The NYT hates conservatives. The NYT also hates Christians and patriotic Americans. The NYT supports leftists and those who hate America.
The NYT is currently praising speaker Ryan. They love Ryan's quote, "Politics can be a battle of ideas, not insults". They also love "politics must be about uniting people around principles and specific ideas—not impugning motives and playing to anxieties and fear."
Ryan is clearly the favorite of the NYT and is portrayed as an alternative to Trump.
The problem is, what are Ryan's ideas and principles? No one seems to know. But that doesn't stop the media from praising Ryan as a man of ideas.
If chosen by the GOP, he only has one job - to lose to Hillary. His ideas and principles are second to that job.
“The problem is, what are Ryan’s ideas and principles? No one seems to know.”
For starters, see Mitt Romney’s principles. Then check out Karl Rove and the Bush family.
1) To change 'Ryan is clearly the favorite of the NYT' to 'Ryan is clearly the favorite of the GOPe'
2) '...and is portrayed as an alternative to Trump' to '...and is portrayed as an alternative to Trump and Cruz.'
Small changes, sure, but seminal. And unless Trump and Cruz settle their differences now, they will both lose the convention. Unless they join together, it will not matter how many delegates Trump has (as long as he's short of the target), nor what stratagem Cruz works at to try and get an advantage in subsequent convention votes (as sharp as Cruz might think he is, the GOPe is sharper and craftier and nastier and has been doing this for decades). Trump and Cruz will either win together or die separately, and it is up to them to decide what they prefer.
As for the GOPe ...losing the General is an acceptable loss, and is a few ways preferable to have either Trump or Cruz win. I could explain that sentence, but in the interests of time chose not to. However, when one understands it then it becomes very clear that the purposes and aims of the GOPe are not the same as yours.
We've all watched the crooks in Congress who know how to SAY the 'right' thing... they DO have professional speech writers and focus group leaders to guide them afterall...
The problem isn't the words - it's what they're actions.. Their meaningless words are only manipulation.. They lie to us about everything. Protecting the borders? Yeah right... while they're taking millions for ‘speeches’ from the CHEAP LABOR EXPRESS...
Guess who wins?
We get the great sounding phrases... the crooks who buy our congressmen's 'speeches' get ACTION. They get laws that are enforced. We get lies.
The New York Times sucks.
Cruz Goes 11 for 12 in Iowa
http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2016/04/10/cruz-goes-11-12-iowa/?
When Cruz lost the South he did not have a strong ground game and delegate stealing strategy. Nor was he apparently familiar with all the tricks and games the GOPe had set up thru the various state primaries. However, the GOPe did have an established delegate system in place as well as the man-power in all the states.
So when Cruz called them for help they took over his already lost campaign. It became nothing more then a Stop Trump vehicle, not a Pro-Cruz Agenda. So all this delegate wrangling is mostly by GOPe people not pro-Cruz people.
Which is why, they are so confident that if Trump loses the first vote the GOPe can put in who they want.
I will never, ever vote for that clown Ryan. It wouldn’t surprise me if this jerk wears one of those toe rings. I am so sick of girly men like Romney & Ryan.