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GOP pushed Iowa win for Cruz only to blunt Trump and pump up Rubio
nytimes.com ^ | FEB. 2, 2016 | David Brooks

Posted on 02/02/2016 6:54:18 AM PST by Trumpinator

Trump’s whole campaign was based on success breeding success, the citing of self-referential poll victories to justify his own candidacy.

What happened in Iowa was that some version of normalcy returned to the G.O.P. race. The precedents of history have not been rendered irrelevant.

Ted Cruz picked up the voters who propelled Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee to victory in previous caucuses. His is a Tea Party wing in the G.O.P. But its size and geographic reach is limited.

The amazing surge for Marco Rubio shows that the Republican electorate has not gone collectively insane. At the last moment, and in a state that is not naturally friendly to him, a lot of Republicans showed up to support a conservative who could conceivably get elected and govern.

Marco Rubio now has his moment. He is the only candidate who can plausibly unify the party. Desperate Cruz-hating Republicans will turn their faces to him.

The Republican Party usually nominates unifying candidates like Marco Rubio. The laws of gravity have not been suspended. He has a great shot. But he has to show one more burst of imagination.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: cruz; election; iowa; rubio; trump
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To: dead

You’re welcome, Darlin’. Anytime.


101 posted on 02/02/2016 10:05:40 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: JoSixChip

nothing you said makes any sense - the GOP e is NOT pumping money into his PACS...taht’s your dark fantasy you have concocted to get yourself through the day.


102 posted on 02/02/2016 11:20:11 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: Servant of the Cross

and yet JoSixPimp and Trumpanzeeanator are living in their alternate reality of denial.....


103 posted on 02/02/2016 11:21:48 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: VanDeKoik

don’t post to me until you change your pampers.....


104 posted on 02/02/2016 11:22:18 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: JoSixChip

you are such a kid....he did not support TPP...he supported TPA....and I’m quite sure you don’t have a damned clue what the difference is.......if you did, you wouldn’t get them confused in your little noggin.

Quite sure.


105 posted on 02/02/2016 11:29:31 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: C. Edmund Wright

That’s just so adorable.

You could have just wrote:

You’re right

And it have been far more mature.


106 posted on 02/02/2016 11:29:43 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

your comments are so stupid and inaccurate as to be beneath specific response. You are in denial, an alternate reality.......seriously, I’m one adult short to have an adult conversation with you.


107 posted on 02/02/2016 11:31:00 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: Trumpinator

The establishment is giddy about the Rubio strong showing. They now have their man. They were scared to death that they were thinking they might have to ride with Trump. Those fears are over. Rubio is going deep in this race and might just win.


108 posted on 02/02/2016 11:31:28 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: Trumpinator

Get used to it. From now all the left and the GOPe along with the MSM especially Fox news are going to pimp Rubio night and day.

Trump needs to forget Cruz who has no shot and go after Rubio like a Duck on a June bug.


109 posted on 02/02/2016 11:32:22 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: cornfedcowboy
We shall see - I really can't stand Rubio because to me he is a phony and just speaks the corporate line.

I can't always agree with Trump but he is authentic as his own man. Cruz is authentic about his ideals probably because he was raised that way by his holy roller dad. Rubio? To me Rubio calculated that the GOP needs a token hispanic and he is Cuban and that was his way in and he could get far playing that hispanic card.

110 posted on 02/02/2016 11:35:16 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: Trumpinator

I can live with Rubio. Just too tired to try to live with Trump. Had enough of that man and his ego.


111 posted on 02/02/2016 11:36:59 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Why don’t you save the retarded attempt at covering for not having a point, and explain to me where I’m wrong.

Or are you just going to let out another stream of smarmy non-answers in hope that will work?

“I’m an adult...i don’t have time to engage you”

Please. What a load.


112 posted on 02/02/2016 11:39:01 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Trump needs to forget Cruz who has no shot and go after Rubio like a Duck on a June bug.

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Immigration - immigration - immigration. If we don't stop the immigration tsunami now then demographically we lost our country forever. Europeans are not coming to the USA any longer because they have it good there and our economy can no longer support a family of kids on two incomes let alone one like the past.

I will fight for Trump as long as the wall is going up.

113 posted on 02/02/2016 11:40:18 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: cornfedcowboy
I can live with Rubio. Just too tired to try to live with Trump. Had enough of that man and his ego.

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I can't live with any more immigration.

114 posted on 02/02/2016 11:40:58 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: VanDeKoik

If you think the GOP e is that powerful, you are just stuck in the past. If you think the GOP e is more worried about Trump than Cruz, you are delusional. If you think the GOP e is in as strong a position this cycle as the DNC you are off your meds.

If you think that either a Trump or Cruz win this cycle will resemble anything like 2008 and 2012 then you have no ability to analyze why’s and wherefore’s and nuance - basically it means you are totally shallow in your synopsis.

And your’e wrong on Rubio: he outspent Cruz in Iowa. But again, why you can’t see that the establishment is losing - that Rubio is a desperate attempt on their part - that the 3-4 REALLY estab candidates are in the 1’s and 2’s....shows a lack of insight on your part.


115 posted on 02/02/2016 11:47:49 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: C. Edmund Wright

“If you think the GOP e is that powerful, you are just stuck in the past”

If you think they are not, you are careless, and foolish.

Jeb was a poor candidate. Rubio is smart enough to play ball and he gets praise from people like Limbaugh. He also isn’t damaged severely from the fight so far.

If you want to pretend that Cruz has some special magic or pious guidance, then by all means keep up the smugness.
He is also getting big praise from the MSM.


116 posted on 02/02/2016 11:54:18 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: C. Edmund Wright
.he did not support TPP...he supported TPA....and I’m quite sure you don’t have a damned clue what the difference is

Garbage, TPP is basically a shoe-in because of TPA. When cruz pushed TPA through congress he basically said "we have to pass TPA so we can find out what is in TPP".
117 posted on 02/02/2016 12:16:28 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - losers are not winners)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Enjoy another week off. And be prepared to get the ban-hammer if you persist in this level of personal attacks ever again.


118 posted on 02/02/2016 1:11:40 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Trumpinator

Headline for this post is not the headline for the article. Gives an false impression not backed by anything but personal opinion.


119 posted on 02/02/2016 3:08:07 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain fInor a murderer, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: Trumpinator

That poster and those like him will be major contributing factors to Hillary getting elected vis a vis Trump. Cruz, unfortunately, at present, doesn’t stand a chance of becoming POTUS.


120 posted on 02/02/2016 8:05:00 PM PST by odds
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