Posted on 02/18/2016 12:01:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Simpsonville, S.C. -- At around 8:40 a.m. on Monday, the volunteers emerge from their rooms, line up against the walls, and put their hands on each other's shoulders to form a chain that runs the length of the hallway. Handmade signs line the walls. One reads: "Conservatives, Christians, and GRASSROOTS MATTER!" This is Value Place, an extended-stay hotel just off Interstate 385 in Simpsonville, S.C. Until the Palmetto State's primary concludes Saturday night, it is also Camp Cruz, home to those who have flocked here to volunteer their time for Ted Cruz's presidential campaign. Right now, they're packed three to a room. I ask if roommates knew each other beforehand.
"No, but they do now, very well," says Mark Hayes, a retired chief financial officer who's running the show here along with his wife, Nancy, a veteran of 19 Republican campaigns who also works for Joe the Plumber of "spread the wealth around" fame. At Iowa's Camp Cruz, dozens of volunteers packed an old college dorm in the months leading up to the caucus, at times cramming extra mattresses into rooms already housing two people. When I stayed over on the eve of the caucus, five grown men vacated a room for me. In South Carolina, Cruz's team is scaling up the data-driven ground operation that propelled it to victory in Iowa. The campaign's Iowa state director, Bryan English, is on the ground here coordinating with key surrogates, and a second Camp Cruz location at a Quality Inn & Suites in Greenville opened its doors on Monday.....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The Republican primary in South Carolina is this coming Saturday and it's again shaping up as a battle for second place.
Recent polls show Donald Trump holds a 2-to-1 advantage over the next closest rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. John Kasich and Jeb Bush are further behind.
I see your point, but they were correct about Cruz misleading about Trump’s position of PP. They could have more accurately said Cruz was lying, which is what it was.
Trump was referring to cancer screening, etc., something that PP evidently does. That must be how they justify their abortion carnage.
100% true statement by Ted.
It’s also 100% true that Cruz said he was not going to build a fence or a wall on the border. Know how I know that, because he SAID he was going to secure the border with IRS agents. Also he has recently auditioned for voice over parts on an adult cartoon.
I originally was for Cruz, I knew not much about Trump. I can’t believe in such a short time, Cruz looks like the biggest slimeball with these kind of tactics. Well he did saaaaaaay it, and I want to trick you folks into thinking this is what Trump would do. It really is amazing.
Clinton nominated her to Appellate service.
Will be hard for Cruz to do much better in SC since they allow crossover voting by Democrats...
"I support any and all possible efforts to secure the border. That includes fences, that includes walls, that includes technology, that includes helicopters, that includes drones, that includes manpower, that includes employment verification, that includes approaching it as a law enforcement priority."
That’s simply not true. Here is Cruz in 2011:
So what? I don’t care what Cruz said, I am going to do exactly what he does and try to fool people by taking his words out of context. He said he is going to use the IRS to control the border, period.
Cruz loses in every category except very conservative and only has a small lead there. Very conservative are split between him and Trump.
We think Trump will get the job done and Cruz is just another politician run by Goldman Sachs and cannot get the wall built.
Pray America wakes
This state should’ve been a slam dunk for Cruz. It signifies his weakness overall as a candidate. Trump has no business winning a state like this.
“The fact that it’s an open primary doesn’t matter”
I heartily disagree.
“Trump was referring to cancer screening, etc., something that PP evidently does. That must be how they justify their abortion carnage.”
PP does ZERO mammograms.
South Carolina is in two days, Nevada is the following Tuesday, and Super Tuesday is in 12 days. By March 2, we will have a pretty good idea of which candidates are still viable.
If Cruz comes out of Super Tuesday with less than 25% of the delegates that Trump gets, then Cruz is likely done. If Trump only gets twice as many delegates as Cruz, then Cruz is still viable, and should stay in the race hoping for a Trump implosion.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2016/02/could-i-have-trump-sandwich-with-side.html#more
I was nearly 40 when my mother died of ovarian cancer, so I am very conflicted about this issue. He death was brutal, and I cannot be impartial. Perhaps I cannot even be rational about the topic of women's cancer.
I'll leave it there.
Oh please. If it’s a general election it’s a big deal. We’ll see if Cruz has crossover appeal. I doubt it and I do believe if he’s the nominee he’ll get crushed in November.
This is a feel good piece to give false hope to Cruz supporters. SC voters are not buying the son of the preacher man narrative. Trump is going to have another decisive win Sat. Night as well as next Tues in NV.
This same Bob Smith is now for Cruz.
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