In a nutshell: Cruz never had his own TV SHOW. That’s all it is folks. That’s all it is.
I agree Mr. Hill. You make many good points. I loathe the condescension from the political class. The people are not as stupid as they all think. We can make our own choices and don’t need an intermediary to tell us who Trump “really” is.
It’s nothing against Cruz... it’s just that we don’t want another professional politician. We want a citizen this time around, period.
I can explain it in a few words:
15 year old girl watching Ted Cruz on TV: “He’s creepy-looking.”
There you have it.
Ted’s tent preacher theatrics are a turnoff to me too, and I’m Christian. There have been so many “devout” frauds over the years that when a guy shows up on the national scene touting his own piety and moral superiority, my first reaction is to cringe.
I’d vote for Ted if he wins the nomination, but I hope he doesn’t. His lies and sleazy campaign tactics have already done what countless “holier than thou” moral crusaders before him have helped do: make Christians look nutty and hypocritical.
Hypocrites. They have an elitism of their own, and Trump is their man.
And that the only reason Trump wants to become President is so he can be that real estate developer?
Cruz chose a message with a very limited appeal outside the conservative base.
Cruz exudes “asshole” from every pore of his being?
Well NOOB, welcome to Free Republic. I see you brought your disdain for “true conservatives” along with you as your bona fides.. “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.”
Because some conservatives are doing exactly what the GOPe does: compromising because they “can’t win” otherwise.
I challenge Trump on his words, his deeds and his associations. I don’t insult or name call, but I get a lot of that in response here from his supporters.
Trump runs his campaign on invective. It is his style on Twitter. Calling people bimbo, loser, etc is textbook invective. Cut downs of people and groups in his stump speeches. In his interviews. His staffers use that style while rep erecting him (remember the boob comment?). It permeates his entire campaign.
Projection and a holier than thou condemnation of those who dare to not support him will not garner too many converts from those you have attacked here since Iowa. Maybe winning at all costs in the primary is not looks so small now.
But what do I know, I am just an “idiot Cruzbot Hillary loving establishment hack DU’er paid Cruz poster” who has only been here since 2001.
Newsflash: DT is not about to alienate the Elites that fill his hotels and golf courses, let alone the Elite who FINANCE them.
He ceded the floor to Trump last Summer and Fall.
Trump occupied the best ground and fortified himself on it.
Cruz avoided the scrum for weeks assuming that Trump would dispatch the other, and then implode. By spending a year in Iowa, he would then easily win the state, sop up the Trump supporters, and sweep the south.
Well the keystone of the plan, Trump imploding and his supporters moving to Cruz, didnt happen. So the whole plan collapsed.
That is the bottom line ...
Trump is doing “so much better” than Cruz due to his celebrity & the fact that Rubio is staying in the race...
“Ted Cruz is an elitist conservative. He is as much an elitist as Mitt Romney, as Jeb Bush, as Mitch McConnell, as Harry Reid, as Nancy Pelosi. He is simply a member of different elitist cabal.”
Really? This is the type of crappy logic that deserves a vanity now?
So it is elitist to be a Constitutional Conservative? Elitist to believes the Constitution LEADS to common sense pragmatic solutions, instead of trusting to the whims of a personality cult whose opinions change on the wind? Are you going to oppose Trump whenever he rolls over the Constitution, as he at times will, or just curl up in a ball?
And I get it, Trump will be the nominee and I will vote for him. But this vanity baloney that Ted is the most evil, nasty, slimy, sleazy, cheating, lying, RINO(?) needs to stop. It is deranged.
I now think more than ever that Cruz needs to fight every inch to the convention and exact every bit of concession possible - exactly because of this sort of deranged Trump veneration. Trump may be necessary and even good for the country, but he is not a God. Cruz and his followers ought to be your biggest allies, instead there is this constant demonization.
To your point on voter turnout.
High negative opinion and low second choice poll numbers in the primaries tend to correlate with low voter turnout in the general in past elections. Trump has the highest negative opinion and lowest second choice numbers this primary cycle.
If low voter turnout is your concern, you might want to consider why those numbers are there. That might be Trump’s problem in the general, not “conservative elitists”.
Only a "true" conservative is able to select a proper justice for the supreme court.
Only a "true" conservative can come up with the right plan to rein in the federal bureaucracy.
Only a "true" conservative can fix the health care system.
The list goes on and on.
His demeanor suggests that only he, a "true" conservative, can properly lead, or is fit to lead our country out of the problems we currently face. "
So true.
I think this article hits on the true reason but was ashamed to actually admit it as foremost. Many so-called conservatives have become secular to the point of hating those that proclaim to be true Christians. That said, many that claim to be Christian are In Name only. CINOs like Trump that can't name a single Bible verse.
Trump is the push for secularism in the GOP, the turning away from God in America.
That’s a pretty good point—nicely done.
Also, Ted not only has the nationally-toxic demeanor of a televangelist, but he also gets his biggest funding from a pair of Christian-sect religion-first big donors—and so panders in that direction.
Most Evangelists today want a president who appears sufficiently committed to defending their religious interests—without requiring a strict litmus/purity test on the issue. They see fundamental problems with the country, and Trump sufficiently reassures them as to protecting their religious interests while inspiring far greater confidence in his ability and interest to address economic problems as well.