Posted on 10/08/2015 5:43:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Cruz is jockeying to win Trump & Carson backers when they crash. Even if he fails, his influence will be inordinate.
After several months of political shock and awe, the contours of the coming GOP primary race are starting to come a little bit into focus. We have a Florida smackdown between Jeb! and Marco! as the establishment choices and the two frontrunners, Carson and Trump, will continue to one-up each other daily with obnoxious, indecent and mind-bogglingly ignorant statements until, it is assumed, even their yahoo followers will decide that they’ve gone too far.
Whether that’s going to actually happen I’ll leave to the political soothsayers. The rest of the field mostly seems to be mired in irrelevance although it’s always possible that someone will surprise us.
I have made the point before that if I were a betting person, I’d put a couple of bucks on Ted Cruz to be that someone for the simple reason that he’s the guy most likely to inherit the kook constituency should Trump and/or Carson finally flame out. It’s unlikely that he’d get all of them, but the validators of right wing crazy, from local Iowa conservative radio superstar Steve Deace to Rush Limbaugh to Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham all see Cruz as either the guy or an excellent second choice, and they could certainly help move voters to his column. And the reason for that is that he is a true-believing, hard-core right wing zealot who checks off every single box — from railing about “amnesty” to hiring fanatical Christian “historian” David Barton to run his Super PAC, to leading the charge against Planned Parenthood to calling President Obama “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism”. He is the real thing....
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“Carson and Trump, will continue to one-up each other daily with obnoxious, indecent and mind-bogglingly ignorant statements until, it is assumed, even their yahoo followers will decide that they’ve gone too far.”
Notice, he doesn’t give any specifics to bolster that statement. But that statement is necessary in order to establish the rest of his argument.
Which means he has no argument, and what is built on that fake argument is complete nonsense.
Iowa is almost completely a ground game. I lived there half my life and worked on campaigns.
He’s a she.
True. He's very good at preaching to the choir. No real growth beyond that ceiling.
“Kook” is pure LW projection.....
I wonder if Jim could change your screen name to “Ted Cruz is a poopie-head” or “I hate Ted Cruz” or something similar?
Dang! Did they leave out any buzzwords?
Right from the beginning it was ignore Cruz and ‘Trump is going to drop out’ er, any day now...sure.
I’ve seen long time Hillary followers suddenly switch to Bernie. They smell death in the air for her I think.
Bernie, meanwhile is not strong hope to win. The Dems are fighting with bs headlines.
Wow! Nice!
And [Cruz} seems to have that political slant at times, talks about working with Democrats to get things done
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Just for the record, my friend:
“I would like to see someone [for Speaker] that’s very tough and that can NEGOTIATE with the Democrats...” Donald Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3343921/posts
I like Trump- he’s my #2.
Go, Ted, go!
God Bless and God Speed, Senator Cruz.
He is certainly laying the state organizations
that are the foundation of a successful run.
He is my first choice.
I LOVE Ted Cruz and would love for him to be Pres, but he will not attract the Reagan Democrats like Trump will.
I think Trup/Cruz is the best possible ticket, and would win with an epic landslide against HilLIARy
Unless she’s in jail and Biden/Warren runs- that would actually be some slight competition
HDP is a barking moonbat nutcake to whom I say,
“Get a job, goofy-tooth.”
Interesting use of words and choice...
In the Christian faith Darkness is associated with Evil, lack of knowledge, something hidden...
Do they really think at this time we will all be entranced by his speeches so we ignore his lack of meaningful experience to lead anything of this scope and complexity
Once again trying to create doubt with trial balloons of “unease” and a good source kind of crap to see who bites...
Found a school of em...
I think Trump’s notion of negotiating with someone is to use a combination of pressure and suasion to get them to make a deal with you that is favorable to you.
Full disclosure: I strongly favor Cruz over Trump (whose caesarist tendencies are almost as worrying to me as those of Obama and Clinton — almost because he holds right-wing and center-right positions on some issues — but nonethless worrying).
because Cruz knows it’s a marathon, not a race. He has no money problems either..
I think Trump’s notion of negotiating with someone is to use a combination of pressure and suasion to get them to make a deal with you that is favorable to you.
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Imagine Cruz is the same..... Just replying in the context of the poster’s original comment.
I don’t understand the tendency of some Trump folks to attempt to diminish Cruz for the purpose of elevating Trump.
It’s not necessary-— they’re working conjointly.
Lord, help us.
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