Well, wonks have an exceptional voter turnout rate, especially in places like Iowa.
Cruz is not going to out-Trump Trump on the tearing into Bush business. That DOES turn off some people (particularly women), and Carson has done well explicitly NOT turning up the volume.
Years ago, there was a Patty Duke Episode when Patty runs against her identical cousin Cathy for Student Body President. Each goes way over the top. A third candidate, who simply said “Vote for me.” was the beneficiary of the war.
Trump is a formidable candidate, but Cruz is going to have to play to his own strengths. I am a Cruz supporter, but I believe that Trump is engaging the right people, and can show how to make a bigger Republican tent by chasing the Romneys, Rockefellers and John Ellis Bushes out. To make it last you have to have an underlying philosophy and the intellectual underpinnings to have the movement outlast the man. Trump isn’t that man, but he may be opening the door for someone who is, if not in this cycle, the next.
Rubio is the little brother.
‘To make it last you have to have an underlying philosophy and the intellectual underpinnings to have the movement outlast the man.’
This is what Trump’s book, Time to get Tough, was all about.
To make it last you have to have an underlying philosophy and the intellectual underpinnings to have the movement outlast the man.
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Forget it, my friend-— they have no clue——