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I really expected FR to be 60% in the Cruz camp... where are the conservatives?........................... I’m asking myself the same question. Remember when Rick Santorum and even Kasich were heroes? I was for Cruz, but now I lean towards Trump. Who is Cruz going to get out there to vote for him? My guess is the extreme right. That alone will not win the election. You need to pull votes from Hillary, so forget the cries of those who hate Trump for his immigration stand, they are the ones who are not here legally for the most part. They are more protestor than voter. Trump has the ability to chip away at Hillary’s support, IMO Cruz and Kasich do not. A Candidate can not be everything to everyone, being 100% Conservative is not going to draw everyone. There are too many middle roaders out there, they are the ones you have to draw be they Independents or dissatisfied Democrats and Republicans. The goal is to stop the Coronation of the Queen and maybe clean out the corruption in politics. A president doesn’t need to be a career politician. We had a good one back in the mid 50’s who wasn’t a career politician. (An exception to the rule??) Beware career politicians, they belong to a special club and they take care of each other regardless of how they present themselves to the public.

You raise legitimate points. And as difficult as it may be for other posters to believe, I (along with my best FR brother StephenJohnBanker) originally supported Cruz before Trump got into the race.

However as time went on, cracks began to appear in what was initially a rock solid conservative appearance, and Cruz began to make poor calls in judgment (bringing on that lunatic Glenn Beck was a major error), and turning his rallies into something approaching an evangelistic tent-revival show might have thrilled the little old ladies in tennis shoes carrying Bibles, but that is NOT going to bring him crossover votes from the secular 'not-so-religious' crowd in a general election contest.

Cruz will be painted first as a religious extremist by the 'RATS, and second he'll be smeared as a far right political extremist, and that tactic has already been unleashed at a low level online, they're drawing parallels between Cruz and Senator Joe McCarthy, and while I (like the majority of FReepers I believe) think Joe McCarthy is an absolute American patriot, I doubt that in this day and age (after having his name improperly attached to the worst political behavior), that he could get elected to ANY office, and that is what awaits Cruz IF he somehow gains the GOP nomination (something I doubt is going to happen), here is the picture the 'RATS area already pushing:

The facts are, Cruz IS a career politician and the voting public wants an outsider, not an insider and Cruz has proven that is exactly what he is.

Well, I’m still preferring Cruz or Kasich to Trump, fwiw. Trump is a strange and immature man, irregardless of his gifts and positions. Reminds me of the drawbacks of Ross Perot and Schwarzenegger, plus some other drawbacks that are uniquely his own.

We had a lot of sane people as possibilities, and now we are left with these guys. I’m so disappointed. But they are all still better than Hillary or Sanders.