Posted on 02/02/2016 7:47:48 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
By targeting evangelicals and libertarians from the very start, he dominated from the two most reliable Iowa voting blocs...
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Welcome back. It was a great night.
The most conservative (not to mention smartest) man in the field won!
No No No....HE CHEATED! [s]
The tl;dr version:
He moved to Iowa.
Pandered to Evangelicals
Spent millions on phone banks and volunteers
Walked away with more more delegate than the guys that spent a fraction of the time and money.
Amen! Onward to victory!
Hush! Don’t spook the children! They will be happy now, for about a week. ;-)
The only ignorance on this thread resides with those who were under the delusion that the Hairpiece was going to win Iowa!
FB is full of Iowans reporting very weird stuff.
They’re ticked off, as if it will do them any good to be outraged.
“Rubio, rising”
:-\
I wish his fundraisers would stop calling us, emailing us and mailing us. Ten pieces via mail last week.
Cruz had a great night showing not only he has support but that his team has strong organizational skills for a ground game.
I still have Trump my first choice with Cruz as a second. My fear now is Rubio. The establishment organizations in states like the SEC primary (many state primaries at once) and in large states coming later will be a real test for grass roots conservatives to overcome. It is doable but I put nothing past the GOPe. I expect Trump will win New Hampshire but if Cruz wins or finishes in second he will have almost unstoppable momentum for the SEC primaries.
If Rubio finishes second the GOPe will call in all its favors for Rubio in the South and Kasich, Christie, Bush, Fiorina, etc will drop out and endorse Rubio.
The SEC primary vote being split among Cruz, Trump, and Rubio is a bad thing. I am also suspicious of Democrats crossing over to create havoc in the nomination process in the Southern states as almost all are open primary states.
He’s not eligible ya ignorant wretch. Jeeeez.
Here we go again! He cannot win.
Yep Conservatives follow patterns too.
It is frankly amazing that they are running around pretending like they just won the whole nomination. I guess a week from now they will be back to “normal”.
The Canadian for POTUS 2016!
and then some years later we will have....
The Syrian for POTUS!
This news makes me very, very happy. Only disappointment for me was how well Rube-o “performed”. I suspect voting fraud, but if so the GOP-e did a really poor job of it.
“It is frankly amazing that they are running around pretending like they just won the whole nomination.”
No more “amazing” then Trumpophiles running around screaming “The Cruz Iowa win means nothing!”
I see that the ‘Trumpeters’ are out in force this morning.
They need to look at the numbers at these numbers, Trump and his supporters have been so visceral to Cruz, Rubio, Carson and their supporters that it has carried over in to such a dislike that Trump is unlikely to gain support from them even should their candidate drop out. You can’t burn bridges like that and expect to win.
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