DUH
Posted on 04/13/2016 10:47:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Candidates like Donald Trump are exciting. Trump is guaranteed to bring out thousands to his events and generate copious decibels of noise. He has built a campaign on telling it like it is and refusing to be politically correct.
Ted Cruz, on the other hand, is boring. He brings hundreds to his events and utters Ronald Reagan’s name a few times to get the crowd going. His demeanor is confident but not quite as in-your-face as Trump is. But for those afraid of what Trump stands for, Cruz may be the far more dangerous candidate.
For one, Cruz is much more reliably conservative. For instance, Trump donated money to the Carter campaign — against Reagan no less. While Cruz has consistently advocated against abortion, Trump was pro-life until the last few years, and has just recently gotten harsher on issues like gun laws and health care.
I’m sure he has changed as a person, but Trump seems to be saying exactly what the people want to hear. President Trump would act differently than candidate Trump. As Jimmy Carter put it, Trump is “malleable” while Cruz is not.
The biggest difference between the two is that Cruz knows what he’s doing. Take last weekend’s Colorado nominating process, for example. I call it a process because it was not a primary, nor a caucus. At the nominating convention, “voters” decided the 34 delegates who would attend the national convention (the one in Cleveland). Cruz ended up with every single delegate.
The Cruz campaign had volunteers on the ground handing out lists of the delegates it wanted. Trump’s organization was not quite as extensive. This is a problem he has had throughout the primary campaign. As a result, Trump’s difficult delegate math got even tougher, and the odds of a contested convention got even bigger.
Trump’s problem is one shared by a lot of far-right candidates of his sort. The enthusiasm and energy are easy; the organization is much harder. Furthermore, these sorts of candidates elicit a response from all parts of the political spectrum — Ted Cruz has become the anti-Trump.
This is why far-right candidates and parties struggle to make head way, both in the US and in Europe. In France for instance, the National Front (FN) can never quite knock either of the traditionally powerful parties out of office. French elections can go to a runoff between the top two candidates, and if the FN is one of them, the rest of France unites to keep it out of office.
While the US is of course different, I think we could see that effect in November if Trump wins. He would elicit the same type of response that the FN does. Moderate independents and even some Republicans would ensure a Democratic victory. But I’m not sure Cruz would elicit this response. Even though he is historically more conservative in his views than Trump, he won’t be perceived as an extremist. And that’s what should make a Cruz candidacy scary for liberals.
Well, maybe the guy or gal on the next shift handling the 2ndDiv login might... LOL! :)
My Bernie loving friends are rooting for Ted.
They *were* hoping for YEB!, first.
I don’t know.
I think JR strongly supports 2ndDivisionVet. I myself strongly support him, although he is (COMPLETELY) backing a guy who just won’t win in the general election.
He has no chance. Cruz is fighting for all he can for the GOP nomination, but he will lose in the general.
Sorry but that’s the way I see it.
I think he should switch to Trump.
Just saying. It’s time to put together a winning team for the GOP this fall.
DUH
OMG, she has.
Hope she’s okay, wherever she is, regardless of our political differences.
I've heard there's a town in Bangladesh where everyone sits at computers all day clicking "Like" buttons. This sort of operation?
Sometimes this entity posts stuff indicating a familiarity with the United States and sometimes it acts like it is only dimly aware of what Colorado is (which has been arousing my suspicions for the last two days). Is this a symptom of these "shifts?"
The best Cruz can hope for is to run as Romney’s or Ryan’s VP, and then he can try again in 2020 to knock Hillary out of the White House.
cruise missle, prepare for splashdown!
Do you know that the two so-called “rappers” in that picture work for the Communist Venezuelan network TeleSUR? Are you in league with them in some way?
My hands are not really the disability. Not a dime. Ever.”
So it is a brain problem you have and you will not see a dime from the GOPe until sCruz actually ruins the last chance we have to break the uniparty schema?
Big bump to your post.
EXACTLY.
This is how a student at a prestigious university writes? I can’t tell what he is trying to say.
Forty years ago I was a teaching assistant at Fordham. The students were totally illiterate. The university was a fraud. I’m sure it’s unspeakably worse now.
#24
And the Trump supporters will be amazed!
Then the Trump supporters will set about blaming somebody else.
Then the Trump supporters will whore after the next Huey Long.
Where are the pictures of his campaign events packed with God fearing supporters, rig workers, construction workers, blue collar workers, assembly line workers?
The press is completely uninterested in what Ted has to say, unless it has to do with his mistress count.
His whiny nasal voice is like a mosquito buzzing your ear on a sticky summer night quest, to take a bite of your ear!
And the content of everything he says is focused on blaming Donald Trump this and Donald Trump that and obsessing about Donald “a.l.l.t.h.e.t.i.m.e”.
But even that is not Ted’s fault... Heck no, it is Donald’s fault. Just ask Ted, he will tell you ad nauseum.
His meetings are boring, stale and unpopulated with people , much like most of the caucuses of the back water states with closed door meetings, that he has barely managed to carry.
He won his own state with the smallest percentage in the state’s history.
Goes to show you that the “go negative on Donald” strategy was a big dang mistake to begin with.
I agree.
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