” I think I would place my bets on Cruz knowing the right course for his campaign over pretty much ANY message board junkie.”
I’m on a number of apolitical and leftist-dominated forums.
These people are NOT impressed with Cruz, and are more ready to take him on as they are with Trump.
Believe me, these people are more than happy to take on Cruz because they know that he will have none of Trump’s bravado, less cross-over appeal, and they see him as a pipsqueak with no governmental experience that can be held up against Hillary’s “vast career in service”.
And the thing that really chilled me was that coupled with the press protection, they will be able to paint her time in government from her time involved with Watergate, being first lady in Arkansas, and in DC, having been married to a still popular Bill Clinton, having been a senator, having run for president, having been involved with numerous political entities/groups, and having been Sec. of State as being a resume that no one can touch.
Yes, WE know that she’s been a snake and an opportunist, not to mention a failure in all of those positions, but she will also be running as the first women nominee for president. That affords her another wall of protection.
Can Cruz talk over that? I dont think so. It just isn’t his personality. He’s too insider baseball. Too formatted for a senate debate, and not for the brawl of the campaign trail.
He’s been careful up until not. Far too careful.
Here’s the thing. I hear what you are saying, and you are saying it well enough.
But when exactly did we start accepting those people as the authority on anything?
Donald Trump, with his style of communicating, is someone that people I think make their mind up about fairly quickly. He reveals who he is right away with no mystery or confusion about it and people either love him and become devoted to him, or they consider him to be a clown. I don’t think there is a lot on in-between or an incredibly high ceiling with him. And yes, he does still have those high negatives as well.
Cruz is a guy who I think has more room to go up, because the more people hear him, the more they come to the conclusion he isn’t a baby eating monster after all.
Now, that said Trump may actually win the nomination. But if I am Hillary, I am not necessarily afraid of a guy who is mostly bombast and insults and who I can point out apparently loved me when he was donating all that money to me and Billy Boy.