Posted on 08/20/2015 1:41:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Have you looked inside the latest CNN poll? You’ll find a very interesting number — namely, that Jeb Bush’s approval-disapproval numbers sit at a devastating 35-57.
That doesn’t look like the inevitability we’ve been sold by his surrogates, does it?
What seems quite apparent so far is the GOP establishment, and the Chamber of Commerce crowd who forced Mitt Romney down the throats of an unenthusiastic Republican electorate four years ago, cannot produce a nominee in this cycle. Each poll which gives a majority of the vote to candidates of some stripe of insurgency — Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul — makes that clear.
And while the establishment is in poor enough odor, its problems are magnified by the awful performance of candidates acceptable to it. Bush has made one inexplicable gaffe after another amid a campaign seemingly designed to alienate Republican voters in hopes of attracting Democrats and independents. Scott Walker has managed to couple a stellar record of governance with a stunningly vacant message; his campaign advisors are guilty of pronounced malpractice. John Kasich coupled religious sanctimony on Medicaid expansion with #BlackLivesMatter pandering on the way to five percent in the polls, and this has been characterized as success....
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No it won’t. Cruz is can NEVER be the establishment candidate.
The establishment FEARS Trump, but it HATES Cruz.
The establishment sees no difference between Trump’s and Cruz’s politics. They fear Trump more, but if Trump weren’t in, Ted Cruz dartboards would be a hot ticket item in the treehouse of every GOPe Louseketeer.
They are both non-starters for the GOPe wing of the Democrat Partaye...
Ted Cruz is arguably the smartest person to run for president in decades.
Smart doesn’t always translate into common sense. I’m not saying that Cruz lacks common sense, but, one sholdn’t equate smart with common sense.
Really?
I read that too and thought it odd. I first thought it was a typo and should have been “order” which makes sense in the context. But now I’m not so sure. Bias crops up in many ways, often subconsciously.
He’ll be part of the establishment, all right...The NEW CONSERVATIVE establishment.
No.
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Next question, please.
Jeb was planning on attracting Dem votes in open-primary states, since Clinton getting the nomination was a certainty and Dems would not be interested in the Dem primary.
If Clinton implodes, though, making the Dem primary a real race, that tactic won’t work.
Maybe we can screw the establishment and get Trump Cruz ticket
Amen, brother!
The best race would be Cruz versus Sanders because it would clearly allow the American people to pick the president that really is represents their view of the future. We could choose Cruz (freedom, competence, and human life and decency). Or we could choose Sanders (insolvency, national decline, and mass financial support for abortion, the Left’s only sacrament).
,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Common sense is one of the most important elements of being smart ,,, if one is very smart ,,,,,,,,,,,,,well I think you can figure their level of “ Common Sense “ . Alan Dersherwitz said he was the best law student he ever taught . To date Cruz has been very calculated in dealing with the Mean Streak Media and makes them look like they lack “ Common Sense “ more often then not .
I wasn’t referring necessarily to Ted Cruz, but some who are intelligent but lack common sense - like the elitist lefties in this country. I’m a Trump/Cruz person, so I would say that about him.
True - but the establishment may opt to back him in order to maintain some semblance of control which Trump has obliterated from them - it would be some sweet irony.
Would be some sweet irony if the establishment decides it needs to back Cruz - they wold hate having to back a real conservative. Go Trump! and GO CRUZ!!!
be in good (or bad) odor with someone
Be in or out of favor with someone:
‘the players were in bad odor with the fans'
Bad question.
Cruz could win the GOP nomination and the GOP would have to back him.
That doesn’t make Ted “establishment”.
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