[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

What if Cruz ends up polling as number 11? You are ok with it so long as it works in your favor?

[ansel12]

If you think that we have a bias towards conservatism here, then you are correct.

[Jonty30]

Fine, just let Bush walk to the front as Huckabee and Santorum interfere with the more conservative candidates, as they do every Presidential election.

If you can’t notice the same pattern of Huckabee and Santorum only staying long enough to keep the more conservative candidates out and then they mysteriously drop out, I don’t know what to say.

I think there is enough evidence, based on their behaviour, that they are really working for the GOPe, but what do I know?

[plain talk]

What if Cruz ends up polling as number 11? You are ok with it so long as it works in your favor?

I am. Rules should be consistently applied regardless of whose ox is gored. If Cruz can't get his poll numbers up high enough to even get in the Republican debates he has no business running for President. At some point you have to limit the number of candidates on a debating stage. Otherwise insufficient time is provided to each candidate.