[Isara]

"Trump is a dealmaker running a campaign as a disrupter to the status quo.  Cruz is a proven disrupter to the status quo. That is a very big difference indeed."

"The political industrial complex believes deep down that they can negotiate with the author of The Art of the Deal; they know they will lose the levers of power with Ted Cruz."

[VanDeKoik]

“Trump is a dealmaker running a campaign as a disrupter to the status quo. Cruz is a proven disrupter to the status quo.”

Proven?

What has he disrupted again?

[skeeter]

One thing that worries me about Trump is how he will react as president in the event he's compelled to do something wildly unpopular with a significant segment of the population - like use the bully pulpit to compile congress to defund a major welfare program.

Will he try to convince the greater population of the right thing to do, or will he knuckle under to public pressure.

I honestly do not know. Perhaps someone can provide an instance where he stood on principle regardless of the heat he took. And not just heat from the media and political class.

[LS]

Sorry, but the reason I'm sticking with Trump is that Cruz has not "disrupted" anything. He has had a one-man filibuster for a while, but didn't get one person (other than Sen. Lee) to join him. That's a big deal. It means he couldn't (or wouldn't) even get a coalition of like-minded conservatives, say, Sessions and Paul and Rubio (supposedly) and Tim Scott to back him. All it would have taken was two or three, and the filibuster would work.

How did he "disrupt" the Iran deal? He voted for the Corker bill. That wasn't "disruption."

How did he "disrupt" the TPP bill? You see my point. If any of these things had actually STOPPED any of Obama's actions, yeah, I'd be convinced.

I think Trump can do a whole lotta more disruptin', especially since he isn't beholden to the PACs and lobbyists that even Ted is.

[conservativejoy]

I’m not so eager to make someone the most powerful person in the world who has no public service record. In fact, if Trump had voted the positions he has held, many who are supporting him would be blasting him on a daily basis.

I don’t want a recent convert or a campaign conservative. I want a proven Conservative. There is only one in the race and that’s Ted Cruz.

[cripplecreek]

I could see a major shake up in congress. Probably retirements joining Reid and Feinstein as well as major leadership changes. Maybe even guys like McCain and Graham retiring when they find that president Cruz isn’t interested in letting them lick his boots.

[RitaOK]

LOL!

Conservative Review meets Deep Throat, here.

TRUMP, 2016

[trisham]

And yet all they talk about is Trump.

[odawg]

Yes, that is it. I will vote for someone Bob Dole doesn’t like. That seals the deal. Just because Cruz has open-border donors, that doesn’t mean anything compared to Bob Dole’s displeasure with Cruz.

But wait a minute. Who likes Trump? This can be so confusing.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Your point?