Alright, Trump is the only one of the 17 who could win. I liked others could have taken Cruz or Walker. Don’t write me about their merits. They proved to be good on each side of conservatism. But Trump had something that those two did not have. Trumps money did not go away when the going got tough. When everyone left Trump for dead, he still had his money. And secondly, Trump showed that he had far more energy than even his handlers. Trump out campaigned everybody. Trump worked it hard for 16 months.
You can see my second point with reference to both Jeb and Hillary. They both had more cash than they knew what to do with. But they did not have the energy to personally show up every day and every night in front of thousands of people. Trump did. Remember Trump going to a rally in California, getting out of his motorcade on the highway and walking to the venue over guard rails and through bushes. Jeb and Hillary would not do that.
And here is the dirty little secret that kills most candidates. Even if they want to stick to it. Their money gets weak in the knees. Rubio would have kept fighting. But his money wouldn’t. Money almost always gives up before the candidate. But Trumps money was not going to quit.
Cruz had just loaded his coffers with over 10 million dollars.
He had a well greased ‘steal the delegate’ back deal to claim the nomination at the convention.
But his dirty little secret began to unravel in the form of his father’s past work in New Orleans with LHO.
And it’s so funny that Poppy had to have been the only one with memory & knowledge to have uploaded that old CIA tape of Rafael & LHO as insurance. That tape was made public the year prior when they assessed that Ted could be standing in Jeb’s way to the coronation.
And the tape blew up in the Bush face after Jeb & the rest were defeated and Ted was the only globalist left standing. The insurance they tossed out there eventually sealed Ted’s demise. So ironic and so funny.
Lee Harvey Cruzwald.