The Media Lets Trump Set the Narrative Because He Uses it to Destroy Republicans.

[dangus]

So how much have you heard in the press about Trump's casinos being the ground-breakers in using strippers?

He's always attacking Cruz' (marital) ties to banks. Ever hear the media talk about Trump owing tens of millions to banks, like Deutschebank, the bank which toppled Europe's economy, then funded the 1% movement? If they called in their loans, how nadly would Trump be hurt? Can he really oppose them?

How about Trump's foundation dumping vast quantities of money into Susan G Komen when pro-lifers backed out because of their funding of Planned Parenthood?

Every time the media bashes Trump, they give him the chance to get out the message that HE wants to get out. Despite their hand-wringing and screams of horror, they are providing him non-stop free campaign commercials.

"Yay! He's setting the narrative!" declare all of Trumps' supporters.

Exactly how long do you expect this to continue, once Trump is the target. Doesn't anyone remember how the media let McCain set the narrative in the Republican primaries in 2008... until he was nominated, and then they crucified him?

But you don't even need to wait to the general election to watch how the general public views Trump. While he has amassed a plurality of primary voters giddy with watching the news media report on Trump's antics, the rest of America hates Trump. With a passion.

No, he's not appealing to blacks. He gets 4% black support vs. Hillary Clinton, far less than Cruz' 11%.

In NBC/WSJ's mid-January poll, he lost to Bernie Sanders by 15 points. 39-54!

In Quinnipiac's early February poll, Trump had managed to push Cruz's negatives sky-high, but Cruz still ties Clinton while Trump loses by 5 points.

According to a new poll from Roanoke College, in swing-state Virginia, he loses by NINETEEN points. (Cruz also loses by four in this possibly Democrat-leaning poll... but still: Cruz does 15 percent better!

[The Iceman Cometh]

And who’s your guy?

[georgiarat]

The RNC establishment and House and Senate leadership need to be destroyed. They do not represent a majority of the base’s views.

[nickcarraway]

How dare you state the obvious? Hitpiece!

[dangus]

Trump isn’t attacking the establishment; he’s attacking the guy attacking the establishment! He promises he’ll work with Pelosi and McConnell!

[goldstategop]

Against Hillary/the Bernie, any GOP candidate right now would lose.

And if you’re thinking Cruz can win, he can’t even carry a plurality of NH Republican voters! How in the world could he win a general election?

I have a feeling this year is going to come again to whom voters hate least.

And we’re a good long way from November.

[dangus]

>> Against Hillary/the Bernie, any GOP candidate right now would lose. <<

So let’s not even try to ever win another election and just give the Democrats everything?

>> And if you’re thinking Cruz can win, he can’t even carry a plurality of NH Republican voters! <<

Right... because Hillary and Sanders are no more liberal than Trump?

>> I have a feeling this year is going to come again to whom voters hate least. <<

And Trump is hated the most of anyone.

[txrefugee]

Trump is a Democrat, and the media is laughing at the GOP for allowing their Trojan horse to run on its ticket.

[georgiarat]

These are your words defending Rubio when he was running for Senate.

“Careful the way you throw around, “BS.” Marco *may* be soft on immigration, but he is not the pro-amnesty zealot that W and Martinez were. The argument that he is soft on immigration comes from the lack of movement in Assembly committees certain state-enforcement issues, such as 287g, when he was Speaker. I don’t know the culture of the Assembly to know if such a lack of movement indicates personal opposition, but that’s a far cry from being a propenent of amnesty; he has stated, for instance, that he would have opposed Martinez-Graham-McCain-Kennedy “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.”

You were wrong about Rubio and you are wrong about Trump.

[dragnet2]

[redfreedom]

Good. The Republicans need total destruction so something, such as the Tea Party, or similar, can take control and represent the people. The current RINO’s represent the themselves first, the party second, the Uniparty establishment third. And somewhere near the bottom, the people.

GO TRUMP, GO!!1

DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

[nickcarraway]

And a man who agrees or is to the left of them and is campaign managed by one of them is likely to take them down?

[Nifster]

Your vanity post is not news.

Just because you don’t like Trump doesn’t mean your analysis is right

[GeronL]

Fox News has been boosting the Lump every hour and not mention the name of Cruz at all, pathetic

[georgiarat]

He will fight to get what he wants. Those we have in the leadership now will.cave at every opportunity to keep from appearing in opposition to Obama. He is socially liberal but on the issues that count most to me, economic and physical security, organization efficiency, and love of country and his people I agree. I am willing to fight for social issues if He can provide leadership on the key issues.

[mmichaels1970]

The Media Lets Trump Set the Narrative Because He Uses it to Destroy Republicans.

I disagree completely. They let Trump set the narrative because they are scared of him. I remember the vitriol, the laughing, the jokes, and the disdain for Trump when he first entered the race. I remember the piling on and breathless reports with each remark he made that would supposedly collapse his campaign.

Now he's got the media eating out of his hands and we pretend that they were with him all along? This is not so.

I wish the media were scared of Ted Cruz, but as of now, they are not. The media has Cruz apologizing to Carson for the umpteenth time on a national debate stage. The media has Cruz defending mailers that rank your neighbor's voting record. Donation requests that come labeled "check enclosed".

I think Cruz is fighting the media, but I question whether he is or is even capable of BEATING the media. He can take a lesson or two from Trump in that regard.

To me the media is enemy #1 if we're ever going to get this country back on track. Very little else will have an affect if you have the country blindly following a leftist cabal bent on blaming the right for everything they themselves set out to destroy.

[mmichaels1970]

Fox News has been boosting the Lump every hour and not mention the name of Cruz at all, pathetic

If Cruz was as good at fighting them as Trump is, we wouldn't have that problem.

[Dr. Sivana]

And if you’re thinking Cruz can win, he can’t even carry a plurality of NH Republican voters!
,br> Neither could George W. Bush in 2000. Should we have nominated McCain, then?

[nickcarraway]

He will fight to get what he wants: unfettered amnesty, an end to the pro-life movement, a bigger government, diminished influence of Christians?

[Thorliveshere]

He promises he’ll work with Pelosi and McConnell!

And how he's good friends with Bloomberg. We conservatives just looove Bloomberg, right?