TED CRUZ TROUNCING DONALD TRUMP IN TEXAS

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is leading 2016 GOP presidential rival Donald Trump by 15 points in the senator's home state, according to a poll released Thursday just days ahead of Super Tuesday.

Mr. Cruz was at 38 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in Texas, with Mr. Trump at 23 percent and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 21 percent, according to the survey from Monmouth University conducted from Monday to Wednesday.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was at 6 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich was at 5 percent.

"Cruz looks to be well-positioned in Texas.The challenge for him is that a lot of other states are also on the slate for Super Tuesday," said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmout University Polling Institute.

Texas is one of 11 states where voters will head to the polls Tuesday to make their selections for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, and its 155 delegates up for grabs is by far the most of any state.

Other recent polls on the state have ranged from a tie between Mr. Cruz and Mr. Trump to a 15-point edge for Mr. Cruz, who is trying to demonstrate that he is the only candidate in the race who can take down the billionaire businessman.

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a better than 2-to-1 advantage over Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont, 64 percent to 30 percent.

Thank you for the sanity of your post. These are my sentiments exactly. I was incredulous that the candidate who went to the Senate and did what he promised the voters he'd do (incurring and withstanding the wrath of the establishment, I might add) was being trashed and the profane, flip-floppy reality star was being hailed in the same manner Obama was in '08. I was convinced I was being punked.

You spoke the truth when you identified the tactics as those of Saul Alinsky. We've become what we detested.

Regarding that weird story Trump was selling as to why he had his pro-life epiphany, it was a convenient one but not believable. I almost couldn't believe my ears when he said, "Friends of mine years ago were going to have a child, and it was going to be aborted. And it wasn't aborted. And that child today is a total superstar, a great, great child. And I saw that. And I saw other instances." My antennae went up, and apparently I'm not the only one. Another individual expressed it much better than I could:

...I find it difficult to cheer Trump's conversion, because the reason he gives for being pro-life doesn't correspond to the pro-life ethic.
Trump says he is pro-life because of a "superstar" child who could have been aborted.
Consider how he responded to a reporter who wondered if he would have become pro-life had the child been a "loser": "Probably not, but I've never thought of it. I would say no, but in this case it was an easy one because he's such an outstanding person."
To summarize Trump's view: "I'm pro-life because we shouldn't abort fetuses that may grow up to be outstanding people."
But opponents of abortion take a different position: "I'm pro-life because we shouldn't kill innocent human beings, no matter who they might grow up to be."
Trump's reason for being pro-life depends on the potential outcome of the child in the womb, rather than the fact that there is a child in the womb. But the pro-life ethic is grounded in the inherent worth of all humanity. It is wrong to commit violence against innocent human beings. Full stop.
And that's where, ironically, Trump's position sounds similar to the pro-choice idea that the human fetus is "potential life" or that the value of the unborn depends on whether or not the child is "wanted."....

Too bad none of his enablers, e.g., Hannity, Doocy, Kilmeade, Limbaugh, etc., have the huevos to insist that Trump expand his explanation to resolve the inconsistencies.

BTW, the middle finger/patron saint explanation is a classic! I'm probably going to need steal it at some point. I'll try to remember to give you due attribution. :)

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