Posted on 12/15/2015 12:34:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
If you can't stand the thought of Donald Trump becoming president, the good news is that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) looks poised to upset him in the pivotal Iowa caucuses next month.
The bad news is that if Cruz succeeds and ultimately becomes the Republican nominee, he will prove to be far worse than Trump himself.
For one thing, Cruz has proved himself to be far more ideologically narrow-minded than Trump. For better or worse, Trump has been willing to defy conservative dogma on a number of issues (e.g., social security reform, progressive taxation, the 2003 Iraq War), indicating that at the very least he has a mind of his own. Cruz, on the other hand, has refused to waiver from the tenets of Tea Party doctrine even when the fate of America depended on it. That last statement isn't an exaggeration, by the way-anyone with a reasonably comprehensive memory can recall his instrumental role in causing a government shutdown at the end of 2013, one that business interests and moderates across the board vehemently opposed..........
Matthew Rozsa is a Ph.D. student in history at Lehigh University and a political columnist. His editorials have been published on Salon, The Good Men Project, Mic, MSNBC, and various college newspapers and blogs.
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If Trump were a leftist, the media would be pimping his candidacy like they’ve been trying to with every big gubmint RINO loser (El Jebbe, Krispy Kreme, Roofio, Kay Sick).
Why does Salon even run this sub-literate crap?
Hey look! He’s wearing the kind of glasses designed to make wearers look more intelligent than they really are.
By the logic of his stated positions, the author appears to be a Gnostic-Progressive ideologue for whom reality is an illusion.
Gay...as a $3 bill.
It reads like, perhaps unintentionally, the author is stating that Cruz would be easier to defeat, because Trump has a capacity to appeal to voters across the political spectrum.
Floundered out of the starting gate he did. Tripped over his own lede then kept on going like it wasn't there dangling, wrapped around a foreleg.
Sort of like charlie don't surf (but a little different); Flounder(s) don't race just ask Gunter Grass.
That's best left to Thoroughbreds and motor muscle, if you ask me. I know you didn't, I did that for you. I know how busy you can be. Just trying to help, don't shoot! i'll dig out a link to some pianer musick, in a second...
Trouble is (excuse my own diction? lol) he annihilated himself face-plant, showing the rest doa white-noise meander. Went nowhere really, except to try to stick it to a guy who isn't a highly toasted waffler, for not and eat the waffle2.
Forks & waffles...speaking of those I wonder if I could talk Denny into substituting those for the $4 all you can flapjack. But I digest. (stop stop --hold fire-- it'll get spinnin' in two shakes o' lamb -promise!)
He's the walking dead without a tv show, or regular joe inflatable blogger take ur pic. They're everywhere, the little boy sees them (walking around like regular people) but they don't know they are...
not real, might not 'till glimpse caught of, uh, thing that was, and is not, and yet is The End
But who'd want to not me. I see it anyway wanna' go home, man, miss my pa I do.
Another hipster doufus apparatchik at Salon needs a diaper change.
Yeah I was wondering that too----Drive by seminar blogger.
So, Trump supporters, there you have it.
If you want to vote for the guy who pisses off all the right people, you will vote for Ted Cruz.
If Cruz has Salons vipers wetting themselves, then he is on the right track.
That is the garbage fed to you be MSNBC. Why do you eat it up?
A brokered convention can ONLY happen if there is no winner after the voting is done. AND YES, you'd better hope that there is a brokered convention IF that happens, otherwise there would be NO candidate. Having the plurality of the vote does not mean that the majority would rather have someone else.
Indeed that is the entire reason they have conventions.
No "but" needed. Its just kooky.
If not for Trump, Jeb! would be leading at 20%, and we would be hearing the constant drum-beat of how we all have to line up behind a winner. Just like 2012, 2008, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988...
Trump has made that impossible, for which we owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude.
But that is not enough to get me to vote for him. Especially not when we have Ted Cruz as an alternative.
Oops. My prediction in the tag line has passed by. New date is January 4, 2016.
He doesn’t.
Those Iowa caucuses are only pivotal for those who need to impress the fickle donor class. Trump has upset the Establishment’s main control mechanism by paying for his own campaign.
Nope. I’d bet that his parents are douchebags too.
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