Post South Carolina Results – “The Looming Infernoâ€â€¦
The Last Refuge/Conservative Treehouse ^ | February 21, 2016 | sundance
Posted on 2/21/2016, 2:44:41 PM by Bratch
One of the historic truisms in the past several election cycles is the “Cruz Coalitionâ€, as currently assembled, is the first to stay home when their candidate doesn’t win. The socially-minded voter will never vote for a populist fiscal conservative/socially moderate candidate. Cruz voters, and their advocates, are emotionally driven by social issues. Hence they yell a lot (See Mark Levin) and only respond well to others who are inside their echo-chamber.
Consequently neither Rubio nor Trump will try to gain/court Cruz voters. Why should they; the narrow-minded group will never vote for them, if they vote at all.
This ‘non-voting’ truism is why the GOPe ignore the Cruz-like factions completely; because rarely will the GOPe be influenced by them. When Cruz-Clan get angry and don’t get their way they don’t vote.
The modern way to deal with that faction is to make them angry, and they leave. (Example: Questioning eligibility sets them off easily and they lose control. They might even invite another sketchy character, Glenn Beck, to help showcase their entrenched ideological moonbattery.) See how easy that is? More exposure to the crazy = less votes in crazy camp.
Both Trump and Rubio will most likely ignore Cruz, as neither stands to benefit much.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3400031/posts
That was an excellent article by sundance. And spot on. DT will attract more than enough cross party votes to make the cruznadians irrelevant. They could have had a seat at the table, but instead they’ll sit around carefully nurturing their grievances.
I think we should always leave the door open as the Christian thing to do, but we should not bother trying to convince True Believers of the folly of their ways.