Posted on 08/08/2015 8:30:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
Steyn is close to Iowahawk’s level. ;-)
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(Vanity): The Republican Debates: The GOP-e bids No Trump
Private FReepmail coming.
“The choice is not between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush, the choice is between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. In considering the primaries in this context, Trump supporters ought to ask themselves, who is the more authentic conservative?”
If you are honest with yourself, it is between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump. Yes, Ted Cruz is an authentic conservative. He is calm and reasonable and polite. He will not get the nomination, even if Trump drops out. Moderate Republicans will go with Bush if for no other reason than his name and the GOP wants him. Ted Cruz can not win against Hillary, he can’t pull in Democrats and Independents. I think our very country depends on this election, we are currently circling the drain.
And if by some chance Ted Cruz did get elected, do you think the crazies in the middle east and Iran would be afraid of him? They would be worried if they thought we had another loose cannon in the White House, someone who might, like Reagan, send a missile through a bedroom window. Just my opinion, but Trump has a lot of good ideas for this country and is not constrained by manners and politeness. He seems to love this country and to h*ll with the rest.
From what I see locally, people know Trump and respond either favorabally or laugh him off. Few know much about Ted Cruz and don’t seem interested. That’s Democrats, Independents and Republicans, not just conservatives. It will take all of them to get to the White House.
Cruz is the magnificent conservative. Trump is the trench warfare demolition expert.
They need each other.
Cruz is principled. Trump also has principles as expounded in his recent revised release “Time To Get Tough”. You should read it.
But Trump has one thing that Cruz doesn’t have, the low information voter.
Put it this way, a Trump/Cruz 2016 ticket wins hands down.
Individually it’s a roll of the dice.
And a few other things to note:
The media is already marginalizing Ted Cruz by ignoring him. Still he gets through to conservatives and the high information voters. But he does not penetrate the massive middle, not yet and maybe never if he doesn’t get the needed exposure.
But Trump has the tabloid news cycle people on his staff that are experts at the game of trapping the MSM into daily sensationalism. The Trump people know how to keep the controversy going and how to introduce and inject new scandals and controversies on a weekly basus. They know how to set the traps and catch the rodent media scum every time.
Cruz does the same but he aims his attacks on the deserving GOP leadership, Obama and eventually Clinton. But he’s not attacking the media. He can beat anyone in the media in a real-time debate on any issue and he has done so. But he won’t retaliate for their attacks on him like Trump does.
Today Ted had a perfect opportunity to tell the press that Megyn Kelly was out of line by trying to corner candidates on PC-loaded questions. He had the perfect chance to say that political correctness has no place in designing ‘gotcha’ scenarios.
But Ted unfortunately flubbed it.
Whereas Trump’s response to Kelly’s PC invective was to point out that Christians are having their heads chopped off in a world that is the worst ever for Christians and yet people in the media are hung up on political correctness.
The bottomline is that Trump and Cruz need each other. I don’t see one, not one candidate that Trump would choose as a running mate other than Cruz. Fiorina? Forget it! Huckabee? Not even a consideration! All the others have demonstrated their stupidity and duplicity.
Just perhaps all those Right Wing Conservative crazy folks are questioning Trump as well. The one thing that REALLY REALLY Ticks many of us is the fact that we NEVER have a REAL say in who gets the GOP nomination. It’s not necessarily that we are for trump. IT IS A FACT WE ARE NOT FOR LITTLE JEB JAB BUSH. That Fox has taken off the gloves and given us a push into that dark closet vacuum makes us all the more angry. We’ve nothing left but another empty suit with a sharp crease in the trousers and an empty brain between two (perhaps)smaller ears. When Trump tossed in his hat and begin to speak TRUTH we questioned if the man was serious this time. As we’ve seen in the past he has burned bridges. This is personal reasoning and I stick by it. OVERALL -I do like CRUZ and he is truly a favorite (not just because he is my Senator) but if the opportunity is there to make Trump an issue to the unfairness of the criminal system now in place ..then so be it. We’ll use what we’ve got in order to make our voices heard.
Congrats on 50 replies to a Trump thread without the usual two sentence anti-Trump BS from Nick the Dick!
Just to keep Andrew honest though Trump’s negatives are now at 39 not 60.
I have as much respect for Andy McCarthy as you do for grammar.
How about just a few bullet points of what he’s trying to inform? Is that too much to ask?
His thing with the Bind Shiekh is irrelevant to the news of today. So save that for your own idolatry.
Just give a few bullet points. Otherwise he could be just writing about ‘toothpicks’.
Thanks
He criticised Pamela Geller and Draw Mohammad Day.
He attacked the Confederate Flag too, I believe
and
I don’t trust flip-floppers
especially Bill Clinton’s golf buddies.
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