I am just posting this to recognize:
1) I believe the author is correct. If Ted Cruz would have won the nomination, he would have lost the election. Indisputably so.
2) Yet I believe Ted Cruz gave Donald Trump one heck of a run. Big time.
I really hope the two of them can rebuild what seemed to be a good relationship early in the campaign.
Both fought hard. Now it is time to unite, against the democrats.
Enjoy.
http://theweek.com/articles/624535/how-getting-stomped-by-donald-trump-saved-ted-cruzs-career
Link to the article, if anyone wants to read it.
I started this election cycle strongly supporting Ted Cruz for President.
I ended it hating his guts, and I know I am not the only one.
I have nothing against Cruz supporters, but I do believe Ted has thrown his career away over the past several months. A shame really.
It's not "indisputable".
Canadian Ted Cruz would have lost in November. He lost now and needs to GO AWAY
Cruz has NO Future. He needs to quit, quit now, quit completely.
He may be able to survive in Texas, but there is no national future for Ted beyond some RNC hack.
Not bad, glad to hear he has campaign funds in the bank.
However, after losing in the south his campaign was a desperate shambles and made him look bad.
But if it gave him lots of money to run for re-election it was, in the end, probably a very good thing.
What a pantload, by this logic Mitt Romney would be on top of the world now. Political futures are not fungible.
HIs brand is evangelical conservative yet he lost most of the South (everywhere except Texas and Oklahoma) and overall I think he only won 4 primaries (the rest were caucuses). I’m not sure I see a big future for him outside of his own Senate seat assuming he retains that.
“1) I believe the author is correct. If Ted Cruz would have won the nomination, he would have lost the election. Indisputably so.”
DEAD ON! In fact that’s EXACTLY why so many conservatives decided to go with Trump. The Dems would have made MINCED MEAT out of Cruz, and may still do so in Texas in 2018, now that Cruz has given them so much ammo.
Cruz sold out to the GOPe. He’s dead to me.
Vote Trump!
Cruz couldn’t have survived the onslaught that Jeb! and the big donors would be hurling at him at the Convention. They weren’t weakened by Cruz, they were destroyed by Trump and that’s why they aren’t a factor anymore. They’d still be in play otherwise.
Cruz simply isn’t the street fighter that Trump is. Trump has made Cruz’s opportunity look bigger than it was because Trump cleared the field of everyone else first.
Cruz has my vote anytime I can vote for him. I also happen to be a Texan by birth.
What a joke!
So Cruz ran to win, but he ran to win in such a good way that losing was better than winning? what a guy LOL , he’s so smart - (read self serving)
This article seems to be worded like a high school girl, bits of starry eyed and look on the bright side, and super glossing over glaring issues with Cruz as a person, and all that was wrong about him as a candidate/politician, and is he even eligible to hold his office since his birth location is in question and it seems some of his home state folks take issue with that.
As a Cruz supporter (I’m supporting his Senate campaign), I appreciate that people are beginning to really analyze this situation.
While I have not yet read the article (but I will), I wanted to note that there is another STAR in the Trump family, and he’s Donald Trump, Jr. I’ve seen him speak several times, but the one that impressed me the most was a very long Q&A session .. and I was very surprised that he did not have any notes (no teleprompter); he just stood there and answered the questions .. and his answers were very conservative.
It was because of Donald Jr.’s Q&A that I felt I learned what his DAD really believes. It’s lessened the disappointment of Cruz not getting the nomination, but there’s still a chance Trump could choose him as his VP. In all the lists I see, Ted’s name is still among some of those named.
I supported Ted because I’ve followed his career for 16 years, and I was pretty confident I knew what kind of person he was; and is. I am very sure he would make a great VP .. just the kind of person who could help Trump navigate the Congress; help with the writing of legislation to conform to the Constitution, which would accomplish the righting of this country; he’s a gentleman and would be an excellent emissary to other nations.
Well, I hope others will take a listen to Donald Jr. and realize that he’s probably speaking all the things he’s heard from his DAD over the years.
Surely, losing to the New York billionaire... even among the Christian conservatives Cruz counted as his electoral rock, must have been hard and embarrassing. But it was also a godsend. Losing to Trump saved Cruz from ruining his political career. Barring a (not implausible) meltdown among Democrats or their almost certain nominee, Hillary Clinton, Cruz would have lost in November. He is, after all, to the right of Trump on just about every issue and lacks the charm or charisma or ideological flexibility to make his positions palatable to a majority of Americans. But now, Cruz gets to fall back on his cushy $174,000-a-year job as a U.S. senator, with about $9 million left in his campaign war chest and no campaign debt. Presumably, his wife gets to return to her job at Goldman Sachs.
Balderdash.
NOTHING... I repeat nothing will save Ted Cruz. No matter how they refurbish him… No matter what political steps he takes… At the end of the day he will still be “Ted Cruz”.
... This man simply drips insincerity. I believe his true call would have been better served as a 2 AM to 3 AM televangelist, selling prayer cloths dipped in his sweat.
... I have seen a 1000 of this type of guy....lol.. And Ted Cruz… He would have been their prince.
It's plenty of time to recover if you're smart (and lucky).
I never much liked Ted, but if you loved him a year ago, I can't see just throwing him on the dungheap.
If everything you or I said or did or thought were recorded somewhere (and by now it more or less is, if you post or blog a lot) we could get caught in the changes of public opinion just like Ted Cruz.