[VinL]

Ultimately, conservatives will get behind Senator Cruz. Not only is he a true believer; he's the guy who can best make the case for a constitutional America.

[Jack Black]

Here’s one for the list.

[South40]

Donald Trump is a LIFELONG LIBERAL DEMOCRAT.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Ultimately, conservatives will get behind Senator Cruz. Not only is he a true believer; he's the guy who can best make the case for a constitutional America.

THIS ^^^^

[MN_Mike]

Jim fell on his butt again.

(1) National polls mean nothing at this juncture. We are several months away from the first state primary, and then it is state by state, not national.

(2) Trump is much like Ann Coulter. Each can tap into the pulse of the grassroots, but each also eventually flame out with brash comments.

[Talisker]

[Uncle Miltie]

Trump will flame out. But the energy he creates can be absorbed by the Cruz campaign if handled deftly.

[cornelis]

Interesting push.

[bkepley]

Seems to me that every election there is a competition to see who is the most outraged. I suspect it’s the same on the left.

[StormEye]

"...but he’s taking up oxygen from the sorts of conservative candidates who have in previous years drawn the excitement and attention of conservatives."

That's because those "sorts of conservative" candidates aren't saying a damn thing worth listening to. They all sound like like politically emasculated wimps; all trying to sound "positive", non confrontational, bipartisan blah blah blah. They all sound like Hillary! At least Trump is willing to speak out about those issues Republicans find so personally embarrassing. Trump may be insincere in his switch to conservatism but at least he isn't wimp!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I have a bad feeling that RINO Trump will suck the air away from the real conservatives and help throw the nomination to Jeb.

( and yes Trump is a RINO. He’s previously said he identifies as a Democrat and his political donations read like a Who’s Who of dem bigwigs )

[Will88]

By mid-April, however, Trump had dropped to 8 percent in a Fox News poll, and he held steady there through early May, before announcing that he would not run for president after all.

He likely dropped in the polls after voters decided he would not run. And he gained his 20% or higher support well before April, as early as February 2011. He'd been speaking and making noises for a couple of months before April, which this article presents as if Trump's rise and fall all took place in April. It didn't.

[Colonel_Flagg]

A testament to that fact: Texas senator Ted Cruz has gone out of his way to defend Trump in the wake of the firestorm surrounding the celebrity mogul’s recent comments on illegal immigrants, evidence that he is trying to elbow his way into the limelight and win the favor of the sizeable number of voters who are telling pollsters they’re supporting Trump.

Not quite. Cruz knows Trump is driving the clown car so when he implodes, and he will, he knows full well there is only one candidate with a credible anti-amnesty stand. Cruz is simply playing the waiting game.

[Mariner]

Everbody hopes Trump will rub off on 'em. Whether close enough to kiss or close enough to punch, close is what they all strive for.

This is Trump's race to lose.

[x]

”Ted Cruz, among the more serious tier of candidates, had staked out probably the hardest line on immigration,” says Rick Wilson, a Florida-based Republican consultant. “He touches the same deeply angry, populist, and extremely vocal segment of the GOP that is furious over immigration, illegal and otherwise.

[wastoute]

Trump is so funny. He thought everyone was getting their knife out to play mumbley peg. Now he hs media knives in his chest, GOP knives in his flank and Rat knives in his back. He shoulda done a “shock and awe” on the enemedia immediately.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

National review is all in for amnesty.Just another hit piece against the truth that Trump is outing.

[kabar]

It is Trump's position on the issue and his fearlessness in stating the truth that attracts people to him. Yes, he is more of a liberal than many of the others in the race, but Truth to power is very attractive. The people are tired of candidates governed by handlers and political consultants.

Immigration can be a winning issue for the GOP if they were smart enough to use it. American jobs for American workers cuts across partisan lines. We have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years; wages are stagnant or declining; and yet we import over a million foreign workers a year. Does that make sense?

As far as criminal alien crime is concerned, the facts are obvious and documented. It is all in here: Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs GAO-11-187: Published: Mar 24, 2011. Publicly Released: Apr 21, 2011.

[Nero Germanicus]

“23 Prominent Democrats Who Rolled In Donald Trump’s Dough”
http://thefederalist.com/2015/06/17/23-prominent-democrats-who-rolled-in-donald-trumps-dough/

[Tau Food]

Trump is clearing a path for Cruz.

Cruz - 2016!

[SaraJohnson]

Yeah, the leftist media and Rinos are having a field day with Trumping conservatives as racists (as is usual), but the Rinos are proven stupid losers who get beaten like a red headed step child in every election, over and over again. Nothing to be proud of.