Posted on 03/09/2016 7:49:18 AM PST by ghost of stonewall jackson
Republican elites are begrudgingly embracing Ted Cruz—and hanging Marco Rubio out to dry.
Panicked at Donald Trump's dominance and dismayed by Rubio's continued inability to do anything about it, some top Republican power brokers are turning to Cruz, putting aside their policy and personal misgivings to back the candidate they now openly label as their best hope to stop Trump's GOP takeover.
"He seems to be the only guy who's got some momentum, and is probably the best situated if there is anybody out there to beat Trump," said Austin Barbour, a prominent Mississippi-based GOP operative. "That's why there are many people like me—Ted Cruz wouldn't have been our first choice, but as we go through the process, we're reevaluating our vote, and he seems to be the guy at the top of the list."
"Most people now think Ted's the best vehicle to defeat Trump," said Charles C. Foster, a Bush family loyalist from Houston who served on Jeb Bush’s national finance team. "I would say some are enthusiastic for Ted, some are just saying, 'OK, Ted's not my first choice, but anyone that can beat Trump, I'll support.'"
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The veil has been ripped off of Cruz. He has always been a GOPe fallback plan and he’s know it. Consistent Conservative Ted is a fraud of epic proportions but the Cruz supporters don’t see it.
GOPe Creeps Slither toward Cruz.
The establishment starts to back Cruz...???? WTF? Twilight Zone or what?
you nailed it, fellow patriot. can I interest you in four Trump Steaks for $199 plus shipping?
LOL! Like the ugly girl still at the bar at closing time, Ted Cruz is starting to look pretty good.
anyone but Mussolini, er, Trump
“Cruz is the easier pick” between Cruz and Trump, said Ed Rogers, a veteran Republican who spent nearly a decade in the Reagan and Bush White Houses and is now a prominent D.C. lobbyist. “He is a real conservative Republican, he has a clear governing point of view, he understands Civics and he is a student of history. All that stands in vivid contrast to Trump. For me it’s not hard to be for Cruz.”
It started when we were dancing.....
She looked alright in the bar light, in the daylight she looked desperate.
That’s okay I was desperate too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YBcI50Sl4
Thought so when I saw Neil Bush had joined the Cruz team...
He's a lot more “inside the beltway” politician than he likes us to believe.
How long are FR folks going to stay with this masquerader?
I'm ready for Hillary to be put away, and I think Trump can do it best.
I would support Cruz in a general election, but I think he would lose to Hillary.
Need to fix that title...
GOP establishment creeps
There...
“The establishment starts to back Cruz...???? WTF? Twilight Zone or what?”
Could it possibly be because Cruz backs the establishment with his votes?
Rubio gang of six betrayal was just too big of a hurdle for him to overcome.
Rubio should drop out before Florida and let Cruz and Trump duke it out head to head and let the best man win.
A candidate can’t help who supports him.
For example david duke likes trump. Not Trump’s fault.
Trump is very liberal or at least very inconsistent. This history of flip flops and recent conversion to conservatism is why I despised Romney.
There are very good reasons why conservatives can’t easily rally around trump.
Sooner or later, it will have to hurt him. You cannot be “anti-establishment” and embrace Ryan and Neil Bush, and all the others.
GOPe “learns” how to pick up a turd by the “clean end.”
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