Posted on 10/21/2015 9:16:14 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
People want an outsider. A sitting senator is, by definition, an insider.
Two part answer:
1) Most people except Cruzians don’t think he can win (I, for example, don’t).
2) Most people aren’t doctors and most people haven’t been up close and personal with Academic Medical Center Department Chairmen, so they aren’t engaged with your perfectly cogent and correct reasoning about why such a person would make a lousy President.
I believe Carson’s unfitness for the office will be exposed, and most of his voters will go to Trump.
You should be scared. How do you think I feel - I can’t enjoy commercials like a regular person! LOL!
“My idea would be Cruz/Lee or Cruz/West”
Do you have a theory about how either of those tickets could win 270 EVs?
Fear of Hillary -- or fear of whoever the Democrat nightmare du jour happens to be, and everyone assumed it would be Hillary in 2007-early 2008, remember? "Anybody but Hillary" was the battle cry of Republican sheep, and they got their wish, they got Obama -- fear that has been deliberately instilled in you by Democrats/MSM is STILL poised to bamboozle you into voting against your own interests. You are being manipulated by way of fear, and you are falling for it like a sucker for a con.
Fear is useful as a warning but a VERY BAD guide for making choices. WHEN o when are you going to finally figure that out? It only took me about 34 years.
A Cuban and Latino on the ticket destroys all the Democrat attacks. Forces a discussion on the real issues
Nope. Political theory is a fools game that is wrong pretty much every time. Its what RINOs like to spout as they spiral into defeat again and again and again.
I will vote my principles PERIOD.
You seem to think that as long as a patriotic successful businessman is overseeing the application of "better" government to solve problems, it's okay. And you're right, he's best at that and that is what he'll do in the four years he's in office -- create MORE GOVERNMENT, only his kind of government; in the end, should Cruz follow up, he'll have even more government to roll back than he does now.
See my tagline. When Trump starts surprising you by doing things you didn't intend to vote for, you had better be willing to be accountable for them.
I support Cruz 100% anyway, and I take his so-called shortcomings H1B and (TPP also)in context of his whole immigration plan (enforcement first) where others here just toss them out in an out of context fashion.
TPP should never have passed accept for the fact that our government is lawless.
There is nobody who would be better to defend the Constitution and rule of law in this country than Ted Cruz. The most hated man in Washington DC.
He is most assuredly not an insider!!
Either that Graphic is wrong or I’m Color Blind.
Do they have one including The Jebster, or his picture supposed to go where they have Trump’s picture?
Americans see that, and after 20-plus years of betrayal, they love it. They want it. And that drives the GOPe absolutely bonkers.
Simply delicious.
I agree with you. Senator Cruz has always been my first choice because he has MOST effectively demonstrated that the MAIN cause of our distress as a nation is that we have ignored God and His ways.
Carson’s numbers went up when he called out Islam for the evil that it is. He should greatly admired.
In other words — yep, worship of marketing is very scary.
“Ok, I’ve got to ask. Why Martinez?”
Voting for someone because of their ethnicity or gender is what LIV’s do. Martinez is a decent governor at best. She has a horrible advisor who leads her down the establishment path. He had her campaigning for Christie, perhaps in hopes that Christie would actually go somewhere in a future presidential bid. She went squishy on 2A issues, after promising to never do so, and that’s when many here in New Mexico saw her as a traitor.
Friendly persona comes across in media coverage and he gets lots of media coverage
He is IN Washington and not of it.
AMEN. Ditto here.
You still didn’t answer my question. I get that she’s Latino, a woman, etc., etc., but what does she bring to the table with the ability to lead a country going through arguably, one of its defining moments in its history. Governor of New Mexico? Ok....what has she accomplished? Did she control the border in her state to the ability she could? What has she done with respect to Obamacare and expanding Medicaid funding? Did she cut spending state spending? Did she reduce size of government and prevent it from sticking it’s nose where it doesn’t belong? Again, don’t check the boxes and tell me why she can be elected, tell me why she can lead and make things happen.
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