Posted on 02/02/2016 8:19:02 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
"Morning is coming," said Ted Cruz as he took the stage in Iowa to declare victory in the 2016 Republican caucus.
He wasn't referring to how long his victory speech went — even though it was so long that by the end no TV network was covering it. It was a deliberate callback to Republican hero Ronald Reagan, whose slogan in 1984, "Morning in America," has become a slogan of a conservative golden age.
Cruz vastly overperformed expectations and outhustled Donald Trump to win 29 percent of Iowa voters. And while the length of his speech kind of distracted from its content, it was the most focused and impassioned Cruz has sounded on a national stage throughout his campaign.
Cruz does not come off as a happy man on the campaign trail; he comes off as a warrior. His victory speech, which described his state co-chairs (metaphorically) "crawling under broken glass with knives between their teeth," was appropriately martial. But with the backing of thousands of Iowa caucus-goers behind him, Cruz sounded commanding rather than petulant.
"Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel?" Cruz asked the crowd at one point. When they shouted back "You!," the man who is so despised by the GOP establishment that many of them are backing Donald Trump just to prevent Cruz's nomination demurred.
"Actually, not remotely," Cruz said, not entirely truthfully. "I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you."...
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
If we lose. we lose! The country is going down the drain anyway. From Bernies teat-sucking millenials to Hillarys post-abortive clueless liberal women, This country is sick. I’d prefer putting a decent conservative out there like Cruz than a RINO like Dole,McCain, Romney, Rubio, etc.
Not breaking news.
That's an interesting perspective given that we are actually looking at a three-way in what one might describe as Cruz's own church. Sure, the vote totals were high - but they were high for all of the top three. I would have thought Cruz should easily have gotten a third of the vote - but he was in the twenties, shared with a New York guy with a funny haircut and Marco 'amnesty' Rubio.
The biggest loser, however, was not Ted but IA. Sure they had a high vote total, but look at the exposure. What a mess: between folks being hustled and pitched inside the doors to the coin toss for Hillary, I think Iowa is on its way to the scrapheap. The entire process smacks of Tammany Hall and 'Boss Tweed' politics.
I wish Cruz would have taken it in a walk, really - followed by Trump and the rest getting nothing. In reality, something happened inside the doors to the Trump-polled-crowd. Youth vote maybe? Who knows. But clearly Rubio was a big winner. As the amnesty, establishment guy his youth and glibness got him an equal share at the Olympic podium, spin it as thou list.
Going into NH Rubio can say, "Rally around me." Cruz can say it, but it rings hollow. Trump can still stay on message and claim to have done much better than expected - all to play out in a few days.
You probably don’t realize it, but you only denigrate yourself when you talk about Ted Cruz in this way.
Charges made by a guy who went straight to Florida to get a change of clothes instead of going on to the next primary?
But Reagan finished 2nd in Iowa after blowing off the debate. So I guess Trump was echoing Reagan.
Statistical 3 way tie. Bragging rights are thin at best. Nobody on the Reps or the Dems should be crowing today. Ted the head might want to tone it down a notch.
I thought Rubio’s speech was the best of all of them. He was in full campaign mode. Cruz was grateful. Trump was... Trump. At least he congratulated Cruz. Nothing from Rubio.
Just silly. Carson sent a message saying he was not going to NH or SC. CNN ran with it. Cruz sent the memo as reported by CNN. And the truth is, Carson probably is leaving the campaign.
Holy Crap you Trumpbots are idiots.
If memory serves, Reagan fired his campaign manager over that decision, otherwise he probably would have won. Trump made that decision himself. It was a self-inflicted injury. Now he is the loser...an image that someone who builds himself as invincible cannot afford!
what a freaking baby.
he got 9 percent. the HIGHEST of all this month’s polls.
HOW STUPID would one be to listen to someone who said “so and so isn’t running anymore”
that person should not vote.
trump buys politicians and endorsement. I dont give a @#$@#$.
but dont give Cruz people the moral slap in the face.
at least not with a straight face if you’re a trump supporter
he got his HIGHEST polling number from the past month!!!!!
the average was 7.
who gives a @#$ anyway. it’s a primary and my fellow NYCer admits to buying politicians in the past.
give me a break.
>>Cruz vastly overperformed expectations and outhustled Donald Trump to win 29 percent of Iowa voters<<
Just love the liberal media. “outhustled Trump”
How nice.
Cruz 2016
Cruz denigrates himself with sleazy campaign tactics...
Good to see that you and libbylu decided to forgive us all after Cruz won one more delegate than Trump, and brought your balls back and decided to rejoin us ... I saw her on a thread last night.
But you and all the others are going to have to face a hard fact sooner or later; adults generally face hard facts sooner than later.
Please don’t get angry; we’ve come to expect fits of temper from you, as you slander those of us backing someone who can actually win the presidency, with the name-calling and so forth.
Conservatives become angry when they are lied to, liberals when you tell them the truth.
As the one and only Reagan said, “Facts are stubborn things.”
And there are two kinds of facts: “facts” that you want to believe and categorical facts.
A categorical fact is a statement that is either true or false: it isn’t open to argument and it doesn’t have shades of gray. It isn’t true at certain times and not others.
It is either true or false. If it is not true, it is not a categorical fact. If it is a categorical fact, it is true.
I’m explaining this carefully to you because it is important.
“Ted Cruz is another Reagan.” That is arguable.
Ted Cruz is not a natural born citizen. That’s a categorical fact.
You and libbylu aren’t to blame for the pickle all of us will be in a few months from now due to this categorical fact, but Ted has known all along, so there’s no excusing him. I’m not sure that many here even knew of his foreign birth until he renounced his Canadian citizenship not too long ago.
You and your fellow Teddies are going to risk us having a Beatle-booted President Rubio. Face the fact, FRiend. He’s not eligible.
Nobody is perfect, but Cruz is the most perfect man in the race. And he is the only candidate capable of going on offense against the forces that threaten to destroy us as a free nation. There is absolutely nobody—NOBODY—else in the race capable of waging this kind of war. It’s Cruz or lose the country forever. If you do not know this, then you don’t know enough.
See #37 for the sum total of how I feel about this race.
It occurred to me that if we expect that nobody at all is going to vote for the GOPe candidates, we need to manage our expectations.
Re:”Tainted with the Carson charge, but end justifies means, correct?”
No real proof it was actually done by Cruz.
But if Trump HAD done this you no doubt would be whooping and hollering about how your boy got one over on Carson and basked in his glory.
Cuz he’s a winner, right???
Oh wait....
What did Trump say about people in second place???
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