The bogus assumption is that because Vinny said feel therefore everyone who supports Trump is not being rational.
It's a cute insult tactic but easily caught by anyone being ... rational.
I respect Rush's opinion for the most part, his ability to reason etc. and he properly shoots down Vinnie,
So what? Vinny has stumbled upon the right conclusion with faulty (actually no real) reasoning. Rush identified it. We're glad to have his vote - good instincts Vinnie!
I think what he's actually reacting to, but doesn't know it, is that Cruz doesn't seem to utter a genuine word on stage. This is probably better identified as 'instinct' rather than feeling that Vinnie is displaying.
But believe what you want ... it's entirely possible that mine and a lot of other people's instincts (and rational thought) are all just messed up. Then again, maybe yours are. Maybe you're just missing something that the rest of us aren't. It's possible.
Cruz strikes me as slightly Aspergers/autism spectrum - very slightly - but you see it in his disconnectedness. Wouldn't surprise me if some of Heidi's problems are related to being married to a man who's entire life occurs in his head, no real connection.
My father was like Cruz in a lot of ways. A very good man, super smart, went to Harvard - all of that on-paper stuff, but that lack of connection was a real problem. Years after they divorced, my mother said "I could just never figure out what I was doing wrong." She wasn't doing anything wrong, she was married to a man who wasn't entirely there, smart as he was (and thought he was.)
Loved my Dad, but as a leader, and in the real world ... he couldn't make anything move ... people or things. Cruz worries me that way. He'll be right, on paper, in rhetoric, about everything, but that doesn't change the direction of thinking of a mob of people (America) to whom he can not connect.
Couple that with Cruz's increasingly close reliance on the Bush E machine ... and ... I just don't think he's going to be able to accomplish anything. No accomplishment is death at this point. (He would have been fine, great even, back in the GH days, but too much has changed.)
So, I've talked a little about connection. It's not all either 'rational' or 'feel' ... there is an instinctual connection that people feel, and without it, nothing great is accomplished. The risk of course is that bad things can be accomplished if those connected are deluded losers like liberals. But I don't sense that from Trump supporters. Many of us do a bit of a double take that we support him.
Who will go to bat for America - without a risk that they may throw the game for money or fame, and if they do go to bat, who can actually hit?
I don't see Cruz hitting, and I suspect he may think he's so smart that he'll make a deal with the Establishment thinking he can deliver to both sides. He's intellectually arrogant, hasn't fully grown up, and has zero humility, though he fakes it on stage a lot. Those without it fake it well - they don't even know they are faking it, because you can't learn it from a book, or through a cogent rational deductive or inductive argument. You have to have been there. Cruz ... does ... not ... have ... it.
Trump has failed in big big big ways, and come back.
Am I throwing too much feeling at you? Did you ever succeed at something that required something more than your book knowledge of how to accomplish it? Cruz DOESN'T have that thing. Trump does.
Thank you for putting into words what I have struggled to define. I also suspected that Cruz had Aspergers. There is something about him that, as you say, does not connect. I’m still trying to finish his book, but I have to admit that it has not been a pleasant read. I see things in his writing that reveal some psychological blips. Which to be fair, may come from abandonment issues with his father leaving him at such a young age. Most of the book (so far) is a compilation of “name-dropping”. He has connected himself to all the elite persons he can recall ever meeting. He solved some problem or other for every one of them. I’m about ready to send him a Superman costume.