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I think the bigger issue is that since Trump wasn't there, he couldn't lose. Someone had to lose. Someone had to be attacked by the Moderators and the other candidates and since Cruz is Trump's closest competitor, he got the brunt of it.

And all it will do is help Trump by hurting Cruz. Addition by Subtraction. It wouldn't surprise me if Trump went through this exact calculus. The man can handle the media in his sleep.

LIAR!

Ted Cruz doesn’t lose debates!

Everyone knows that!

Or lack of sleep. He did a wonderful rally in NH without any sleep this morning

It was a poison pill. Don’t believe me? Ask Sessions, Lee, or Schumer. Chuck Schumer, the bill’s chief sponsor, said that it would have passed had it not been for Ted Cruz.

Ted handled that perfectly fine.

We shall see monday shant we.

That’s why, in love, I suggested to my Cruzer friends that Cruz couldn’t possibly win last night. It was a mistake, and he should have said, “Don has said a lot of mean things, but when he’s right, he’s right, and it’s more important to go to an event for vets than to sit through two hours of biased horse-hockey!”

While Teddy was slamming Trump, he got backhanded by Michael Moores girlfriend. All losers up there last night.

Truth is, Cruz would do great on the SCOTUS. He’s a walking, talking law compendium. But the country doesn’t need a professor, it needs a principal.

I don’t know that it’s true Trump couldn’t lose since he wasn’t there. That remains to be seen.

I’m glad Dara Lind voxplained that to all of us.

trump is always one or two moves ahead of everything. Cruz could have got a lot of respect if he would have walked off in support of Trump and more importantly the VETS.

Must be some moment in some alternate reality. Cruz owned that debate and the GOP hates him more for it. They need a player at the top, not Cruz, the spoiler.

Why post anything at all from VOX?

Why give anytime at all to a Soros-funded cesspool?

What does a conservative site give credence to George Soros?

Donald Trump Brilliantly Diminishes Ted Cruz By Putting Him on Full Display – (With Video)…

Posted on January 29, 2016 by sundance

Forget about trying to graph, measure or quantify how sharp Donald Trump’s political instincts are, he’s just off the charts. However, his decision to spotlight Ted Cruz’s greatest weakness, “the personality of Cruz“, the “in-authenticity”, is beyond brilliant.
Such a keen instinct is simply immeasurable.
Not only did Donald Trump win the seventh GOP debate by not showing up; and not only did Trump avoid the best laid ambush plans of the Fox News team; and not only did Donald Trump raise well over $6 million for American veterans; but by removing himself from the debate stage – Trump’s absence forced Ted Cruz out of the shadows and into the brightest possible sunlight.
Candidate Trump previously stated: “Ted Cruz is just a nasty person” – and by all accounts the pontificating arrogance and personality of Ted Cruz was not only captured by the broadcast, but for the first time Iowans who tuned-in saw first hand WHY Ted Cruz is the loneliest man in Washington DC.

Continued at The Last Refuge.

There were unrealistic expectations for Cruz to shine since he’d be out of Trump’s shadow. It didn’t happen. In fact nothing changed as a result of the debate. If anything moved the ball, it was a veteran rally happening across town.

The truth is that if people really want to change the rules by taking the power away from the media and elitists, you have to stop playing by their rules.

Eveey single one of those on that debate stage would be better off today had they have told Rinse and FOX to pound sand, went over to that Trump Rally and gave troop support and gave a short speech.

Why open yourself up to abuse from those scumbags?

The Republican party would be smart to return to old style debates, so no candidate is hurt by the “moderator” and no candidate is wounded when he/she goes up against the democrats. One of the well-educated media pundits (albeit a democrat) who actually knows what a debate format really is and how to moderate should be the moderator, and the candidates have a real debate back and forth on their positions, i.e., Trump and Cruz versus Rubio and Bush, etc. And have several debates with the various candidates, no more than four per stage. That way, people can see the real candidates, sans personal insults, and silly democrat questions. And maybe get some real understanding of the real differences between democrats and republicans, and why the difference. What we have now is incredibly stupid and devoid of real information.

He showed up. That is when he lost. He didn’t have the guts to tell the snotty little girl that he isn’t playing her sorority games anymore. I want a president that respects himself enough to respect me as well. If he can’t respect himself he will never have the guts to respect me and represents me and my country properly.

That’s odd. Initially everyone said Trump was going to pay for not attending the debate. Now everyone is considering it a masterful move.

Initially this was supposed to be Cruz’s moment to shine. Now everyone is saying he got crushed.

Strange world.

I thought it was a bad omen with Cruz’s initial opening hit at Trump, when he said Carson was a terrible surgeon. You could see how false and forced Ben’s big toothy grin was in response to that.