Posted on 09/07/2015 7:48:29 AM PDT by Isara
MANCHESTER, N.H. — On average, the winner of the New Hampshire presidential primary is someone who shook the hands of at least 35 percent of the people who voted for him.
Not everyone who shows up and kisses all the babies gets the most votes. But you can’t win without a whole lot of face time. And time is quite a precious commodity to a candidate.
So far, Sen. Ted Cruz has spent far more time outside the Granite State. His two-day visit last weekend was his first in three months, and it did not go unnoticed that he’d already made four trips each to Iowa and South Carolina in that same time.
Early-state voters are a prickly sort, and he’ll need to work on that.
But if Cruz has left New Hampshire to fallow, he also has deftly spent the summer planting seeds in the South, where a flurry of contests March 1 could prove a hill too high for many candidates — the ones focused only on the trio of early states.
Cruz spent a week last month on a seven-state bus tour from South Carolina to Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
“We went places nobody’s ever been” — at least, not this early in a campaign — “and we gave them the full presidential experience,” said a top Cruz strategist. “You’re either running a national campaign or you’re not.”
Cruz has more than 50 paid staff members spread across nine states: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Alabama, plus the headquarters in Houston.
All of that makes a heap of sense to Bob Smith.
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Maybe Cruz and Trump came to some kind of reciprocal agreement. They met multiple times behind closed doors. They had to be talking substance about *something*.
If you want to Worship Saint Donald take it to one of the other many worship threads.
Trump is a scumbag liberal and no I’m not concerned about whether you will vote for Cruz. Your support of Hugo Trump says you would sooner vote for Bernie. I have zero respect for you morons.
‘your thesis is baseless.’
Not as much as you might think. Ask any dozen, or half dozen, Trump supporters if your tagline makes them more or less likely to stick with their support of Trump. Unless you are covertly campaigning for Donald, you’re doing it wrong.
...If I didn’t know better I’d swear he’s running to be Vice President for Trump. Why is that?...
Why? At this point in time, they have the closest beliefs. But, Trump has the numbers. The VP slot will become a more realistic possibility after they have a planned joint appearance. Its not that hard to connect point A with point B.
Take your preverse psychology where it might work.
Ted Cruz has praised Trump far, FAR more lavishly than I ever have. According to your post, that says nothing good about Cruz.
Thinking is hard for Trump haters.
Don’t care. I’m sick of hearing this BS about non aggression which means praise St Donald as they flood threads with passive aggressive attacks on Cruz.
I want stupid lying morons to follow Saint Dickhead Donald to the bitter end.
After 13 years I am about ready to walk away from FR.
Said without apparent knowledge of my posting history here. Either that, or you are a charlatan.
Donald Trump employs the same tactics you decry. If what you are saying was true, that means he won't get support in the general election from those Republicans whose candidate he insulted. But you think that's just fine. Right?
There there, you might even learn how to use a mirror some day, but at least your screen name is appropriate.
The VP slot will become a more realistic possibility after they
have a planned joint appearance.
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I think there is one planned on Sept. 9, in Washington D.C. anti-Iran Rally.
Trump has never insulted Cruz—never. In no other case was he the aggressor. Rather, another candidate attacked him first, and he fired back. Most agree a candidate shouldn’t be a punching bag. If one of them wants to punch Trump, they shouldn’t whine if they get something in return.
I haven’t changed. Cruz is still my first choice and until that opportunity goes away, that’s how it will remain.
Trump, while wildly popular, lacks a moral anchor and so is capable of anything after the election. Remember, he’s the man that said he didn’t feel the need for God’s forgiveness for anything he’d done. That says a lot on many levels. Our nation’s problems are largely moral ones (corruption, corruption, corruption, loving yourself as you wish your neighbor would love you, the abandonment of traditional values, etc.) so, while I would vote for Donald against Bernie or Hitlary, I wouldn’t be expecting a lot from him. Yes, better than Obama, but no he won’t be turning the country around. It would be a very mixed bag at best.
We get the leaders we deserve and we don’t deserve a man with the character and integrity of Ted Cruz. So, yes, we probably won’t elect him. We’re desperate and we’re angry but we’re not THAT desperate and angry. We’re really upset that our economic power and lifestyle and nation’s reputation have been impacted, that we’ve been lied to and hoodwink by the Rino’s but we are not sick of our own sins enough to truly repent as a nation or even as a political party.
I will not at all be surprised that we don’t want to elect a moral man of real faith in God. Yes, Cruz is not as exciting as Trump. He’s not full of bluster and insults and he hasn’t written a book about how to make gobs of money or squeak by in a bankruptcy case, but Cruz is by far the better man on so many levels. We have a real opportunity to elect a real constitutional scholar (Lord only knows how much we need that) a real statesman, and even keeled and intelligent individual (on the international scene that could really be important - esp. after John Kerry) and a truly moral individual.
Even though I’m a guy, this is sort of like a woman looking for a husband. The rock star is soooo cool AND so good looking and, boy, does he know how to charm! And... he’s filthy rich! But can you trust him to be a good father and a faithful marriage partner and provider? See, America is not looking for that type of guy because that type of guy is soooo boring to Americans - even though he’s what we really need. How many divorces and “partners” before we learn that lesson? I’m afraid I know the answer.
That’s strange. I wrote a response to you that said, in short, it is certainly as big a mistake for Trump supporters to attack Cruz supporters as vice versa. I hit send, but now that post is nowhere to be seen. Hmmm.
Anyway, it IS a mistake for the Trump and Cruz supporters to attack each other. Eventually one or the other will badly want their rival’s supporters. The more insults that have preceded that time, the less support the last candidate standing is likely to get.
‘AND so good looking’
With this line it was unnecessary for you to identify yourself as a guy. The ladies would have known.
Not all the supporters of any candidate are going to be MENSA. The one person under discussion closest to that description is probably Cruz. (I would like to think that is obvious to one and all—even his detractors.) Cruz recently said that attacking Trump and his supporters is “foolish.” Of course the same is true in return. Attacking Cruz and his supporters is equally foolish.
But as I said, we can’t all have Cruz-level intellects. Some don’t get it, and many never will.
And sadly, their candidate of choice will pay the price.
Look I’m a realist. I love Ted Cruz but you don’t win the Whitehouse polling at 4%-8%.
Here is the difference between you and Ted Cruz. Cruz realizes he has almost no chance to win the nomination or the Whitehouse in 2016 so he is throwing in with Trump. Why do you think they have met 5 times? They are not forming a chess club.
Ted realizes he may have to get in line. What better place to wait out 4-8 years than VP or AG? He will become a household word just prosecuting all the criminals from Obama’s admin.
The other thing that Ted Cruz understands and you likely don’t is that he is going nowhere fast in the Senate. His chances of becoming Majority Leader are about the same as getting killed in a drone strike. The GOPe runs the Senate and they hate Cruz’s guts. He needs to make a change and Trump is his ticket out.
All this mindless braying about the morons supporting Trump is starting to look pathetic. You are going to be Karl Rove on election night with your chalk board still trying to show us how Cruz wins. :-)
His supporters do.
So you are so concerned that I'll insult a Trump supporter so badly they'll never vote for Cruz if he gets the nomination? Really? "That mean Carry_Okie made me MAD!"
What a crock.
No, you are throwing bricks at me to make me Shut Up! (a Democrat tactic by the way); else you wouldn't have spent the time. That is obviously because you are afraid that pointing out that Dupes for Donald are supporting a flaming huckster will be effective, because you know damned well his record says he's a flaming huckster not to be trusted (like his creditors did). Which makes your faux concern a pack of lies.
“They had to be talking substance about *something*.”
Bingo. :-)
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