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Stop it, Sen. Cruz. Just stop.
The Washington Post ^ | January 21st, 2016 | By Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 01/21/2016 4:54:04 PM PST by Mariner

We get it. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is rattled. He’s afraid of losing Iowa. He doesn’t know how to deal with Donald Trump. But he sure isn’t helping matters with embarrassing arguments. His latest: “Right now, the Washington establishment is abandoning [Sen.] Marco Rubio. They made the assessment that Marco can’t win this race, and the Washington establishment is rushing over to support Donald Trump.” Thunk. Let’s consider the ways in which this is unhelpful.

First, after spending months genuflecting to Trump as a kindred spirit, how can Trump be a closet establishment figure? Maybe Cruz isn’t a good judge of character. Maybe he was duped. In any event, it reminds us how cringe-worthy Cruz’s flattery of Trump was.

Second, no one cares. Voters are supposed to like Cruz more now because people he does not like (“the establishment”) shift from one opponent to another? It defies logic.

Third, if the establishment is abandoning Rubio, maybe anti-establishment voters should like him more. Or something.

Fourth, it sounds desperate, in part because, no one thinks Trump is a Beltway insider. If anything, it makes Trump look powerful insofar as insiders have to come to him.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canadian; cruz; ineligible; jenniferrubin
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To: DoughtyOne; Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator
It's important to note that I originally posted this in Front Page and News/Politics-ections and an admin removed all those categories.

I wonder if Jim is aware?

21 posted on 01/21/2016 5:10:25 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: DoughtyOne

Ted Cruz HAS no shortcomings, remember?


22 posted on 01/21/2016 5:10:31 PM PST by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: Mariner

The Washington Post hates him.... gives me more reason to love him...


23 posted on 01/21/2016 5:11:00 PM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: Toespi

OMG!!! LOL!!!!

PS. I think you’re right!!!! LOL!


24 posted on 01/21/2016 5:11:01 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Mariner
Ms. Rubin, who is every bit as "conservative" as was Arlen Specter, reveals what she and the Post peeps most fear...

... a Ted Cruz nomination.

PRESIDENT Ted Cruz!

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25 posted on 01/21/2016 5:12:17 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Cruz is an excellent debater, but he has been hemorrhaging since the last debate from self-inflicted cuts and rhetorical outbursts. I still expect to vote for him on March 1 if he is still in the race, but it looks bleak to me.


26 posted on 01/21/2016 5:13:42 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

I keep saying, what else have these people got?

It’s either the freak train, or the fun one, the TRUMP TRAIN.


27 posted on 01/21/2016 5:13:59 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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Yay! Another GOPe supporter for Trump.


28 posted on 01/21/2016 5:15:00 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Mariner

I agree with the point that Cruz spent a lot of time saying how nice and great that Mr Trump is.

It does make one wonder how he can now be the epitome of the establishment to Cruz, but more than that — to me at least — it points out a mistake in Cruz’s strategy.

He waiting too long to attack.

He was busy looking like Trump’s long lost son, his friend from Texas, and Trump used that to pull so far ahead that Cruz couldn’t recover when he finally got around to it.

His first strike against Trump was saying that it’s okay for Trump to have victory taken from him at a brokered convention.

That was too little, and too late.

It’s hard now to say that the guy you used to call “Dutch Uncle Trump” is actually the “Zombie of Establishment Street”.

Maybe a zombie ate the Uncle’s brain on the way to an insurmountable lead. I’ll have to ask General Cruz.


29 posted on 01/21/2016 5:15:11 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Mariner; All
Fourth, it sounds desperate, in part because, no one thinks Trump is a Beltway insider. If anything, it makes Trump look powerful insofar as insiders have to come to him.

Y'know, I thought this exact same thing while driving home from work this evening. The establishment is starting to realise that not only is Trump not going away, but he's probably also going to win it all - and they are scrambling to make nice and get in on the ground floor.

30 posted on 01/21/2016 5:15:27 PM PST by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: Caipirabob
Morticia's and Gomez's little girl. All grown up!

Now that's funny right there, I don't care who y'are.

31 posted on 01/21/2016 5:16:08 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Mariner

I think the article raises some decent questions. That’s my take and I’m sure some would love to skewer me over a pig roast for saying it. Oh well...

I don’t always understand those section headlines and the justification or lack there-of for getting them myself.


32 posted on 01/21/2016 5:16:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EDST)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.

That’s right. Thank you. I’m slipping...


33 posted on 01/21/2016 5:17:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EDST)
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To: jimbo123

Looks like a badly used blow up doll. Yeah I went there.

It honestly made me forget my original comment. :-/


34 posted on 01/21/2016 5:18:56 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Mariner

Jebbifer Rubin only does propaganda for The Cheap Labor Express. View everything she writes through that prism.


35 posted on 01/21/2016 5:19:00 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Yashcheritsiy
When Bob Dole, Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassly, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham..et al...are buying into Trump...

What does anyone here think????

This place has lost it's understanding of history.

36 posted on 01/21/2016 5:23:09 PM PST by Osage Orange (Nowadays we are just Central America with snow.)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Ted Cruz HAS no shortcomings, remember?
_______________________________
I heard Trump say Cruz is nasty.


37 posted on 01/21/2016 5:23:21 PM PST by calisurfer
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Cruz and others who want Trump out of the race, or at least his numbers to fall, are saying Trump is establishment. They say 'see, I told you so, Trump is establishment because some of the establishment is backing him'. It is all a game. The establishment still hates Trump, but they know Cruz will be easy to take out should they convince people to switch from Trump to Cruz. No way is the establishment, after all the attacks they have directed at Trump, suddenly getting behind Trump. Cruz is falling like a rock so his only hope is to convince people he is the only REAL anti-establishment candidate. This is nothing more than a hail Mary attempt by the establishment and Cruz to turn Trump into establishment. After all, part of his appeal to votes is that TRUMP IS NOT ESTABLISHMENT. It will not work.
38 posted on 01/21/2016 5:24:03 PM PST by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: Irenic

I was just thinking the same thing, Cruz exudes no confidence, shows a sour little puss when finally having to play a little defense, and really that constant go-to stance of “look over there” doesn’t look all that good on him. Especially after weeks of honing up his Mr. IOWA persona, with the pastoral countenance, the difference is striking to see him go from one extreme to the other, while flogging those evangelical voters to death in Iowa.

Sweating in public plays poorly on anyone though.


39 posted on 01/21/2016 5:24:48 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: DoughtyOne; Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator
If two circa 1998 Freepers think it's Front Page News, I'm thinkin' only Jim can say otherwise.

The admins are exercising political and candidate bias before the primaries have even started.

Hell, it was even pulled from News-Current Events and Politics-Elections.

That does not reflect Jim's philosophies as I know them. He has in the past only banned articles in support of non-life issues, or articles in support of the candidate who lost in shame.

But I have not seen censorship outside those boundaries before the first vote was cast in the past.

40 posted on 01/21/2016 5:25:35 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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