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 establishmentâ€) 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Good advice. I did that months ago when it became clear that Cruz was being touted the same way Obama was 8 years ago - ambitious, big on talk but short on accomplishments, but he says all the right words so let’s just immaculate him.
“If anything, it makes Trump look powerful insofar as insiders have to come to him.”
Maybe somewhat true.
But I’ll repeat myself from another post: Ted Cruz has the right enemies.
On this theme, I went to CPUSA.org today. I don’t see a particular enemy. But they still LOVE Obama.
LOL!
As for the article, yeah, it’s WaPo, but yeah it does kind of have a point, and I myself was thinking about this just today. It does seem to me that Trump is the only real outsider in this race. Cruz, a lawyer with a career in politics, is always railing about the “Washington Cartel”, but since joining it, what has he done to make any difference? It seems to me that Cruz might be perfectly content for things to fester along with business as usual, just as long as he gets to be King of the S**tpile. With Trump, it seems like there’s an actual shot at shaking things up.
If I turn out wrong, so be it. But I’ve been voting for career politicos all my life and nothing ever changes. Might as well give it a shot, and the more talking heads that tell me not to, to more disingenuous color-coded charts that get thrown at me, and the more people call me an idiot, the more committed I become to voting for Trump.
He got addicted to the ease of running when Trump was beating the crap out of the GOPe candidates, the media, and the democrats. Pushing issues that lesser candidates dare not touch, and changing the direction of the debate.
Cruz’s people stated that the gist of the plan was for Trump to run wild, and then “implode” sometime around December 1st, where Cruz, as the last man standing, would waltz into the nomination with no scratches, and lots of cash.
Then a funny thing happened: Trump got more popular! By then it was too late to turn it around.
Graham embraced Jebbers with his endorsement last week sometime.
Bob and the boys know the game is over, basically. They have been brought to heel.
As Sarah said, in her endorsement— “they’ve been BUSTED!”
Compliments of Donald John TRUMP
I wondered why some people thought Cruz won the last debate; seems they were impressed at his snarky manner with Trump at the beginning. I am certainly no Rubio fan, but I had to laugh at the way he shredded Cruz on immigration and Cruz is supposed to be the greatest debater in the country.
I L.O.V.E your tagline!!
My best advice is don’t let it get to you.
Many folks did see it. That’s the important part.
Some things we have no control over.
I’m sorry it worked out that way.
D1
Wow! Cobble these names together six months ago and you get a collective...let me be delicate here...fart in that general direction.
Now they are down for the struggle with Trump? And a subset of so-called conservatives aren't even mildly disturbed?
There should be a mass exodus from the Trump Train
Un-FREEPING-believable.
If I understand your post, you said that George Will has threatened to go 3rd party if Ted Cruz wins the nomination.
I’ve noticed in the past that George Will dump on conservatives when liberals really need him to do so. It gives a clue as to how he keeps his job as one of the few conservatives regularly employed by liberal networks.
Probably shouldn’t ask me. I have a hard time believing anything written by Jennifer Rubin rates front page news. She usually gets posted here for snickers.
SECOND THAT.
“I have to admit that after six months of the GOP-E calling Trump racist, xenophobic, and nativist, and bashing him as crude, crass, and a lot, and threatening to go third party (something George Will did as recently as YESTERDAY) if he wins the nomination, Ted Cruz’s new tactic of claiming that Trump is “the establishment favourite” is just a liiiiiitle unbelievable.”
Very good point and it needs repeating. However, it is logic, and as such, is useless to certain people.
However, National Review may lay that fiction to rest tomorrow.
When all these crony capitalist's politicians come together....what will you say then?
Trump will disappoint you....and you will be BUSTED!
They’re whores. But even a whore can see which way the wind is blowing.
Hear me out folks (not you), but others will faint at the next sentence.
Curz reminds me of Carter, Clinton, and Obama. Why do I say this? Because he is not very well known. Both parties have adopted a tactic of bringing unknowns along. In this manner they can create an image before folks can wake up to it.
I think you’re on to something, and I think this technique is in play here. Sadly for Ted, the public was also exposed to a big figure like Trump, and they didn’t buy in to Ted in large enough numbers.
Now that others have woken back up, that’s it.
I thought Rubio cut Cruz deep.
Don't get me wrong, Rubio is a pure scumbag, but when he rattled of a litany of Cruz failings, Cruz tried to respond with a detailed argument...and that just doesn't work in a 1 min response. Moderator cut him off.
Rubio scored two touchdowns on that exchange.
That's not to say Cruz could not have effectively refuted all accusations if he had 30mins, but he didn't.
I could not read the article. Is there a pay wall there now?
Who the hell is Curz?
Cruz has two flaws that I think doom him: he has the electability of Goldwater and the likeability of Nixon.
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