Posted on 02/10/2016 9:39:09 AM PST by SmokingJoe
There's a reason Ted Cruz didn't spend a lot of money in New Hampshire. It wasn't because he had given up on him having an impact there even though most in the media had. It wasn't because he didn’t think that the vote was an important one. It was because he's smart enough to hold back when others are going all in. In essence, Ted Cruz let them burn through their cash while he looked at the long game. To place an unexpected third in New Hampshire, Ted Cruz and his super PACs combined to spend $580,000. This is less than Rand Paul or Lindsey Graham spent before dropping out. It’s less than Carly Fiorina spent on a state where she expected to get less than 5% of the vote. It’s even less than Donald Trump spent… much less. His $3.7 million on top of constant free media coverage meant that Trump was in every household multiple times in the week leading up to the primary.
John Kasich, the other candidate who beat Cruz by placing second, did so by spending over 20x as much. It was a strong night for Kasich who wasn’t a blip on the radar in Iowa, but it also cost him the rest of the campaign barring a miracle; it took $12.1 million to get him second in New Hampshire, leaving him with less than $3 million cash on hand. Unless he can turn this second place finish into an unprecedented fundraising run, his campaign won’t have enough cash to survive into March. Pundits will paint his finish as a strong play for him, but he really needed to finish 1st to justify using nearly 80% of his campaign funds to earn three delegates.
Meanwhile, Cruz has the most cash on hand and the second most super PAC money. As the other candidates proved in New Hampshire, cash isn’t everything. Jeb Bush, who finished fourth, spent $36.1 million. Marco Rubio outspent Cruz nearly 30:1 in New Hampshire to finish fifth. Chris Christie, who will likely drop out, spent even more than Rubio to finish sixt
You’re really going to tout that he “beat” Christie, Carson, and Fiorina (and Paul and Santorum who weren’t even running any longer)?
Probably. But then Cruz doesn’t have the luxury of unlimited free press that Donald has.
Swan song? He’s up by almost 20 points in the SC poll...Probably that much or more in NV, FL and AL.
“GOPe, being essentially big government liberals, throw barrels of other people’s money at problems. The worse the problem gets, the more money they throw.”
And sadly, that’s how they run our government (together with their RAT buddies).
The longer Donald Trump is in this, the more clear the whole $hitty mess in DC becomes to all of us. Cruz is simply the prime beneficiary of the Trump candidacy, because without Trump, Cruz would already “be on the trailer” and Boosh would be planning his general election loss to Hitlary. Not one of the other “candidates” would have thought to talk about the real problems facing the country if Trump haddn’t forced them to, including Cruz. The rest of them are all subscribers to “the dog$hit theory,” which postulates that the more you step into real issues, the worse the smell gets and it gets on them in the process.
nevertheless, SuperPacs effect and control candidates to whatever degree, or do you consider the million dollar plus donors the purest of altruists?
as El Rushbo says: “Guilt or Innocence don’t matter. Facts don’t matter. The only thing that matters is the severity of the charge”. Say Cruz is getting dirty money. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Blabber it scores of times in your Trumpariums, the echo chambers you occupy with your Beavis and Butthead colleagues. After all, if you shout zis enough times, and you type zis enough times, it becomes ze truth, Ja?
You should be ashamed of making accusations against Cruz when your own tactics are so low.
Good grief man, wake up.
One of the best reasons to prefer him is his ability to go over the heads of the media and form the narrative. Unfortunately Cruz has not shown he can do this. Not one bit.
Wake up, sir.
The truth? somewhat less so, but what the hey, gotta pump up the candidate.
beats the heck out of reading how much of a puke the opponent is, and how the earth will stop on it's axis if the other guy's candidate wins.
I'm not ashamed of anything here. Cruzies should look at Cruz's own low tactics and BS.
But I think your comment was stupid..../s
Yes, that was a joke. :-)
What I find peculiar is that once these big donor donations are made/secured, what exactly is it that a candidate is beholden to? Does he sign an agreement that if said donor donates “X” amount, then said candidate with do “A,B,C?” Or perhaps does he record a “confession” of sorts that if said donor gets on board, said candidate with pay him back with “such and such?” I mean, just what is it exactly that beholdens a candidate to a donor because of large donation?
Trumpeteers don’t do their homework very well otherwise they would know Goldman Sachs has made loans to their candidate along with many others. Cruz has a conservative record. Trump has a record of being a registered Democrat that spent his money on contributions to Harry Reid, Charles Rangel, Chuck Schumer and the DSCC.
No wonder Cruz lost by 25% to Trump. NY Banker money must be drying up.
You all know how this works, right?
Trump “loans” his campaign money.
when the race is over, he will hold “fundraisers” and “events”, to the tune of $10,000.00 a plate dinners, etc, and “repay” himself the money he has “lent” to his campaign.
This happens all the time. All the Presidents have done so. The Clinton’s have made it a bizarre art form.
Basically, some candidates raise money to run, others borrow and get repaid money to run.
So, is the candidate beholding to the one who gave him money to run, or to those that repay the loan?
Don’t be fooled by false rhetoric
Are you saying that Trump is nearly broke? That he owes nearly 600 million to his campaign? I call BS. You must be referring to SECURED RE loans against his property? Got a mortgage? Then you are owned too.
Every attack they made on Cruz had two characteristics:
1. they were either entirely false or overblown;
2. you could point out 10 scummy things Donald Trump has done in his career for every accusation you made against Cruz.
The real estate community in the New York metropolitan area knows this well. He was an absolute cutthroat to get projects done, he cheated on labor laws, immigration laws, reneged on deals, dumped tens of millions of dollars of loans in bankruptcy proceedings, etc. He openly admits bribing politicians with his campaign contributions. That may be candor, but it is unethical and probably illegal. He accuses Cruz of being in the pocket of Goldman and Sachs when it turns out that he’s not only a shareholder but also owes them a ton of money for loans.
Everybody is so thrilled with his wealth and success, but they don’t want to think about the fact that he’s made fortunes and lost fortunes. I don’t know if he’s a business wizard or if he just happens to have a very large pair of iron clad balls unburdened by a conscience.
LOL.
Cruz has taken in over 40 million in donations.
GS has give over the years what? about 75K?
Trump also benefits from free advertising from his allies in the main stream media.
If Ted is spending Goldman-Sachs money, then Trump is spending Chase’s money, and Capital One’s money, and Deutches Bank’s money, and Ladder Capital’s money, and the money of more banks. He wouldn’t have nearly as much money to run on if he wasn’t in debt up to his eyes on every property and business deal he’s made to every big bank under the sun.
I wonder who has more influence, the bank that gave Cruz 1.5 million a few years ago or the industry that Trump CURRENTLY owes hundreds of billions.
hundreds of millions. I need more coffee.
Actually, in the RCP average of polls he was at 11.8%, and he got 11.7%. So he was right where he was expected to be. He didn't underperform or overperform.
Trump has been here in South Carolina for months.
So has Cruz. He has had an organization in every county in SC since at least last October, and the super-pacs supporting him have had paid precinct walkers there since November.
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