Posted on 03/02/2016 12:04:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In winning Texas by 16 points, winning Oklahoma, winning (as of this writing) Alaska, and finishing second in Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, and Tennessee, Ted Cruz has now solidified his grip on second place in the GOP presidential race. He increased his lead over Marco Rubio in states won, votes won, and delegates won--and unless Rubio can win in Florida in two weeks (or John Kasich can win in Ohio), Cruz may soon be battling Donald Trump one-on-one (more or less) for the Republican nomination. But how can Cruz beat Trump?
The number-one thing that needs to be undone from the Obama presidency also happens to be one of the things that Trump knows the least about and on which he has the least-reliable impulses. That thing, of course, is Obamacare. It is not only the centerpiece legislation of Obama's presidency, but opposition to it unites Republican voters across the party more than perhaps any other issue. Trump is extremely suspect on it. But it's hard for Cruz to frame Trump as particularly unreliable on Obamacare when Cruz himself has yet to offer a clear plan to get to repeal. But that could potentially change overnight.
If Cruz were to advance a general-election-ready alternative, it would quench GOP voters' six-year thirst. It would widen and deepen Cruz's appeal with the GOP electorate. And it would elevate the issue of Obamacare to its rightful place in the race--to Cruz's benefit.
Anyone who thinks, like Trump does, that socialized medicine "works incredibly well" in Scotland, that he's going to "take care of everybody" and "the government's gonna pay for it," and that the remedy for Obamacare's 2,400 pages of federal largess is to lock the experts in a room and let them figure out a solution, is profoundly vulnerable on Obamacare. But no one without a general-election-ready Obamacare alternative can effectively prosecute that case.
With his big Texas win in hand, perhaps Cruz will now decide to up the ante on Obamacare. If he does, it could change the dynamics of the race overnight.
Vote Trump
He’s the best conservative that can win the Presidential election.
But he is in a clutch play right now over Florida.
I didn’t know what one you were disagreeing with? Voting for Trump or that Florida suddenly looms big for him.
Bill Kristol’s boys hate Cruz but you know they can’t stand Trump.
And they know Boobio, whom they really want - isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
WS can see the writing on the wall.
I read an article earlier today that said since 1912 the eventual President always breaks 50% in their home state. This is a strange election season and that may no hold true but it seems like a good measurement to me.
I would explain your cognitive dissonance to both of you if I thought you capable of understanding it, but the reality is that I just don’t care.
See that’s a problem for me, Trump is not a conservative, in fact he’s all over the place, he has no consistency, he can’t make ups his mind if he’s a dem or a repub, pro-abortion, pro-life ect.
I fear he is the Jesse Ventura of the republican party!
You shouldn’t use words you don’t understand.
But of course you have no problem with dirty trix Teddy who voted for TPA, voted for the Corker bill and pushed for a 500% increase in H1-B visas. All the while showing that he was incapable of saying the word deportation. :-)
Ben Carson outlined a great healthcare direction in a recent debate. Cruz should start with that plan. It is a GREAT PLAN. Cruz should propose a transition period where states and individuals can choose the current system...or go their own directions leaving all or part of the current systm.
So your argument is, Trump is all over the place with no standard political ideology and will make deals great deals, winning deals with anyone, he funded the gang of eight, he backs Bloombergs anti-gun campaign, anti semi-automatic weapons, pro abortion, pro naral, pro planned parenthood that was created to kill as many blacks as possible because Margret Sanger was a racist.
Or Ted Cruz who made a mistake and was lied to by the Senate leader, and then called out McConnell as a liar. I’m sorry you have a weak argument, but you are certainly entitled to your opinion!
I did have to laugh at the headline ... seriously, Avis made a great advertising campaign about being #2, but it doesn’t really work quite so well in politics. But these people are totally desperate to “stop Trump.”
No either you or someone helped you make up an argument that has nothing to do with anything I said about Donald Trump.
Who lied to Ted Cruz to get him to push for a 500% increase in H1-B visas?
Who forced Ted Cruz to repeatedly duck the illegal immigrant problem by repeatedly saing “first we must secure the border then have a conversation about the people who are here”?
Who forced Teddy to go with Looney Glenn Beck to the border to hand out soccer balls and teddy bears to the illegals?
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