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Why Ted Cruz Could Win the GOP Nomination. In 2020.
Slate ^ | March 18, 2016 | William Saletan

Posted on 03/19/2016 1:14:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: COUNTrecount

Trump went up 13 points, whereas Cruz went up only 1 point and Kasich went down 1 point after Rubio dropped out.


Cruz is just not an attractive candidate. The more he talks the less people like him.


81 posted on 03/19/2016 7:12:56 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

How many candidates does this make that you have supported to only have them toppled by Trump? Must be very frustrating for you by now. Trump will not only win over Hillary he will trounce her and enter the White House with a mandate.


82 posted on 03/19/2016 7:13:24 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“Best path forward is to join together and unite behind Ted Cruz for 2016!”

It’s the ONLY path forward. Anything else is a step backward.


83 posted on 03/19/2016 7:26:48 AM PDT by Buck-I-Guy
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To: Gaffer

““What is Ted willing to concede to the likes of the Glenn Beck mentality,...”

That isn’t an answerable question. Glenn Beck is a moron, but he isn’t part of a Cruz administration, and won’t be.


84 posted on 03/19/2016 7:39:32 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: Beagle8U

Again, there was a second part to that question. All of us evidently realize the Glenn Beck connection is inexplicable, but nonetheless “there it is”. Why?

Neil S&L Bush and the answer to grudging support now by GOPe forces like Graham et al?


85 posted on 03/19/2016 7:41:58 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

“Neil S&L Bush and the answer to grudging support now by GOPe forces like Graham et al?”

Because they have no choice. It’s Cruz or lose in a landslide.


86 posted on 03/19/2016 7:50:01 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: Beagle8U

Look. We are at an impasse and I realize you won’t face the facts but I don’t fault you for it. Realization is a real bugaboo to face. But there is no one here that can tell me Cruz can win when my Southern State of Georgia and every one of the states that surround in (even one or two over from that) have voted against him preferring Trump.

You can’t take the Kasich, Rubio and whose ever votes and automatically convert them over into some mystical incantation the gives all them to Cruz in a Trump/Cruz matchup. Nor can a media push poll that contrives scenarios with multiple candidates still on the field that unequivocally indicate Cruz is somehow the winner in all this. Coffee. Wake up and smell it.

What you wish and want is just not going to be.


87 posted on 03/19/2016 7:55:40 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Beagle8U

What will Trump give all those liberals in exchange for their vote?


This question needs to be asked over and over again. The Trumpers are all excited because he is supposedly attracting all these liberal voters but what will he have to do to keep them in his camp? He’s already said SS and Medicare are off the table, rarely, if every, mentions our debt.


88 posted on 03/19/2016 7:59:35 AM PDT by LMAO (I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
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To: Gaffer

“What you wish and want is just not going to be.”

A trump nomination isn’t either, ever.


89 posted on 03/19/2016 8:08:18 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: irishjuggler

Ted is dead to me after what he has done in his dirty ticks.


90 posted on 03/19/2016 8:09:44 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: LMAO

“He’s already said SS and Medicare are off the table, rarely, if every, mentions our debt.”

He did say he would give them Bernie’s heath plan.


91 posted on 03/19/2016 8:11:01 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: Beagle8U

Just another stealth statement that you and your compatriots will not ever support Trump as a nominated Republican candidate and will not vote ever for him, even though you won’t unequivocally say that. It is your Cruz way or the highway.

I’m done discussing this with you.


92 posted on 03/19/2016 8:11:52 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

He will never get the nomination, but my opinion won’t have anything to do with it. The party will never allow Trump to have the nomination.

I already voted for Cruz in the MI primary.


93 posted on 03/19/2016 8:20:46 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: Beagle8U

You have a great day, really.

I don’t know what else to tell you but that if the GOP does steal the nomination from him going into the convention with the requisite number, there will be a catastrophic butt load of down-ticket blowback in voting. I know there won’t be one damned Republican I’ll vote for.


94 posted on 03/19/2016 8:25:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

OMG! don’t tell Ted you are gearing up to pimp him on FR in 2020. Nobody deserves that. LOL!


95 posted on 03/19/2016 8:26:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Gaffer

You have a great day also.


96 posted on 03/19/2016 8:51:26 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: Lib-Lickers 2
>> look at Cruz’s numbers in in the finished primaries of Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Virginia, and Michigan and tell me again how a guy who is running on nothing more than I’m the most far right wing guy to run for President EVER is going to be elected in a general election? <<

I love how you Trumpsters claim to loathe the "GOP establishment" more than anyone else, yet you repeat the GOP establishment's "only moderates can WIN" talking points verbatim. Quite ironic.

Perhaps that explains why so many Trump supporters in the Illinois primary voted to re-nominate our worthless uber-RINO Senator and entrenched beltway Congressman. "Destroy the establishment", my butt.

97 posted on 03/19/2016 9:57:45 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: ripnbang

He will be in long enough to block Trump’s majority. Then - SHOCK - he will recognize the futility of his path. Eventually, he will come to be associated solely with his being a tool of the GOP bosses misdeeds and never be heard from again.


98 posted on 03/19/2016 10:25:22 AM PDT by anton
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To: Beagle8U
What will Trump give all those liberals in exchange for their vote?

To quote Joe Biden: Three letters J-O-B-S

99 posted on 03/19/2016 4:10:53 PM PDT by CapitalistCrusader
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To: Maine Mariner

That is very true, and something that people are not thinking about. If the Democrats win this year, there will be a far smaller chance of them losing 4 years from now. The demographics are changing, and they are changing to the benefit of the Dems. Love it or hate it, that cannot be denied. We need to take all our victories NOW rather than wait for a later that may never come.


100 posted on 03/19/2016 9:06:38 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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