Posted on 12/15/2015 1:41:29 PM PST by VinL
For the first time Ted Cruz is now #1 in the USA Today political power rankings, with their experts saying they now see that he has a clear path to win the nomination: (see video)
The [sic] explain the even though Trump has a huge lead nationally, Cruz has momentum because he's leading in Iowa and is strong in southern states that come up on March 1st.
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-king-of-the-hill-in-usa-todays-power-rankings/#ixzz3uQblUg3p
No it isn’t.
You might want to check out how the primary system works. If someone wins the early primaries they only get a proportion of the delegates. Later on it becomes winner take all. In other words strength at the beginning doesn't necessarily mean the nomination.
You have nothing against the machinations and influence of "Too Big to Fail" Wall Steet?
Trump's wives have all be apolitical unlike Heidi Cruz, whose bio states her political interest developed when she was twelve-years-old, reading an issue of Time magazine on the 1984 presidential election while working at a bread stand. At the age of 12 Trump's wives were only wondering how long the bread line was that day.
Anyone that worked as a Director at the National Security Council reporting to Condoleezza Rice is the ultimate Washington insider. With that kind of gravitas her husband cannot hide his deep connection to it.
Regarding Trump not following through, good grief, when has he ever not followed through? If he had to, he could build the wall himself from his own pocket. I have no doubt though, through negotiation, pressure and influence he will build the wall. He will also shut down Islamic travel and illegal border crossings because the "Trump Brand" will be on his whole administration.
I don’t need to “check it out” as I have a 4 year degree in Political Science. LOL! The bottom line is that its beginning to look a lot like Trump. Everywhere you go.
The only people trying to yak it up about proportional delegates are those who are still clinging to an underdog.
The quicker we all coalesce around Trump and get this show on the national road the better. :-)
Blah! Blah! Blah! I'm tired of hearing or reading about conspiracies. Bring em on. Let's get it over with. Let's let the rubber hit the road. I'm almost 70 and someone was giving me literature about this stuff back in the early 60's. None Dare Call it Conspiracy. I've read it all. I'm a Born Again Believer. It's all going to end at some point. Personally I wouldn't be that opposed to it happening in my lifetime.
Please check this again. I looked five pages down and there was no head-to-head date regarding Hillary. I then searched all 88 pages of the pdf for "Hillary" and found 19 hits but not one had anything about a match-up with a Republican. I also noticed that this pdf is only for the Iowa caucus, no averages for national.
You are not understanding me. I don't want Trump. I don't want to get on the Trump band wagon. The last 8 years some Freepers didn't vote for McCain. Some Freeepers didn't vote for Romney. I will not vote for Trump. In my opinion he is essentially McCain and Romney. He is GOPe. He doesn't have core principles. It is Cruz or nobody for me. I don't care about the numbers.
My friend, my original post was—
“Guess they missed the internals of todays PPP poll.
Head to head- If it were donald versus CRUZ:
SEN TED CRUZ 55 the donald.....34”
You then asked— where did I get that?
So, I gave you the link of the today’s PPP. And the data I quoted is there on page 5 or 6.
I didn’t say anything about Hillary— and I didn’t say it was national. Today’s PPP was about Iowa.
I hope everyone is praying for him, his family, and our nation .
Pray that we elect the right person to lead our country. We are in deep trouble.
This paragraph is from their 2015 annual report:
What these and other issues also have in common is that they are both local and global. The United States cannot on its own meet such challenges; it needs the active support of other governments as well as regional and global institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and corporations. This is the logic that led to the creation of CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance (IIGG) program. One important element of IIGG is the Council of Councils, a network of some two dozen policy-oriented think tanks from countries in every region of the world. The group meets several times a year to consider what more countries might do to combat challenges that affect all of them. This past year, the Council of Councils issued the first of what will be annual report cards assessing the world's performance in tackling such challenges as preventing conflict between and within states, terrorism, proliferation, and migration.
If you can stand to read the whole thing you will be enlightened.
CFR 2015 Annual Report
Now you might want to look at this wikipedia page:
Members of the Council on Foreign Relations
No conspiracy required, they've gone mainstream now.
If you sometimes wondered why the GOPe acts like the DNC and wondered if they are all part of "the powers that be", well you will see they are. That is what Trump is well aware of. Of course Cruz is too, but he is married to one of them.
Please open your link again and look. What you described was not there.
I think I told you I'm almost 70. I don't have time to read a lot of boring crap. I told you I did it when I was younger. Cruz vs. Trump doesn't require me to revisit everything I already have seen.
Sorry about being flippant to your shortness, but anyway just to advise, what was thought a conspiracy 30 years ago is now out in the open with no apologies. That is what Cruz might bring to the White House. The same GOPe leaders as all the previous for the past 70 years.
Q26
Who would you prefer as the Republican candidate if you had to choose between just Ted Cruz and Donald Trump? Ted Cruz 55% ......................................................... Donald Trump 34% ................................................. Not sure 11%
Of course that is meaningless when you are only talking about Iowa caucazoids.
Looking down the list for the past 45 years since it moved into first place in the campaign season, the Iowa Caucus only picked Bush and Obama. The Iowa caucus missed Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush 41. It would be silly to consider this for even a moment.
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