Posted on 03/05/2016 11:23:51 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hahahaha!
Oh - I get it.
Ted Cruz is losing because he is not a Huckabee or Santorum.
If he was a Huckabee or Santorum then Ted Cruz would be losing miserably.
There is a difference between losing and losing miserably.
Yes, he is doing so bad that he is STILL in the race, unlike those two. I like Rick, but Mike has really been annoying for some time now.
And they won?
I am proud to have voted for Cruz today. I saw Santorum at my caucus location. I’m glad I did not stay to listen to him.
That’s ridiculous. Cruz is much more conservative than either Huck or Santo, both of whom are much more likely to involve the Federal Government in social concerns. Both are “compassionate conservative” types who will cave in to the dems/media onslaught trying to justify more federal spending on wealth transfer programs.
Ted Cruz is losing because Donald Trump decided to run. Cruz would have crushed the rest of the pack with ease and soundly defeated Hillary or Bernie or Whoever.
This isn’t Rocket Science. I know. I studied Rocket Science. You open a bottle of Coke, take swig, put your thumb over the opening, shake it like crazy and then remove your thumb and point the bottle at your buddies. Lots of fun and you get to earn How Rockets Work.
Yes, to Mitt Romney who carried Texas in the Republican primary with 69% of the vote.
Ted left the ground open for Trump to step in and occupy on the issue that is propelling Trump.
If he had been as forceful about illegal aliens when he announced as he is now, it may have been different.
Cruz could bring himself to use words like deportation and enforcement before Trump did.
Good point!
I supported Santorum in 2012, and he did well in the primaries (especially in Iowa, where he was truly robbed of his victory).
But Santorum didn't have to run against a celebrity juggernaut.
He speaks of Cruz's alleged weakness in the south ... I wonder if some evangelicals in South Carolina, who voted for Trump, are starting to have buyer's remorse?
Especially now that Trump appears to think he has the nomination sewn up. Trump doesn't seem to think he needs us conservatives anymore ... he is now lurching to the left.
Has anybody here seen my old friends Rick and Huck?
Can you see them in the mist?
I thought I saw them walking over the hill
With Lindsay, and Martin, and Chris.
This needs to be set to a melody! I think I’ve got something here!
What does Santorum do when he’s not running for president? Will he be the modern Harold Stassen?
That’s cute, Little Ricky.
But try as I might, I do not recall your stint in the Oval Office.
I really wish it were that simple. Then we could have a war of ideas and principle and knowledge. Unfortunately we are having a war that is primarily about personalities and likeability with an emphasis on macho.
Trump has built his campaign around protecting and growing jobs for Americans. A worthy cause no doubt. But the border war with Mexico is not about jobs. It is about demographics and the Democrats successful and longstanding (remember Lyndon Johnson) plan to grow the black and hispanic voting population to a point where they can gain and retain absolute control of the Federal Government. That plan is working.
Cruz is fighting the demographic fight. That is a hard sell. Trump is fighting the jobs fight - an easier fight to fight. In the long run the Cruz fight is the more important one. In the short run Trump will most likely win the Presidency by defending the American Worker - once again, a noble cause.
He is. He's able to combine Evangelical social conservatism with "constitutional conservatism." That gives him broader appeal than Huckabee or Santorum.
It's probably not enough to win -- in fact it may be a recipe for not winning -- but it still puts him out in front of one-note wonders like Huck and Rick.
I always wonder what is wrong with people's thought processes.
Understand that ego comes first and people don't like to admit things about themselves that injures their vanity and you'll have made a good start.
Good grief; Ted is smarter than both of them put together.
Was that meant as praise or criticism? Hard to tell these days.
Kazaaam! Another slam on the fine folks of Texas being easily decieved. I mean after all, Ted Cruz was the longest-serving Soliciter General in the history of Texas. . . . Naw . . . dat dont mean nuthin.
Now that we have established Cruz is not an American, does that invalidate his conservative values? Aside from Cruz being an incredidble liar and deciever (boring) you really do not believe Mr. Trump can win on his own merits?
One is not a true conservative unless you are willing to eat your own!
I was curious if a non-American individual such as Cruz can hold and espouse conservative values. Apparently not.
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