Posted on 03/06/2016 2:08:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If you listen to Donald Trump, you would believe that Ted Cruz's huge victories in Kansas and Maine in Super Saturday were a fluke.
While Trump is still leading in delegates, he should be a little more worried about the Cruz surge.
While Kansas was always going to be a toss-up between the two, Cruz's surprising victory in Maine should not be overlooked. While Trump was spinning Mar. 5 as another resounding victory, in reality, it was a not such a good day.
Not only did Cruz obtain most of the 155 delegates that were up for grabs on Saturday, he also kept Trump from maxing out his delegates in his two primary wins in Louisiana and Kentucky. Cruz's strategy, to steal closed Republican primary states away from the New York real estate mogul, worked like a charm, and now, Cruz heads into the Mar. 8 primaries in Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan, and Mississippi with a wave that could keep The Donald from reaching the 1237 delegates necessary to win the GOP's nomination ahead of their convention in Cleveland....
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Caucus wins are not huge wins. Not only did Huckabee and Santorum both win Iowa, but each also won several other caucus states. The caucus states are oddities that don't portend success in the overall campaign for candidates.
Here’s my (respectfully) submitted opinion.
Ted Cruz is a brilliant legal mind, probably one of the best we’ve seen. He has tons of experience in practicing law, is exceptionally well-versed in interpreting the law and the Constitution He has served in a number of roles in the legal profession. But his experience is singularly confined to law. There is no management, finance, economic, executive experience. He, like Rubio and 0bama, are first term Senators who have run for President in their first terms.
In my profession, I worked with brilliant engineers, some were considered national treasures. They were some of the best in design and creation. But for the most part, when they were promoted to managerial or executive positions, they were mediocre at best and some of them were lousy.
I want someone with managerial experience, a bigger picture guy or gal, who has had to meet a payroll, run a business, has had more successes than failures and sees the big picture.
Ted would make an excellent A.G., chairman of the Judiciary Committee or Justice. But I do not see him as someone with a grasp of the larger picture or with the talent it would take to negotiate many deals, even among his colleagues.
I like Ted to an excellent tactician but not a strategic leader.
weigh, brain fart.
You prove my point.
Some of you Trump folks keep repeating this, meanwhile most of the polls say that Cruz does much better than Trump against Clinton.
Interesting theory, and I can see peer pressure having an affect in a state like Iowa where you don’t vote until the end. It would be even worse if you voted democrat due to their rules.
In Kansas, however, you could walk in, vote and leave if you wanted to. There are speakers but no one is forcing you to listen.
One thing I like about the caucus system is that voters who haven’t heard much about the candidates have one last opportunity to hear about them. I have no clue how they work in Kentucky.
Why am I not surprised that trump supporter would go 2nd grade?
Do you really want to go there: Rumpgrumpstumpslumppumpdumplump
And that’s in around ten seconds...
I did?
Interesting.
Not when the other party's candidate is a shoe-in (Hillary). What you end up with is democrats voting in republican primaries to vote for the republican they think will be the easiest for their democrat candidate to beat. Nobody should be fine with that.
You do realize that the ones who won the nomination by winning the open primaries in 2008 and 2012 were McCain and Romney, right? How did that work out for us?
You got that right. It’s the same song and dance routine and it’s getting old.
Let’s just get this primary over already.
Those two were awful candidates for a variety of reasons. Had nothing to do with their winning open primaries.
I really doubt there’s a significant level of Dems who deliberately crossover to vote in Rep primaries for the weaker candidate.
Is there honestly a single Ted Cruz supporter who thinks the GOPe is going to support him once they get to the brokered convention. At this point, any vote against Trump is a vote for GOPe.
How do you think Obama beat Hillary in the 2008 primaries, especially early on?
Trump has displayed his leadership philosophy when he suggested he’ll tell people what to do and they’ll do it. Clint may need an empty chair for Donald.
>>>>The Republican party does not need more Republicans. The Republican party needs conservatives.
Conservative democrats left for the GOP some time back.
The democrat coalition is comprised of liberal, minority and big government handout folks.
So the answer is to nominate a liberal Republican (Trump) to get their vote?
Wouldn’t be my strategy.
So is a car just pushed off a cliff.
But it's not the fall that gets you: it's that sudden stop at the bottom.
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