People on Free Republic hate hearing this but its true.
Yes. I have received no thanx for pointing it out. LOL!
He is just too conservative for the average GOP voter.
People on Free Republic hate hearing this but its true.
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I’m not even sure that the amount of how conservative he is really matters.
The problem is that Cruz’s entire campaign was running on, “Look at me; I’m the most conservative and the most Christian candidate in the race!”
You’re not going to win many people by just flaunting that at them, especially if you’re going to hypocritically start sleazing all over the place.
Whereas Trump is a populist, but he A: Addresses issues that people are really worried about, and B: makes arguments for solutions. And that is so much more attractive to people in general, even many people who are super-conservative.