[datura]

Obviously written pre debate.

Bye Rafael.

The mask came off, and people saw who you really are.

[Slyfox]

As in 2012, Cruz will frame the race as a contest between a conservative true believer and a moderate accommodator.

He is a true leader.

[Yashcheritsiy]

If Ted Cruz and Donald Trump were playing ten-dimensional checkers and moving the pieces with their minds, which one would win?

[BenLurkin]

called a "charlatan" by Washington Post opinion writers and a "wacko bird" by Sen. John McCain

Get back to us, Mr. Kurtz, when you have a credible critique.

[cripplecreek]

Ted Cruz handles the birther thing.

[amihow]

Taking in corporate dough. Oh yes. Cruz will accept money that was going to Jeb and Marco and the other GOPe sweethearts who have slipped in the polls. But Cruz won’t be beholden to them.

Come on people. Cruz is no more independent than any other politician financed by big money. Do not fall for it.

[DemforBush]

called a "charlatan" by Washington Post opinion writers and a "wacko bird" by Sen. John McCain.

I can think of few compliments greater than to be disliked by Senator McCain.

[South40]

Cruz was and still is the only conservative in the race.

[TBP]

Keep challenging Trump — not on what he told Tim Russert (although that’s not good for Donald), but on the liberal he said within the last 6 months or so.

[Marcella]

...remember Sun Tzu’s old adage, one that Cruz himself quoted in a New Yorker profile in 2014, as he discussed his approach to law and politics: “Every battle is won before it's fought. It's won by choosing the terrain on which it will be fought.”

“...choosing the terrain on which it will be fought.”
Cruz won his senate race by using that sure fire way to win the battle. We turned a Democrat county into a Republican County that had never had a Republican Primary until we started one by choosing the terrain on which to fight that battle.

As Cruz knows, “the terrain” is the election law. If you are going to play a game, you must know the rules to win. The rules in politics is the election law.

He is running his campaign for president using the election law in every county in the US. There may be millions of people in a state, but when they vote, they vote by COUNTY. Every county has a Republican County Chair who is responsible for holding the Republican Primary in that county.

Think about your county, not the state and not the entire United States. You vote in your county. A candidate needs to contact you in your county. You may see a TV ad or not. You may go see a candidate in a group of 20,000 people, but that is not where you vote.

A candidate who knows the election law in a county (the terrain), the early voting facts in a county, when to contact early voters, when to contact voters who vote by mail, how to put poll watchers at the polling places, what the laws are for that, how to put a watcher at the Early Voting Ballot Board that deals with mail in ballots, better yet how to get one of your people as a member of the Early Voting Ballot Board - all those answers are in the election law book of every state.

That is why Cruz won his senate election - he knew the rules and acted on them. Now, he is using every county terrain and the rules of the game (the election law), to win every county.

I do not know if a celebrity can use that celebrity fame to win against Cruz. After Iowa and South Carolina, I will know.