Is Ted Cruz Electable?

Had Enough Therapy? ^ | April 11, 2016 | Stuart Schneiderman

[Liz]

There's a lot of moaning and groaning about how ill-prepared and disorganized Trump’s campaign has proven to be...... vis-a-vis Lyin’ Ted's delegate grab........

Now let's be clear....Trump was not ill-prepared or disorganized. Trump's running his campaign like a businessman....when you win, you win. There's no going back to redo the deal. It's iron-clad.

But lowlife Ted ....the human cockaroach....is crawling around 24/7 grabbing delegates he is not entitled to.

If there were any failings, it's b/c the Trump people just did not envision the likes of a scumbag like St Ted, reworking the rules to HIS benefit.......the Saint is obsessed w/ Trump hatred, bent on undoing Trump's wins.

When candidates lose, they gracefully bow out. St Cruz Gives a victory speech. His maniacal lust for power tags him as the kind of candidate the Framers of The Constitution wanted the new Nation to avoid.

AS FREEPER SAM ADAMS76 POSTED: "Cruz would love to have Trump’s 'delegate problems.' Trump is hundreds of delegates ahead and about to ring up a couple hundred more before this month is up. What happened to Cruz’s much ballyhooed “ground game” in the Deep South? He had his head handed to him by a Yankee. I don’t see much Cruz ground game here in New York either. Except for some footprints in the Bronx where he made a rather hasty retreat. I guess Cruz isn’t in Kansas anymore." (hat tip Sam Adams 76)

My gripe is con artist Cruz sees a "party rule" and connives to make it work only to HIS advantage.

Crux is exactly the type of candidate w/ an obsessive thirst for power that the Framers of the Constitution wanted the new Nation to guard against.

Cruz is fond of using his numbers as an anti-Trump-vote ...but Cruz never applies Trump's votes against himself.

If Trump won by staggering numbers....that means Cruz lost by staggering numbers.....many many more rejected Cruz than they did Trump.

Does this look like Trump was rejected?

Trump.....8,256,309.... 37.0 1%....758 delegates

Cruz......6,319,244....28.33%.....533 (plus all he can steal)

Cruz keeps losing and losing. About time he bows out gracefully and admit he lost. And he should stop finagling the numbers.

[VanDeKoik]

Cruz was in single digits last year. His only saving grace was camping out in Iowa.

That didn’t even give him momentum going into to the south, where he lost ever contest.

Outside of caucuses, his home state, and places where the Gope just flat-out rigs it, he has literally no appeal.

[QuigleyDU]

In short, not a chance. What a waste of time of an article.

To win the general an R has to win both FL and OH, Cruz was crushed by Trump in FL by 600,000 voters, and in OH by 400,000. If the GoPe led convention boots Trump, Cruz won’t get 50% of those votes, so no, he has no chance. Nor does any other R but Trump.

And then there’s this, the R’s lose senate and house seats all across the country.

Nothings changed since that Fl and OH tuesday, it’s Trump or Hillary.

[ripnbang]

And Cruz is none of those.

[ripnbang]

Guam?

[usconservative]

Voting for yet another ivy league lawyer who became an elected official who has not even finished his first term is insanity

For a second there I thought you were talking about Obama .... LOL!!!!

The parallel's between Lyin' Ted Cruz and Obama are stunning aren't they?!

[ripnbang]

Yes, and the same is true in the Cruz camp. The difference is the Trump supporters that say they will not vote for Cruz is because they’ve had enough of the Ivy League lawyer/politicians who sell out the country. Perhaps if the party is destroyed, we can start anew for the benefit of the country...not the political class.

[PA-RIVER]

Electable in Canada, yes.

Being a documented Canadian,
He has a disqualification that Chester Arthur was only rumored to have. Canadian citizenship at birth on canadian soil.

They never proved it with Arthur.
Ted Cruz has proved it himself.

[Leaning Right]

Here's the problem. As we all know, the media is in the pocket of the Democrats. So any GOP presidential candidate starts with a major disadvantage. One way to overcome that is by name recognition. Joe six-pack knew who Reagan was well before the Gipper was nominated.

Cruz just doesn't have that important advantage. That doesn't mean that we should nominate only big-name candidates. Because Jeb has a big name, yet he's a complete dud.

Nevertheless, Cruz has a problem here. He will lose as Goldwater did. Goldwater was a good man, and a patriot. But Goldwater couldn't overcome media bias to get his message across. The exact same thing will happen to Cruz.

[my small voice]

No, he’s not unforunately.

[Reddy]

Bingo. Trump supporters have gone out of their way to trash Cruz and will ensure a pyrrhic victory for hiLIARy if trump isn’t the nominee.

I will vote Cruz or trump in the primary, but will never vote kasich.

[silverleaf]

C’mon man, Cruz made himself what he is
Stop blaming Trump for the man Cruz is or isn't
It's just that a whole lot of what he “is” wasn't real apparent until the past couple of months and it still is not clear abut who he might really be because any questions or doubts are met with hysterical charges of Trumpism
“Roger Stone” is the new “Karl Rove” and “Halliburton” and Trump is the new “Bush's fault”
we've been through this
and we are not impressed

You know when Ted lost me and lot of other people?
When he stood by and smugly criticized Trump for inciting the violence that was planned and caused by thousands of Soros-funded violent demonstrators who shut down Trump's attempts to speak in Chicago

That action was without principles, much less the ones he claimed to represent

I mighta gotten over Slick calling Trump supporters low educated and low info and his dicking around with Amanda Carpenter who knows how many other toots

but when you ally with Soros, you are gone

Game over man, game over

[Tupelo]

Good article. B U T;

I see no way either Trump or Cruz can beat Hillary. Their scorched earth campaigns have not only turned off a large group of voters, but has negated the chance they might team up, which might, just might lead to a victory.

Of course the GOPe is more interested in maintaining the status quo than winning with either Cruz or Trump. And at this point if they slip in one of their acceptable candidates, the Trump and Cruz supporters will guarantee a Democrat triumph of historic proportions.

[Archytekt]

the press will NEVER let Cruz win, Trump may be big enough to go over the press

[scooby321]

Let's start with Must win States

Virginia

Florida

Ohio

Ted came in Third in three States he MUST win.

He did not win 20% of the Vote in those States

He did not win a SINGLE County in those Three States.

Cruz Bots add I don't think he has a Chance in Colorado now. That is Four States he can't lose but can't Win.

So Cruz Bots how does he win losing those States?

[Fhios]

tl;dr

No.

1. He’s not a NBC U.S citizen.
2. Many people are going to drop their self identification with conservatism while remaining essentially as conservative as they where. Only the Rino Conservatives will be left.

[manc]

the media has not even started on cruz yet, but when they do it is going to be a firestorm of hell, and his supporters will act all surprised.

[deport]

What state will Ted Cruz win that Romney did not?

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2012 Romney 206, red .. Obama 303, blue ... 270 needed to win blue

[Leaning Right]

Their scorched earth campaigns have not only turned off a large group of voters, but has negated the chance they might team up, which might, just might lead to a victory.

That's a very good point!

Question: Who has behaved more stupidly during the primary season, Trump or Cruz?
Answer: It was a trick question. It's a tie. They have both crossed the Major Stupidity threshold.

[Fai Mao]

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