Posted on 02/24/2016 11:06:42 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has one option if he wants to win the Republican nomination. Tomorrow night, during a debate with Donald Trump, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ohio Governor John Kasich, and Dr. Ben Carson, Cruz must clock Trump as hard as he can with his best rhetorical punch. He can't be lawyerly. He can't be civil. He has to get in the mud with Trump and pulverize him. There are three reasons for that.
Rubio Will Never Drop Out... Rubio's going nowhere...
Cruz Must Win More Than Texas On March 1, Or he's toast. Again, the fact that Rubio won't drop out under any circumstances means that Cruz can't hope to win a bunch of second places in the SEC primary, then go forward and pick up Rubio's supporters. Rubio will still be in after the SEC primary. And as we saw in Iowa, even a Cruz victory turns into a Rubio victory in the media...
So, all of this means that Cruz will actually have to beat Trump outright with Rubio still in the race, not wait for the never-gonna-happen Rubio flameout. He can do it, but only by recognizing that Trump is the biggest set of balls in the race, and the only way to defeat Trump is by kicking him directly in the groin on national television. That means Cruz should unleash everything up to and including the kitchen sink. He's going to have to out-masculine Trump.
He should face down Trump and say to him, "Donald, for months, everybody has been tiptoeing around you out of courtesy. Enough. We all know you're a spoiled brat who's never had anybody say no to him. You're a pathetic, bloated old man who stood on daddy's money stack to make billions, and then can't shut up about how he's a self-made man. You're a ridiculous dolt who lies about his politics, brags about having sex with married women, and shafts little old ladies for cash. And every time you are attacked, your face turns as red as the Kool-Aid man -just like it's doing now. Then you cite polls, as though polls make you not all those things. They don't. You're just as much of a ridiculous clown as you ever were."
If Trump tries to interrupt him, Cruz will have to tell him to shut the hell up, and then not back down.
It will be brutal. But if Cruz wants to win, he's going to have no other choice. Trump won't be defeated so long as both Cruz and Rubio are in the race, and Rubio's going nowhere. Somebody's going to have to knock King Trump off the top of the hill.
With his father's rendition of NBC requirements, too bad he can never run for POTUS.
Bartleby the scrivener versus Blackbeard.
Oh, here we get the Hate/Envy the Rich crap from Cruz supporters.
Everyone in NY rides the subway - even the Donald in the 60s and 70s. It’s the fastest way around town. Now whether he does that or even walks around the city these days, I don’t know. Probably not. But any lifelong New Yorker has had to deal with street crime. It’s been better these last twenty years but I’m sure young Donald learned how to take care of himself.
Your idea of him as Little Lord Fauntleroy is ludicrously wrongheaded. Now go back to wrestling bears and forget all about this.
Yah, that'll work.
“He should point out that Trump lied and cheated to win Nevada.
Told folks ALL the other candidates left the state early in the day making it look like they did not care.
Cruz did not leave and was there till late at night.
Trump lied and cheated his way to victory.”
Wow. Have you honestly convinced yourself THAT’S why Trump won Nevada?
“Even as a Cruz supporter it looks like he is done.”
Why don’t you take a deep breath and wait until Tuesday
Trump actually jumped out of his limo to stop a mugging in process.
Beat you by seconds LOL. :)
“Oh brother.... Who are you people kidding? Is this picture supposed to actually be serious?
First he’s a Mexican gangsta, then a Jedi, now he’s a damn comic book character.”
Well... pasty, flabby, noodle armed lawyer just doesn’t have the same epic feel as comic book characters. That said, I think Faora could bust that long droopy nose in real life.
Oh, I forgot about that one! Tell this Davy ‘Catfish’ Crockett here although he’s probably out wrestling an alligator.
I’m sorry, but if the “debates” were the keys to taking Trump out he wouldn’t have just won his third consecutive race. People at this point have pretty much made up their minds and I doubt Cruz, or Rubio will do much via a debate, to change the outcome. People’s anger and disgust with GOP, and DC in general isn’t going to be eased by some knock-out punch in a debate. We aren’t electing another debater-in-chief
Interesting, in that this reveals that Trump’s mother was once mugged. More proof that even the evil rich live in a very real - and at times gritty - NYC.
Eagles are fierce predators - the like of which a human would do well to highly respect and fear.
I have spent hours watching them build, hunt, fish etc. from the banks of the Mississippi on the border between Minn. and Wisconsin.
in the winter when the banks where frozen on both sides the eagles, in groups of thirty or more would stand on the edge of the ice and pluck fish out of the water. Quite a site to see.
-— He should point out that Trump lied and cheated to win Nevada.
Told folks ALL the other candidates left the state early in the day making it look like they did not care.
Cruz did not leave and was there till late at night.
Trump lied and cheated his way to victory.-—
I like it, but without the media to repeat it endlessly, no one will hear it. The media has the backs of Trump and Rubio.
-— Wow. Have you honestly convinced yourself THAT’S why Trump won Nevada? -—
That’s Trump’s tale of how he lost Iowa.
Has Trump convinced you?
I don’t think Trump needs to respond from this point beyond asking if Cruz blood pressure is OK.
If he does that, he wins.
It’s fun reading these articles but the fact remains; as long as Cruz, Rubio, Kasich & Carson remain in the race Trump wins regardless of how he performs in debates. This could be over in 3-weeks.
As I will state in substance in an article, in a few days on Trump as the answer to bullies:
With a few bold stokes of historic significance, Trump has single-handedly broken the hold that "politically correct" bullies have long exerted over the vast bulk of those euphemistically described as "public servants." It may never be quite so easy to intimidate dissent in the future.
With a few unpleasant but effective platform strokes in the Presidential debates, Trump has totally derailed the plans of political bullies & incredibly wealthy users of those political bullies, to foist another globalist & Neocon influenced Bush on the Republican Party & once sovereign Americans, as a people; clearly demonstrating the tactical impotence of the badly compromised Republican "Establishment" in Washington.
Strange that people think that if Cruz got the better of Trump in one of 16 debates, that Trump voters would switch to Cruz. That isn’t how it works.
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