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Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump's Voters Have "relatively low information" And Are "not that engaged"
The Brody File ^ | 3/10/2016 | David Brody

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.

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To: Jane Long

If Cruz was a Bush/PAC operative, why did they run against him? If he is GOPe, why do they fight him still?

You seem to be forgetting the “dislike” of Cruz in the Senate where the majority of the Republicans are GOPe. Trump supporters claim that is a Cruz negative.

Is he GOPe, or not? Make up your mind.


61 posted on 03/10/2016 5:47:32 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: joesbucks

Well Trump said he loves his uneducated supporters. So Cruz does have a point.


62 posted on 03/10/2016 5:48:36 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: MNJohnnie

Great post, Johnnie!


63 posted on 03/10/2016 5:49:04 AM PST by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: jpsb
Every Trump supporter needs to read this.

lol...according to Cruz, it's doubtful they can read! /s
64 posted on 03/10/2016 5:49:41 AM PST by Girlene
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To: Liz

Debate is a team sport.

Duh! Oh wait...you’re one of the uneducated people Trump loves. Got it!


65 posted on 03/10/2016 5:49:48 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Prolixus
Correction: their should be they're plus some formatting

The Democrats and their close associates in the GOPe are terrified of Trump. They've made fools of themselves trying to bring him down. It looks like the plan is to elevate Cruz, maybe Kasich too, to keep Trump from getting the nomination. Then they'll nominate someone who'll get pilloried in the media to the point that only republican voters will vote for the republican candidate in the general election. Trump's already ready weathered being called a racist hitler-esque KKK associate - their they're running out of material but they'll gleefully re-use it if someone else gets the nomination (they'll probably sue to make Cruz prove he's a natural born).

The Democrats and the GOPe do not want Trump in a debate with Hillary: Trump may actually press the issue about Hillary's involvement in the regime change in Libya, her missteps in the attack the U.S. embassy in Benghazi (also Libya), and her callous, cynical, and manipulative response to the embassy attack.

66 posted on 03/10/2016 5:50:01 AM PST by Prolixus (Proud to be on Hillary's "Enemies List")
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To: tatown

Conservative Solutions PAC supports Rubio...
AMERICAN FUTURE FUND supports Kasich...

Are you seriously AGAINST private citizens supporting whomever they want? Because it sounds like you are...

Should we only elect billionaires who claim to self fund...


67 posted on 03/10/2016 5:50:54 AM PST by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: Paine in the Neck
-- Insulting a major portion of the GOP base isn't going to play well. --

I don't read Cruz's remarks as an intelligence insult. His claim is that Trump is corrupt and has the nature of a Washington insider by having played ball with politicians his entire adult life, and that once people become informed of those facts, they will stop supporting the corrupt Washington insider, Trump.

IOW, the "low information" rhetoric isn't "low intelligence."

I do agree that Cruz's remarks will (properly) be scoffed at and even taken as an insult by those who are engaged, and choose Trump just the same. I think Cruz intends to alienate this group of voters, just as the GOPe intends to alienate the social conservatives.

68 posted on 03/10/2016 5:51:04 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Liz
All that time he was donating, Trump was not running for anything and used politicians to get business done. The calculating pols knew this, so Trump was on the politicians/ hit list as a sucker who/d write a check, no questions asked.....extortion at its finest.

Every time I point out that Trump was a happy customer at the America For Sale store, his supporters get all incensed! Thank you for acknowledging his long long history of participation in the purchasing of special favors and treasury raiding deals. There was literally no politician too scummy to make a deal with.

Now, he's going to "clean up the system" - by jumping to the other side of the counter and assuming the role of proprietor. It sounds like a joke, but his supporters really believe it!

69 posted on 03/10/2016 5:51:33 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Carl Grimes.)
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To: 5thGenTexan

the divide in the voters Senator Cruz is between Dogmatism and Realism. It not “low information” or “anger” that drives the Trump people. It is Realism.

The 2016 GOP Primary has brought to the for an old divide in Conservatism. There currently is a war being waged between the Dogmatics and the Realists. The Dogmatist care nothing about political realities, only the purity of the candidate political dogma matters to them. The Realist understands you have to be able to advance the political ball down the field to achieve the goals of the dogma. The Realist understands some times a flawed tool is going work better then the flawlessly poltical pure tool.

Reagan, who was a realist, wrote about it.

By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life

“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

Th Dogmatic at NR, Town Hall, Red State and the rest of the “Conservative” media sneer at the realist as being “nihlistic towards DC and the GOP”.

It is not Nihilism, it Realism. Since 1988 Conservatives have faithfully pledges their treasure and time to the GOP. Despite elections successes in 1988, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010 and 2014 what have Conservative gotten from the GOP?

Prosperity? Nope worse economy since 1979.

Reduction in Government-nope as expense, corrupt, incompetent, intrusive and bigger then ever

Supreme Court? Nope as far left as it has ever been.

A Nation secure? Nope at risk in a dangerous world. Military broken, exhausted and overextended.

A respect for rule of law and the Constitution? Nope. Goveremnt, and society, is more lawless then it has ever been.

A healthy growing vibrant society? Nope stagnant or in decline everywhere in every way.

So, it not Nihilism, it Realism. It is a realistic assessment that doing the same thing again this year electorally is going to continue this decline and degradation from DC.You can only overcome inertia in any system with force. So we need to force DC out of it denigrate path onto a new path. So why Trump rather then Cruz?

I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers at NR, Red State and other “Conservative” media but the fact remains, we are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.

This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conservative Media’s 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probably is Cruz would be a GOP Carter.

Carter was the same sort of religious political puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.

“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is, brace yourseelf.... going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!

Another fail point for the “Principled Conservatives” is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1988-1994-1998-2000-2002-2004-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.

Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate. Without Trump to lead the way, the Cruz boat would of either been ignored because it was irrelevant, or been shelled into oblivion by the $10s of millions of GOPE attack ads.

The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.

We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump

We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.

I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and most redeem that failure.

This is our generation’s “go” time


70 posted on 03/10/2016 5:52:17 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: dead

the divide in the voters Senator Cruz is between Dogmatism and Realism. It not “low information” or “anger” that drives the Trump people. It is Realism.

The 2016 GOP Primary has brought to the for an old divide in Conservatism. There currently is a war being waged between the Dogmatics and the Realists. The Dogmatist care nothing about political realities, only the purity of the candidate political dogma matters to them. The Realist understands you have to be able to advance the political ball down the field to achieve the goals of the dogma. The Realist understands some times a flawed tool is going work better then the flawlessly poltical pure tool.

Reagan, who was a realist, wrote about it.

By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life

“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

Th Dogmatic at NR, Town Hall, Red State and the rest of the “Conservative” media sneer at the realist as being “nihlistic towards DC and the GOP”.

It is not Nihilism, it Realism. Since 1988 Conservatives have faithfully pledges their treasure and time to the GOP. Despite elections successes in 1988, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010 and 2014 what have Conservative gotten from the GOP?

Prosperity? Nope worse economy since 1979.

Reduction in Government-nope as expense, corrupt, incompetent, intrusive and bigger then ever

Supreme Court? Nope as far left as it has ever been.

A Nation secure? Nope at risk in a dangerous world. Military broken, exhausted and overextended.

A respect for rule of law and the Constitution? Nope. Goveremnt, and society, is more lawless then it has ever been.

A healthy growing vibrant society? Nope stagnant or in decline everywhere in every way.

So, it not Nihilism, it Realism. It is a realistic assessment that doing the same thing again this year electorally is going to continue this decline and degradation from DC.You can only overcome inertia in any system with force. So we need to force DC out of it denigrate path onto a new path. So why Trump rather then Cruz?

I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers at NR, Red State and other “Conservative” media but the fact remains, we are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.

This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conservative Media’s 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probably is Cruz would be a GOP Carter.

Carter was the same sort of religious political puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.

“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is, brace yourseelf.... going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!

Another fail point for the “Principled Conservatives” is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1988-1994-1998-2000-2002-2004-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.

Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate. Without Trump to lead the way, the Cruz boat would of either been ignored because it was irrelevant, or been shelled into oblivion by the $10s of millions of GOPE attack ads.

The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.

We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump

We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.

I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and most redeem that failure.

This is our generation’s “go” time


71 posted on 03/10/2016 5:52:30 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: joesbucks

Way to go Ted.Torpedo an already sinking campaign.


72 posted on 03/10/2016 5:52:35 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: traderrob6

the divide in the voters Senator Cruz is between Dogmatism and Realism. It not “low information” or “anger” that drives the Trump people. It is Realism.

The 2016 GOP Primary has brought to the for an old divide in Conservatism. There currently is a war being waged between the Dogmatics and the Realists. The Dogmatist care nothing about political realities, only the purity of the candidate political dogma matters to them. The Realist understands you have to be able to advance the political ball down the field to achieve the goals of the dogma. The Realist understands some times a flawed tool is going work better then the flawlessly poltical pure tool.

Reagan, who was a realist, wrote about it.

By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life

“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

Th Dogmatic at NR, Town Hall, Red State and the rest of the “Conservative” media sneer at the realist as being “nihlistic towards DC and the GOP”.

It is not Nihilism, it Realism. Since 1988 Conservatives have faithfully pledges their treasure and time to the GOP. Despite elections successes in 1988, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010 and 2014 what have Conservative gotten from the GOP?

Prosperity? Nope worse economy since 1979.

Reduction in Government-nope as expense, corrupt, incompetent, intrusive and bigger then ever

Supreme Court? Nope as far left as it has ever been.

A Nation secure? Nope at risk in a dangerous world. Military broken, exhausted and overextended.

A respect for rule of law and the Constitution? Nope. Goveremnt, and society, is more lawless then it has ever been.

A healthy growing vibrant society? Nope stagnant or in decline everywhere in every way.

So, it not Nihilism, it Realism. It is a realistic assessment that doing the same thing again this year electorally is going to continue this decline and degradation from DC.You can only overcome inertia in any system with force. So we need to force DC out of it denigrate path onto a new path. So why Trump rather then Cruz?

I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers at NR, Red State and other “Conservative” media but the fact remains, we are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.

This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conservative Media’s 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probably is Cruz would be a GOP Carter.

Carter was the same sort of religious political puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.

“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is, brace yourseelf.... going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!

Another fail point for the “Principled Conservatives” is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1988-1994-1998-2000-2002-2004-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.

Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate. Without Trump to lead the way, the Cruz boat would of either been ignored because it was irrelevant, or been shelled into oblivion by the $10s of millions of GOPE attack ads.

The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.

We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump

We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.

I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and most redeem that failure.

This is our generation’s “go” time


73 posted on 03/10/2016 5:52:40 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: joesbucks

Cruz is smart. This is stupid. Hard to believe he mad such an error. It will cost him, big time. Pretty much cements a Trump win.


74 posted on 03/10/2016 5:52:46 AM PST by marktwain
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To: maggief

http://www.cfr.org/canada/building-north-american-community/p8102

“Building a North American Community”

“HEIDI S. CRUZ is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City.”


75 posted on 03/10/2016 5:52:50 AM PST by maggief
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To: joesbucks


76 posted on 03/10/2016 5:53:11 AM PST by Iron Munro (Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson)
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To: joesbucks
So Ted wants my vote, but he thinks I'm a 'Rio Linda' voter?

Well, he hangs out with glen beck...which should make the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.

Okay he's smart, but was he born with a survival instinct?
77 posted on 03/10/2016 5:53:13 AM PST by novemberslady
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To: plewis1250

Cruz is bought and paid for, which is why he’s suddenly open about his participation in the GOPe circle jerk, headed up by the Bush clan.


78 posted on 03/10/2016 5:53:35 AM PST by tatown (Career politicians got us into this mess and they have no intention of getting us out of it.)
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To: joesbucks
Well it maybe true that I am not engaged, and that I have very little information to go on.

But when it comes to you Mr. Cruz, the only information I need is that you sleep in the same bed as a Goldman Sachs executive.

A Goldman Sachs executive is the mother of your children.

A Goldman Sachs executive is your partner in life!

You Mr. Cruz, are a fraud.

You Mr. Cruz, are a tool and product of Goldman Sachs .

79 posted on 03/10/2016 5:53:43 AM PST by RavenLooneyToon (Trump or Cruz, if you don't vote then STFU and leave the country, non-voters =non-Republic.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Cover WHAT up??

I WANT Trump stopped. If the establishment joins alongside, and UNITES with us to do so, LETS DO IT. I’ll proudly stand alongside as they support MY candidate. He’s the one calling the shots.

Trump is a DISASTER and will lead to the party’s destruction. You are a fool if you think otherwise.

If the baby killing supporter, homosexual marriage supporter, land grabbing supporter, UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE supporter, liberal from New York gets the nomination, the party is done. Over. It will implode...

How ANYONE can stomach the thought of supporting this lying thug whom is Donald J. Trump is completely beyond me.


80 posted on 03/10/2016 5:54:04 AM PST by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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