Cruz is true GOP dark horse: How he’s winning over the fanatical right at exactly the right time

Salon ^ | August 26, 2015 | Heather Digby Parton

[Noumenon]

I quote a lot of people fro ma lot of sources. So what?

[x]

People might assume that you (and the rest of us) approve of Yockey’s views on WWII and various ethnic groups.

[LS]

Notice it didn't say 3:1. It said 38%. But for sake of argument we'll say it was 3:1. I was there. I remember the Guliani campaign. There was nowhere near this level of excitement. In fact, even though his poll numbers already started to fall, I can tell you the exact moment his campaign crashed. He was delivering a speech at C-PAC and it was full. You had to get overflow tickets to hear him.

He didn't address one single serious issue---he made references to terrorism. But his main line that he repeated at least three times was "As Americans, we want to sell you something, we want to buy something from you." And the crowd went "Huh???" And after he came back to this about two more times, people were looking around saying, "What is he talking about?"

But 30,000 people? Doubt it. You can see in the article how incredibly different Guliani is from Trump. He had (a paltry) $16m. Donald has $1.6 BILLION. He spent his money on direct mail. Trump spends no money at all. He gets entirely free publicity, but has finally opened and staffed (with a lot of people) IA and NH.

But whatever. Keep tellin yourself Cruz will be there a year from now in any capacity except as Trump's veep. See ya after some primaries.

[SmokingJoe]

1. Giuliani was on top of the polls for much longer than Trump has been so far.
2.Giuliani had his highest point numbers in August just like Trump is doing right now.
3. McCain who ended up winning the nomination, was far behind Giuliani in August 2007. It was Fred Thompson who was closest to Giuliani. And he was still behind Giuliani by some 20 points..
4. McCain's campaign was a actually broke in August and he still ended up winning the nomination in the end. By contrast Cruz has raised more hard cash than anyone else on the Republican side and from vastly more people than anyone else.

What it boils down to: Anything can happen. It's happened before, only 8 years ago.
I am not even saying Trump will lose, or Cruz will win. I am saying you can't assume that polls in August will be the same as polls or voting in February, March etc. They hardly ever are.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

I only wish he had acted as swiftly with the far more dangerous Willard and his deranged brigade. At least Rudy would’ve run to win.

Amen, brother!