Posted on 01/18/2016 10:30:54 PM PST by SteveSCH
How sucking up to The Donald for months has backfired on the Texas senator...
...In August of last year, I described Cruz's behavior toward Trump as feeding the alligator in hopes that it eats him last. As painful as it is for his fans to admit it, there's only one person to blame for the situation in which Cruz now finds himself and that's Ted Cruz. For six months now, Cruz has played the role of eager understudy and Trump lickspittle, praising nearly everything that spews from Trump's mouth. Not only did Cruz set a land-speed record racing off to Trump Tower to pay obeisance to The Donald early in the process, he has taken almost every opportunity to lavish praise on even Trump's most ridiculous and politically deadly policies. He has embraced and amplified messages that are poisonous among women, Hispanics and even limited-government conservatives. Cruz has occasionally stepped back from the brink, but always while shoveling on fulsome praise for the notorious game-show host and con artist leading the Republican field.
Cruz made his bet, and his bed, early. He observed that Trump's supporters were precisely like Obama's 2008 fans: cultlike, fanatic, and instantly filled with white-hot rage at the slightest insult to The One. Cruz rarely said a harsh word about Trump, gambling that when the collapse came that he would inherit The Donald's voters. Until his oblique and weak-kneed Fonzie and New York values snipes at Trump, Cruz could have easily been mistaken for a Trump surrogate, displaying the same obsequious bowing-and-scraping as Trump's flying-monkey minions Dan Scavino, Michael Cohen, Roger Number Two Stone, and Grifter Barbie Katrina Pierson.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
This is what the GOPe really believe.
Ted’s greatest accomplishment has been reading Green Eggs & Ham on the Senate floor.
His new campaign slogan ought to be
I’m not corrupt.
I’m just really, really stupid.
(H/T budme, Sentient @ CTH)
What a disgusting assortment of words.
He’s a hateful little man.
Who in the heck reads or cares what the Daily Beast thinks.. Their all Commies over there!!!
Wow, youse a gud pointer outer.
If there is ONE GOOD REASON to vote for Trump, it’s to put people like Rick Wilson OUT OF POWER, which Trump will do.
This is just sickening.
I prefer to think of Cruz’ strategy as “drafting off the leader”. Tailor a similar message, and minimize the political differences until both of you have earned separation from the pack — then you duke it out for the lead.
Of course Wilson is right. Cruz needs to follow the Dole-McCain-Romney strategy. What a great win that would be!
Sorry but it’s Cruz’s face and voice that are his own worst enemy.
I have no love for the GOPe talking heads but there is some merit to this theory. Indeed Donald has saved Cruz for last but that’s not necessarily a good thing since its sucking the momentum right out of Ted’s sprint down the backstretch.
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