Posted on 11/02/2015 2:20:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Wednesday night, Texas Senator Ted Cruz opened the doors for the Republican party to walk through to a new beginning; to something ahead that cannot yet be seen — an observation first made the afternoon before, by Edward Luce of the Financial Times who declared the “End of Days†for the Republican Establishment. The Establishment standard Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, who carried the weight and burden of three generations on his shoulders, would take the final hit for the night.
Throughout long speculation, there were two together, Mr. Bush and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who were believed to be able to manage the Establishment’s transition to a new generation. It would be Mr. Bush, maybe with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as sidekick — as it was envisioned four years ago. Mr. Romney would be close at hand in a life raft, lest it all went south. Which it did.
The Establishment is going to need a bigger boat. And now it is too late for Mr. Romney as well...
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
This is a great article, except for the line:
“The Republican party will no longer be the party of Coolidge, lost in the cobwebs of history...”
Actually, being the party of Coolidge sounds just fine to me, and I bet old Cal would be mighty pleased with Ted Cruz right about now.
Timeless truths are timeless.
Rubio only "won" in the minds of the establishment pundits. Cruz only fared somewhat better.
Trump won the last 3 debates.
Time for Cruz to take the mantle. The only truly electable candidate the Conservatives have and who can actually beat Hillary. The Trumpoonery-Buffoonery needs to end and the others as well need to leave the stage.
Anti-Establishmentarianism is best delivered by Cruz.
Cruz is a once-in-a-generation candidate. Reagan was the last.
Trump could have pulled his pants down and mooned the moderators and those same people would claim he won the debate. Most of those people aren’t voting on the basis of things actually said.
An online web site vote is not a “poll.” They’re meaningless. Quoting them is a comical effort.
Cruz won the only scientific poll of the debate that I saw, the NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll. Trump cane in 3rd:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/287955649/Go-p-Race-Survey-Monkey-Top-Lines
"The Republican party will no longer be the party of Coolidge, lost in the cobwebs of history..."
Actually, being the party of Coolidge sounds just fine to me, and I bet old Cal would be mighty pleased with Ted Cruz right about now.
Timeless truths are timeless.
Thanks. You saved me a lot of typing.
Marco Rubio is now(buh bye Yeb) the defacto candidate of the Vichy Republicans and MSM so if he can fog up a mirror he will be proclaimed to be “ a fast rising candidate”
Too bad both Cruz and Rubio are running. They are splitting the same vote. If one were to drop out early enough, the other would break out of the pack. Either one would give the country a real choice against Hillary or whatever socialist the Democrats nominate.
The Survey Monkey is, in fact, an online poll, just FYI. But as for other polls, this one from OAN which matches the results on Drudge., et al:
http://www.oann.com/post-debate-poll-shows-trump-rubio-and-cruz-are-the-top-three-debate-winners/
What flavor was the kool-aid?
This movie was, coincidentally, on one of the cable stations last night.
One of my favorites.
“They Live”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso
I think this reflects their status in the polls more than who actually won a debate. Winning a debate is really the delta between your pre-debate poll and post debate poll.
I’m not trashing Trump with this comment but using it as an example as the numbers are completely made up.
If Trump is polling at 30% pre-debate(and leading all GOP), Carson is polling 22% pre-debate (in 2nd place) and Cruz is polling 10% pre-debate(and in 3rd place).
After the debate Trump is still #1 in the polls but at 25%, Carson #2 at 19%, and Cruz #3 at 18%...then Cruz won the debate. But if you poll who won the debate Trump would still win because his supporters would still choose him since he didn’t do poorly and held his own.
Who does the OAN poll? I am loathe to give too much credence to a poll from a “network” that has only been in business for a couple of years, and has no track record on the accuracy of their poll results yet. That is not to say they are wrong, just to say that there is nothing to support the idea that they are right...
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