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.
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.
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.
It is brilliant, but (toot my own horn) I said in this forum in August at the latest Trump would be the nominee. This writer could have just read the columns and posts here on FR-—many people said exactly these things-—for some time.
Many of us said that Trump’s lack of specificity was an advantage, not a drawback, because his 12-poin plan couldn’t be deconstructed. We said Cruz’s “ground game” would be useless in large states. We said Trump had his finger on the pulse of the people, listening to what they said.
But where we all said something he didn’t is this: Ted just proved unlike able on the campaign trail and Trump proved more like able.
Finally, he ignores the “holiness” factor. There is nothing wrong with running a “Puritan” campaign. Coolidge did it. But you can’t even have the perception of foul play (the Carson stuff) or poor judgment (the porn star in ads) or back room deals (CO). That stuff hurt Cruz big.
This is worth reading.