Posted on 12/27/2015 3:35:16 PM PST by Isara
It was as if conservatives had to find a candidate who wouldn’t be “Palin-ized”. The common mantra that gets repeated is, we needed a candidate that would be able to tip-toe through the landmines that the Marxist media set for them. The Marxist Media along with Holywood elites put together a shock and awe campaign and many weak minded chicken littles scurried away in fear after they went after Sarah Palin. Such a self defeating paradigm created in the minds of people who can’t think for themselves.
Fair or unfair, Sarah Palin was inadequately prepared to take on the Marxist media.
From the first time Sarah Palin sat down with Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson for a pre-recorded hatchet interview she was doomed from the start. You could blame it on John McCain and his campaign for not allowing her to defend herself and fight the media. I think Sarah was ultimately responsible for allowing the media to do this to her. She put herself in a position to not adequately defend herself and her family and it doomed her.
Ever since Reagan left office, there’s been a growing victimhood mentality among Republican voters. A sense of hopelessness and weakness has grown within the ranks of conservatives. A sense that anytime we have a strong conservative the media will take them down and silence their voice and our voice. We have been infuriated for too long with seeing conservatives getting brow beat by the Marxist Media.
Ted Cruz has changed the Media Paradigm.
We now have finally seen a once in a lifetime candidate like Ted Cruz. Not only is Cruz a principled conservative he has the ability to turn the tables on the media and doing it all with a smile on his face. Cruz is never visibly frustrated with media interviews. Cruz never puts himself in a position where he can’t defend himself. Cruz is always on offense and puts the media on defense. Cruz is fighting back the media narratives and he’s not spending millions of dollars to do it either! It’s quite breathtaking.
The 2016 everyday conservative feels confident. Unlike the 2008 and the 2012 typical conservative, we are not wringing our hands over the Establishment destroying our candidate. 2016 Conservatives are not frustrated over the media narrative sinking our candidate because they won’t fight back. We are seeing a more disciplined, organized campaign coming out of Ted Cruz then we have seen in our lifetimes. We are seeing the opposite affect. Conservatives are seeing The Marxist Media, Establishment candidates and Democrats being completely obliterated by Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz has become the buzz saw. Whatever he hits he destroys!
Ivan Drago - Whatever He Hits...HE DESTROYS! Rocky IV (Video)
Fox News has become a laughing stock
Unlike 2012 when conservatives felt hopeless when Fox News owned the Establishment spotlight and endlessly shilled for Mitt Romney, we are seeing that Emperor Roger Amnesty Ailes has no clothes. Steve Deace has pointed out that just because Fox News has a large audience, doesn’t mean that the Fox News viewer is in lockstep with what Fox News believes. Fox News’ large audience right now is working against them. There are just way too many informed voters who are seeing unsavory characters like Karl Rove repeat the regurgitated Rubio and Christie SuperPAC lies that are very transparent. Fox News viewers are seeing Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz’s campaign and Ted Cruz’s colleagues in the Senate and Congress utterly annihilate Fox News’ feeble attempt at propagating their lies.
To be honest I would get a little annoyed that Fox News Sunday would have an endless array of interviews with irrelevant candidates like Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Marco Rubio. The meme for Fox News Sunday seemed to be, “Anyone but Cruz”. I now hope that Fox News continues their biased pattern. In fact, I hope they continue to shill for anyone but Cruz. They shilled for Scott Walker. How did that work out for them? They shilled endlessly and continue to shill for Jeb Bush, as if the first 12 years of Bush “leadership” ended well for the country. Now, thanks to Fox News, Jeb continues to sink in the polls.
This past week, when Ted Cruz went On the Record with Greta, many of the Establishment thought that because Greta shouted over Cruz at least five times & repeated herself over and over: “what should we do with the 11 million illegal aliens” that it would somehow hurt Ted Cruz. It did just the opposite.
The next couple of days, all of the Rubio Super PACs — the same ones buying ad after ad on Fox News — and all of the Fox News lies had zero affect. We continue to see Ted Cruz rise in the polls and dominate. It really didn’t matter how much money Rubio spent. Fox News and the media cannot stop Cruz. It didn’t matter what they did. Fox News is too stupid to realize that they look terrible, especially as they continue to double down their opposition to Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz has “Palin-ized” Fox News. So much so that they can’t recover from it.
Ted Cruz CLEARLY has two standard deviations of IQ on Greta (and most of the other media also). I almost felt sorry for Greta as she loyally carried out her Fox News marching orders and tried vainly to bring down Ted Cruz.
The author’s take on this whole situation is SPOT ON!
Cruz is clearly the candidate who deserves our support. If Trump is the nominee, prepare for some cringe-worthy moments in the debates.
Let’s give Palin her due: among many other things, she caused the MSM to pull out their heavy ordnance and display their battlefield tactics, so that the next principled conservative would know what to expect. If it weren’t for Palin being Palin-ized, Cruz wouldn’t have known what to expect, and how to counter-attack it. If you know yourself and you know your enemy, you will win a hundred battles.
And here lies the problem; Fox News shouldn't "believe" anything other than reporting news events. When they start to "believe" they become hopelessly biased and we all ready have more than enough of that.
“Ted and that other guy (this is a Cruz thread, after all) are truly the revenge of Sarah Palin. Gotta love it.”
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Company Man, in view of your tagline (Keep on Trumpin’) it’s clear you are a Trump supporter. I commend you on your WONDERFUL attitude and decency. We (constitutional pro-American conservatives) are all in this together and I wish all Cruz/Trump supporters would share your approach. It’s an approach that will lead us toward VICTORY and not self-destruction.
Fox goes out of their way to talk Bush and Christy, both low numbers doesn’t justify.
Nope, the back-stabbing harpy Nicolle Wallace set those up, especially the series with her "best friend forever" Katie Couric, who stalked Palin around for hours and days, getting bits and pieces of footage that she then edited into a single major hit job. Palin did the best she could, but ultimately the blame lies with McCain for isolating the governor from her own trusted staff and then foisting those loser hacks (including Schmidt) on her. If Palin failed at anything, it was that she tried to too hard to play ball with the very people who were trying to destroy her, instead of reminding them (and McCain) that she was an elected, sitting governor of a very important state, and to back off.
I honestly like Cruz. As a conservative he’s at the top of the pack.
But the electorate is not going to elect a “conservative”.
The only way to win is to go with someone that can pull in whites, blacks, hispanics. Republican, democrat, and independents.
Otherwise we get Hillary.
It’s good to see articles from conservative sources pointing out what has become inescapably obvious about Fox News. My fervent hope is that the blowback is eroding their ratings too. It would also be a lot of fun to see a President Cruz not give them their much-coveted presidential access.
Cruz does a very good job of handling the press. They spew out something nasty and he responds in a very calm and logical fashion. The media is not used to that and most are not trained on how to handle it. He difinately classes them up a bit.
Who truly fits that bill though? Jeb? Carly? They are so low in the polls and currently have no shot unless RNC and GOP pull something wonky.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you are for Trump. I actually do not see an appreciable difference between Trump and Cruz. They are both smart, though I would give the edge to Cruz, they both know how to win and don't back down from what they believe and they both believe that America is the best country in the world and want to repair the damage caused by liberals and the communist muslim in residence. If Trump can draw the groups you say are needed then so can Cruz as they are two peas in a pod so to speak. I would be comfortable voting for either one. Oh and I think Reagan was Conservative and was easily elected by the electorate......twice.
“Who truly fits that bill though?”
It would be Trump. Cruz as VP...
I think you are wrong about that and this guy agrees with me.
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