(link)Posted on 02/20/2016 9:21:50 PM PST by smoothsailing
February 20, 2016
by sundance
In August of 2015, against considerable backlash, we stood firm on a fundamental position that Senator Ted Cruz did not have a pathway, a roadmap, to victory in the 2016 GOP presidential primary.
Despite the fundamentally sound reasoning for our prediction, which was entirely based on congressional district by district analytics, our position drew an immense amount of criticism and even a quick response from the Cruz campaign itself (Brian Phillips).
Unfortunately, tonight’s South Carolina results vindicate a massive amount of historical research. There simply is no pathway to victory when you rely almost exclusively on “proselytizing as an electoral strategy“:
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It’s not personal, it is simply a factual reality. The Ted Cruz Road Map is non-existent; and beyond the SEC primary states there is little to no organization at all. Nothing in the state of Florida. The campaign is NOT what most people have been led to believe it is.
We strongly urge people to do their own research and to connect their own dots. The campaign will NOT stop sending you donation requests, that much is certain.
But Rubio has the FauxNews Channel.
FLAWLESS VICTORY!
Is George Will paying you under the table or something? I like Cruz and I certainly don't want to see him humiliated.
And Rubio likes AVICII! No one I know likes Avicii. Do you have any idea how much that's a black mark against him?
He had to win, and he didn’t. He needs to cut a deal with Trump or just hang it up and go back to the Senate.
Wow. That “results by county” is unbelievable. Just, wow.
LOL!
I'm telling you, it's not the message, it's the messenger.
More to the point: It's the messenger's campaign staff.
Look, think objectively about what I'm about to write. It's not meant in a meanspirited way:
His campaign has made one blunder after another. The robocalls and push polls, the Carson incident, the "voter violation", the photoshopped Rubio thing on the website, the sleezy campaign spokespeople on TV. On and on.
Now, individually, these things may be defensible, but collectively they paint a picture.
Think on it: Two fellow candidates called him a LIAR on the national debate stage. Not, "I disagree" or "you misstated the facts" or something soft like that. LIAR. That's harsh.
And, yet, there wasn't any widespread public outcry or condemnation. You know why? Because the public believes the charge to be justified.
So, the campaign has maneuvered this evangelical candidate, a good man, into a position where the public in general thinks he's a sleezy, dishonest politician.
That's why I think it's been an awful campaign staff. In a perfect world, Cruz would clear out the whole lot of them. But I think it's too late now.
Lady Liberty would say the same. Just my opinion, of course.
Cruz will be unmasked in less than 72 hours.
Well stated, and accurate in detail. In no way mean spirited.
“Two fellow candidates called him a LIAR on the national debate stage. Not, “I disagree” or “you misstated the facts” or something soft like that. LIAR. That’s harsh.”
Don’t forget CNN said it too.
Owning the most notorious establishment and anti-establishment figures is the Holy Grail of politics.
As for a "safe seat in Texas", ask Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich about that theory compared to the reality of it being "your own party" who wants to smack you down.
But Scalia was beloved by both friend and foe. Cruz is brilliant but seems an insufferable prick. Not sure he would sway many, or any, of his colleagues. He sure didn't make many friends in the Senate (but of course they are all whores).
“So, the campaign has maneuvered..”
And I gotta add one more thing. Cruz is equally guilty. He and his spokespeople all engage in the same kind of half quote “he said mandate” BS.
Maybe there was a time when this kind of dirt was the norm, but in case they haven’t noticed, everybody is sick of the norm.
And the last time Trump kept a promise was....?
Geez, quit sugar-coating it, WhiskeyX.
Tell us what you REALLY think. :)
I think Trump promised to beat Cruz like a rented mule in South Carolina...
Jim Carrey’s one-dimensional.
Today. He promised he’d win.
Sure, now, but he was still in, got votes, got ZERO delegates, and it’s my last chance to mention that. ;’)
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