You might want to sit down for this: GOP ‘insiders’ don’t think Ted Cruz can win

Hotair ^ | 03/27/2015 | Noah Rothman

[Vigilanteman]

No doubt this is the same group of GOP insiders which have given us a string of losers and managed to pull their only winner over the finish line by the thinnest of margins in the last three decades.

I won't count Papa Bush in 1988 since it was essentially a mandate on a third term for Reagan.

[Yosemitest]

They're selling a sack of horse-hocky.
Are you buying?
I'm not.

Watch these “YouTube Videos” and form your own opinion.



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CRUZ or LOSE!

What You Need To Know About Ted Cruz ( 1:46 )

Take a good long look at where "Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS take us.

CRUZ or LOSE!

[DannyTN]

So what democrat is the GOPe pushing?

[DannyTN]

So what democrat is the GOPe pushing?

[Hornet22]

We have to elect him to see what’s in him.

[Squantos]

I’m voting for him as a conservative....... buck the GOP-E !

That aside....looking forward to his debate with Hillary. Win or lose his facts and wit gainst her spin and lies will be the stake in her black and diseased heart...

My opinion.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

the -insiders want Jeb who I think “can’t win” - eff em

[Leep]

Bob Dole says, “Bob Dole doesn’t like to be told Bob Dole wasn’t electable.”

[BenLurkin]

Well if they think Jeb Bush can win then they are out of their frickin minds

[Romans Nine]

“Texans are smarter than most voters.”

Sheila Jackson Lee?

[Zhang Fei]

Circa 1979: Newsflash, Party Insiders, including Gerald Ford, George H. Bush, etc., ‘Don’t think Ronald Reagan can win!’

Reagan won the nomination on his third try. I like him, but Cruz is unlikely to win the GOP nomination on his first try, if the historical record is anything to go by. Reagan was a national figure because of his role as the host of the GE Theater series and as an actor. Cruz is not very well-known, and he's nowhere as deft at handling the media as Reagan was.

[VanDeKoik]

Dole/Bush 2016

The GOPe’s dream team.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

These same “insiders” said Cruz would lose the primary to Dewhurst and the general election back in 2014.

Cruz 2016!

[Little Ray]

GOP Insiders brought us McCain and Romney and lost the last two elections in a row. Who cares what they think?

Heck, “GOP Insiders” are more of an enemy than the Democrats.

[Lady Heron]

They said the same thing about Ronald Reagan, that is why they saddled him with Bush I

[thorvaldr]

These the same guys thought Romney and McCain were good ideas. When are we going to stop listening to them?

[PGR88]

I’m an insider - and I say he will win

[TexasFreeper2009]

The way the electorate and electoral college is currently split means a moderate Repubican CAN’T win a national election.

Only a true conservative with the power to CHANGE peoples minds and bring NEW people unto the conservative side can win.

If we try to win again with a 50+1 strategy.... we will lose again.

The days when that might have worked a long gone.

[SoConPubbie]

Reagan won the nomination on his third try. I like him, but Cruz is unlikely to win the GOP nomination on his first try,

A lot of unlikely things happen.

How about we through away the probabilities, and the predictable naysayers who mostly have ulterior motives, and just focus on principles and fidelity to principle and see what that gets us???

Sound like a plan to you?

BTW, after the primaries in 79' Reagan was down to Carter 30+ points and we all know how that went.

Shoot, even Cruz, in his primaries started off I believe somewhere south of 5% with very little name recognition and yet, sticking to his conservative principles, not pandering, not compromising, he won, even when his party was dead-set against him.

Ted already has experience with this kind of situation.

Buck up my friend, don't be so negative, fight for your principles, ignore the negative talk.

[cuban leaf]

They are proving what we already know: The insiders are the problem. I remember Michael Medved preaching over and over that Romney was the best because was electable.

‘Cept he wasn’t.

Fool me once, and all that...