Posted on 02/01/2016 10:28:42 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I tip my cap, unreservedly, to Ted Cruz. With everything on the line - and so many GOP colleagues cowed and intimidated - he took on Donald Trump and won. Late last year I wrote that the GOP needed an actual leader, someone who would step up and take on Trump directly:
Now is the time. A presidential campaign is an early test of leadership, a proving ground for dealing with the challenges of the world's most difficult job. I don't want the last man standing. I want the guy who took down the king. If Trump can absorb the best shots from the Republican party's best young talent, then he deserves the nomination. If one of the two talented freshman senators can dethrone The Donald, then at least we have some assurance that they can first stand strong against the coming Clinton onslaught and then have the strength of will to lead a nation desperate not just for wisdom but for the right kind of tough-minded leadership.
Cruz challenged the king of polls - the man who'd intimidated so many others - and he won. And he did so when the conventional wisdom said that he'd lose - that the larger the turnout, the greater the chance that Trump would win. Instead, with record Iowa turnout, Cruz won.
This is a deeply encouraging moment for the conservative movement. To his immense and undying credit, Cruz refused to pander on ethanol, he defied Iowa's popular governor, and he stuck to his conservative principles - and he won.
Yes, Marco Rubio exceeded all expectations, but tonight was Ted Cruz's night. There is much hard fighting ahead, but had Trump won, we would even now be shuddering not just for the future of the conservative movement but for the future of a nation bounded and governed by constitutional principles. Cruz stood up when others fled. Iowa rewarded him for his courage, and tonight Cruz is ascendant, Trump is in retreat, and the conservative movement breathes the air of new life and new hope.
New Hampshire represents a different challenge, and the race is far from over, but Cruz deserves the accolades - and momentum - he'll get from Iowa. Well done, Ted. You did your part for your country on this crucial night.
Never let truth get in your way.
HAHAHA!!
Awwwwww... please, here is a tissue to cry into. There is more where that came from. No need to be stingy.
bttt!
Awwww... keep repeating that mantra.
Ha! Ted looks like a constipated conservative. He’d fit in well at the other site. :)
**sniffle**sob** but the poles all said the Trump will carry this by a gazillion points. And those rallies were yuge and beautiful. Waaaaaaaaa....
Cruz has spent a year on his ground game in Iowa and Trump virtually no time so for it to be as close as it was is not a good indication for Cruz. I don’t know why people put so much stock in Iowa. Perhaps because it’s the first state to pick candidates and they think it will be a jump start for them if they win it. Didn’t end up meaning anything for Huckabee in 2008 or Santorum in 2012 so I don’t think I would get my hopes up too high. We’ll be able to tell how seriously the GOP takes a Cruz win by whether they start attacking him or not.
When did Obama get sued for eligibility?
My question is did Trump run the tables or did the tables run Trump?
Looks like you spoke with the good people of Poland about Trump.
Da poles, da poles!!! Trump is going to win coz da poles!
Really. So he proved the naysayers wrong by barely beating Rubio?
Cruz would lose to the D nominee . Trump is the only electable R .
You’re aware that Trump says in his books that he commits adultery and that he says he lies as a business strategy.
Great article-Congratulation Senator Cruz-And Thank you Iowa!
Great article-Congratulation Senator Cruz-And Thank you Iowa!
And Trump was going to win Iowa and roll up the election.
Iowa hasn’t picked in winner in 16 years and today they continued the tradtion .
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