Posted on 05/03/2016 6:26:27 AM PDT by 20yearsofinternet
On a sunny day at the Oasis Diner in Plainfield, Indiana, roughly 20 miles west of Indianapolis, Ted Cruz breezed through a 1950s-era diner with a gleaming steel facade. One of the last diners of its kind, the Oasis sits along the Historic National Road, the iconic highway traversing the state that fancies itself the Crossroads of America. Here, four days before he named Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential pick, Cruz met a crowd of a few hundred supporters. He mugged for photos, noshed on a fried pickle offered to him by a customer, then shot straight behind the counter. Pleasantries aside, it was time to get down to the business at hand.
“Alright, can I get anyone some fill-ups?” he asked to no one in particular, grabbing a pot of coffee and holding it up, as a peal of laughter pierced the humid air inside the packed diner. “Refill of coffee for anyone?”
Everything seemed to be going well for Cruz, who gripped and grinned amid his biggest fans, wearing copious amounts of camouflage and Dale Earnhardt No. 88 hats and “Don’t Tread On Me” T-shirts. As he spoke from the back of a red Chevrolet pickup truck, one could even hear a few “Amens.”
But then it happened.
Outside the diner, in a gaggle with reporters, Cruz unloaded on North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law. “There is no greater evil than predators, and if the law says that any man, if he chooses can enter a women’s restroom, a little girl’s restroom and stay there and he cannot be removed because he simply says at that moment he feels like a woman, you’re opening the door for predators,” Cruz told reporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Lying Ted hasn’t been corect about anything for quite some time.
I think the answer is much simpler. Once Cruz was mathematically eliminated his support tanked. Nobody really wants to vote for a spoiler. And his desperate whining about Trump doesn’t help his cause.
I wish writers would stop using nosh, it’s a stupid word. Just say eat.
His 4 PACS are getting weary of throwing good money after bad. Ted hasn’t had a big win in some time. He should take his advice to Kasich and get out. But, the ego is too big.
RejecTED.
So opposing transgender restroom rights derailed Ted in Indiana? Does anyone actually believe that?
This is a little premature. What about the Downs poll, and Cruz’s claim last night, that the race is a tie?
“Today, vast swaths of the state’s Republican electorate, from Indianapolis to West Lafayette, have retreated from the culture wars. “
It’s less accurate to say they have retreated than reprioritized.
When your house is on fire, you don’t focus on the stopped up toilet.
Immigration, Trade, & Terrorism; ITT.
Trump got ahead because he focused on these three issues. When he deviated from them, he lost ground.
Cruz could have been where Trump is, IF he had focused on ITT from the get go. He didn’t.
I don’t want freaks in the ladies room either.
But the issue is best left to the people to fight back and they are.
This isn’t a job for POTUS.
Every single blue collar dem I have talked to thinks the dem leadership is nuts on this issue. But they were all men, so maybe women really don’t care about men using their bathrooms? I don’t know.
Freegards
Oy vey. Our masters want us to become used to Yiddish.
Now?Nope
That’s what struck me, too. The Politico author posits that conservatives must give up on the “social issues” or forever be losers. Today “social issues” is no longer code for murdering babies, but letting mentally ill men use the women’s and girl’s restrooms. So we are forever going to lose if we don’t let the sickos into female restrooms. How can fighting that sheer lunacy-of-the-day be a losing position?
I agree, that is strategic reporting, painting common sense social issues as outside the lines far right wing "hate".
Trump is winning the nomination straight up, just like South Carolina. Ted was more weakened by 5 out of 6 third place finishes then he believed. He has been fingernails on chalk board for more than a few weeks now, and Indiana seems ready to give him a spanking.
These are precisely the GOPe-ers that Rush has been telling us about since the 1990s. They don't want Cruz because he stands on principle, and they don't want Trump because he'll take away the gravy train--and they'd rather not have Hillary! but they'll take her if they have to, because she's easier to live with than the ones on their own side who want to build the wall, and who want to keep America from watersliding to Sodom.
This isn't Cruz's fault, and it isn't Trump's fault. Trump will win in IN today, but it won't be because Cruz stood for sanity in the rest room; that would be precisely the wrong message to take from today's primary.
#10
I think Cruz stopped talking about his vision for America, and instead, spent his time bashing Trump. Cruz now comes across as small, bitter, and nasty. Carly is great, when she is interviewed. They need to get her out more, in the media.
I sure don’t. Is it the most important presidential issue at the moment? No.
I watched a video last night that documented the “protests” at Trump’s CA rally. It lasted one and a half hours. The yelling Mexicans and their waving the Mex flag everywhere is the issue of the moment. I saw the bloodied Trump supporters and the threatening behavior towards those leaving the rally.
If these invaders are not dealt with, the bathroom issue will not matter.
Cruz came out running first. He had his chance to lead on the big things. He didn’t. Trump came and picked up the yoke of illegal immigration and began to lead.
Cruz could have come out strong for America first. He might have been the front runner now.
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