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“I picked a bad month to quit smoking crack.”
Ted Cruz
Cruz has to be all sorts of frustrated. This election should have been his. He had a gameplan that would have worked in almost any other year.
A solid traditional campaign, combining appeal to evangelical voters and the anti-establishment wing of the party, in a year of the outsider. It should have worked.
Win Iowa, finish respectably in New Hampshire. Rebound in South Carolina as a springboard to Super Tuesday. Concede Florida to Rubio or Jeb. Continue the dominance in the plains, pick off a few mid-west states, and it's over.
Instead, he he's played second- or third-fiddle to a hugely popular billionaire who has somehow captured he imagination of the common man while jetting about the country in his private mega-plane, while everyone else is on a bus-tour.
He's been kissing babies, while the other guy is treating children to helicopter rides.
As much as he's not my favorite candidate, and he never was, I can't imagine the puzzlement he's feeling. It has to be hard.
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