They’re undoubtedly cheering the fact the GOP seems like it will duke it out.
I think Trump is strong. You think Cruz is the guy.
That could mean Mitt or someone.
Something to keep in mind, as the votes get further tabulated this week.
Just saying.
This is all moving along swimingly.
Cruz is the real deal, but he stumbled badly tonight with his comments about Chicago.
Cruz has time, Trump is right now.
Great article. I appreciate how the author lays out the Democratics’ views of the top Republican candidates. They KNOW Cruz won’t compromise with them!
Sorry, the Left showed in Chicago who they’re really afraid of.
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.
I used to say I’d vote for him as my second choice, gladly. Not any more. His “comments” were nothing but a campaign speech. Wow, what a nothing burger he turned out to be.
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.
Seems true for the GOPe too.
ABC - anybody but Cruz. Can’t have a pesky constitutionalist derailing the global grave train!
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.
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.
I call BS. Cruz showed last night he is one of them.
LA Times Bonesmokers working against the citizens yet again.
This says it all.
That same old joke is still being promoted as if people still believe it.
One thing is worse than President Trump:Democrat President