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%.
Two things:
There IS such a thing as false opposition, and it’s been done before.
But aside from that, the GOPe may be corrupt, but they’re not stupid. Well, to quote the bible, they may not have a lot of understanding to do good but they’re wise to do evil.
Or I might say, they’re sly like foxes.
If I’m the GOPe, I’m sitting there looking at polls, looking at numbers, looking at crowds, listening to people say he’s going to be the nominee and I’m saying, “Well, other than this wall stuff, which we at least have to give the illusion that we’re for border security ourselves, and other than his mouth, we can at least probably work with the guy.”
If they’re sitting around feeling like it’s inevitable that the people will pick Trump, he may not be the horse they really want. But to them, he’s a lesser evil than Cruz.
And Trump, being a win at all costs kind of guy, doesn’t mind cozying up to them I’m sure. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, after all.
“The Donald’ only offers “the Trump Wall” and a set of cast-iron balls defending all of his changing positions and his personal slanders of any candidate in his way! He’s the Obi Wan Kenobi exerting mind control tricks over his followers! He is also the ultimate crony capitalist insider with a long history of liberal positions. Being kind, one can only label him as a moderate!
On the other hand, Ted Cruz is a true Conservative...always has been, always will be! And, he has been fighting hard to beat back the Liberal encroachment in government and in society. He has fought the establishment to his own detriment with many in his party...the GOPe. But, he has many partners in the Senate and in the House who have stood with him on key issues.
Yeah the establishment and Fox has been so good to Trump. The establishment is finally accepting their fate and it is not going to be Cruz.
Pray America wakes
Since Trump doesnt take money from anyone, how exactly is the establishment coming over to him? This silly assertion is the result of deep desperation on the part of Cruz.
Michael Medved is the GOPe’s bellwether. A few weeks ago, he was talking up Rubio, but I haven’t heard so much recently.
The GOPE new found interest in TRUMP was predictable. They’ve been cooked, after all, this cycle.
If Cruz were smoking the field, nationally, the GOPE would have been forced to bend the knee to him.
But, Cruz is strategically smart to use a TRUMP tactic, to turn what is clearly a positive for TRUMP, in his successful effort coalesce Republican voters, and Cruz is turning it into a negative, by labeling it. How TRUMP like.
Maybe that will sell in IOWA, for Cruz, but it is TRUMP who is still is charring the field, in the polling.
TRUMP, 2016
“Cruz: Establishment Has Abandoned Rubio for Trump”
Whatever mental illness that it is that Glenn Beck has, it looks like it’s virulently contagious because Cruz seems to have come down with a really bad case of it by hanging around Glenn too long.
The GOPe may disagree with some of Trump's ends, but the means will play right into their hand.
Trump is an outsider. He is not, nor has he ever been, a conservative.
The GOPe and Trump will come to terms in a New York minute. And lots of Dems in Congress and elsewhere will support Trump's New York values - err, I mean, Trump's moderate values.
Touchback amnesty.
Bible thumpers will ride Cruze as he goes down in flames, and the Establishment will use Cruz as a battering ram to take down Trump. Amazing how stupid many Republicans are.
The Natinal Review is Establiment
Not Cruz you sided with the Establishment, and it’s why you changed your position on the NSA spying.
I'm still for Cruz, but he seems to be faltering, and your analysis is right.