Posted on 05/03/2016 9:16:33 PM PDT by Strac6
There are two huge losers tonight and neither of them is Ted Cruz. The Cruz campaign was dead in the water after the New York primary, and in his heart, Cruz knew it.
One of the realities of politics is that money is the grease that enables the political engine to go forward. Due to the stunning degree of Cruzs loss in New York, and especially considering how much better than the poll expectations Trump did, Cruz fundraising was on pause after the New York primary two weeks ago.
As the election embarrassments continued for Cruz during the ACELA primaries, the fundraising stopped, DRT.
When you consider that Cruz was as much as eight points ahead of Trump in Indiana less than three weeks ago, and he suffered a blistering defeat tonight, the Cruz defeat /retreat/surrender was total, but certainly expected.
Simply put, Cruz had run out of ideas, supporters, and money simultaneously.
He will now begin to say very nice things about Donald Trump, with the hope that he can salvage something out of this campaign and not end up as nothing more than the punchline for bad standup comedians jokes.
The real losers tonight were Hillary and Kasich.
Hillarys failure to perform anywhere near her polls is a clear and convincing indication that whatever support she has, beyond the 30% labor/gay/hard left that would support any Democrat even if we had an 8 x 10 Glossy of them shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, is more shallow than the Bay of Fundy at low tide. One of the worst things for Hillary is that Gods are expected not to bleed, and tonight, she leaked all over the State of Indiana.
Tonight she lost her title as the presumptive candidate, and even worse than that, even her best supporters no longer assume even if nominated she would win the General Election.
There is an old rule that most candidates who are leading the Democratic presidential primary two years before the election never make it to the finals. You only have to look back to the recent Democratic front runners who were NOT nominated such as Clinton in 2008, Ed Muskie, Gary Hart, and so many more. Scoop Jackson, the Democratic Senator from Boeing, was so sure that he was a shoo-in in 1968, his wife had done everything but pick out the new White House China.
The bottom line on Hillary now; she is the Democratic All-Star who is about to go on the 21 year disabled list, and there is no one on the Democratic bench who has a chance. Unfortunately, there is one exception to that prior sentence and that would be a Biden/Warren ticket.
Despite all his prior protestations, if Clinton gets out, Biden/Warren will be in within 72 hours.
The big loser tonight on the Republican side is not Cruz but Gov. Kasich. Prior to Trumps overwhelming win and Cruzs surrender, Kasich was a bit of a kingmaker with his hundred plus delegates. If Donald Trump had been within 80 to 100 delegate votes to get the nomination on the first ballot, Kasich would have been in a position to demand virtually anything he wanted, with the possible exception of the vice presidency. Of course, being a reasonably smart man, Kasich wouldve called for a much more visible and important post then vice president.
After tonight, if Kasich campaign officials were to ask Trump campaign officials what they should do with their hundred plus first ballot votes, Trump officials might tell them to dispose of them in an exceptionally anatomically painful way.
If tonights Indiana Republican primary was a Las Vegas high-stakes poker game, at this hour Donald Trump would be in the 26th floor penthouse celebrating his victory with the worlds finest champagne, Cruz would be in his 1993 Chevrolet headed back to Encino, and Gov. Kasich still be sitting at the table with a moderately large pile of totally worthless chips in front of them, wondering what just happened.
Strap on your seatbelts boys and girls; its going to be a hell of a next six months!
Trump did a good job in his speech—humble, and VERY magnanimous when it came to Cruz, who he praised as being a tough opponent with a fantastic future. I wish Cruz had done the same, but I understand the disappointment in his camp. Hopefully he’ll return the favor, though his comments earlier today might make that tough too. He needs to take a few days, calm down, and come out with a pledge to help defeat HRC, the real enemy. Hope he does so.
“Id bet a dollar to a donut that the DemocRATS are all over the FBI right now begging them to indict Clinton.”
It’s there only chance to replace Hillary at this point, who’s going to be eaten alive by Trump.
Due to poor health, Hillary does not have the ability to appear in public often, and when she does, she performs extremely poorly unless she has all of the questions in advance and the answers memorized, she has no ability to speak extemporaneously, and when she does speak, she comes across as harsh, nonempathetic, and unlikable.
Additionally, Hillary is going to try to remain invisible an campaign via intermediaries while no one speaks for Trump EXCEPT Trump, which means Trump will be on the air ALL the time, and Hillary will almost never appear. This dichotomy will become evident to even the most clueless in a short while.
Rush was much more subtle than the others.
He’ll probably pretend he was never against Trump.
A mixed metaphor! It produces a ridiculous scenario.
How well he does is going to determine who her veep candidate is. Whether she is going to be seems to go back to the center. At last she is going to have to put off going after Trump for a little while. He, on the other hand, can get some free air time to go after her.
Doesn't he always position himself as a commentator?
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Rush is very smart and subtle.
He loves to use double entendres to mock people.
I liked it when used it against liberals, but when he started using it against his own listeners who supported Trump, it really turned me off.
Cruzifer got out to protect his Dad. That Trump got him to go ballistic and on the same day he dropped out is also more than a coincidence.
Trump would be saying over and over that he thinks someone needs to look into the Oswald Cruz connection.
Some say he was a agent of Cuba, some say it was CIA.
What is true is it is him in many pictures with Oswald, and many people wonder if he knew Oswald planned to assinate JFK.
I think Cruz ended this line of inquiry by surprising everyone less than a day after he said with certainty he was going to stay in the contest.
Well, that's one on me. I always thought he was a straight ahead kind of guy. Can you give an example?
Cruz certainly surprised his Nebraska campaign chariman.
Less than an hour before Cruz bowed out, I heard the Nebraska chairman say that the Indiana defeat had no impact on the Nebraska primary, where the Cruz campaign was making an all-out effort.
As for Rafael Sr., I wonder when he went from pro- to anti-Castro (if it mattered, if he was only in it for the money). It was anti-Castro Cubans who were alleged to be involved in the JFK assassination.
As for Rafael Sr., I wonder when he went from pro- to anti-Castro (if it mattered, if he was only in it for the money). It was anti-Castro Cubans who were alleged to be involved in the JFK assassination
Wow! Had not heard that! Now I am wondering if there actually was some fire to stories swirling around... Do you have any sources where I can go to read more?
Think of when he makes an outrageous comment, and then pretends he didn’t realize it. That’s when he’s making an overt joke out of it, but he also does it more subtly as well, when he wants to make a point but not be held accountable for it. He’s laughing at the dummies who don’t get it.
The best overt example was early in his career, when he launched a campaign against women “farding” in their cars. (”Farding,” as he later explained, meaning applying make-up.)
It goes back to his love of practical jokes in his teenage years, and is not uncommon in smart people who like to make inside jokes at the expense of the uninitiated.
Maybe you don’t understand what an example is, because I don’t see one here.
Mark Lane won a federal lawsuit defending Liberty Lobby, which was sued by Howard Hunt for libel for having published an allegation that Hunt was involved in the JFK assassination.
Lane proved to the satisfaction of the jury that the anti-Castro Cubans run by Hunt at the CIA were indeed intimately involved in the JFK assassination.
The book is “Plausible Denial” by Mark Lane.
The lawsuit was Hunt v. Liberty Lobby.
Here’s another example. Calling Trump supporters “Trumpists.” He acts surprised that they find it offensive.
Now that's what I call turning lemons into lemonade!
Vote Trump
Ruh roh...
That's not a double entendre, or anything close to it.
Here's a double entendre: "When I woke up this morning, I was feeling kind of stiff."
Get it? Get it? "Two meanings"
My biggest reason to turn against Ted was his inability to state exactly what he would do regarding the illegals crawling all over this nation. His weak reply of ‘we’ll have a dialogue about that’ was the end for me.
I could never believe he was sincere in his desire to do what Americans are screaming for.
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