But Teddy can make believe in his fantasies. There just aren't that many hard right conservatives in the party to elect him. His ceiling is 25% and Trump's is over 50%.
You go ahead and support your “moderate” candidate, I’m a hard right conservative, so Ted’s my guy.
Actually Bob Dole came out for Trump today. So Cruz is correct.
I like Ted Cruz. However, you’re not going to get any Dems to cross party lines to vote for him, at the same high amounts as Trump would garner. Lots of Dems have soured on Obama and Hillary, and will support Trump. Unfortunately not so with Cruz.
That is exactly what Cruz is saying.
Internal polls in Iowa must show Cruz(R-Goldman Sachs)
on a downward trend.
Unfortunately for Cruz, Palin’s endorsement is the only news I see on TV.
Well Bob Dole did come out for Trump today.!
He has many elderly followers who will only vote R ! They have their entire life
It is called the truth.
Doesn’t pass the laugh test you say?
Ha, Trump proposed increasing the ethanol mandate the very same day Palin endorsed him. Something Palin was very much against before her “change of heart”. Palin made her bed.
This is called desperation, folks. Cruz is pigeon-holding himself as the extremist religious right-wing candidate. So extreme he says the establishment is dumping Rubio and siding with Trump after 7 months of trashing Trump more than any candidate has been trashed before. It just doesn’t pass the laugh test especially after the Palin endorsement.
But Teddy can make believe in his fantasies. There just aren’t that many hard right conservatives in the party to elect him. His ceiling is 25% and Trump’s is over 50%.
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Call it desperation on Cruz’s part or whatever you want...in the end it’s all good for Trump!!!
McConnell scolds Reid over threat to vote on Trump proposals January 14, 2016
Trump Bashes Ted Cruz for Being Rude to Mitch McConnell January 19th, 2016
Nope no establishment support to be seen here... move along folks....
LOL ... They figure the best they can do to co-opt the anti-GOPe frontrunner is try to brand him as one of them?
Looks like they gave up on FUD, and they’re excuisitely displaying the basis for them being crowned the Stupid Party.
What a crew of dorks.
Trump has knocked Cruz off his game. Getting Palins endorsement is a big deal.
Yep, he's totally outside the mainstream.
Cruz alienated himself from the establishment (good) and has now alienated himself from the Trumpers... and so now he has to get over 50% of the delegates himself — via proportional primaries, no less. Good luck with that.
The GOPe DOES prefer Trump over Cruz-
http://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/gop-primary-goldwater-vs-mcgovern/
“A number of Republican and Democratic strategists believe Cruz is the bigger problem for his partys House and Senate candidates. According to this view, Trump’s candidacy would be neither partisan nor ideological, but entirely personal. Voters would regard him as a wild card, not as someone who represents the views of the GOP.
Cruz, on the other hand, is a more conventional Republican nominee, and voters across the spectrum would see him as defining his party. This would be fatal in northern swing districts, particularly in the suburbs, as well as in swing states with Senate races.”
-because he’s easier for the down-ticket RINOs to distance themselves from.
Makes some sense too. They’ve got a LOT of RINOs.
They have indeed. TRUMP (BLESSED BE HIS NAME) is someone they can “DEAL” with; Cruz, on the other hand, will NOT be cutting deals with the ‘RATS & RINOS. They’ll have to work with him on HIS (i.e., OUR) terms.
As politically incorrect as Trump is, the establishment prefers him over Cruz because they know Cruz will cut spending and special interest subsidies. Trump is a big government crony capitalist who has never indicated any willingness to cut spending or get the debt under control. He won’t do anything of substance to threaten the rivers of tax-payer money that the Washington establishment lives off of.
This is just pathetic from Cruz. Is there anyone who really believes that a GOPe that invested $130 million in Jeb Bush — before Trump even announced — is giving up on Jeb now? They are running 25 million in ads in NH this week alone for El Jebbe. C’mon Ted...please just stop this.
If this was even remotely true, then Cruz has no hope. He’s already down 2:1 to Trump in most polls, now he claims that another 10%-15% is going to join Trump’s side? If Cruz really believed this he’d bow out of the race.
Eventually, when Donald J. Trump wins the nomination, the “establishment” will have to support him, unless they are really crazy, like George Will, and go third party. To me it is a sign that they aren’t all brain-dead that they are starting to come around to reality.
It will be interesting to see the addition of Sarah Palin to the Trump ticket will push him above his current plateau of 35%. Especially with Ted Cruz bouncing off resistance at 20%. In five days the Reuters moving average poll will tell the tale.
Glad Cruz is extreme. We need that kind of politician to take on the left and the establishment