Posted on 04/27/2016 11:07:30 AM PDT by jalisco555
From: Rich Danker, Lone Star Committee founder
Date: April 24, 2016
Re: The 2016 Republican race
For those of you who have supported the Lone Star Committee's independent expenditures and operations, I want to give you an overview of what we did, how it contrasted with other organizations' efforts, and most importantly, how and why I believe the race has run its course with Donald Trump besting Ted Cruz as the presumptive GOP nominee. This includes an analysis of Cruz and Trump's respective strategies, especially in the critical early voting states where we played a role.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Trump sees America, Cruz sees useful idiots.
Donald J. Trump Foreign Policy Speech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3425205/posts
“The only candidate whose speeches cable news regularly aired live was Trump.”
“”Cruz delivers every sentence, no matter how generic, as if he imagines himself reciting the Gettysburg Address.” Tough, but true.”
LOL! People are sick of being lectured at by politicians.
I have never seen a presidential candidate as comfortable around the press as Trump.
Trump sees fans and Cruz sees allies in reforming the Republican Party.
Have to go back to the Roosevelts. They didn’t love even Jack Kennedy as much as they did FDR. For Jack’s sake, they hide his infirmities and his infidelities. For FDR they hid the fact that he was totally crippled and in 1944 that he was a dying man. To be sire, Jack was more likable and FDR had great personal courage.
Reinstalling the Republican Nobility you mean. No thanks, they've had their shot. Multiple shots, in fact. You kiss the feet of the Nobility if you like, not me, not ever again.
Every time they spew the same BS while running, including the trash about downplaying the issues that are really important to people for the sake of winning, then run as fast as they can back to the gravy train and rubber stamp whatever the Globalists and Neocons want.
Enjoying their repeal of BarryCare?
Like the result of their stopping the deficit spending?
Yeah, you have a lovely day
I think that you have really got something there. Cruz creates a very condescending feeling all the time. One feels like he will not share what he really thinks except in private. Trump is very open and willing to speak his mind to everyone even when it probably would be just as well not to. This makes it possible to twist his words into something that was not intended, but it also makes one feel like all of America is part of his inner circle.
I have enjoyed some of the unscripted moments in Trump's events the most. I don't think that there have been any unscripted moments in Cruz's events. This makes people feel like they are getting to know the real Donald Trump and that they do not know who Cruz really is.
Next to Dr. Sam Francis’ essay written in 1995 predicting someone like Trump. This is a pretty good analysis and fits right in with what Francis said 20 years ago.
Some good points but misses the mark.
Example: “voters wanted an outsider”. Cruz intentionally avoided that perception early in the campaign (downplaying his anti- illegal immigration view most obviously) letting Trump grab that position.
And Cruz’s campaign strategy was centered on getting delegates in the early southern primaries. Failing to do that put his entire campaign in a shambles which he could never recover from.
Ronald Reagan was extremely comfortable around the press
In a nutshell, Cruz has lost to Trump because he ran as a professional politician, using the semi-permanent professional campaign apparat to slice and dice the voters into various interest groups while limiting access to the mainstream media. Trump has run a broad campaign appealing to a large number of GOP voters on a few critical issues: immigration, economic security and an America First foreign policy.
I believe Trump will win the general election on those issues, and will expose all of the Clintons' and Obama's malfeasance to boot, blasting through the media barrier. He did that today about Benghazi, tying Clinton's and Obama's failures there directly to ISIS' gains.
Awkwardly stated but there's the money shot.
Real good read.
There ain’t nobody in this Pres campaign for me particularly not Killary and Stinky.
I saw Cruz speak in person about 3 years ago. He gave a canned politician type speech and did not take many questions and seemed to want to get out of there. When he declared for Pres after just 3 senate years that was a bad sign and he was not ready. Relying on the politico pro hucksters was a BIG mistake. Just about everyone I know despises the politician pitch letters and especially how the TV and radio commercials speak to you.
All of the imbecile moronic doofuses on the Trump/ Cruz threads bitching at each other is utterly revolting and I suspect others besides me have gotten to the point of avoiding reading nearly all of them.
I hope now that Trump will make the effort to start trying to sound like a grownup instead of a snarky junior high girl. The Rat commies must be defeated.
Not only will he beat her but he's the only Republican who could beat her. The only one impervious to the Clinton/DNC/MSM slime machine. I love the way that Democrats say the GOP should nominate someone "sensible" like Kasich. They'd destroy him if that happened.
Yeah.
But the difference is that Ted ‘ s allies have an H1B.
My email inbox has been flooded with spam from all the presidential candidates. I even got pitch letters from Lindsay Graham! John Kasich sent me an email today bragging about his second place finishes. The only exception has been Trump, and it's remarkably refreshing.
Because it wasn't true and he knew he could not convince people that it was.
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