I think the Cruz campaign made the same mistake as most other non-southerners make in assuming the region cares about moral issues above everything else. Southerners are just as concerned about the economy, runaway illegal immigration and Islamic threats to the homeland as everyone else in the country. I think most people in the south don’t like politicians shoving religion in their faces either. When they analyze the 2016 race I think the biggest question pondered will be how did Cruz lose in the south?
Jethro, er, Jeffroe did not ponder enough scare tactics to the Zevangelical$ and their big-boxhead poseurs, er, pastor$, until he could get to closed/caucus states like Oklahoma->Utah->Wisconsin. But by then it was too late to apply the taZer.
Think they’ll take into consideration how many active candidates there were at the time?
“When they analyze the 2016 race I think the biggest question pondered will be how did Cruz lose in the south?”
Coming from a Christian family with 200 year old Southern roots, I am well acquainted with actual genuine Christian folks. Most folks from the Bible Belt instinctively knows what a phony sounds like, and that is my belief why Rev. Ted did so poorly in the deep South. Perhaps people from other parts of the country were not so use to normal Christian actions, and were taken in by all the Bible thumping form “snake oil” Ted. To me he looked phony as a 3 dollar bill, but seems like folks from other regions of the country were taken in by all the Bible waving, their having no real comprehension of how plain old every day Christians act, talk and carry on.
I think you’re on to something.
Read where Cruz was elected to the Senate with only 4% of the vote, in TEXAS. Is that right, Jane?
He worked the same tactical path in TEXAS that he’s using now. In TEXAS, he simply corralled the religious zealots, holy rollers, Evangelicals, and the Republican activist base, enough to just hold his opponent under 50% and force a run off— one that wouldn’t come around until some week day in the middle of summer heat, and guaranteeing a low turn out.
Now he thinks he should be a president, therefore.
It is just TOO eerie how some candidates, like Hillary, Obama and Cruz shaped their whole life for gaining the presidency. I don’t like that biographical history on a candidate. It is too surreal when they pull it off. (said shuttering, and chills.)