Posted on 02/10/2016 10:42:37 AM PST by justlittleoleme
"You cannot beat Donald Trump coming from the left," Cruz told reporters here before a rally. "You see more moderate candidates standing on the debate stage and saying, 'Gosh, Donald, we need more amnesty. Gosh, Donald, don't be so tough on radical Islamic terrorism.' That's not going to work."
"The only way to beat Donald Trump is to highlight the simple truth of his record," Cruz added. "It is not conservative."
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After coming in first in the Iowa caucuses, Cruz finished a distant third behind Trump on Tuesday night in New Hampshire, though he joked he deserves the same credit Marco Rubio got a week earlier for beating expectations in Iowa.
"I am looking forward to a week of wall-to-wall coverage on Fox News of the impressive third-place finish," Cruz said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
This article is spot on.
Cruz is without a doubt the #1 loser.
No Iowa does. You remember that vote result, right?
Sorry to disagree, but Trump has what they want.....money. He's the 800lb gorilla in the room, and his antics prove that out pretty well. I'm sure he's a pretty good negotiator, but his money gives him access to benefits in deal making that most simply don't have.
It's sort of the way Warren Buffet gets sweetheart deals on stock purchases. Have enough money and they come to you.
Trump is Bernie light. One promises a free meal ticket, the other free helicopter rides.
Exactly! Trump and Cruz are splitting the conservatives, with a few spilling over to the others. But there’s a finite number of them to divide up and as we see on FR they’re not likely to jump ship and switch sides during the primary season. Different numbers exist, but Gallup says 38% of the population identifies as conservative, but when you get into specifics, many more are liberal on social issues (which probably means they don’t define conservative the same way). Again, however many there are, they are split, and not all of them even vote.
So we have to ask how many independents, moderates, “Reagan democrats” or whatever you call them can Cruz pull vs. how many can Trump pull? We now that virtually none of the hardcore liberals will vote for either of them, so the appeal to the moderates seems to be the key question. And that’s why as a Trump fan I encourage Cruz to attack him all day long for “not being conservative enough”.
In a nation that now has socialized medicine, women and gays in the military, LGBT-whatevers can get married or sue anyone who tries to stop them, and the federal government is the most prosperous industry - this is clearly not the USA of the Reagan years, nor the one Cruz wishes it was.
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I didn't get that.
Is that why you will vote Trump, because he’s not a conservative? You have no business participating in the Republican primary. Go rub yourself off to today’s episode of Trump’s stump speech.
I’ve never been able to figure out what makes a “neocon”. The definition seems to be an amorphous term.
I guess ‘Ted’ is a name he has given himself. I thought it was as with Teddy Roosevelt, derived from Theodore. Apparently not.
Trump doesn’t have 45 million to spend. He will need to borrow it. Truth.
How many times are you going to spam this canned response? Like the actual Spam, there’s little to recommend it.
Neoconservatism
Neoconservatism is a political movement born in the United States during the 1960s among Democrats who became disenchanted with the party’s domestic and especially foreign policy. Many of its adherents became politically famous during the Republican presidential administrati…
Ignoring your nasty remark, no. I support Trump because he is a businessman who understands what it takes to run a capitalist economy, and that’s something we have not had in a long long time, if ever. My respect for conservative thought goes back to the founders and the philosphers and historians who have defined it over many years such as Edmund Burke, William F. Buckley, and Russell Kirk. Not what the radio talkers say it is.
I'll wait and see what South Carolina shows.
I’ve seen negatuve campaigns work very well, many times. But, you can’t use them in a crowded field; it has to be one-on-one or the votes you peele off can go to someone elae.
Thanks for that link. Would not have seen the interview otherwise.
If conservatives do not get back in control (which you may be right about being unlikely) then we will be forced to fight Revolution 2. The current abuses of our federal government far exceed those of Great Britain that triggered the first revolution. Tree of liberty is thirsty.
God if Cruz wasn’t so dumb. Trump has no record. He has not voted for one thing. Cruz on the other hand just voted for ObamaTrade.
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