Agree. The hard core Cruz supporters may disagree, but the fault in this relationship failure lies predominantly with Cruz.
Think of a football analogy. The defense you are facing is strong and dug in. You need a bruising fullback to wear them down. That’s Trump. Let Trump pound the defense for 4 or 8 years.
Then you swap the Trump fullback for the Cruz tailback, who exploits the weakened defense for big gains.
You don’t put in the tailback first as he’s not beefy enough to deal with a fresh defense (which the Uniparty is right now). Trump is the person best able to defeat the GOP and Dem establishment, along with their MSM collaborators.
Also Trump is 69, Cruz 45. Cruz could easily wait 8 years, gain experience and stature as VP, and still be a super-young 54.
Cruz has a maturity and patience problem. Me Me Me Now Now Now is what probably has put a permanent crimp in his political future, which is a shame - and was totally avoidable.
Trump and his supporters have been juvenile.
Trump has never lost a single primary.
Every single primary and every single delegate has been “stolen” from him.
His team reminds me of the Gore team in 2000.
From the first primary in Iowa, Trump has behaved as a child— refusing to debate before the Iowa primary and calling anyone who won’t yield to him a liar.
“The hard core Cruz supporters may disagree” well you got that part right. Just remove the descriptive adjectives and you get a true statement.
I could not agree more with your analysis. In one sense I cannot blame Cruz, because after eight years of Obama it seems like it is the Republicans’ election to lose. Hence the very intense competition for the top slot. However, since nothing in politics is guaranteed, Cruz would have been much wiser to have bitten his tongue every once in awhile. At his age, the world was his oyster. Now, things are so polarized that I wonder if he will have another shot at the presidency any time soon.
Agree. The hard core Cruz supporters may disagree, but the fault in this relationship failure lies predominantly with Cruz.
Think of a football analogy. The defense you are facing is strong and dug in. You need a bruising fullback to wear them down. That’s Trump. Let Trump pound the defense for 4 or 8 years.
Then you swap the Trump fullback for the Cruz tailback, who exploits the weakened defense for big gains.
You don’t put in the tailback first as he’s not beefy enough to deal with a fresh defense (which the Uniparty is right now). Trump is the person best able to defeat the GOP and Dem establishment, along with their MSM collaborators.
Also Trump is 69, Cruz 45. Cruz could easily wait 8 years, gain experience and stature as VP, and still be a super-young 54.
Cruz has a maturity and patience problem. Me Me Me Now Now Now is what probably has put a permanent crimp in his political future, which is a shame - and was totally avoidable.
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A well reasoned commentary. Earned a place up there with the best of Best of FR.
My guess is that he'd only have to wait four years, as I think that Trump would lose interest in the office after the first term.
Say no more.