Posted on 01/12/2016 7:54:36 AM PST by Isara
As Erick noted recently, the GOP Establishment and their talking heads are eager to frame Ted Cruz as too conservative to win in November.
“We’ll take anyone!” the Establishment is saying, “Even Trump over Cruz.”
As I wrote the other day, these are the same political pygmies who have put the Republican Party in the state that it is in today. Rudderless, easily rolled by the Obama Administration and more interested in money and power, not principle, this chattering class is terrified of Ted Cruz and what he means to their futures.
Eager to undermine Cruz, they have moved from whispering to shouting, “He CANNOT win!” in hopes that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Here’s the problem they face.
Ted Cruz is beating Hillary Clinton right now. He can win in November. The Real Clear Politics poll average now has Ted up 2% points over Hillary Clinton at a time when the GOP 1) does not have a nominee and 2) has not put the full force of the party machinery behind its candidate and against Hillary.
As others have written, Cruz has the kind of campaign it takes to win both the primary and the general election. The poll numbers are now backing this up.
So. . . tell me again how Ted Cruz can’t beat Hillary?
For full disclosure, I am currently helping with the Keep the Promise efforts, the Ted Cruz super PAC.
Because he doesn’t flip a single state Obama won. He takes no votes from the Dems.
Hillary plays the female card and easily keeps Va, OH, PA, NM, NV, MI, NC, and just maybe even takes Arkansas.
I’ve yet to see any credible indication that Cruz has any appeal outside his base. If this was 2012, then there might have been a credible opportunity. Today with a “fresh” candidate, with first-mover advantage (first female president), playing the identity politics card? Not looking good.
Now if Sanders was the sure-bet nominee, then all bets are off, and even Jeb couldn’t lose that one.
And now MoveOn.org has overwhelmingly endorsed Bernie Sanders over Herself.
Astonishing that this front group for the Soros international cartel should make such a paradigm shift.
Team Hillary should still remember that MoveOn.org endorsed Barack Obama in 2007, and that pretty much put “Paid” on her campaign from then on out.
He could beat the tar out of most anyone in the debates, but sadly, I feel he would lose in the general election.
This is the complimentary reminder Ronald Reagan was far to conservative. No way could he beat Jimmuh boy Carter.
If a carbdoard but out of a space Alien can’t beat Hillary then this country is done. No one wants her but the media and the elites in both parties.
Slyfox has a crocodile tear in both eyes.
Because he doesn’t flip a single state Obama won. He takes no votes from the Dems.
Hillary plays the female card and easily keeps Va, OH, PA, NM, NV, MI, NC, and just maybe even takes Arkansas.
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Then, by your logic, we need to nominate someone that is further left than the Democrats. We have nominated Dole, McCain and Romney, candidates that blurred the lines between leftists in the Democrat and Republican parties. They, obviously, didn’t work out.
Who do Republicans have that has a very leftist history and can once again blur the lines between leftists in the Democrat and Republican parties? If only we had a candidate that supported every one of Obama’s economic policies, that praised his Sec of State and that could even out-left Bernie Sanders by talk of nationalized healthcare and nationalizing banks.
Or, the Republicans could nominate someone that runs on the conservative principles of federalism and constitutional restraint and argue these tried and true principles work over socialism. Where would we find that candidate? Nah, we’ll just go with the lefty nominee again. It always works out so well.
“No one wants her but the media and the elites in both parties.”
Well, you forgot bitter old divorced women.
Trump is more liberal than Cruz hence the GOPe preference for him.
The appeal of Trump is that he puts lots of states and EV that Obama won into play.That bad news is that we have no assurance that he would not flip SCOTUS the wrong way.
You pays you money and
youthe voters takes its choice.It is not a given that Hillary will be the Demo nominee. It actually looks like her campaign is taking on water pretty fast . . .
Then, by your logic, we need to nominate someone that is further left than the Democrats”
Not really.
Those states have GOP governors, and legislators. Michigan is dominated by Republicans in fact.
But you have to be an almost larger than life personality to tip them into the red. Candidates like Romney and McCain could never get their heads above the media fog to even dare get most of them (not to mention they sucked all around). Even Bush never won Michigan.
Do I think Cruz has enough to stay out of that media fog? Not really. Is he better than McCain and Romney? Yes, but not enough to control the media narrative.
Okay here’s how: the media will ask him about his citizenship every day until November - but that’s a settled issue and would be stupid to keep asking. Would it be any stupider than running with scumbag Harry Reid’s “Romney hasn’t paid his taxes for ten years?”
Or Romney’s “Women” book is an insult to women - stupid yes but it didn’t stop the media from repeating it over and over.
Oh and Cruz will bring up Bill Clinton’s rapes - yeah you think they’ll cover it? Do you know who Charles Woods is? Probably not but that doesn’t mean you’ll hear about him any times soon because that doesn’t “fit.”
Cruz would be starved for money because the cheap labor express wouldn’t give him a dime; and the rest of his donors could never make up the difference.
No Cruz is not electable.
Okay here’s how: the media will ask him about his citizenship every day until November - but that’s a settled issue and would be stupid to keep asking. Would it be any stupider than running with scumbag Harry Reid’s “Romney hasn’t paid his taxes for ten years?”
Or Romney’s “Women” book is an insult to women - stupid yes but it didn’t stop the media from repeating it over and over.
Oh and Cruz will bring up Bill Clinton’s rapes - yeah you think they’ll cover it? Do you know who Charles Woods is? Probably not but that doesn’t mean you’ll hear about him any times soon because that doesn’t “fit.”
Cruz would be starved for money because the cheap labor express wouldn’t give him a dime; and the rest of his donors could never make up the difference.
No Cruz is not electable.
That doesn't even begin to make any sense. Pennsylvania and North Carolina are full of stupid, brain dead women?
Exactly How does Hilary Clinton play this “female card” you keep bleating about when Bill Clinton is the biggest serial rapist never to have stood trial for his crimes?
Did you think that blacks wouldn’t fall for Obama?
ID politics is brainlessly easy to run on, and shamelessly effective.
What does that have taken do with anything or what we are talking about here?
Blacks always vote for the Democrats. Nothing new there.
The point I am making is, if Trump is losing to Hilary Clinton in the popular vote(like he is right now), he will lose to Hilary in the electoral votes.
On the other hand if Ted Cruz is beating Hilary Clinton by 7 points(like he is right now),Ted Cruz will beat Hilary Clinton in the electoral vote too. Because, 99% of the time, the person that wins the popular vote, wins the electoral votes too. Bush 2000 was an aberration.
“The point I am making is, if Trump is losing to Hilary Clinton in the popular vote(like he is right now”
Latest polls shows almost everyone beating her
Both of those faces look like hemorrhoids on a pigs butt.
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