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To: wastoute

You must be prone to dreaming

Trumps ego serves Trump

Cruz is loved here no question but he’s still a long shot

This ain’t 1980

The demographics are upside down

Youth detest social conservatism

Freepers live in a bubble of our own making

Walker probably has a better shot

I prefer Cruz ideologically but it will be very uphill and everyone has to turn out

It’s all just a band aid anyhow


44 posted on 07/06/2015 10:30:35 PM PDT by wardaddy (Im in a peter green guitar mood lately......best jewish rock guitarist ever)
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To: wardaddy

“Cruz is loved here no question but he’s still a long shot This ain’t 1980 The demographics are upside down
Youth detest social conservatism Freepers live in a bubble of our own making Walker probably has a better shot
I prefer Cruz ideologically but it will be very uphill and everyone has to turn out”

Well said Wardaddy. I don’t think social issues are going to be a factor in 2016 at least not for most voters.
I believe that’s why the GOP is happy to have Obamacare and gay marriage off the table. I think the confederate flag issue is in that same category.

Cruz has been hovering anywhere from 4-8% in the polls. He hasn’t moved much either way but he’s mostly hung right around 5%.
For a candidate that is supposedly as near perfect as Cruz he doesn’t seem to resonate much with anybody not a Freeper.

You make a great point that it’s not 1980. The states have changed the country has changed and the people have changed.

Youth do detest social conservatism and I don’t think that genie can be put back in the bottle.

Cruz reminds me a lot of Fred Thompson in 2008. I remember how he was going to win in a landslide too.


51 posted on 07/06/2015 10:43:33 PM PDT by snarkybob
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To: wardaddy

I dunno. If anything I tend to be too cynical. I don’t think it takes too much intellect to see what a disaster 0bama has been, especially on the economy. I suspect there are a good many who actually voted for him twice who now regret it. These are the folks that need a whirlwind, illustrated tour of two decades of enemedia malpractice just at this propitious moment. An opportunity the GOP is letting slide by while the spineless cowards slither off into the tall grass.


68 posted on 07/07/2015 4:21:46 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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