Posted on 05/03/2016 4:24:02 AM PDT by detective
Agree. He actions at the Iowa Caucus set the standard for his campaign.
While Trump may have saved us from Bush-Clinton, the book is unwritten as to whether he will save us from the Clinton portion of that equation.
If not for Donald Trump, Jeb Bush would be the nominee.
The campaign may have been ok, but the candidate was just plain awful.
Nobody could listen to that voice and watch that horrible, phony, dramatic way of speaking without being turned off. Crooze was counting on the Christians who stayed home last cycle to come out for him. Many Christians, however, can spot a con job when they see one. He was done as soon as the nation realized the dirty stunt he pulled on Dr. Carson, a truly nice man.
I’d say prime time wanted nothing to do with Crooze.
Both Cruz and Trump are outsiders, hated by the establishment of both parties. The GOPe would rather have Hillary elected than either one of them. The best path to beat back the establishment is for them to join together. That’s not likely because of the poison between candidates and their supporters.
Never Hillary!
“Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) has run a brilliant campaign, and if it were not for Donald Trump, he’d probably be on the verge of wrapping up the Republican nomination by now.”
In what universe?
If Trump wasn’t in this, then it would have been Jeb wrapping it up, with Scott Walker, Carson, Rubio, Rand Paul, and Rick Perry splitting the rest.
Cruz was in single digits all last Fall. He used Trump to clear out the other contenders so he didn’t have to get his hands dirty.
Without him, he would have been a footnote.
Yes, indeed.
One of the telling moments of this campaign was in the CBS Debate when the moderator Dickerson called out Cruz for misstating facts of history.
It's in the first minute or so of this video.
When Dickerson caught Cruz in a lie, to see Cruz's reaction was precious. Lyin' Ted caught with his hand in the cookie jar :-)
From his recent antics, I'm of the mind that trump did us all a huge favor by coming along when he did.....
I agree. Jeb would have been the man.
Agree. The GOP primary is child’s play compared to what’s ahead in the general election. Blumenthol, Podesta, Begala, Carville, and their mediaPACs are gearing up for the dirtiest campaign in my lifetime.
Great graphic!
I used to love hearing him debate. Now he sounds like some pettifogger twisting the truth in a preachy condescending whiny voice.
Cruz: ‘We Are Neck and Neck in Indiana…This Election, The Next 24 Hours, Are Absolutely Pivotal’
And from a Cruz supporter:
FLOWERS: Ted Cruz, the delusional magician turns desperate
By Christine Flowers, Contributing columnist, Updated: May 2, 2016 7:44 am
Imagine if I toured Pennsylvania wearing a crown, going from every diner to gas station announcing myself as Miss Pennsylvania, even though I never participated in the pageant or won anything.
The point I inartfully am trying to make is that one does not put the cart before the horse, especially if one’s horse is three steps away from the glue factory.
Which brings me to Ted Cruz. The Republican presidential candidate, who is trailing Donald Trump in both delegates and the popular vote, is not only not throwing in the towel, he is wrapping it around his head like a turban and pretending to be a magician who will – poof! – extract a convention victory out of Carly Fiorina’s mouth.
On Wednesday afternoon, Cruz announced that Fiorina would be his vice presidential running mate in the general election, which he has apparently convinced himself he will compete against either Hillary Clinton or the person who hires a member of the Salvadoran drug gang mS-18 to kidnap the former secretary of state and keep her incommunicado until November. Because, essentially, that is the only way Hillary “Make Sure You Don’t Forget the Rodham” Clinton will be AWOL come autumn. She is inevitable.
Cruz, on the other hand, is far from inevitable. His numbers, while better than Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s, are nothing compared with Trump’s juggernaut. And while the political honchos are still weaving scenarios in which there could be a contested convention and Cruz could snatch the nomination from Trump, those of us who are not hitting our heads against the Looking Glass have sadly come to realize it will be a Trump-Clinton contest. This is sort of like the “Rumble in the Jungle” between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, only with more testosterone.
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/opinion/flowers-ted-cruz-desperate-magician/
I think Cruz played the system game well, but did not run a brilliant campaign. Trump entered the race and single handedly destroyed Jeb Bush and by association the other favored old guard establishment candidates in the race. Cruz kissed up to Trump early because he knew Trump was doing a job he could not do, but he miscalculated thinking the people would tire of Trump and by default fall to him.
But for Trump, illegal immigration would not be a discussion point in this campaign to the extent it is now. Cruz would not have been able to move the discussion there as did Trump.
If no Trump, I think we are probably looking at Marco Rubio as the nominee of the Republican Party.
“The author thinks Cruz is done. I think Cruz still has a chance if there is a brokered convention.”
The race ends when Trump hits 1237. Not a day sooner. What I think Druz did very well was push Trump to work harder for the nomination. In the early primaries Trump wasn’t aggressive nor did he have the talent on ha staff to fight a ground war against Cruz. Cuz used that to s advantage.
Trump upped his game and he is almost ready to take on Hillary.
Just out of curiosity, is this the same ObamaTrade that if it didn’t pass, President Trump wouldn’t have the ability to also negotiate trades.
I agree. From the beginning he was a smug class president and debating champion. Except when confronted by a couple of working-class men from Indiana who had more humor and moxie than the enervated Ted Cruz could ever summon. The man allowed himself to be heckled by a boy scout!
“I think Cruz still has a chance if there is a brokered convention”............
Nope! The GOPee has no love for Cruz and will avoid allowing him the luxury of their “approval”. If Trump doesn’t make the cut, a new “ringer” will be brought in by the GOPee and remember, they make the decisions, not the people.
“Ted isn’t ready for prime time.”
He never will be. This was his high water mark.
“The beginning of the end for Ted Cruz”
Or, the end of the beginning. Think Reagan and Ford.
If Trump were to win the presidency and take over the federal government, many millions of Americans will soon regret their vote. They will, perhaps, remember that Cruz is an honorable conservative.
January of 2017 will not be too soon for a conservative to begin the 2020 campaign for president.
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