Posted on 04/03/2016 6:12:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What rich irony, if one of the most calculating politicians in modern American politics miscalculated the will of Wisconsin's Republican voters, something Democrats have done repeatedly since 2010.
If Donald Trump loses Wisconsin's primary on Tuesday, it will not be because of the uproar over his comments about Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi. Or his reaction to the confrontation with a female reporter that led to an arrest summons for his campaign manager. Or even his suggestion that women who get abortions should face “some form of punishment” if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Instead, it will be his misunderstanding of Badger State conservatives' deep relationship with their elected officials, one that does not take well to outsiders trying to divide them from the people they worked so hard to put and keep in office.
Trump ran into a buzz saw in Wisconsin last week when he went on the local talk-radio circuit, which is staunchly conservative and widely influences Republican voters — very different from national talk-show hosts who don't ask him tough questions and lean toward rabble-rousing rather than ideological discussions....
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Will Paul Ryan be Ted Cruz’s Mitt Romney?
Does Trump love ABBA? Figures?
Are you talking about Trump?
I think Trump will make it. Cruz will not.
At the midpoint in this saga, Donald Trump appears to be suffering what could be a cataclysmic reversal, one that could rewrite the direction of a drama that has kept us glued for so many months. The reversals in delegate commitments that Trump has experienced were not accidental. The campaigns that are being run by Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are complete opposites. Ted Cruz is a dedicated and cunning politician who understands that victory in politics is about blocking and tackling. It is more about work that goes on behind the scenes involving thousands of people than it is how one man performs in front of a camera. The Cruz team, led by Political Director Mark Campbell, has spent more than a year paying painstaking detail to the rules of the game in every state and the critical players in every county. They know exactly what they are doing, and they know that Donald Trump does not.
The irony is that Donald Trump is supposed to be the businessman. It is the cornerstone of his campaign narrative. He will fix America, he will make America great again, because he can set goals, define a strategy, build a team and execute a plan—in short do all those things that people in business do that people in government do not. But this week it has all been laid bare. As it turns out, there is no strategy. There is no team. And there is no plan. There is just Donald Trump, riffing away as the cameras roll. And as we learned this week, the more serious the issues get, the more specific the questions, the more he is adrift.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-paul/hillary-and-the-donald-fe_b_9594182.html
You’re wrong EEE. Wisconsinites, myself included, don’t take kindly to any candidate criticizing our elected officials, especially Governor Walker.
The proof will become evident on Tuesday night. Stay tuned and prepare to see Trump get routed.
If he doesn’t, I will.
Can I ask how many times you have declared that Trump was done this election cycle?
It IS a bloody shame that originally I was for walker,however he sucked as a candidate he looked like he was trying too hard,and still so boring he was the equivalent of sleep meds. I thought he would get better ,but after a while all I saw was the bald spot,and blah,blah,blah. He was really good at kicking commie rat butt,but not ready for the big time.
Check you Trumplidge, this is Cruz's safe space.
Having said that -> can any Cruz supporters answer that charge? That Cruz is now owned by the GOPe - and were he to become the nominee in Cleveland -> that he would merely be an agent of the evil we're trying to purge?
You can smell the desperation.
Exactly my point.
So you are saying Cruz is a lying, cheating, GOP establishment weasel?
I daresay that Salena is probably the first to describe DT in this fashion.
I don't think running for office actually qualifies you as a "politician".
Cruz will win 30, Trump 12 in Wisconsin and life goes on. By New York Cruz will be mathematically eliminated.. It is just like Kasich winning Ohio. They released the balloons in celebration but are living in a fantasy world.
Yes, as the B-29.
Hahahaha! She’s a very well regarded reporter.
Winning the nomination by losing in both delegates and votes is total chickenshit, and is exactly the type of back room politicking that everyone is fed up with.
As I’ve said to you before, Cruz’s back door attempt to bypass the voters is completely devoid of honor.
And you’ve morphed into GGG with some tact and a huge posting history that many of us respected. Past tense intended.
I come from a long long line of bald men, but for some reason his bald spot was distracting to me.. I was watching some video the other day of when Biden was completely bald too.. I did not remember that. I know this is superficial.
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