Posted on 01/16/2016 6:08:29 AM PST by GonzoII
If the Republican Presidential Primaries came down to these candidates, for whom would you vote?
(Excerpt) Read more at polling.reuters.com ...
Both “as a team”!
When Carson drops out, most of his support will go to Cruz. Then this will be a horse race.
This can’t be true, because Cruz won the debate and has no pending lawsuits over his eligibility.
By that time, this is going to be over.
Carson is not in this poll.
The numbers and the trends speak for themselves.
Trump said Cruz has Calgary values.
ROTFLOL.
Bump!
Thank you.
Krauthammer nailed it. Cruz walked into Trump’s trap.
Calgary values will lead us straight to hell.
Yes, Ted’s unprovoked attacks on Trump at the debate were a big mistake. Trump came off looking more reserved and Presidential while Cruz came of angry and unhinged. Previously, Cruz’s calm demeanor was a benefit because the media portrayed him as evil. Now Trump comes out looking like the nice guy. Amazing.
Are you sure? Obscuring the loans because they run counter to Cruz's narrative for himself is a serious situation. Could Carson's supporters go to Huckabee? Or now that Cruz is looking like more of an Ivy League insider, will they go to Trump as the outsider?
My point? We really don't know where those voters will go, as it plays out. Judging from that poll question as it's posted, it looks like they went to Trump.
There it is, proof positive, Cruz got SCHLONGED by Trump on the NY values gambit.
Cruz has “Calgary Values!” OMG talk about hitting a guy when hes down!
‘When Carson drops out, most of his support will go to Cruz.’
Why?
BACKSTORY At the time Cruz got his hands on over a million dollars from his hefty margin account at G/S......he was whining in the media, telling Texas voters that that he and his faithful little wife were having to liquidate their entire family savings (of slightly more than $1 million) to fuel a come-from-behind win in the Republican primary.
The Cruz tale has become legendary.....part and parcel of Cruz/s campaign narrative of a populist, scrappy Cruz putting everything on the line to overcome a wealthy establishment opponent.
(JUST SAYIN Most people would not have over a million dollars that they could easily liquidate on some cheap whim of being the prez.)
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Cruz/s belated disclosure of the loan was bombshell. In what was clearly a pre-meditated move (to give himself cover), Cruz did disclose the G/S loan....BUT not on the FEC form required by law. Now he will amend the FEC form.
The G/S loan is a bigger problem for Cruz than most candidates b/c of the way he/s structured his campaign.
He fashions himself as a homegrown guy w/ working class values, a harsh critic of big banks and Wall Street....says he/s just a Texas rube who/ll never have his name on a plane.
But wait a sec.....the whopper G/S loan makes Cruz look like more and more like a slickster....a slick pol, a powermonger who/ll go against his own principles to get into office.
Besides, Cruz/s drumbeat for H-1B/s never mentions that he was on the hook to H-1B user Goldman Sachs (big employers of H-1B/s) for over a million.
Ut oh ...apparently, Ted has more than one New York bank loan floating around, according to the Conservative Treehouse.
Cruz seems to be running against Bill DeBlasio (Kaiser Wilhelm to you!). At least that’s what I’ve been told by 15 freepers this morning.
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