Cruz has huge general election issues... I know he excites the chior, but he alienates a lot of others, and will motivate folks who are dejected at the prospects of Hillary to crawl over glass to vote against him.
Cruz’s biggest issue is to overcome is convincing folks he can win a general election, and I just don’t see it happening.... that and Trump has to collapse before he’s going to go anywhere, which also seems less and less likely daily.
You sound like a GOPe establishment hack. Real conservatives will never pick a candidate based on how much the left likes them. We will pick the candidate that is the most conservative and if that candidate also pisses off the left more than any other, that’s a bonus.
“Cruz has huge general election issues... I know he excites the chior, but he alienates a lot of others, and will motivate folks who are dejected at the prospects of Hillary to crawl over glass to vote against him.
Cruz’s biggest issue is to overcome is convincing folks he can win a general election, and I just don’t see it happening.... that and Trump has to collapse before he’s going to go anywhere, which also seems less and less likely daily.”
At the end of the day, there are questions about everyone’s electability — depending on your perspective. For example, many think Trump is unelectable in the general because his many controversial statements will come back to bite him. Others point to Carson’s weak answers, particularly on foreign policy and Rubio’s boyish appearance, over-rehearsed talking points and general appearance of someone running for student council, and of course Jeb! and his last name, which is a liability both in the primary and general. Then there’s Cruz, who even though some here say he is not to be supported because of TPA, TPP, or whatever, is just too “conservative” to win a general.
I think in this election cycle, the whole electability argument is overblown. Hillary, IMHO, is a very weak candidate, nothing like the current WH occupant and certainly far from her husband. I think all the aforementioned candidates, with the probable exception of Jeb!, can easily beat her in a general. That being the case, I go for the most consistently conservative of the remaining viable candidates, which is without a doubt Cruz. I would, however, be just fine with a Trump/Cruz ticket in the (increasingly likely) event that Trump does not implode.
This is a mistake in thinking that has sadly cost us before. The truth is that that there would be an enormous turnout to vote FOR a true conservative...and one who has the serious Christian convictions of Cruz.