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Interesting article.

Looks like they’re placing the blame on the team rather than the candidate.

And it definitely couldn’t be the candidates support of the fast track trade deal.

I wrote the article.

"Doctor" Ben Carson won the Straw Poll victory. Ted Cruz and Scott Walker did not.

You're thinking that perhaps the TPP Agreement was the factor in Ted Cruz getting Thrashed.

That's an honest question.

Here's my take.

"Doctor" Ben Carson (to my knowledge) has "zero" position on TPP.

Heck, "Doctor" Ben Carson (as much as I admire him) frankly doesn't have a clue about many, many issues.

You and both know Ben Carson isn't even qualified to read, digest and discuss the intricacies of the TPP.

TPP had "zero" to do with Ben Carson's Straw Poll victory.

You probably already know this, "RKBA Democrat", but (for our political novices in the audience) ...

"Straw Polls" are typically "manufactured events" designed to get Candidate ABC headed-lined on ABC-CBS-CNN-Fox-NPR-AP-UPI-NYT prime-time as the "Candidate ABC WINS-WINS-WINS the XYZ GOP/DNC Straw Poll".

It's old school Chicago-style politics ...

and as Shakespeare opined ... "All is Fair in Love and War".

In this otherwise "morally pristine" environment (/sarcasm-off) ... ALL candidates pull every trick in the book to get Everyone to these straw-poll votes ...

including dog, cats and geckos to vote.

That is where the "organization" comes in.

Just ask Barrack Hussein Obama ... who had the Chicago-machine bus in thousands to the 2008 Iowa Caucuses to defeat Hillary Clinton.

Ergo ... "Doctor" Ben Carson's campaign TEAM did an EXCELLENT job of bussing in every man, woman and child ... and dog and cat ... into Saturday's OK Straw Poll.

That's "why" Ben Carson won ... and rightfully deserved to.

The "executive point" to this article is that all of those decent, educated, wonderful Conservative Patriots ...

supporting Ted Cruz (only by being Keyboard Commandos at Facebook, Twitter, and Free Republic) ...

need to get off their behinds "today" ...

and help build a "Boots-On-The Ground" campaign for Ted Cruz ...

State-by-State ... County-by-County ... Precienct-by-Precienct (sp) ...

TODAY in May of 2015 ...

or else the EXTREMELY well-financed candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio will politically beat Ted Cruz to a "bloody pulp" in all of the GOP State Presidential Primaries in 2016.

Now, would Gen. George S. Patton Jr. lie to you (wonderful Ted Cruz supporters) ?

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Much of what you say is true, but I think you underplay the significance of the TPP treachery in all this. Further polls and contributions data will tell the tale.

I also have a somewhat different explanation for Ben Carson, who does happen to be a Doctor regardless of whether its in quotes or not. He is the one of the few upper tier candidates who does not have a background in politics. The public’s aversion to politics, and more importantly the aversion to those elected to office is showing up in the candidate selections and polls. There is some logic to it. If you take the point of view that people elected to serve in Washington quickly become amoral scuzzballs, then you probably want to elect those who have never been there on the hopes that you might get a few years of decent governance before they go over to the dark side. I don’t agree, but see the logic in it.

I think we’re better off not wasting our time.