Posted on 04/19/2016 10:55:49 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
Ted Cruz isn't messing around. Donald Trump is probably going to come up just short of the number of delegates to win the Republican nomination on the first ballot — and it's mostly Cruz's fault.
Cruz and his campaign team have been working the delegate selection system hard, and grabbing delegates wherever they can find them. From the beginning of the campaign, his outfit has shown itself to be one of the most-savvy, technologically well-equipped, and hardest working units in politics today. It is as if his campaign is saying, "Sure, Donald Trump may end up with more votes by the end, but we will have the delegates, the institutional support, the donor support, and the working knowledge to run a national campaign. Trump won't."
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Lawyers set traps...
“By contrast, Cruz is a man who seems to have received his entire political formation within the ideological hothouse of the conservative movement.”
It’s Cruz’s fault for trying to win a race?
Freaking morons!
Cruz studied the rules of the game and is trying to win under those rules. Okay. Trump has practiced how to get attention and is winning the most votes by getting attention, whether positive or negative. I’m okay with that too. May the best man win.
Another hard hitting opinion piece from this “author”
The Republican Party can recover from Donald Trump faster than you think
http://theweek.com/articles/615609/republican-party-recover-from-donald-trump-faster-than-think
This guy.... is on the NeverTrump and NeverCruz bus...... He probably is a Kasich or an original Pataki supporter.
>> Cruz... is trying to win under those rules. Trump... is winning the most votes by getting attention... May the best man win.
Thoughtful, pragmatic attitude. I like it.
The Conservative can’t win argument, so vote for a squish like Kasich.
I realize that many will find this hard to swallow but Ted Cruz was not born a “Natural Born Citizen” any more than B Obama. The whole point of saying that the president needs to be a Natural Born Citizen, an appellation that only appears with regard to POTUS, is to prevent someone like oh say a Saudi prince or Vadimir Putin from having a child by an American and that child running for president. Back when the constitution was written there was a definite fear of foreign Kings and Queens trying to horn in on our republic. So a vote for Ted is a vote against the original interpretation of the constitution
And that’s a bad thing?
Wow!Thanks for the rare moment of common sense here. Seeing people complain about Cruz working within the rules to try to get every delegate possible is sad. He has the far more advanced campaign organization and that’s a big reason he’s one of the last two contending. Trump has basically no organization and complains when he ignores the details and gets beat. He is winning and losing ground at the same time because he didn’t build an organization. If he loses by a small margin to the magic number, it’s 100% his fault for ignoring an important function of the campaign. As you said, may the best man win.
Sure if we ignore all those bush crony years...
didn’t you know that playing by the rules makes a person Beelzebub?
Perfect cartoon... except it should caption Trump shouting “FOUL!”
LOL. Conservatives used to believe in competition, now some of them proudly embrace socialism. It's sickening.
You really should be in the back of the bus. Play by the rules.
“I realize that many will find this hard to swallow but Ted Cruz was not born a “Natural Born Citizen” “
50 states and several judges disagree with your opinion.
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