Posted on 01/30/2016 8:17:05 AM PST by Hojczyk
The Republican front-runner has secured his standing, as Ted Cruz has faltered.
Its probably too soon to run for the hills just yet.
But if youre worried about the possibility that the nuclear launch codes might a year from now be in the hands of a megalomaniacal strongman with a tenuous grip on reality, the scene on the ground in Iowa with just three days to go until the caucuses won't make you feel much better.
Donald Trump appears poised to notch a major victory in the first electoral test of the year -- a win that would further launch him along a once implausible path toward actually becoming the 2016 Republican presidential nominee.
This prevailing sentiment solidified during Thursday night’s debate when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) failed to capitalize on the GOP front-runner's glaring absence from the stage, instead choosing to bicker with the moderators in Trump-like fashion but without the flair.
And in a clear indication of his campaigns new strategic priority of trying to hold onto a now-tenuous second-place standing in Iowa at the expense of competing more explicitly to win it, the Cruz campaign is turning its focus over the airwaves away from the front-runner and toward Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
The New York Times reported on Friday that Cruz had shifted almost all of his negative advertising away from Trump and toward Rubio, in a last-minute attempt to prevent the upstart Floridian from surging into a second-place showing in Iowa -- a result that would upend the race and might prove fatal to Cruzs 2016 hopes.
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Libtard heads are ready to explode. LOL!
Then why hasn't your candidate used that very same material to bring down Trump in the primary? Is your candidate dumber and more inept than the democrats?
The count of people I know who will unequivocally NOT vote for Trump (who would vote for Cruz, or even Rubio) is now 11. They range from SC to NH to CO, among other states.
Bolobaby, thank you so much for contributing to this discussion. You provide just the type nuanced and sophisticated point of view that we have come to expect from a person backing the most principled candidate. I am sure that he would be very impressed with your efforts here to win over people who are on the fence. /s
“Trump wins this nomination, every conservative I personally know is going politically Galt.”
Well cheer up I’m sure all those Cruz shaming letters will bring out the vote for Cruz. LOL!
The Democratic candidate is always a genius, or maybe the most gifted writer ever to run from President, and brave beyond belief according to the left, even though he avoided any military service.
By contrast, the Republican is always a dolt, regardless of where he went to school and his achievements, and a cowardly guy even if he was a fighter pilot.
What the left has to say is, as usual, just untrue.
Dandy Don - even better...
A line of attack worthy of the all-noble Ted Cruz.
Ted must be so proud of you.
Adios!
Do not need your vote and never counted on it.
Looking forward to your Opus!
It is not over till the fat lady sings, but she is definitely getting warmed up...
and most of them pouting FReepers who would rather watcher Hillary Clinton seat Obama on the Supreme Court than dare let a less than perfect conservative stop her.
Great.
Yeah great. We’ll get Oprah on the SCOTUS instead.
I think I heard a “hiya—tooooOOOWAH!”
So she’s going for Ride of the Valkyrie this time.
Is this Fox Snooze?
Pray America wakes
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Yeah, Fox News is Huff-Po. I pray you’ll awake.
You have to love the conservative purists.
Maybe they should be called TrueCons,
or LBT’s (Little Bitty Tenters).
Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark.
Yep, three rallies in IA today, alone! Have 757, will travel.
I thought Trump was relegated to the entertainment section of HuffPo.
Even though Ted may know whether those 11 voted or not, It’s still a secret ballot. :)
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