Posted on 01/29/2016 6:58:48 PM PST by Red Steel
Ted Cruz started the month riding high in Iowa. Now, he just wants to get out of the state alive.
The self-styled rock-ribbed conservative is under siege, battling attacks from his right and left flanks who say the Texas senator with tea party and evangelical credentials isn't who he claims to be.
And as Cruz appears to be falling farther behind front-runner Donald Trump, his campaign is now looking in the rear-view mirror, concerned that Marco Rubio and the rest of the GOP field are closing in.
Cruz's problems were in sharp relief at the Fox News debate in Des Moines Thursday night, where he was everyone's favorite punching bag. The consistent charge: Cruz is a fake.
"This is the lie that Ted's campaign is built on, and Rand touched upon it -- that he's the most conservative guy, and everyone else is a -- you know, everyone else is a RINO," Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday night. "The truth is, Ted, throughout this campaign, you've been willing to say or do anything in order to get votes."
A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows that Trump has overtaken Cruz by 7 points, leading 32% to 25%.
Most tellingly, both his campaign and one of his super PACs on Thursday launched new television advertisements against Rubio, a candidate they already saw on defeated.
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Meanwhile, Trump is free to skip debates and constantly question Cruz's eligibility to serve as president.
"I'm glad I wasn't there 'cause I guess all of that -- he got pummeled, wow," Trump said Friday of the Fox News debate. "And you know they didn't even mention he was born in Canada."
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Napoleon at Austerlitz!
Guess.
Same here.
I totally agree with you.
Well you’re no help at all. Worse actually.
Whatcha been drinkin’?
I believe you are confusing Cruz with Rubio here.
there is evidence piled as high as Ted measures, of his center left sympathies for illegals
I call BS.
Ah, so now Cruz is too Conservative.
We all owe Beck and Levin a debt of gratitude for taking Cruz out of contention ..
To quote Pogo “they has met the enemy and they is them.”
It has to be in the form of Vote Trump.
No capitals, no punctuation.
I know we're excited, but we have to maintain ranks. :)
I think you can re-vote in the correct format, because your original vote was invalid.
Nice ..
I want to help conservatism, not power grabbing for its own sake, especially focused on one overbearing personality who flips like a fish on hot pavement. So if I am no help with the latter, great. That’s exactly what I want.
I love how Trump supporters think the liberal media is awesome.
...I’m missing where Cruz slipped up...
He peaked too early in Iowa. He let Rubio creep up on him. He performed poorly in this week’s dog and pony show debate. He could never gain real traction against Trump.
Just a few major slip ups.
I’m so glad Ted found the one true conservative and forgot anyone with NY values. I think Ted may actually have done Donald a bigger favor than he realized when he started that meme. He may have put NY even more into play than just a native son could. Donald did NYers proud. Don’t care what your race, sex, age, religion or ideology is. It’s been the craziest of election cycles. Anything is possible.
Judgmental perch? LOL. That is rich. We have a Constitution that can be discerned. It has been slowly rewritten by liberals and their judicial cohorts. Yes, I judge them for that usurpation of power. I have no intention of doing as they do only with someone who wears our team jersey. Judgment, logic, truth....should be conservative mode of operation. Instead it has become just like the left: Destruction, opportunism, dishonesty.
Thanks for the heads up Kiryandil, I got a note from D1 and that cap letter error was an oversight on my part, sorry about that!
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