“Lenin was popular. Hitler was popular. Shoot, the Kardashians are popular.”
See, I can play that game, too. When you have all of human history to pick and choose from, you can come up with any example to “prove” your point that you’d like.
Popularity is neither good nor bad in and of itself - but it IS an indication of whether someone can be elected. Once you’ve found someone you like, you then have to filter that person through the electability filter. If he/she doesn’t make it, then move on to the next on.
Cruz is a great guy - I even sent him money when he first declared - but this is not his year. He needs more people to know who he is through his accomplishments, he needs to be like Reagan and DEMONSTRATE that he’s not the monster that the other side paints him as being. His time will come, and I look forward to it - but it isn’t this year. This year we need a wrecking ball, someone who will destroy the edifice of the Leftist establishment that has controlled this country since 1933 when FDR was inaugurated. Trump is the ONLY one who can do it who can ALSO be elected.
One real problem with Cruz is that he is painted by his supporters as what a number of people see as a monster. His most avid [rabid?] supporters do so because they see him as the champion of the "social conservative" agenda. Now I have a real problem with gays in the military and think gay marriage is somewhat north of silly because it is a comical legalistic fiction - to state the obvious - families exist to propagate the species biologically and socially. But the "social conservative" agenda scares far too many voters to get any traction. I wish it were not largely dead, but to revive it will require something on the order of bombing the whole world back into, if not the stone age, an idolized and idealized middle America that I don't think ever really existed.
Even Ronaldus Maximus had his family and social flaws. He did not do a very good job of watching over the mischief of his agencies. But where he excelled was understanding, like no one else did or could, that the Soviet Union was in its death throes.
“Washington was popular. Churchill was popular. Shoot, Reagan was popular.
See, I can play that game, too. When you have all of human history to pick and choose from, you can come up with any example to “prove†your point that you’d like.
Popularity is neither good nor bad in and of itself - but it IS an indication of whether someone can be elected. Once you’ve found someone you like, you then have to filter that person through the electability filter. If he/she doesn’t make it, then move on to the next on.
Cruz is a great guy - I even sent him money when he first declared - but this is not his year. He needs more people to know who he is through his accomplishments, he needs to be like Reagan and DEMONSTRATE that he’s not the monster that the other side paints him as being. His time will come, and I look forward to it - but it isn’t this year. This year we need a wrecking ball, someone who will destroy the edifice of the Leftist establishment that has controlled this country since 1933 when FDR was inaugurated. Trump is the ONLY one who can do it who can ALSO be elected.”
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Also keep in mind that Trump started off as the candidate that almost NO ONE believed he had a chance to be the Republican nominee and even a less chance to win the general election! Now people are starting to ask themselves...”can he actually do it?” THAT is a major accomplishment!!