Norm, I’ve been a vocal Cruz supporter on this site since he first rose to prominence. I voted for him in the Texas primary, the run-off, and the general election, when he ran for the U.S. Senate. He’s also the one and ONLY politician I have ever given money to.
Like you, I see him as the most Reaganesque politician to come down the pike since....well...Reagan. I want him to be our president in 2016, but as they say, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride for free.
It’s just not going to happen this go-round. He simply isn’t catching fire with the electorate the way Donald Trump is. Trump is pulling support from across the political spectrum, and from all ages and social strata. Ted’s support is mostly confined to us knuckle dragging, bitterly clinging purists. He’s not resonating strongly enough with a large enough segment of the population to put him within striking distance of the nomination.
That is what is actually occurring in real time, in the real world. How we feel about it is irrelevant.
No one’s cast a single vote yet, but people are vetting the candidates and letting their preferences be known to pollsters. The results of those polls are the closest thing we can get to a virtual election at this moment in time, and Trump is winning it in a landslide.
That is also not wishful thinking or conjecture. It’s what’s happening in real time, in the minds of millions of real voters. It’s a picture of their aggregate perceptions of the candidates. We can stand here yelling at reality, but it doesn’t care. It just keeps on sitting there - being real.
I’ve already expressed my thoughts on why Trump is in the lead. No need to go over all that again. If the others in the race want to catch up to him, and maybe even surpass him, they’d better do a better job of reading the electorate, and modifying their message to speak to what’s most important to us. That’s all that Trump did, and look what happened.
Well said.
I'd say the media is responsible for that...Cruz is out there campaigning every day...Just not getting the coverage...
While I share your sentiments per Cruz and Trump, I find it odd that Trump is getting the coverage he is...The media moguls want Trump to lose but yet they are promoting Trump just by constantly covering him...
“It’s just not going to happen this go-round. He simply isn’t catching fire with the electorate the way Donald Trump is. “
Which speaks to my entire point. Self fulfilling prophecy. We are again doing it to ourselves based on hopeandchange.