Posted on 02/05/2016 8:08:54 AM PST by TBBT
The contrived furor over the Cruz Campaign tweet relaying a CNN Breaking News alert about Ben Carson is perhaps the intellectually unserious low point in all of Republican primary history. It's so patently absurd that it's hard to know where to start. The conversation around this from Donald Trump and Fox and on the internet is every bit as disingenuous as the "Gentle giant, hands up don't shoot" narrative on Michael Brown. It's parallel universe stuff.
This is what liberals do!
So with a promise to fully expose the silliness and irrelevance of this issue, I'll start by diving in with the most obvious and important fact. It changed nothing. It's a nonstory. Carson's caucus percentage was almost identical to his polling numbers over the last month. In fact, he was closer to that than any other candidate. He was a distant third, meaning he would have had to have lost more than half his votes over this to have changed the order of the finish and impact delegate counts. Instead, his support was the steadiest of any candidate over the final months. It didn't go up or down much.
Meanwhile, Cruz broke every Iowa Caucus record with his tally and was a comfortable first. The only close race was for second between Trump and Marco Rubio. Thus, even if it was a dirty trick -- and it was not -- and even if it was cheating -- and it was not -- then it still wouldn't matter because it changed absolutely nothing. These guys have been in Iowa for a year and been on TV for many months so please don't embarrass yourself and insult us by pretending to think that a tweet at 6:45 pm impacted an 18 month campaign that started at 7. It's beyond absurd.
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Amen to that.
Yeppers, the mouth-breathing idjit just didn't know when to shut up.
The boastful, taunting, foul-mouthed private emails didn't help matters, either.
Former freeper C. Edmund Wrong was a real peach. :)
It’s disgusting. I’m thisclose to stopping my monthly and rejoining the sane world. This is hostile territory for anyone who doesn’t adore Ted.
At times he was ok. This election has made more than a few act like Stupefying Jones had been here.
Nor is the quality of the writing.
Not is the quality of their Americanism.
Great article.
Even Michael Medved, who bashes Cruz constantly from his RINO perspective, and hated the voter violation mailer, said this Carson/dropout story was a total non-issue and the Cruz people did nothing wrong.
Like I give a damn what Michael Medved says about anything. I can’t believe you just cited him as a moral authority to a fellow conservative.
We may not have seen the last of C. Edmund, if the current pattern of discipline holds. I’ve seen a few recent zottees rise from the dead.
Be a real shame if this one comes back. He’s been one of the most consistently anti-social posters of this community for years.
You totally miss the point. Medved bashes Cruz constantly and even he thinks this Carson scandal is trumped up garbage.
I didn’t miss your point. It doesn’t matter that a critic of Ted dismisses the eligibility question. Medved is wrong, as usual.
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