[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Cruz might have made a good President twenty years ago. What his base fails to account for is that the majority of voters outside of FR don’t care about Cruz’s conservative Constitutionalism.

It is not a concern or motivating force to pull the lever. A host of other issues are the priority motivators in making their choice for a candidate. Certainly, outside the republican party, his platform falls on deaf ears. Independents and democrats outnumber republicans in many states. Without their votes were are destined to lose. We are being outnumbered.

Nominating a president becomes making the decision between who might possibly be the most conservative president and who can actually win the general election.

[Night Hides Not]

What his base fails to account for is that the majority of voters outside of FR don’t care about Cruz’s conservative Constitutionalism.

You could say that about the majority of voters inside of FR don’t care about Cruz’s conservative Constitutionalism.

Ok, I just said it. That's ok, most elections boil down to personality contests, not issues.

[AndyJackson]

the majority of voters outside of FR don’t care about Cruz’s conservative Constitutionalism.

First, I am not sure what exactly that means any more, but whatever, it is an awfully abstract concept. What does that translate to on the ground in a way that affects people?

Strong defense including a wall and protecting our borders? Having a thriving economy not hampered by regulation and bad deals made by government to benefit a few?

Those are views Trump articulates. Cruz?

[TTFlyer]

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“Nominating a president becomes making the decision between who might possibly be the most conservative president and who can actually win the general election.”

It’s been that way for decades. It’s just that the last five Republican presidential candidates, chosen by the GOPe, have been bumbling, stumbling, inarticulate stiffs that most conservatives had to hold their noses to reluctantly vote for and the rest of America just couldn’t stand.

Trump is ANYTHING but a bumbling, stumbling stiff. He is Exhibit A of an Alpha Male. The question remaining is:

Does Ameerica still have enough testosterone to elect an Alpha Male or is the country sufficiently feminized enough to only elect the likes of Hillary and/or limp-wristed Metrosexual socialists forever?