Posted on 03/10/2016 5:22:05 AM PST by joesbucks
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz tells The Brody File that the reason Donald Trump is performing well in the GOP race for president is because his voters are uninformed and not engaged in the process. “Donald does well with voters who have relatively low information, who are not that engaged and who are angry and they see him as an angry voice.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.cbn.com ...
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/03/02/the_flaw_in_the_cruz_campaign
I remembered while watching it last night what Cruz’s strategy is and what it was prior to the campaign even beginning, and that means prior to Trump getting in.
(snip)
RUSH: Now, Ted Cruz’s strategy was very simple. He looked at the 2012 returns and saw four to five million Republicans didn’t vote. The assumption was they were movement conservatives unhappy with Romney.
Perhaps, many of them, evangelicals.
Cruz believes (and his strategy was) that if he could get all four to five million of those with the others that voted for Romney, that he could beat Hillary or anybody else. So I think the Cruz strategy has been to speak in language that appeals to movement conservatives -— and really, really committed ideological conservatives — using their terms, using their language, voicing their objectives. Not just saying he’s going to repeal Obamacare but the way he talks about doing it. It’s got a direct appeal.
It’s as though Cruz’s strategy is based and rooted in a belief that if he can attract every conservative Republican, get them to vote, that that will be enough. And I think that that has limited his appeal. He clearly can appeal to a much broader base of voters than just movement conservatives. There’s nothing wrong with trying to get them. But his acceptance last night was pretty... Not word-for-word, but in the key issues that he was mentioning — repealing Obamacare, Supreme Court nominations, all of it — it is language that is a second language to conservatives, but could be a foreign language that’s somewhat scary to people who are not movement conservatives.
This statement from Cruz has the same insulting tone as Romney’s statement about 47% of the voters. It’s almost as if the two are talking together. But that can’t be, can it?
Wow, “choose to ignore” sure has caused a firestorm here.
It wasn’t like “idiot Cruzbot” that is all over here for months. But saying they know, but chose anyway has crossed a line somehow.
It’s almost like he’s under orders to take a dive.
I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
Blah blah blah blah.
Whine whine whine.
Hey, I know you is a Crooz cultist, so I really don’t care about YOU, other than to mock you. Maybe we’ll be friends in the future, but right now meaningful conversation is impossible.
So I’m just going to point and laugh.
“Every Trump supporter needs to read this.”
__________________________________________________
No we don’t. We’ve been told this for the past 2+ months by all the Cruz supporters on FR.
Yawn.
You know very little about Cruz’s history with the Bushes. If they had his way, he would not be our Senator right now. The level of teamwork you imply is simply not there, and never has been.
This from a man who has aligned himself with Glenn Beck. I caught part of Cruz’s act on video from CPAC, he reminded me of Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show, and not a real leader or serious candidate.
I agree with you!
I hope Cruz keeps up with this truth. It’s a winning recipe.
There is so much distrust with the GOPe, we have now reached "critical mass". EVERYTHING the GOPe says is a lie, and in its self-interest and not the general interest of the country.
So, when the GOPe rails against Trump, the natural reaction of the electorate is to respond, "If THEY say he's bad, then he must be good. He's going to disrupt THEM."
What America For Sale store? He was BUILDING things right here in the good old USA. That is creating wealth here in the USA fool.
Yup.
The guy who is so Christian and was going to run a clean campaign is now insulting voters?
Classy. not.
Very nice write up, but as a Trump supporter hhad problems with big words, /sarcasm.
Yes very good write up, Trump is the first wave.
Here’s an important point I think you missed.
Many people who claim Trump isn’t a conservative are themsrlves not. Look at Bush, Romney, Graham, Ryan.
A former Romney campaign staff worker said, “If Trump wins the nomination it will be the FIRST time since Reagan running for President.”
The answer to jerks is to shun them. To me, a vote for Ted Cruz is a non-starter.
You spin me right round, baby, right round, like a record baby...
Yup, he sounds exactly like Obama. Re- bitter clinger comment
The most brilliant lawyer who ever lived continues to demonstrate his profound and apparently incurable lack of common sense.
Not presidential material.
My husband, myself and the 8,000+ who stood for hours in the cold in Raleigh seemed pretty darn engaged. Trump has tens of thousands of excited patriots at rallies and anyone could say they aren’t engaged? I won’t stand in a store line with more than 4 people ahead of me and we were mid point in that line of 8,000+.
“Trump is the first wave.”
______________________________________________
Agree 100%.
Trump is not my ideal conservative president. But he IS my ideal instrument of change.
His VP pick is very important. We need someone who can begin to rebuild after Trump halts the country’s decline.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.