Posted on 03/31/2016 8:30:24 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Caddell said he believes the GOP Establishment is “using Cruz as a catspaw.”
“Look, you don’t really think that Jeb Bush, and Lindsay Graham, and some of those who have endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)… you don’t really think they want Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), do you?” Caddell asked. “They’re using him to stop Trump.”
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If Trump can’t recover and get the delegates he needs, Caddell thought Senator Cruz would likely find himself discarded after the first ballot at the convention, his usefulness to the Party bosses at an end.
“If they can stop Trump, then Cruz will pick up some more on the second ballot… but I don’t think they’re gonna nominate him,” he explained. “I think they will then move to nominate, to try to nominate an Establishment figure, someone who hasn’t run. I think that will blow the Republican Party up.”
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PING!!
Cruz is soliciting for his supporters to pay off Walker’s campaign debt!
The Texas senator took to Twitter on Sunday to urge his followers to donate money to help retire Walker’s lingering 2016 campaign debts.
“I stand with my friend @Scott Walker & hope you will too!” Cruz tweeted to his “#CruzCrew.”
Cruz then linked to a donation page for Walker’s campaign.
Cruz' PAC sent a boatload of $$$ to Fiorina, so he can do the same for Walker. Or was that really hush money? Now he's out pimping for loser Walker who supposedly can't manage a budget so what does he think Walker knows?
Ya know, I'm still waiting on all those freebies King obama promised 8 years ago. Maybe Cruz can send out tweets for me.
Go Pat Go!
Wow! Did he ever pin the tail on the donkey!
Right!
GOPe tried to stop Trump via their handful of RINO candidates.
Didn’t work.
Two front runners are the most conservative (yes, they are...despite the juvenile fighting they both have been doing).
So GOPe next figures to now stop Trump via using Cruz.
Then GOPe dumps and/or demonizes Cruz and gets a Convention where they can give the middle finger to the Republican Base who want either Trump and/or Cruz.
And nominate Dole, Romney, Bush, Kasich or some other RINO loser.
The GOPe works for the U.S.Chamber of Commerce who are tired to having to go all the way to China, Mexico, etc to have $1 per hour workers. They want it here so they can proudly claim “Made in America” (by $1 per hour workers...a few of which may even be legal)
If Ted Cruz thinks Republicans like him, he’s a fool. But whatever it takes to eliminate Trump, right?
IMHO, Cruz has no chance for the nomination unless one of the following happens:
1. He arrives at the convention with 1237 rock solid delegates who can’t be bribed or intimidated.
2. An alliance with Trump which would create a Trump-Cruz ticket. Only a combination of their delegates would create a tamper proof delegation.
Ryan denied wanting to be speaker, even as he was dictating terms for his speakership. The GOPe has deluded themselves into believing that Ryan is the most popular Republican since Reagan. Their fondest dream is of a Ryan led Crony Capitalist plunder of what is left of America.
I agree.
I have moved on with regard to Cruz though.
I no longer wish to support him for any purpose.
For the good of his country and his family, Cruz should step out of the race.
The fact that he refuses to proves that he cares about neither, only his own narcissistic ego.
Caddell is a solid guy, had been for years. He’s not a raving, lying, scumbag Democrat in the post 1992 mold. He calls them as he sees them.
For that to happen, the delegates must specifically pass a rule before the first ballot allowing candidates who did not run to be listed on ballots at the convention. I doubt the Trump and Cruz delegates, who are by far the majority, will pass such a rule.
Pat Caddell is right. If this gets to a contested convention Cruz is screwed after the first ballot.
FYI
I'll put some money on that crazy scenario.
Caddell is a Democrat and a supporter of Hillary.
He wants Hillary to get elected and he wants her to run against Trump.
Trump can’t beat Hillary.
Trump is not prepared and has not done his homework. It is very obvious to all but his supporters.
It will be an interesting election.
democrat Caddell supporting democrat Trump. trump vs. hillary, win, win for democrats.
He has not worked on a campaign since 1992—24 years.
As per Wikipedia:
n 1988, Caddell left Democratic consulting firm Caddell, Doak and Shrum after what the Washington Post described as an “acrimonious lawsuit.”[3] Republicans would often cite Caddell’s tirades against the Democratic Party when they spoke on the floor of the House and the Senate.[4][5][6]
His analysis on polls and campaign issues often puts him at odds with the current leadership of the Democratic Party. He has been criticized by media watchdogs and columnists for predicting negative consequences for the Democratic Party.[9][10] Critics point out that he has defended the Bush administration by arguing that Republicans did not exploit the issue of gay marriage in the presidential election of 2004.[citation needed] He also denounced Democrats in the House who voted against the Palm Sunday Compromise, which sought to reinstate Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, as “cold blooded,”[citation needed] and called environmentalism “a conspiracy ‘to basically deconstruct capitalism.’”[1]
Caddell is a regular guest on the Fox News Channel, and he is listed as an official ‘Fox News Contributor’. This has earned him the label of a “Fox News Democrat” by critics such as liberal opinion magazine Salon.com.[1] He has also frequently appeared on the conservative website Ricochet.com discussing politics.[11][12][13]
According to Slate,[14] Caddell was involved in identifying people willing to participate in the 2012 anti-Obama documentary The Hope and the Change, produced by Citizens United.
Campaign style
According to a 1987 profile in the Washington Monthly:
“Caddell believes the key to winning contemporary elections is appealing to ‘alienated’ voters—that ever-growing group of mostly younger voters who are not easily identified as liberal or conservative and don’t trust government, politicians, or the parties. You can’t lure these voters with programs and stands on specific issues, so the theory goes. Rather, you must remain as uncommitted as they are. You lure them by attacking that which caused their alienation: the Establishment. Even if he were inclined to help his candidate address the nation’s substantive problems and articulate a coherent package of solutions, he’d have trouble.”
From the description above, Trump is exactly the candidate Caddell would be behind...not a democrat...not a liberal.
I think the RP is allowing to many democrats to vote in Republican open primaries.
Trump is a democrat - liberal - with no policy except a few sound bites.
He is not prepared - he not done his homework and he can not get 50%+ of the Republican voters. He is trying to destroy the Republican party by his stupid remarks on women and helps the democrats. He lies and denigrates the principles of conservatives and republicans - he wants bigger government and more taxes - more national health care and federal control of education.
Enjoy the fall of America.
Who cares?
Trump is the only candidate who isn’t almost identical to Hillary in the long term.
End of story.
Just another stupid comment by a Trumpster.
Trump has shot himself in the foot. Oh He walked it back.
Are you going to follow him off the cliff?
Oh we can just watch Trump self destruct and make sure he takes down the Republican party so Her highness Hillary can be crowned!
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