Posted on 03/23/2016 8:52:05 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Willard Romney lost in 2012 because he was a terrible candidate who, by Election Day, showed he would rather lose than appeal to conservatives. Romney won only the states he was supposed to win; nothing more. His attitude that “looking good but losing was better than appealing to conservatives” chased some 4 million conservative voters away. He followed George W. Bush’s stupid lead and did not fight back against Harry Reid’s lies about his failing to pay his taxes. Instead he allowed himself to be mocked and led around by the nose by Reid and the media over a totally manufactured “issue.” Willard didn’t care because falling on his sword to deny conservatives a victory made him a hero to the Republican Establishment something far more valuable to him than what we think about him.
Now there is a movement to swing the political pendulum of the Republican Party to the right with Donald Trump and far to the right with Ted Cruz. The question this time is how much conservatism is enough to bring back those that Willard chased away while not scaring off other, less conservative voters. The mantra that “Conservatism works every time it is tried” is simply wrong as evidenced by the failed campaigns of Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Rob Astorino and Ken Cuccinelli. America is only a slightly right of center country. Hard right candidates can’t win the presidency.
Cruz is right to hard right. Trump is soft right to center. Cruz will not pick up any states Romney lost...
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I think Virginia is iffy for Trump. Too many people in Northern Virginia who are fine with the status quo.
The good news for Trump is that he has about 6 months to improve his numbers. I suspect a large percentage of the “never Trump” crowd will hold their noses and vote for him come November.
2004? The presidential election after 9/11? You want to claim that the Bush re-election came from hardcore conservatives and not from suddenly (and temporarily) security-conscious moderates?
Even if they don’t Trump will win regardless!!! Huge numbers of people voting Trump who have NEVER BEFORE VOTED!!! ALL of these damned elites can stick a sock in it!!!!
I don't know...he's one of "them" in NYC and that counts for a lot. When the rubber hits the road I think NYC will break big for Trump...especially independents and blue collar dems..
Christians may have sat the last election out however they came out this time FULL FORCE for Trump!!!
Gee that’s funny people who live in NY say he is VERY WELL REGARDED!!!
Exactly! And he will!
The fact that they put in DiBlasio with 70+% is proof.
I get it, Trump supporters think he's Iron Man......not in NY and NJ he isn't. He's a wealthy liberal who plays for the wrong team.
He's wealthy and now he's anti-immigrant who resides in a city full of immigrants (legal and illegal). Not to mention it's a Democratic cesspool.
Why do you think he's changed his party affiliation so many times? He's constantly trying to fit in with the times.
Maybe switch your focus on Ohio or Wisconsin. He's not winning the Northeast.
Spot on....the big cities in PA kill the GOP year after year. The money is best spent in Michigan, Maine & Iowa this year if they are looking to flip a blue state.
But he won't win New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, or Nevada. Those states went for Obama by an average of 15 points.
Counter-attacks on Cruz's wife will make it a "pox on both your houses" situation.
Cruz! wife is a DC insider.
Trump’s wives are foreign-born and independent.
Big difference.
No, not really. Attacking your opponents wife is not a winning strategy. Regardless of how many you have had, who they worked for, and where they were born.
Trump can win Florida. I don’t see Cruz winning Florida
Cruz! should have disavowed it.
Romney never should have said it.
You don’t fight back when that starts, then what?
Romney allowed people to make fun of his wife’s therapy horse. Didn’t say a peep.
If you sink to their level then what have you gotten?
It’s politics.
You punch back twice as hard and send a message to others.
I’m sorry, but that is how it’s played.
I don’t make the rules - I just observe them.
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