Didn't want to have to do this, but you forced me into it.Click to support Free Republic or else. ":^)
Posted on 03/04/2016 1:47:01 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
“I want to get to the elephant in the room, and I’m not talking about the Republican Party,” Sean Hannity told a slightly rowdy, tipsy crowd at the CPAC pre-debate party on Thursday night.
The Fox News host had warmed up the audience with his usual mixture of throwing foam footballs into the crowd...And now it was time to get to what truly was the “elephant in the room” on the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference: the extraordinary race for the Republican presidential primary.
The word Trump was uttered maybe two or three times throughout the opening day of the annual conservative conference, as though the ongoing presidential race was merely a fictional subplot on a TBS political drama.
“How many of you here support Ted Cruz?” Hannity asked. Loud cheers erupted from the conservative crowd.
“How many of you here support Donald Trump?” An extraordinary wave of boos arose.
“How many of you like Marco Rubio?” Mostly cheers, some boos mixed in.
“How many of you in this room want John Kasich to win?” A prevailing sense of indifference, tilting toward boos.
“I would say, in this order: Cruz, Trump, Rubio, Kasich, right?” The wrongness of that brought itself some boos, but Hannity moved on.
Sean Hannity is a Trump … what’s the word here ... shill. Near the end of Hannity’s warmup spiel—after he said he wished Mitt Romney were “as strong against Barack Hussein Obama as he was today” against Trump—he asked the crowd to stand up and pledge to support the Republican nominee for president, even if it’s Trump. Most of the crowd did. But they sure didn’t like the guy at all once the debate began......
CPAC gave Cruz the first standing ovation of the night. Here, he was the winner of the debate by a landslide...
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
At this point they are just here to virtue signal to each other.
“OMG, Ted totally like won the debate!”
If that’s what you think, then so what!?!
We had 10 of these things, and people are not talking them seriously. You will have yet two more for Cruz to yip and yap, then we can concentrate on moe important stuff.
Not likely! Ted is not being asked to disavow his trail mates statements without hesitation. You see it was all just a big joke. Certainly, no other crazed Cruz supporters would take his lead.
About sums up the not Trump camp.
Yeesh...
I would a month ago say Hanity was
Trump 1
Cruz 1A
Rubio 2
Now Trump 1
....
Cruz 2 (distant)
and then Rubio even more distant
Didn't want to have to do this, but you forced me into it.To bad Luz is not going to be the nominee. :-)
Hannity shilled a lot for Trump during the National Review flap.
Everyone on the Five on the Sunday episode was defending Trump on the KKK flap. Judge Janine has been a Trump shill for months.
Mark Levin had it exactly right the other day. Fox News will have a “Trump Day” and a “Rubio Day” but never a Cruz day. Whenever discussing election results or debates, usually after an hour in, Megyn Kelly will remark, “One guy we haven’t been discussing much is Cruz.”
Considering that Trump and Rubio hadn’t shown.
Eric Bolling on Laura Ingraham today said Rubio and Kasich have no path but Cruz has a small path.
He’s a Trump shill as is Ingraham, so I’d say he was underplaying Cruz’ potential.
State of Denial?
Good one.
Typical, classy Trump voter.
I suggest buying your candidate some suits.
What is with his suits?
I’ve never seen him in a suit that fits.
1) Kasich did an excellent job of outlining his foreign policy position
2) Cruz did well showing he is the more consistent than Trump
3) Rubio also came out swinging at Trump and hit hard
4) Trump appeared to be making it up as he goes along
It is largely in the eye of the beholder. The primary reason Trump gets the most airtime on every network is because he is generally guaranteed to be the most entertaining.
Cruz hired the best political consultants in the business and they and this contest have honed his image greatly, but he still does not have prime time presentation skills. He is not going to get enough of a mainstream following this time around to pick up a majority of the delegates before the convention. I assume that you and I both understand that the likelihood of the GOPe steering a brokered convention towards Cruz is nonexistent.
Cruz has managed to torpedo himself in the last couple weeks attacking Trump, but he is somehow going to try and stick it out to the convention. The GOPe will try to steer the convention towards him if Trump does not reach the magic number of delegates. That is his only realistic chance of getting the nomination. It is still a long shot.
How is it a lie?
I guess you did not see the video of it?
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