“...A gaggle of conservative and sorta conservative GOP guys share same bloc through Super Tuesday while Jebbie with war chest and Fox News skates to nomination and we get yet another low turnout for yet another Rockefeller Bush style nominee and lose to any Dem...”
That certainly seems to be the usual playbook that the GOP closely follows.
We (the political right) could kill that by coalescing around a candidate early. But we won’t. As usual, we can only be relied upon to form our passionate circular firing squad and do ourselves in.
You would think, when it comes to conservative creds, Cruz would be *at the very least* “reasonably acceptable” if not a slam-dunk. But even here on FR, in this very thread and others, fault must be found and pointed out.
I’m not saying that we have to be in lockstep and agree with everything a candidate says, but I am saying that if Cruz is not acceptably conservative enough to earn early support and vote pledges from the overwhelming majority of self-identified conservative voters, then there is simply no candidate we can ever hope to run that will do. If we find ourselves debating between Christie, Bush, Paul, Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee, Jindal, Walker, Pence, Kasich, Perry, Santorum, etc and Cruz as to which candidate aligns closest to conservative values, then we DO NOT deserve a conservative candidate. I mean, in this particular line up, it should be bloody obvious with no need for navel-gazing and nit-picking.
Those freepers are going to bitch about every single candidate, including Cruz.