Posted on 03/10/2016 6:23:01 AM PST by VitacoreVision
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz tells The Brody File that the reason Donald Trump is performing well in the GOP race for president is because his voters are uninformed and not engaged in the process. “Donald does well with voters who have relatively low information, who are not that engaged and who are angry and they see him as an angry voice. Where we are beating him is when voters’ get more engaged and they get more informed.” Hunch: I’m thinking Trump and his “Silent Majority” may push back on this just a bit don’t you think? Lots to unpack here but for now, here’s the clip.
Our interview was done Wednesday afternoon in Miami.
[Video in Link.]
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So Ted Cruz just insulted a massive number of GOP Trump supporters. “
Bad move.
One thing to insult Trump, completely different to insult voters.
He’s sounding more like Romney/Hitlery now.
He is the prince of tactfulness, that Teddy.
Is this Cruz’s “bitter clingers” moment?
Give me a break...
Wrong argument. Excuse really.
So he is going to win with only political junkies because they really know what is happening.
Just like the Carson supporters will remember the “IOWA LIE” !
No Senator Cruz, the divide in the GOP voters is between Dogmatism and Realism. It not “low information” or “anger” that drives the Trump people. It is Realism.
The 2016 GOP Primary has brought to the for an old divide in Conservatism. There currently is a war being waged between the Dogmatics and the Realists. The Dogmatist care nothing about political realities, only the purity of the candidate political dogma matters to them. The Realist understands you have to be able to advance the political ball down the field to achieve the goals of the dogma. The Realist understands some times a flawed tool is going work better then the flawlessly poltical pure tool.
Reagan, who was a realist, wrote about it.
By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life
“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
Th Dogmatic at NR, Town Hall, Red State and the rest of the “Conservative” media sneer at the realist as being “nihlistic towards DC and the GOP”.
It is not Nihilism, it Realism. Since 1988 Conservatives have faithfully pledges their treasure and time to the GOP. Despite elections successes in 1988, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010 and 2014 what have Conservative gotten from the GOP?
Prosperity? Nope worse economy since 1979.
Reduction in Government-nope as expense, corrupt, incompetent, intrusive and bigger then ever
Supreme Court? Nope as far left as it has ever been.
A Nation secure? Nope at risk in a dangerous world. Military broken, exhausted and overextended.
A respect for rule of law and the Constitution? Nope. Goveremnt, and society, is more lawless then it has ever been.
A healthy growing vibrant society? Nope stagnant or in decline everywhere in every way.
So, it not Nihilism, it Realism. It is a realistic assessment that doing the same thing again this year electorally is going to continue this decline and degradation from DC.You can only overcome inertia in any system with force. So we need to force DC out of it denigrate path onto a new path. So why Trump rather then Cruz?
I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers at NR, Red State and other “Conservative” media but the fact remains, we are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.
This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conservative Media’s 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probably is Cruz would be a GOP Carter.
Carter was the same sort of religious political puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.
“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is, brace yourseelf.... going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!
Another fail point for the “Principled Conservatives” is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1988-1994-1998-2000-2002-2004-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.
Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate. Without Trump to lead the way, the Cruz boat would of either been ignored because it was irrelevant, or been shelled into oblivion by the $10s of millions of GOPE attack ads.
The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.
We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump
We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.
I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and most redeem that failure.
This is our generation’s “go” time
Ted Cruz is an arrogant know it all who does think he is above the peasants. That was part of my switch to Trump.
Cruz just insulted a third to half the GOP electorate.
Wow, he is not as smart as people give him credit for...he is also lying cause he can see the broad demographic pool from which Trump pulls and the much greater enthusiasm factor Trump supporters have over Cruz supporters...just more lies and distortions from Cruz...he really is a pathological liar, we have seen others like him in the past folks...Bill Clinton comes to mind first and foremost...
Well we’re not as “engaged “ as his supporter, Meghan McCain...
Good move, Ted. You have just branded yourself with 35% of the base as a low-information Senator. Good luck in November.
I hope Trump brings this up in the debate tonight and smashes it in UntrusTed’s face tonight.
Trump needs to rip of the mask and reveal the true Cruz.
Trump supporters are “not engaged”? That’s just stupid. Surely the guy’s seen Trump rallies. Surely the guy’s read polls. What’s the point of coming out and saying something like that? To piss Trump supporters off MORE?
Some people say Ted Cruz is condescending. Ted says, “That means they think I talk down to people.”
This is a typical "distraction" hit...It's an attorney thing.
Ted Cruz. All the charm of Barry Goldwater along with the ethics of Richard Nixon. Perfect GOPe candidate.
Not voting for him now!
Well I have the information on my poling place. And I will engage in a vote against you Mr. Canadian.
At least he’s aware that he’s attacking the voters. Others seem to think they are attacking a candidate but they’re really attacking the voters and the democratic process.
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