Posted on 12/13/2015 8:51:27 AM PST by Isara
Go Ted!
Nice!
“Instead, Cruz hopes that Trump fades and that his decision to avoid attacking the front-runner means Trump’s supporters will move to him. “
And that’s where he loses.
Trump’s support is not malleable.
His base is made up of people that are part of a political movement/revolution. If he’s not there, those people (many of them independents and disaffected Democrats) vanish.
And the worse part is that it’s a candidate that avoided confrontation, allowed the other candidates to go after Trump and then flame-out, and then expects to play the “above it all” act into the nomination.
The biggest problem is that he cant pull that in a general election. He wont be able to find enough church ladies to turn a state to the red column, nor does he have the organization to actively contest the media wing of the DNC.
He also cant avoid attacking Hillary in hopes that she “fades”.
I agree with your points. IMO they need each other. Obviously, so do those who keep trying to set them up to destroy each other. That they are rivals does not require that they be enemies. That tactic stinks of Rove, Bush, Clinton and Priebus types.
Here’s another interesting tidbit about the CR reviews....
Have you noticed that Breitbart also uses them, embedded in articles after the candidates name is mentioned. That is, all candidates except Trump. Hmmmm...wonder why that is. Maybe because even they know the ‘poll/rating’ (whatever they want to call it, today) is so skewed, against Trump...even rates Rubio higher than Trump....lol.
Anyway...I’ve read (here) that Breitbart gets the same ad $$ (from PACs) that some of these ‘ratings’ outfits are getting, so maybe that has something to do with it? Who knows?
Cruz’s plan ? Draft Trump, hope the GOPe does enough damage to Trump so his support settles for Trump lite.
Not really a complicated deal.
I’ve started to think of them as the icebreaker and the love boat.
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Except, of course, that it’s completely false. Unless you think “best” is a bloviating boor without a discernible conservative track record and in fact, quite a progressive statist track record. If that’s what you think after consuming copious quantities of trump koolaid...then Capt Kardashian is most definitely your guy.
If he got the nomination, I am pretty sure a man with the intelligence of Ted Cruz wouldn’t sit back in a one on one scenario hoping that Hillary fades. Whether he wins or not, I think I would place my bets on Cruz knowing the right course for his campaign over pretty much ANY message board junkie.
‘the icebreaker and the love boat’
Cute!
You raise very good points, all of them valid.
The fact is, Trump’s appeal cuts across party lines, and disaffected Democrats the old ‘Reagan Democrats’ who have been laying low, nearly dormant for decades WOULD come out of the shadows to vote for Trump in the general election.
IF Trump were unable to win the nomination, and Cruz prevailed at the convention, if it was a fair and square win by Cruz, I believe Trump would stay with the GOP, urge his supporters to vote for Cruz, and that he would do all that he could to see Cruz elected.
Having said that, Democrats are in fact more terrified of the prospect of a Cruz presidency because they equate him with all sorts of liberal-RAT nightmares, ‘another Joe McCarthy’, ‘Reagan on steroids’, and so on. They would likely coalesce AGAINST Cruz for that very reason.
Assuming that Hiliarly is the ‘RAT nominee, could Cruz out debate her? Unquestionably. Would Cruz do that with a smile on his face? I am certain of it.
But could he DESTROY her, as Trump would do?
That remains to be seen. Trump would rightly call her every name in the book, shake his finger at her and proclaim that she has “blood on her hands”, he would blast and bellow and go for the jugular which quite frankly, is what it is going to take to rattle the Hildabeast and drive a political stake through the area where her heart is supposed to be.
To employ a boxing analogy, Cruz is not unlike ‘Gentleman Jim Corbett’, a true champion who is universally viewed as having transformed boxing into a ‘scientific’ competition.
Trump? He can box, but he is a brawler and a street fighter (WWE, *literally* lol) and that is what it is probably going to take to win next year.
Yes. Why any of the candidates think that if they can get Trump out, they will get his supporters mystifies me.
What scorecard are you referring to that I spammed?
Love it.
How Ted Cruz plans to winHang around hoping someone better than him dies or kills themselves because he's not capable on his own merits.
It's not a winner's strategy, it's a loser's strategy
It’s a sad commentary on this country that the current leaders contain two out of the three who aren’t qualified to even be in the race.
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