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The Republican Establishment Is Rooting For Donald Trump Over Ted Cruz
http://theresurgent.com/the-republican-establishment-is-rooting-for-donald-trump-over-ted-cruz/ ^ | January 8, 2016 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 01/10/2016 3:44:35 PM PST by TBP

It is more than an open secret that the Republican Establishment so hates Ted Cruz that they are more and more openly rooting for Donald Trump to win Iowa.

I just got today’s Hotline from National Journal. It is behind a pay wall, but it is worth noting their top story confirms what I have been seeing and hearing.

The Establishment thinking is that if Trump beats Cruz in Iowa, they can then beat Trump with Rubio, Bush, or Christie.

But that is horse manure and if they were not all incompetent morons they would know it. These guys have not made a dent in Trump’s popularity. The only guys who has is named Ted Cruz, and he has done it by being humorous and kind to Trump.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; erickerickson; establishment; megynkelly; newyork; ntsa; pinkstain; pinkstate; politico; redstate; redstategathering; rogerailes; stfu; tedcruz; texas; trump
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So in a Trump-Cruz race, Trump is the Establishment's choice. Whatever happened to the Establishment being his enemy?
1 posted on 01/10/2016 3:44:35 PM PST by TBP
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To: TBP

Yeah meet right.


2 posted on 01/10/2016 3:48:46 PM PST by heights
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So in a Trump-Cruz race, Trump is the Establishment's choice. Whatever happened to the Establishment being his enemy?

That must be why the GOPe types, like CFG and GS, are funding Cruz's campaign, right?
3 posted on 01/10/2016 3:49:02 PM PST by JoSixChip
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To: TBP

Maybe the film is finally being lifted from their eyes. Trump at his core is one of them.


4 posted on 01/10/2016 3:50:55 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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Oh sure. That’s why all the media and the GOPers are attacking Trump and defending Cruz.

Including this jerk.


5 posted on 01/10/2016 3:50:57 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I love watching you Cruz supporters scrape the bottom of the barrel in order to provide you hope. Going to the Liberal Media, and now Eric Erickson for solace. Very telling indeed.


6 posted on 01/10/2016 3:52:25 PM PST by Artcore
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Red Pink State Stain Alert!


7 posted on 01/10/2016 3:54:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Artcore

Coming from a Romneybot that admonishment doesn’t carry a lot of weight.


8 posted on 01/10/2016 3:54:50 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: TBP

The GOPe is in full panic, Rove is spinning in circles. Just ignore them and Cruz on (or Trump on).


9 posted on 01/10/2016 3:55:11 PM PST by GregoTX (Autonomous terrorism calls for autonomous defense)
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Maybe they just realize that Trump will have more than enough delegates going into the convention, and are attempting to come to grips with that.


10 posted on 01/10/2016 3:55:21 PM PST by euram
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Of the two, Trump and Cruz, which is the big government candidate?

Hint: it ain’t Cruz.


11 posted on 01/10/2016 3:55:57 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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WTF?
Erick Erickson?
Erick Erickson is the GOPe.


12 posted on 01/10/2016 3:56:30 PM PST by Original Lurker
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To: TBP

Nonsense. The GOPe have tried every type of lie and misdirection to stem the tide of their demise.


13 posted on 01/10/2016 3:57:18 PM PST by anton
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Did you EVER think you’d read something like that, when it was not a joke? Me neither. Cruz must have them losing control of their bodily functions, or something. I would be loud and proud, were I part of the Cruz Control. Maybe soon, after New Hampshire.


14 posted on 01/10/2016 3:57:57 PM PST by lee martell
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To: TBP
From Eric Erickson LoL.


15 posted on 01/10/2016 3:59:09 PM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: Original Lurker

Amen. Ericsson is GOPe.


16 posted on 01/10/2016 4:00:01 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: TBP

Someone else said Trump is OK because he will deal. I agree with that, and add that Cruz will stand on his principals.


17 posted on 01/10/2016 4:01:12 PM PST by matthew fuller (Americans want to win, especially after seven years of a muslim surrender monkey that hates America!)
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Dang, something has the Cruz crowd desperate.

Cruz can't make it through the primaries without cash from some of those in the establishment and Trump can but we're supposed to believe this ?

I guess they realize the, "Our lawyer is better than their lawyer" stuff isn't working.

18 posted on 01/10/2016 4:04:40 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: TBP

That isn’t the way it is from what I read. They want to Trump to take out Cruz and then they figure their own boys will take out Trump - which they (wrongly) figure will be easy.

This is all because they hate Cruz. I once saw Cruz described as the most hated man in the Senate. I guess you might figure this is a good thing because of who hates him but being the lone ranger is a difficult/impossible road in D.C.


19 posted on 01/10/2016 4:05:07 PM PST by Aria (Abortion = murder, the taking of a human life.)
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To: Artcore

Yes, it is. This goes along with the Rand supporters on FB.


20 posted on 01/10/2016 4:06:01 PM PST by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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