Posted on 03/12/2016 2:56:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
And then there were two -- the two whom most Republican Party elected officials, donors and political consultants have identified for months as the least appealing options to be their presidential nominee: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
Yes, there are still two other men left in the race, but if Sen. Marco Rubio loses in his home state of Florida in next Tuesday's primary, as looks likely, and if Gov. John Kasich fails to win his home state of Ohio the same night, as is quite possible, both will almost certainly drop out of contention. Only Cruz will be left to challenge the Trump juggernaut.
The American political and media world has been fixated on Trump with a growing realization that he could not only win the GOP nomination, but the presidency. Democrats, at first gleeful about facing Trump in the general election because they saw him as a sure loser, are now sobering up. Trump has brought millions of new voters into the political process, and many of them are working-class folks who once were a key constituency for Democrats. If he is the Republican choice, the Democratic candidate will have to run hard to avoid being swamped by the wave of anger among disaffected voters that Trump is riding.
Still, for Democrats, there might be something worse than having Trump in the White House. That would be President Cruz....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yep...
BLM is an equal opportunity disrupter...
They troll the left and the right...
I also head that that girl with the hot dress was also responsible for her rape too.
Liberals claim that Trump and Cruz cannot win a general election. Why are they not cheering that those two are our most likely nominees? Why are those who hate individual freedom so much concerned that we might not choose a stronger candidate?
Are we talking about the ted Cruz that blamed the riot in Chicargo on Trump? The Ted Cruz that calls Trump supporters stupid? The Ted Cruz that wants to replace the USA with a North American Union (His wife helped write the CFR plan) the Cuban sired born in Canada Ted Cruz, eh. I don’t think the Rats are worried about that Ted Cruz since he is on the same team (uniparty) as they are.
Oh please. Cruz stood there last night and turned his back on Trump and every one of his supporters. He turned out to be an opportunist weasel.
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Good Grief. Have you not read the comments that Trump has made against Cruz, Rubio and his newly discovered Best Friend For Life Ben Carson?
This is a contest for the job of Most Importantant Person On Earth. You fight to win. Trump is doing that. So is Cruz.
Get a life.
[Yes, Black Lives Matter has disrupted both Sanders and Clinton rallies. You didn’t know that?]
Those who love freedom have to stand together against disruption. There is a growing number of anarchists and ‘stupid’ people who want to disrupt our nation.
Pray for unity in America.
PSALM 133
Oh, how wonderful, how pleasing it is
when God’s people all come together as one!
2
It is like the sweet-smelling oil that is poured over the high priest’s head,
that runs down his beard flowing over his robes.
3
It is like a gentle rain from Mount Hermon falling on Mount Zion.
It is there that the Lord has promised his blessing of eternal life.
The “protest” was a coordinated attack by Marxists on a conservative candidate for POTUA and Cruz sided with the Marxists! Cruz, Rubio and Kasick are doing the bidding of the anti-American, pro NWO, R wing of the uniparty. Their orders are to stop Trump. They are not trying to win. Rubio told his supporters in Ohio to vote for Kasick! Since when has a candidate told his supporters to vote for someone else. Your guy Ted Bush stinks to high heaven.
Seems true for the GOPe too.
ABC - anybody but Cruz. Can’t have a pesky constitutionalist derailing the global grave train!
Rev. Cruz only wishes he had 15 people go to his rallies.
The anarchists chose the Trump rally because there are actually lots of people at a Trump rally. It makes the headlines.
If they disrupted a Cruz rally, would anyone know?
For a candidate who likes to compare himself to Ronald Reagan, can you imagine Reagan responding to a planned protest like this?
No way.
What the Democrats should really be afraid of, in either case, is who either Trump or Cruz will appoint to run their administration.
The really spectacular and effective leaders of the past all had a talent for surrounding themselves with talent. A great example is George Washington, who definitely knew that he was not a dictator, nor could he do it all by himself, so he appointed the best and the brightest.
In the case of either Trump or Cruz, they need to recruit a legion of top people to reform the vast and malfunctioning “Akira” blob of government that we have today. And this legion will have to operate with record speed.
As far as Trump or Cruz themselves, their hardest work will be crafting this reform in ways to make it difficult to the extreme to reverse.
Much of the reform will be to discontinue programs and agencies with no constitutional basis. He will need “iron prosecutors” who will indict and try those federal officials who blatantly engaged in criminal acts, shooting for maximum sentences as a warning to others.
Among major blows will be a “State Lands Restoration Act”, which not only returns the vast amount of lands taken from the states in the West, but also makes any future taking go through an extensive and difficult process, but takes those lands out of much of the federal judicial purview. That is, federal judges should not be able to put land “off limits” for use by a state, for whatever imagined reason, be it an imaginary endangered insect, or because it has standing water that the EPA wants to regulate, etc.
In turn, this also means that the congressional judiciary committees will have to carry out a major structural reform of the federal courts, as well as criminal and civil reform. This will be a great opportunity to retire a large number of “bad” federal judges without having to impeach them.
Either Trump or Cruz has a lot of very large amount of hard work ahead of them.
Exactly. The left may fear a "President Cruz" in a hypothetical situation but they also know he'll never get elected president so there's not really much to worry about. This is why they've left him alone. Nobody is protesting at Cruz's campaign events.
The day Cruz becomes front-runner, the disruptors will turn their attacks on him.
As someone else noted, Cruz could try organizing a rally in Chicago, just to see what happens.
I like Ted, but he put his foot in it. Does he expect to attract Trump supporters by blaming them for being attacked?
Democrat agitators are violent. That’s what they are, and that’s what they do. I seem to remember the last Repub convention where the police allowed the agitators to surround the convention hall, so that delegates had to pass through them getting jeered and spat on. If Cruz ever becomes front-runner he will get his chance to face them. And watch while the propagandists blame him for the “culture of violence” surrounding him.
“Cruz is not a guy who would give ground. If Democrats look at Cruz and Trump as scary monsters, then Trump is Dr. Frankenstein’s creature made of many parts; a brutish beast with a hidden soft side. Cruz is Dracula. He wants one thing — to bleed and kill progressive government.
“For Democrats, dealing with President Trump would be like appeasing an erratic, impulsive, self-centered teenager; deeply infuriating, but with the possibility of occasional moments of agreement. With President Cruz, it would be unending battle; a culture war without end.”
Strangely, I agree with the Times. I want to bleed and kill progressive government. Cruz is the most likely guy to advance us in that direction.
Cruz showed who he supports. It’s thugs and radicals. Wonder why they don’t protest his events. Now you know. They’re on the same team. Nice move Ted. I’m sorry I voted for him.
I call BS. Cruz showed last night he is one of them.
Cruz is not a guy who would give ground. If Democrats look at Cruz and Trump as scary monsters, then Trump is Dr. Frankenstein’s creature made of many parts; a brutish beast with a hidden soft side. Cruz is Dracula. He wants one thing — to bleed and kill progressive government.
For Democrats, dealing with President Trump would be like appeasing an erratic, impulsive, self-centered teenager; deeply infuriating, but with the possibility of occasional moments of agreement. With President Cruz, it would be unending battle; a culture war without end.
This is actually a good article.
Though I'm annoyed with Cruz, it describes why I still think Cruz is the better man... though he has soiled himself with his comments on Chicago.
The one area where Trump may be stronger is on trade; he is less trusting of "free trade" than is Cruz, and at this point I'm starting to lose my free-trade-faith too.
Where Ted is stronger is that while Trump wants to make government work better, Ted wants to rein it in. Trump wants competence, Ted wants principle.
I continue to see Ted as #1 and Trump as a very good #2, though after this week Trump is probably going to walk away with it. Its probably over this week. And unless Cruz can do some gymnastics to walk back his initial comments on the protests in Chicago, it might be over anyway. Maybe he can blame McConnell again. That would be my plan. :)
LA Times Bonesmokers working against the citizens yet again.
This says it all.
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