Posted on 12/03/2015 6:10:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
BETTENDORF, Iowa – Ted Cruz looks out on a room packed with voters. It's the last stop in a three-day, 16-county swing. Time for one more joke.
He goes for a fan favorite, the one about the White House jumper. But this time he tweaks the punchline just a bit, perhaps more for himself than anybody there.
“You may have missed it, but actually this morning, a second person was climbing the fence of the White House,†Cruz says, pausing for effect. “The Secret Service ran up and said, 'Not yet Hillary! Not yet! And not ever!â€
He delivers the line with a chuckle and a smirk as the crowd erupts in laughter.
The first-term senator’s stump speech closely resembles a stand-up comedy routine, drawing on the ample use of gestures, strong facial expressions and a variety of vocal inflections and pauses; it repeats the same laugh lines over and over, with the same fervor each time, often picking out voters in the audience and addressing them directly. It has gotten him in trouble in the past, like when he joked about Joe Biden just after his son passed away, and when he cracked wise about gun control immediately after the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Doubtful. Go with Cruz, you lose. Most unlikable candidate after Santorum. Maybe worse actually.
Which is why he’s in second place?
Go with Jeb and he won't win the GOP vote in the General
Everytime I think of Carson, I think of Pyramids.
You are repeating yourself. In New Hampshire (of all places) he actually had the highest favorability rating. (Trump, of course, has the highest vote total, but a lot of people who like Trump also like Cruz)
Have you seen Cruz in person? I have, three times. He came across better than Rubio, and on par with Christie, who actually gives a very good presentation and knows how to tailor his talk to his audience.
Cruz doesn’t have to be as likable as Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant, just more likeable than Hillary Clinton.
Every time I think of Carson, I start singing “Bang Bang Maxwell” ...
and then I feel bad ~
LOL
Yeah, it’s so doubtful you had to rush over immediately to reassure yourse...I mean, everybody.
Apologies for saying you repeated yourself, you just said the same thing RENO89519 did word for word, so I assumed you were the same poster without checking.
BTW, I don’t know what you don’t like about Santorum. Perhaps you just don’t like social conservatives? Kasich came across as the most acrid to me.
Never listened to Kasich beyond he irritating presence in the debates. Besides, his positions disqualified him in my opinion.
In your dreams. Look at more polls. Cruz might be in 2nd place amongst a very select group, but overall he’s down in the basement with everyone else.
Is that why he has raised more small money from more grassroots conservatives and others as any other GOP candidate( from as many as a massive 15 times as many people as Jeb Bush)?
And once again you prove yourself a liar.
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Quinnipiac poll from 11/30:
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us12022015_U45hkpp.pdf
Registered voters
Cruz 33 Favorable 33 Unfavorable
Trump 35 Favorable 56 Unfavorable
Only Sanders, Rubio and Carson had higher favorability than Cruz among all registered voters, while Trump tied with Bush for dead last.
Republicans
Cruz 65 Favorable 9 Unfavorable
Trump 64 Favorable 27 Unfavorable
Among Republicans, only Rubio was ahead of Cruz (with a 66/8), while Carson (67/13) and Huckabee (56/18) both scored ahead of Trump.
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Cruz has better favorability than your candidate, Trump, across the board. Cruz's favorability has been rising every month.
And yet you still lie.
Just wake up from a long nap since October?
Well, I guess different people have different tastes. When I saw the video of Cruz calling out McConnell on the Senate floor, I found it inspiring. Others found Tancredo inspiring, so who knows?
Personally, I believe that anyone EXCEPT John Ellis Bush could beat HRC this time around, provided its a campaign willing to truly attack HRC and keep her on the defensive.
Cruz and Trump wil certainly do that. John Ellis Bush and Benjamin Carson (despite his moment at the prayer breakfast) wil not, at least not in time.
Marco Rubio? Who knows?
Reuters, Dec. 1, Cruz is 4th at 6.8% http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/TR130/dates/20150823-20160127/type/smallest
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