll have performed a miracle.
Rubio is an excellent speaker and much easier to listen to than Cruz.
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Problem is that Rubio lies all the time, so nothing he says is worth lsitening to. He’s an amnesty pimp.
Amnesty pimps need not apply.
Cruz happens also to be a real conservative. Rubio is weak on immigration. I prefer Cruz. The two Republicans for whom I will bot vote for in the general election are Jeb and trump.
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