Posted on 11/21/2015 12:42:02 PM PST by VinL
Ted Cruz gets no respect.
At least no respect in keeping with the impressiveness of the campaign he's built and his increasing odds of winning the Republican nomination.
The press and the political class are beginning to catch on to Cruz's strength, and there has been more talk of a prospective Cruz-Marco Rubio race, but his coverage and his buzz have been lagging indicators.. and they are still lagging.
After the GOP debate in Milwaukee, a Politico survey of Republican insiders had as many respondents saying Cruz won (6 percent) as Ben Carson and John Kasich (6 percent each). This is extraordinary.
Cruz tends to be an afterthought in the Sunday show chatter and on TV generally.
The Atlantic tracks candidate mentions on cable TV. In the past 100 days, Cruz ranks ninth among all candidates from both parties, well behind Chris Christie and just above Kasich, both of whom are throwing Hail Marys for the nomination.
A Washington Post analysis looked at the cable TV coverage devoted to each candidate compared with his or her position in the polls. It found that Cruz got 60 percent less coverage than youâd expect from July through October.
Donald Trump, as you might expect, gets more coverage than warranted by his polling. So does Jeb Bush. It's as though the media haven't been able to adjust coverage of the former Florida governor to account for his diminished stature in the race.
The indications of the strength of Cruz's operation and the shrewdness of his positioning are mounting.
He had more cash on hand at the end of the third quarter than any other Republican. He has major super PAC backing.
He assessed the anti-establishment mood in the party more accurately than any of the other traditional candidates.
He reacted to the rise of Trump very deftly for his purposes. He has seen a couple of key potential competitors, Scott Walker and Rand Paul, hit a wall or badly underperform.
He has a discernible ideological and geographic base.
He has, relatedly, a path to the nomination that is simple and intuitive (win Iowa, consolidate the right and beat an establishment that might be too fractured and unpopular to prevail).
He lights up pretty much every conservative audience he addresses. He is an excellent debater, and he doesnât make tactical or rhetorical mistakes.
And yet he doesnât really get his due. Why?
The political press corps made up its mind about him â too divisive â as soon as he showed up in Washington and has never gotten over its dismissiveness about his campaign.
The appeal of Cruzâs conservative populism is lost on most reporters and political insiders, who have a natural reflex to roll their eyes at the message and the messenger.
Cruz is not as interesting as Trump and Carson, and he doesnât feature in any personal drama like the Bush-Rubio mentor-mentee showdown.
Finally, he is graded on a bit of a curve. He routinely performs so well at Republican cattle calls that his standing ovations tend to get discounted.
Cruz is hardly a cinch. Trump and Carson are significant obstacles in Iowa. His theory that he will inherit Trump and Carsonâs support if the outsiders deflate is too simplistic. So is his schematic of the race as coming down to two candidates, one representing conservatives (him) and someone representing moderates.
Nonetheless, it should be obvious that Cruz is a serious threat for the nomination.
Be warned, and get over it.
LOL, exactly! They'd be sitting back and laughing. But look at them---they're absolutely frantic.
Maybe not the Frontrunner but it is a near certainty that he will move past Carson. And probably ahead of Rubio as well. You can take that to the bank.
these are not difficult to comprehend, so your difficulty must mean you are not really a conservative.
â¢The right to life is the foundational starting point for freedom and the government is obligated to protect it.
â¢Marriage is the union of a man and woman and we support a constitutional amendment to protect marriage.
â¢honoring the principles our Founding Fathers gave us in the First Amendment.
â¢We must stand with charitable and faith-based efforts to help neighbors and improve communities.
â¢We must confirm judges and justices that respect the Constitution and understand their proper role in a system of limited government.
â¢We must unleash the potential of every child by enabling parents to direct the education of their children toward excellence with expanded high quality educational options at the state, local, and family levels.
â¢We must block grant to the states and localities most federal education dollars and restore higher education loans to private sector competition.
The hard facts and reality. And what you stated are facts. The glaring fact is Cruz is not going to suddenly say anything different or deliver some miracle hypnotizing speech that will suddenly propel his numbers to skyrocket to the top, drawing tens of millions of Trump supporters to Cruz, causing Cruz to win the nomination
Regardless of what anyone thinks of this guy, it's simply not going to happen for Cruz. It's political pie in the sky.
When will he ever buy clothes that fit him?
So much fun to watch the freak-out on these threads of those so invested in their candidate that any perceived threat sends them into a tizzy.
“Fashion forward?” Down here in central rural Virginia, the only “fashion forward” males are prancing queers.
Considering the physical appearance of the guy you support, you probably don’t want to go down that road, anyway.
Appointing SCOTUS Judges is important and long lasting but it is the Senate which confirms them thus the ‘single most important thing’ a President does is likely something else.
I think that securing the borders and protecting the citizens is much more important.
Now, now......sarcasm will not get Cruz very far in the VP race.....
....especially sarcasm directed at front-runner Donald by a Cruz supporter.....
a bunch of us “3rd graders”
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Well wait, not all Trump supporters are “3rd graders”; in fact, only a minority I’m sure.
Those I choose to ignore are those who I’ve tried to engage in a reasoned dialogue, but it soon became clear, that they are immune to reason— but instead, they come to Cruz threads and comport themselves as 3rd graders— they bring their crayons and scribble graffiti like school kids scrawling obscenities on the bathroom stalls.
Whoever wins the nomination will need all of us to vote for them. Alienating anyone that votes is a very bad idea.
For those of you not in the Lone Star state, I remind you that Ted Cruz was behind Dewhurst by 7 to 10 points in the polls. This was one week before the primary, with the GOP machine trying to take him out.. We all know the result. He is our Senator now. He can do this. He can win. He is still the most conservative candidate in the race, bar none.
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Trump 3rd grader- ignore.
Can you imagine the derision you would have been subjected to a year ago on FR if you would have picked Trump over Cruz. Trump was a joke. Now that he has totally repurposed himself, he is the hero of the deceived.
Yuck, just what we need. Ted Cruz and Heidi Cruz, the latter a Goldman Sachs Executive and former member of the CFR, who, contrary to Cruz’s claims otherwise, supported the North American Union and the immigration and economic hell all that gives.
Suddenly it makes sense why Cruz was telling Bloomberg just a week ago that legal status for illegal aliens wasn’t off the table, despite his feud with Rubio!
Well, sweetie, if you don't like it, I suggest you go find a Trump worship thread where you can roll on your back in ecstasy over that tomato-faced old man.
It's as simple as that.
He is positioned to inherit a percentage of Carson voters. How large the percentage will determine the outcome in Iowa.
He'll never catch Walker, that's for sure.
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