Posted on 02/21/2016 10:45:10 AM PST by ripnbang
A “gaffe” is when you unintentionally say what you really think.
I don’t think Trump has that problem.
But that did not happen. Cruz lost in every single county and did not get a single delegate. This in a state that was supposed to be strong for him. So you can attack the messenger all you like but that doesn't change the fact that the message delivered last night in South Carolina was resoundingly in line with what I wrote here.
Yep! And we are mad as hell and we're coming after them next!
The political/media cabal is scared to death that a Trump or Cruz election would throw their tax paid money train completely off the tracks.
I’m not a Trump supporter but I fail to see any gaffes. He speaks the UN PC truth which is quite refreshing.
Now please tell us “how” Trump plans to do this? Is this too much to ask?
We are all for deporting illegals. So how does Trump plan to identify, locate, detain, house, and feed 12 million illegals including women and children, and then use ships, planes, and trains to deport them to some 40 countries, given that 40% of illegals are those who overstayed the visas? And all in the face of an expected tsunami of court injunctions?
So go down the stock list you keep posting and like all inquiring minds please tell us how.
Cruz (fully disclosure, I am a Cruz supporter) plans to achieve the same result by self deportation. i.e. No more free education from k-12; no more sanctuary cities; no more welfare benefit; no more catch and release.
As Cruz points out this is an election for TWO branches of government, one of which can shape the direction of this nation forever? Whom do you trust in making appointments to the federal judiciary?
Trump is winning only because idiots like Kasich; Bush; Carson, and Christie jumped into the race. On a one-on-one basis Cruz beats Trump hands down.
Thank you so very much. Please keep up your energy and great work.
I AM really sick and tired of the whole argument that 'Cruz didn't get anything done'. Where was the support that should have been there on principle alone? (crickets).
What has any of the other candidates gotten through Congress?
Right. Zip, zero, nada
Not much of a metric, especially in territory dominated by enemies of the Republic, on the Right and Left.
Why do you need to know the details of the “how” right now?
Aye, here is to the Trumpiteers! Yeah!
I’m more of a Trump supporter, but Cruz not winning a single county in SC bothers me. It does not stand to reason that the one candidate trying the hardest to court the evangelical vote did not win a single county in a very evangelical state. Rubio took him out, not Trump.
To borrow from some else’s quote, “If ifs and butts were beer and nuts, we could have a great party.”
You have way too many ifs and butts.
Thinking the Rubio and Cruz voters won’t go to Trump is a losing gamble, and dreamers like you keep the lights going all night in Las Vegas.
Many of us just want Hillary to be beat, and once you and others realize Trump is the only one that can demolish her, you will gather ‘round Trump.
We ALL have one goal... make Hillary go away forever.
My post was analysis of why Trump won South Carolina where exit polls show 2/3rds of voters said they are evangelicals.
It has nothing to do with Cruz or any other candidate.
As for details of how Trump would deport ALL illegals, I can not tell you because I do not work for the Trump campaign. But based on Trump’s success in business world, I am sure he will devise a plan. It is a complicated situation as you point out. There are no quick answers. Trump never said it will accomplished in one week or one month. But if any person can do it, Trump would be high on that list.
I don’t know. Maybe the same way Cruz would do it. It’s the method we on FR have been discussing for years. Enforce the law and they’ll have no jobs, no welfare, no prospects and they’ll go home. Boot the others as they’re caught committing crimes.
The anti-Trump crowd makes some good points regarding Trump's weaknesses, but they are totally oblivious regarding Trump's supporters, and do them a disservice in being so dismissive and insulting.
Throwing insults at Trump supporters will only strengthen their resolve. Those who support Trump are quite aware of his weaknesses, but they have concluded (and rightly so, IMHO) that Trump is a good American who sincerely loves his country, and who will pour every ounce of his energy into being a good President.
Trump's published positions (and they are eminently conservative ones) include making substantial improvements on immigration, taxation, trade, and jobs. How's that for starters?
So the hysterical "purists" can continue to wring their hands and bleat about Trump's personal flaws, and his history on things like abortion (which will not suddenly disappear due to the actions of any President), the justification for the Iraq War, etc.
In doing so, they completely miss the real phenomenon that is occurring, and all the while savagely insulting Trump's supporters.
Donald Trump has tapped into the deep anger in the American electorate that has been seething below the surface for many years. They have been betrayed by both parties.
And in the general election phase, Trump will expand his appeal to include demographics which Ted Cruz could only dream of.
Ted Cruz has had every opportunity to capture this same voter anger, but, for whatever reason, he has failed to do so. I still think Ted Cruz would make a great President, but I feel that his path to victory in the general election would be much more difficult than Trump's, hopeful polls to the contrary notwithstanding.
Anybody who listened to what Newt Gingrich had to say last night, after Trump's stunning victory with an overwhelmingly evangelical SC voting bloc, should begin to understand that the Trump candidacy is about more than talking big. It's also about thinking big and winning big.
There's no doubt in my mind that with a little polish, Trump could become a much stronger candidate, and obliterate his opposition. As good as Trump has been, he has been his own worst enemy in many cases.
So I wish Ted Cruz luck. He's going to need it. But I am losing a lot of respect for some long-time Freepers who simply can't resist the urge to hurl inflammatory insults, not at Trump, but at his supporters.
To them I say, "Sooner or later you're going to have to climb aboard the Donald Trump Hype Train, and if that day has to wait until he's rubbing your noses in the fact of his GOP nomination, then so be it."
Gingrich is right. Trump is for real.
No better way to get rid of cash.
At this stage, Trump would say ‘macaca’ and not see any impact in his numbers.
I thought I saw this same verbage posted under another user name...?
As soon as Cruz was elected to the senate in 2012, it can be reasonably argued that much of his focus shifted to the 2016 presidential contest. It was no secret that Cruz had higher aspirations from the get-go and that his election to the senate was but a way-station to something better.
Cruz is not alone in this of course. Marco Rubio actually admitted that he's not excited by his current senate seat which might explain why he is absent from votes more often than not. We know for a fact that Shrillary and Obama on the Democrat side used the senate as a stepping stone. Neither of them have a record of accomplishment in the senate either.
I think that is why South Carolina rejected Cruz last night even though they acknowledge that Cruz is the better conservative on paper. They see Trump as one who can get in office and actually get some good things accomplished. If Cruz is to beat Trump for the nomination, he's going to have to find a way to erase that perception.
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