[KC Burke]

Reagan was a conservative politician but he had two other things going for him. 1980 and ‘84 were some of the last elections with a large number of voters from the WWII era of maturity. They had grown up with Reagan and others as film icons — they knew and recognized him as a solid individual.

He was an excellent communicator in the TV media sound byte — not the Cruz as an excellent debater can’t be one, but he hasn’t shown it yet.

The argument that if we have a pure conservative like Cruz being an equivalent of Reagan will give us a Reagan landslide automatically is a non sequitur.

[txhurl]

The argument that if we have a pure conservative like Cruz being an equivalent of Reagan will give us a Reagan landslide automatically is a non sequitur.

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I dunno, Americans are realizing that sleeping with zero’s marxist Left is leaving them with 10X the economic, cultural, defense STDs that Carter gave them after they got in bed with him in the 70s.

[Finny]

They had grown up with Reagan and others as film icons ...

Reagan was hardly a "film icon" of his day. He was a bit player in that regard. I love Reagan, but ...

Like tx said earlier -- "unelectable" means "ghastly unthinkable." Cruz is perfectly electable.