Don't you understand? It's all a part of the plot.
Posted on 12/14/2015 10:42:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Perhaps you have watched one, two, three, four or even all five. Perhaps you haven't watched a single one.
But regardless of what group you fall into, you might want to watch tonight's Republican presidential candidate debate, which will air on CNN. It will be the sixth held this year and it will give you a chance to take either an initial or second look at Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who now seems to have the best chance to overtake front runner Donald Trump and win the party's nomination.
The GOP establishment has watched on with unease as Trump has seized the top spot in the polls and stubbornly held on to it for the past five months. While the appeal of the outspoken Trump has shown some signs of slipping as of late, the Republican brass has come to take his candidacy seriously. They realize he could be their candidate come November, and are seemingly worried it would harm their party's chances to topple the assumed Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.
Part of the reason behind Trump's staying power is no mainstream candidate has emerged as a serious threat. Many GOP insiders had hoped Jeb Bush would supply that threat, but he has failed to inspire the electorate and it is now obvious that a third man named Bush will not be elected president, at least not in 2016.
So, as they put preferences aside and develop more of an "anyone but Trump'' approach, Cruz, who is hardly a friend of the establishment, has to be considered or reconsidered. He has taken the lead in the polls from Trump among Republican voters in Iowa, which will kick off the primary season when the state holds its caucus on Feb. 1.
Cruz seems bound and determined to transform the Republican party. He is an unabashed conservative and tea party darling, who became the national face of the 2013 government shutdown. He openly feuds with his party mates, and has been known to describe GOP leaders as spineless and feeble.
As a result, he has developed numerous enemies in Washington, and to this point, does not have a single Senate colleague backing his campaign. He might be considered an insider merely because of his elected position, but he also could just as easily be considered an outsider looking in.
This might present a quandary for traditional Republicans, but it also presents an alternative and opportunity to those who cringe at the idea of Trump being nominated. Cruz has enough of a bad boy reputation to appeal to the disenchanted, and enough of a link to traditional government to appeal to the mainstream.
Iowans go to the polls in six weeks. New Hampshire voters one week later. The Illinois primary will be held March 15.
It's obvious the campaign is heading into a critical phase. While voters are coming closer to settling on a choice, many have not made up their minds, and many have not given much thought toward Cruz yet. If you want to make an informed choice at the ballot box, you might want to start tonight.
Reports of Trump’s demise are greatly exaggerated.
Cruz is the Dread Pirate Roberts.
When Trump is found out....heads will explode.
Good link. Excellent. Thank you. Kinda really makes the folks prattling about “Ted Cruz is so pro-illegal-immigrant that he’s handing out Teddy Bears to illegal kids” look plain desperate.
Stop trying to talk rational...........
Trump is unelectable. He does far worse against Hilarity Clinton than any of the other leading GOP contenders. CRUZ or lose.
Is that why the Donald is losing to Hilary by a massive 10 points in the latest polls?
I knew Trump was trash 30 years ago but I’m seeing more and more new Cruzers every day.
It’s example # 3,259 of where Trump is falling. :)
But I will have a sarcastic good time laughing at the realization of the idiots who bought what the charlatan was selling.
Too bad they’ve got to finish off the country to figure it out.
Behind every candidate running for President there's a billionaire pulling strings. Trump's candidacy pulls the curtain off that symbiotic relationship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBuk1HXcz1k
And Trump's not, I suppose?
Don't you understand? It's all a part of the plot.
So Mark and Rush are establishment RINOs now, right?
Trump on judges:
If you watched the Town Hall meeting yesterday in Aiken, S.C. you would have heard Trump say that Roberts was an embarrassment and a big disappointment and that Thomas was his favorite and that Scalia was also very high on his list of respected SC Justices. — VideoDoctor
[video link at his post ...]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3372042/posts?page=306#306
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Trump on Abortion [Dailymail at UK]
” ... and I happen to be pro-life. Okay? I’m pro-life.”
[He said that to a female pro-choice zealot.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3347978/posts
[And it’s common knowledge how much he hates the body part harvesting outrages.]
“So far there hasn’t been a serious push to demonstrate that Cruz is lying about his immigration position, nor to bring up the skeleton of TPA out of his closet.”
I have challenged Cruz supporters regarding TPA, and so far it’s been ‘crickets’.
We were desperate to find any senator support a safe border. Cruz was the only one. But what to do with immigrants still remaining in the US?
Did you guys realize that police now have license plate auto-scanning capability? Here in Virginia, the use of such scanning was banned by Governor McAwful — it could flush out almost every illegal immigrant driver in weeks! And the Ruling Class doesn’t want such technology to overwhelm their scheme.
Will he walk back his opposition to affirmative action that Scalia commented on?
Or, as I suspect, did Trump "accidentally" reveal a bit of what is really at his core?
I hope this comes up in the debate.
I suspect that Trump was blindsided during an interview. That’s all. His remarks were vague. If he doubles down against Scalia, I’d be shocked.
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