Cruz’s mistake was running a campaign of ideolgoical purity in a year when voters are fed up with poltics as usaul.
All the high flying retroic on ideological purity are meaningless to a voter who been underemployed since 2008,is worried if his employer is going to move his job to Mexico tomorrow and whose kids go to a corrupt, incompetent, gang infested school.
People want solutions, not “how many Conservatives can dance on the head of a pinâ€, ideological debates.
“Cruz’s mistake was running a campaign of ideolgoical purity in a year when voters are fed up with poltics as usual.”
I’ve been thinking about why Ted is self-destructing and my conclusion is that Ted started his Presidential run well before Trump was a factor and was unable to pivot to a different, longer term strategy when Trump came in and totally blew up the entire political scene.
I think Ted had it all calculated out about how he could beat a big field of split RINOs, and then Trump came in and beat him at his own game, and Ted simply could not accept temporary defeat and live to fight again on another day.
Ted’s crapped his bed - and now is getting covered with the stink of it. He’s done that of his own volition. He’s committing political suicide.
Someone once told me, “If someone hands you their head on a platter, why not take it?”
That is what Cruz has done. Very stupid to hand someone like Trump your head on a platter. He’s going to use it. Watch him dominate the new cycle this week with all the ammunition Ted gave him. For being so brilliant Ted sure pulls some bonehead moves.
I never dreamed Ted would have burned “principled” to ashes on the altar of winning like he has. Amazing Ted’s book title is “A Time for Truth”. I bought it.
I couldn’t believe Ted forgot Trump was the only one to mention the names of two conservative judges he’d consider appointing at the beginning of the debate. Instead the “brilliant debater” with “a photographic recall of the spoken word” LIED and said “Trump will appoint liberal judges.”
Wow. What a stupid tactical mistake. It shows canned soundbites overruled smart tactical maneuvering - Ted didn’t recognize the battle field changed with Trump’s mentioning the two conservative judges he’d appoint. He ran with the canned soundbite anyway. Very bad mistake, very bad tactical judgment. That was stunning. Ted’s just another status quo puppet politician. I’ll too vote for him as the nominee but it will be a default “cream of the crap vote for me”.
There I fixed it. No candidate has ever won a nomination or the presidency on a campaign based on nothing more than "I'm the real conservative". This was a fatally flawed strategy from the onset, regardless of the particulars of this election cycle. This strategy has never won, and will never win. If that's all you have, you will never survive a primary. Even Ronald Reagan, easily the most conservative ideological President of most living peoples life time did not run for the nomination on a message of simply I'm the real conservative.
“People want solutions, not how many Conservatives can dance on the head of a pin, ideological debates.”
I agree. We need politicians that are honest, ethical and loyal to America and to make our country prosperous for its citizens, instead of the political baloney that has us promoting PC, wars other countries, and the self promoting greatness of political Parties.
Cruz’s mistake was running a campaign of ideolgoical purity in a year when voters are fed up with poltics as usaul.
All the high flying retroic on ideological purity are meaningless to a voter who been underemployed since 2008,is worried if his employer is going to move his job to Mexico tomorrow and whose kids go to a corrupt, incompetent, gang infested school.
People want solutions, not “how many Conservatives can dance on the head of a pinâ€Â, ideological debates.
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Exactly...Trump is the only one that can win.