Posted on 04/11/2016 4:21:10 PM PDT by markomalley
Well christie has disappeared and Carson has been damning trump with faint praise.
I looked at your stats.
FWIW , they are useful — but I think your poll is really measuring the degree that Cruz conservatives are being drummed out of here.
I wanted Cruz to play a role too last July thought about October. Then things began to change. I learned more about him, and his statements didn’t hold water. I began to have some strong suspicions about him.
Now he’s just out and out GOPe, no bones about it IMO.
I’m not inclined to support him any longer.
Well over the years we have more often agreed than not.
good luck
Cruz may think he’s a shaker and a mover, but many of us do not see him that way.
Trump is a massive people mover. He gets them behind him, and they are very happy to support him in massive numbers. What does this mean for us?
It means that when Trump gets in, he will have the power of the bully pulpit. If Congress tries to fight him, he’ll be able to take it straight to the people. The people will tell Congress to knock it off.
Why is this important? We have got to address certain things in our nation. We need a strong man to do it. Cruz simply isn’t that man.
Ted is winning closed caucuses where the GOPe is very strong, controls things and guarantees their man will win.
Ted is their man. There’s just no denying it.
So here we are having spend decades trying to put the RNC in it’s place, and here Ted is doing it’s bidding. He is defeating Trump for them.
Trump is the best chance for real change we have had in 100 years. Why do I say this?
Trump has had mutli-layers of management teams under him in a massive international enterprise. This is exactly what he will have as president, and he thrives in that environment.
He delegates, gets reports, takes action, and keeps thing moving. He meets his deadlines, his bottom line, and keeps 22,500 people employed.
The platform his is running on covers things we have wanted done for decades. He will do them.
Ted says he will, but Ted’s credentials don’t qualify him to do any of this. He has never had to meet a significant bottom line. He hasn’t managed bug projects. He has never had to deal with a multi-layered international group of employees and their directors.
Trump will hit the ground running, and probably produce ten times the work that Obama was capable of.
Trump is bringing some of his hi-finance men with him for gratis. They want to help him get the budget under control, and they want to do it for free. We’re talking top rate financial men, that Trump has worked with for decades. Ted doesn’t have this type of resource.
Trump has run his campaign on a shoestring. He has explained how he will get Mexico to pay for the wall. He is talking about paying down the debt. Ted talks about reduced spending. Trump is always a jump ahead.
We have at least 40 million people out of work right now. If we put them back to work, that will produce about $0.9 trillion in government revenue. Some folks say we actually have about 90 million out of work. I don’t know about that, but the 40 million is solid. If we can put 80 million to work and save some money on other programs, that comes very close to $2 trillion dollars, which is what it will take to almost pay off the federal debt in eight years.
That wasn’t even on Ted’s radar.
So here we are, a chance in a generation, and Ted Cruz is short circuiting it on behalf of the GOpe.
Yes, that does cause some long time Conservatives here to go ballistic at Ted.
You too...
It sounds like the FR caucus is too much work. Thank you so much for your effort, and maybe we don’t need to do it all the way to the convention. I just mean that if you wanted to stop, it shouldn’t hurt anything. It is what it is, between the two camps here at FR. It probably won’t change much. I wholly appreciate your sacrifice in getting t all done every night.
Anybody who thinks Drudge is a “sellout” or “bought by Trump” hasn’t been following him. Matt has always been an anti-establishment populist. From the beginning he has been all about how the Internet gives power to the citizen-journalist and takes it away from the big news corporations.
Listen to his recent interview on that InfoWars show (yes I know, but listen to what Drudge says). He is STILL all about people power. That is why he likes what Trump is doing.
My guess is you started seeing more “anti” Cruz articles highlighted on Drudge the more Cruz slipped under the covers with the GOP establishment.
As far as I’m concerned, Drudge is one of the few people out there who CAN’T be bought. He says he already has enough to support his lifestyle. Sounds kind of like Trump in that respect.
Until now. Cruz has a gift for creating enemies.
>Anybody who thinks Drudge is a “sellout” or “bought by Trump” hasn’t been following him. Matt has always been an anti-establishment populist. From the beginning he has been all about how the Internet gives power to the citizen-journalist and takes it away from the big news corporations.
It really concerns me that anyone on the right would attack Drudge. I don’t know why he supports the right but he would be a weapon of mass destruction for the left. I’m just glad that he always supports us in the end.
Thanks.
There are millions of very good people in New York. I don’t appreciate when people bash areas of the country like they are holier than thou. I hate it when people make fun of people who live in Appalachia or simply live in trailers. You know that is bigotry in the highest?
I find that Drudge’s tendency in the past few years to link to Alex Jones articles very interesting.
Does this mean that Alex Jones should be considered to be rehabilitated by FR or does that mean that Drudge is becoming a conspiracy theorist and should be discounted?
The dates! So Editor shifted what he learned in the “8th grade” from 2011 to today just because of Teddy Cruz. Of course!
Drudge posted this retort:
CRUZ IN JANUARY: ‘We have got the Drudge Report’...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/24/ted_cruz_we_have_got_the_drudge_report_the_mainstream_media_stranglehold_is_over.html
Cruz might have ‘outmanuevered’ Trump in Colorado, but BY DENYING VOTERS a chance to even vote? That is brazen contempt for us in ‘flyover country’.
That is SHEER HARVARD ARROGANCE!
I’ve won a few fights through kicking guys in the nuts, but it’s nothing to brag about, is it?
The honorable thing for Cruz to do is to suspend his campaign.
He’s losing public support with elitist stunts like this. He’s dividing the anti-anti-leftist base.
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