Posted on 01/29/2016 6:38:02 AM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Trump: 40%
Cruz: 15.2%
Rubio: 9.2%
Carson: 9%
Bush: 6.1%
(Excerpt) Read more at polling.reuters.com ...
If Ted got to be a USSC justice he could annoy its liberals no end. Worse than Scalia does.
Oh, I completely agree that these aren’t “debates”. I was pointing out the statements made by some that this was an easy win for Cruz and he would crush the “debate”. These comments were in response to statements that Cruz would bear the brunt of the attacks and it would be ugly.
Trump is a phenomenon and while individual candidate loyalists naturally refuse to understand especially at this point he is not a surprising phenomenon. As far back as Perot we saw a significant desire for an extra political option with a clear anti-Washington DC bent. The GOP recovered from Perot ala Newt Gingrich and the commitment to core principles via the contract with America. The unraveling resumed with compassionate conservative GW Bush and his ultimate betrayal with the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008”.
Sen Fred Thompson’s ill-fated primary candidacy was a hint that there was a strong but still controllable desire for a Reaganesque candidate. John McCain of course lost to Obama and Obama’s out the gate excesses when taken with all the other betrayals of the America people fueled the rise of the Tea party which was the beginning of the real and final unmasking of the GOP-E.
Everytime we won victories like in 2010 by being bold and principled the GOP-E insisted that we must retreat back into the safety of ambiguity and the comfort of the shadow of the premises of the left. The popularity of Herman Cain once again illustrated that there was a huge desire for both an outsider and a Reaganesque candidate and he was beating the odds till awkward revelations concerning giving payments to a lady not his wife finally defeated him. Romney, the proud grandfather of Obamacare, very predictably lost. The postmortum GOP-E analysis insisted essentially that we weren’t liberal enough and accepting enough of liberal values.
We then went through a period where our House leadership tried to force amnesty on us at the direction of the Chamber of Commerce with the help of the Gang of 8 including Marco Rubio. We saw the rise of Ted Cruz at this point who had just been elected and I think we all know where that led. Now we have Trump who is an outsider like no other. Trump as a movement is the distilled discontent with Washington DC, our soft politically correct culture, and its obscene double standards. Its also a movement rejecting the political status quo not just the squishy moderate status quo but also the impotent elitist think tank conservative status quo which seems to value demeanor over substance. Its also a hopeful movement that really does want to Make America Great Again not simply allow America to continue to blindly submit to internationalism, corporatism, and transformation by illegal invasion.
Those who don’t get Trump and still under the impression that checking all the boxes on an issues list is going to fix Washington DC or that if only Washington DC had the right management it would get better. Trump supporters know what its going to take to fix Washington DC is to send it someone like Trump who will not be stopped by Washington DC, someone who will go around it and through it and over it. A person who will not think twice about breaking the machine. A Republican FDR who will not be stopped.
Trump bids to be a “right the ship” president, not a “steady as she goes” president.
Yep, Bush was like “that voodoo that you do so wellâ€Except he is/was an arrogant idiot that beleived his Voo Doo, read my lips (they're lying), thousand points of light, new world order theory. Hence a one term President and that was one too many.,.
So anti GOP-e candidates have 64 percent of the vote. Let's not be so eager to tear down the other guy that we lose the chance to deliver the knockout punch to what should be the real targets - the GOP-e and the Dems.
Take Cruz' numbers, multiply by two, then add another 67 per cent of the initial, to get to Trump's level.
Cruz has his work to do.
...He's just pining for the fjords between the plateaus
“Whatever they are, you’re right, they are dead. And the media are exposed for the lying scum that they are.”
So true. I was watching Fox News this morning to see what their spin would be and it was disgusting. They were clearly under orders not to mention Trump (though Brian Kilmeade did call the Veteran’s event a “sideshow”), and kept pushing (through their “impartial” commentators) the absurd notion that Jeb! won the debate.
Now, I didn’t see the debate - but I can tell you that if Jeb! debated a rock, the rock would win. Anything else is just GOP-e propaganda in a transparent attempt to swaying the election in favor of their chosen one. What’s amazing is that, after all this, they STILL can’t give up on that useless Bush idiot!
... did I write “attempt to swaying”? Make that “attempt to sway.” I need more coffee....
+1
They've got nothing else. They have already used every trick and all the power they have.
“If all of the other candidates united behind ONE challenger while the others dropped out, numerically they could take out Trump.”
But their primary supporters would NOT unite. For example, Cruz voters would never in a million years support Bush for the nomination and vice versa.
I agree...I think most Trump supporters would be overjoyed with Cruz as well.
Great image . . . I think.
“Cruz was the one that got knocked out of the park last night.”
Without Trump as the lightening rod, the lightening strikes hit Cruz instead, and I don’t think he responded well.
Cruz’s persistent second place with a slightly downward trend has rattled him. Cruz should never have gone negative, particularly against Trump. Instead Cruz should have made himself useful by attacking Hillary and Obama and espousing conservative positions. Cruz could even have subtly supported Trump.
As a consequence, still being a young man, could have positioned himself for the future, in the mean time participating at a high level in a Trump administration and becoming a wiser, more mature, and more powerful man. Instead, Cruz may be doing irreparable damage to the Cruz brand.
>>Trump has just proven you don’t need them to win.
I hear they’re inventing some new fangled thingee called the “Internets” or something.
Wait till that catches on!
“Main Stream” who?
“What’s with all the hate towards Cruz. The guy was a hero when he was the only one standing up the McConnell and Boner. The only one with the guts to filibusterer. Now he’s some kind of pariah... I like Trump but that doesn’t mean I have to hate everyone else.”
You are so right. But things have REALLY degenerated at FR. I’m a Trump guy but these attacks on candidates AND FReepers need to stop. There’s so much personal animosity that people have lost sight of the candidates and the issues themselves.
And I’m going to lay the blame squarely on the doorsteps of a dozen Cruz-trolls for starting this ugliness by incessantly and repetitively posting bullshit attacks on Trump. At this point in the game, I starting to believe that most of these Cruz-trolls don’t even really support Cruz, but are agents for other candidates, or even more likely, agents for Democrats, because they’ve stirred up so much pointless anger here.
If they keep this up after Trump wins enough primaries that it’s obvious that Trump is going to be the nominee, I hope the Admins simply ban them.
The contrast between the good night on one side while another snarky bloodbath was going on at the same time perfectly highlighted why the Don was right tear the down.
That would be the "interwebs" of the world wide net.
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