Posted on 03/11/2016 10:04:43 AM PST by tatown
No, actually... Cruz does MUCH better in elections than in polls. That would mean that those exceptionally high turnouts are driven by Cruz, not Trump.
What a load! You obviously have access to a huge supply of bovine excrement. You keep it under your bed?
Sorry he was losing. Way under performed in his home state. It ws not until the GOPe machine openly came out for their boy that he moved up any.
Trump may finally be able to pull it off. It didn't work for Romney, or McCain, but at least Trump isn't a self defeating wishy-washy type. If he's the nominee I hope it works for him. I don't want to be stuck with Hillary.
Much of the polling shows Cruz doing well against Clinton and Cruz has consistently been doing better than his poll numbers against Trump. I am confident if Cruz is the nominee that he could beat Clinton.
I see it this way. No matter who the Republican nominee is if they can't beat Hillary, America's ex, dragging a train load of baggage and scandal, then politics is useless and this country is gone.
>>> So if you quack like a duck, and act like a duck, then aren’t you just a duck? <<<
It’s about perception. If webbed feet define a duck then a platypus is a duck.
“how in the heck do you expect him to win in the general against a real democrat?”
By being able to explain WHY conservative ideas WORK for everyone.
Better than having a personally dislikable candidate who supported DeBlasio in 2013, and Obama’s foreign policy in 2009.
YEah, I’d actually RATHER be in Cruz’ position than Trump’s at this point. The ceiling you know.
Cruz has beaten Trump a few times. Trump has beaten Cruz about twice as many times. It like Trump is up 3 games to 2 in the World Series. Trump has the advantage, but it ain’t over. We’re still in the winnowing process. Each side can make its case as to whom would win mano a mano.
Hopefully, the nomination will be decided by voters, not by a back room deal. Kasich and Rubio have no path to the nomination other than a back room deal and whether or not they win their home states, they should bow out after Tuesday.
If Trump wins all five big states on Tuesday, I’d say that pretty much settles the matter. But, if its a split decision, then its cage match time. Mano a mano.
BTW Trump is in the middle of something of potentially epic proportion. It’d be disrespectful to him to just hand him the nomination. There’s something in me saying he doesn’t want it handed to him, Hillary-style, but wants to earn it.
“By being able to explain WHY conservative ideas WORK for everyone.”
He’s sure not having too much success with that approach, even in a GOP primary.
As a Cruz supporter, but one who has Trump as my #2 pick, I'll give it a shot. I am confident that Cruz is more conservative than Trump. I know exactly how conservative Cruz is. He's not 100% consistent, but neither is anyone else in politics, and he's one of the top three in the US Senate today. I have no clue how much of Candidate Trump is real and how much is posturing, and I don't think anyone else does either. I believe Trump will at least partially deliver on what he promised, but I have no idea how his unclear ideology will interact with his (impressive) practical and (entertaining) showman sides in office.
As for the general election, I agree with Trump voters that Donald Trump is probably a stronger candidate than Cruz. Cruz would have to show a previously hidden ability to convincingly articulate why conservatism is right, the way Reagan did, to win without it being frighteningly close in November. That or trust the democrats to nominate someone shockingly unqualified (but that didn't prevent America's most dangerous enemy from winning in 2008 or 2012).
Thanks for the honest reply.
Basically that’s how I feel - Cruz on principle. But if Trump is nominated, I’ll vote for him.
So far from trumps mouth on issues its been fluff. Its gonna be huge. Its gonna be great. Its gonna be wonderful. When they tried to nail him down on how to fix social security he repeated the rat line that he would change nothing then added the trump spin that the economy will improve and save it.
Everyone else had a plan. Granted they had to pry it out of the rube.
Still busy trying to stir up discord, I see.
Nah Cruz took care of that yesterday by referring to guys like me as dumb.
I would like her supporters see her sputter and be revealed as the evil idiot that she is.
Trump ran for the Reform Party nomination in 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2000
He is a man for all positions and parties. Or in PC language, ideologically-challenged.
Like Bloomberg.
Has Cruz?
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