The press are good at dominating the conversation and talking about what they want to talk about rather than what you or I think is important. I call it the Noise Machine.
If you are a conventional politician, even a good guy like Cruz, you forever face the fact that you will spend millions, millions, traveling the country trying to get your message out about your philosophy and your policies, and the best you’ll get will be a ten second news-clip with a talking head doing a voice-over telling the TV audience that you were in Akron Ohio today blah-blah-blah.
Trump has managed to beat them at their game, getting them to talk about him and whatever he wants to talk about. And he doesn’t have to spend a penny to do it. He infuriates them to such a point that he gets half the questions on debate night, while the rest of the candidates stand around waiting to be asked about something Trump said. So, does Cruz want to shut down the IRS and half the government departments? Who knows, who cares, no one is listening. What about Trump?
This is why, though Cruz is my first choice and Trump my distant second, Trump is going to win this thing and win big. He has learned to harness the Noise Machine and make it work for him.
Well said.