Ted Cruz's plan to sink Marco Rubio in Florida

WDSU-TV ^ | March 4, 2016 | Theodore Schleifer, CNN

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ted Cruz is going for the kill shot.

Cruz's aides and allies are preparing an aggressive effort to keep Marco Rubio from winning his home state of Florida on March 15, a blow they hope would render Rubio's path to the GOP nomination unimaginable and force him to withdraw.

A Rubio loss, Cruz's orbit believes, would then set up the two-man race with Donald Trump they believe they are destined for -- and absolutely need -- to win.

"Florida's a burning dumpster fire for Marco Rubio," said Cruz spokesman Ron Nehring. "If he doesn't win his own state, it's hard to rationalize going forward."

The strategy is not without risk: A Trump victory in Florida puts him 99 delegates closer to clinching the GOP nomination, weakening rivals' hopes of keeping him from reaching the delegate threshold and then defeating him at a brokered convention. And keeping Rubio from climbing is likely to cost millions of dollars....

[dynachrome]

True dat. That was just my WAG.

[Defiant]

Ted ate his last big booger when he won Texas. No more big wins for him, maybe a few delegates here and there. He has literally no shot at anything except to possibly, and it is a long shot, deny Trump a majority of delegates. That he is willing to give the GOPe what they want, an open convention, says something about his priorities. You can be anti establishment and conservative or you can be pro-establishment, but you cannot be pro-establishment AND conservative. The establishment is working to destroy everything that we care about, and use foreigners to do our future voting for us since we don't go along with it.

Anti-establishment permits conservatism to exist in the future. It is not conservative to permit the establishment to wipe out the American system of government, no matter what you profess as an ideology.

[Parley Baer]

“But to whom would Rubio’s voters go? I don’t know.”

When Jeb got out of the race it appears that Trump and Rubio divided Jeb’s voters. If Cruz got any it was a small amount. There was very little movement in the polls for Cruz.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Luz needs to worry about winning a primary which is looking bleaker by the hour.

[ncalburt]

You mean Ted who stole IA by playing the ugliest dirty trick done to a fellow Gop candidate in 50 years to Ben Carson
A greedy thieving Lying DC fat cat Harvard lawyer Ted Goldman Sachs Cruz .

Is there another super secret army of Cruz crazies just like SC in FL too!

[CaptainK]

Rubio’s wife is way better looking than both of these women.

He'd be the rare politician who trades down.

[BeauBo]

"Anyone have any thoughts on this?

http://gotnews.com/breaking-we-have-ided-rubio-mistresses/"

I googled Dana Hudson, and the picture looked very much like it could have been a woman that I saw walking around radio row in CPAC today.

If that was her, she really puts it out there - dressed really sexy, like a starlet or high end hooker.

I guess that these guys constantly have bait waved at them.

[X-spurt]

This is turning into a really good Chess game. Too bad is Checker players don’t have a program to read.

[doldrumsforgop]

poor old Marco should have stayed in the Senate another 6 years if Florida permits him in order to mature enough to grow a beard and get some maturity of the mind,

Instead, he got Schumered and Chuckie killed any chance whatsoever he had of being President.

Unless, of course, he declared himself a Democrat nominee to fill Hillary’s void.

[rrrod]

Im in Broward and Trump will sweep Florida!

[newfreep]

CPAC?

Why does anyone attend a “conservative” fest that invites homosexuals, same-sex marriage deviants and, no doubt, probably NAMBLA soon?

CPAC has been infiltrated by homosexual evil not unlike the Catholic church.

[gogeo]

DU is calling.

[BeauBo]

“CPAC?

Why does anyone attend a “conservative” fest that invites homosexuals”

Nobody was advocating homosexuality from the podium.

Should homosexuals be invited to church?

If they are, would you propose boycotting church?

[trebb]

Notice the dichotomy from the last election?

Romney managed to trash all the decent choices (who were also wimps) and then threw the election.

This time around, those who try to trash Trump end up cutting their own throats and he's of a mind to actually win this thing.

[dearolddad]

It’s from Got News, that disclosed the affair between Kevin McCarthy and Renee Ellmers. I’d say that qualifies them as a reliable source. It looks like they still need more information, though it’s already at the stage of already true.

I'm wondering why National Enquirer isn't all over this.