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Welcome to the Trump revolution: The last challenge is Ted Cruz — and Ted Cruz is in trouble
Salon ^ | February 18, 2016 | Heather Digby Parton

Posted on 02/18/2016 4:31:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 02/18/2016 4:31:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Smells like, I don’t know ... victory!


2 posted on 02/18/2016 4:33:15 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the libtards at Salon are salivating over Trump’s prospects, you know you’ve picked a winner... for the democrats.

Good job, Trumpettes.


3 posted on 02/18/2016 4:33:30 PM PST by bolobaby
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

C’mon 2nd - posting Salon? Really?


4 posted on 02/18/2016 4:34:05 PM PST by MLL
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5 posted on 02/18/2016 4:34:52 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Trump wins the nomination, Hillary becomes President.
Four years later Cruz becomes President.


6 posted on 02/18/2016 4:35:54 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: sparklite2

APOCALYPSE NOW

The Horror


7 posted on 02/18/2016 4:36:15 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: MLL
C’mon 2nd - posting Salon? Really?

It's the liberal RedState....

8 posted on 02/18/2016 4:36:50 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (The Democrats Must Lose In November)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Adios Ted!


9 posted on 02/18/2016 4:37:13 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Save your wives, Save your daughters! Stop MUSLIM IMMIGRATION NOW!)
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To: MLL

I love that so many of you are 2013 thru 2016 sign-ups. Not all, by any means, but a lot of you. Or have you been here before under another screen name, perhaps?


10 posted on 02/18/2016 4:39:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
If Trump wins the nomination, Hillary becomes President.

LOL! Using your logic, then Trump should be beaten in the GOP primary.

11 posted on 02/18/2016 4:40:10 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Yuge 2016)
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To: DoughtyOne; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...

What you said.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3398921/posts?page=3#3


12 posted on 02/18/2016 4:42:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“If Trump wins the nomination, Hillary becomes President.”

Why would you vote for Hillary?


13 posted on 02/18/2016 4:43:15 PM PST by Lower55
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To: bolobaby

After the primaries, Trump is going to get borked even worse than Bork was. He’s an easy target and has kindly provided the MSM with more than enough ammunition over the decades.


14 posted on 02/18/2016 4:43:29 PM PST by FreedomForce
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No really. But in four years senile Trump will be on meds to keep him from groping his daughter while Ted will be back.
15 posted on 02/18/2016 4:45:03 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Lower55

It is called a prediction.


16 posted on 02/18/2016 4:47:34 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And why would that matter?


17 posted on 02/18/2016 4:48:18 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those signups don’t know how to use the search function, either. There is also a string of older signups with dead posting histories. They haven’t been here in a decade or more, so they don’t know the etiquette that has developed over the years. One of them tried to insult my intelligence by insisting I go back to elementary school. My transgression? I accused his/her post of being hugh and series. Ugh.


18 posted on 02/18/2016 4:49:36 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, for one, Salon is a fairly un-impressive news source.

Second, I suspect the race is fluid.

Third, I think voters will move to Cruz or Rubio, from Bush, primarily because of Trump's lies about G.W. Bush vis-a-vis 9/11 and the justification for the Iraq war. I don't see South Carolina conservatives voting in mass for the new "CodePink" spokesman, certainly not 90% of the military veterans or active duty conservatives. (Yeah, I know that some Trump supporter will come in here and claimed he single handedly took Iwo Jima and knows 200,000 veterans who are hard core for Trump. Prove it at the polls, because the guys I know aren't supporting CodePink candidates.) They're not happy with Trump's war misdirection.)

Then again, the electorate is **PISSED**, and are apparently willing to throw the baby out with the bath water. Trump could win, but it won't be anywhere near the 20 point numbers some polls have been showing.

To me, it's Trump's primary to lose, Cruz has an edge over Rubio, simply because voters fed up with the GOP-e but not far enough over the edge to blow up the party by supporting Trump, will be looking for somewhere conservatively safe to land.

I think it's a 4-6% race between Trump and Cruz, with momentum swinging away from Trump. On the other hand, the same could be said for Rubio, if he can convince other GOP-e voters to abandon Kasich and Bush. Not sure he can do it. (Carson's numbers, unfortunately, are insignificant. He's lost all the voters he's going to lose, and his "true blue" believers will hang with him until he drops out.)

Really, the same thing can be side for both Bush and Kasich supporters. All that's left are their most loyal supporters, and they won't abandon them until those candidates officially withdraw. I think Cruz beats Rubio by at least 10 points, however the Trump-Cruz divide plays out.

19 posted on 02/18/2016 4:50:25 PM PST by OldSaltUSN
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We always attract new recruits during an election cycle. Plenty of new Cruizers here, too.


20 posted on 02/18/2016 4:51:07 PM PST by Marie (TRUMP TRUTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg)
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