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Ted Cruz is crumbling before our very eyes
NY Post ^ | 4/27/2016 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 04/27/2016 10:36:30 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

For the past few weeks, Republican campaign professionals and conservatives who are seeing the GOP nomination heading into Donald Trump’s hands have been counseling anti-Trump voters not to panic and consoling themselves with the notion that things will turn around for Ted Cruz when the final weeks of the campaign shift to the Midwest and mountain states.

After Trump’s astounding five-for-five primary night, by margins that were likely surprising even for Trump fans, it’s now Indiana or bust. If Trump wins the primary next week in the Hoosier State, Cruz is toast and Trump will almost certainly be the Republican nominee.

There’s no putting lipstick on this pig. Cruz’s numbers Tuesday night, like his numbers in New York last week, were beyond horrible. With six weeks to go before voting concludes, the man conservatives are hoping can overcome Trump with his clever delegate game and more serious mien is getting 10 to 15 percent of the vote in major states.

It isn’t only that the not-Trump vote is failing to coalesce around Cruz — he’s going backward.

And people are kidding themselves if they think Tuesday night’s results won’t have an effect on voters in Indiana and elsewhere.

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To: Blue Highway

Nope...he is announcing Carly as his VP pick today.


61 posted on 04/27/2016 11:37:49 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Thanks for all the information you put out here, Captain! I appreciate the info.


62 posted on 04/27/2016 11:40:21 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Ted’s 10%-15% is richly-deserved. The only bad thing is its still too high for this shady trickster.


63 posted on 04/27/2016 11:49:58 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Where are all the remaining ones who ranted on? And their “true believer” “articles”, oops I mean paid propaganda?


64 posted on 04/27/2016 11:51:46 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: mkjessup

Yeah, there will be an “anointed king” who “takes controls of all sectors of society” and he comes on a white horse (a la Glenn Beck and the “mormon ‘prophecy’”. This man is called the Antichrist. I don’t think it will be a U.S. President. Still, what a very, very odd thing to say.

Kinda creepy that folks don’t know this is coming; but it will somehow, some way. It is prophesied in the Word of God.


65 posted on 04/27/2016 11:55:38 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

If you’ve lost one of the GOPee’s biggest RINO’s (Podheretz), you REALLY are crumbling.

Hmmmm. Looks like the GOPe is seeing the writing on the Trump Wall.


66 posted on 04/27/2016 11:59:57 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: COBOL2Java

You are very welcome.


67 posted on 04/27/2016 12:04:41 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I am so very blessed! Thank You, JESUS!)
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To: bigbob; hoosiermama; onyx; Jane Long; LucyT

Ping!

http://theresurgent.com/scott-walkers-gop-ignores-cruz-delegate-slate-in-wisconsin/

Scott Walker’s GOP Ignores Cruz Delegate Slate in Wisconsin


68 posted on 04/27/2016 12:04:58 PM PDT by maggief (Rush: Charter member of the DBR - Drive By Radio)
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To: dynoman

I love Tiffany Trump.

The one on the right in your photo.

Don’t tell my wife.


69 posted on 04/27/2016 12:21:23 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

CRUZ surrounded himself with the wrong people. Wrong people will drag a person down every time.


70 posted on 04/27/2016 12:35:41 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: dynoman
What were the gaffes?

He mis-pronounced Tanzania and misused a word a couple times. Noticeable but nit picking.

71 posted on 04/27/2016 2:04:29 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (It's going to be tough to unite the Republican party,but we must. Our children can't afford Hillary)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

And OR and WA and even if he doesn’t win those states, he still picks up delegates.

Of course, if Cruz loses IN and drops out, all Trump has to do is run the table.


72 posted on 04/27/2016 3:27:14 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Blue Highway

Cruz is hoping for a dirty convention. He won’t drop out.


73 posted on 04/27/2016 5:41:40 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
I am not big on calling people out for their religious hypocrisy. At all. BUT, Ted says he’s a SOUTHERN BAPTIST (Though many say he’s a “DOMINIONIST”, which his father---who has called Ted “The Anointed One”---claims to be; or even a Mormon, as he stood by while Glenn Beck recited Mormon-specific references, applying them to Cruz, That Cruz is the “raising of the priests” and the fulfillment of the “prophecy of the White Horse.” Or a Seventh Day Adventist, as his wife, Heidi, who has more than once referred to Ted as “The Face Of God.”)

I am Southern Baptist, raised that way. Let me tell you, Southern Baptist are very loosey goosey when it comes to what it accepts or allows in each affiliate congregation (for example, some can dance, some cannot.) BUT….THREE THINGS are not acceptable ANYWHERE to Southern Baptists: GAMBLING, DRINKING, and NOT TITHING:

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(Today, Apri 27) During Carly Fiorina’s running-mate acceptance speech in Indianapolis, Fiorina described Cruz as a really fun dude who’s able to make last-second bets on exciting basketball games.
She revisited the final moments of that epic national title game between Villanova and North Carolina. Fiorina and Cruz were watching the game on the bus, and after Marcus Paige’s incredible 3, Cruz threw money on the table. – USA TODAY

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On CNN’s Republican Presidential Townhall, Republican candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Anderson Cooper that he drinks alcohol “What is your favorite cocktail?” Cooper asked Cruz. “I am a scotch man,” Cruz responded. – CNN [PS---scotch is not a “cocktail; it’s a distilled spirit, a member of the whiskey family.]

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According to recently released tax records, the Texas senator contributed less than 1 percent of his income to charity between 2006 and 2010. But many Christians believe that the Bible commands a charitable offering, or tithe, equal to 10 percent of one’s annual earnings. – The Atlantic

74 posted on 04/27/2016 7:11:37 PM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
There’s no putting lipstick on this pig. Cruz’s numbers Tuesday night, like his numbers in New York last week, were beyond horrible.

Correct. And once that's the case, there will be no rallying back.

My God! Does Ted Cruz have no sense?!

Here's what the next couple of weeks is going to be:

Anybody got any other metaphors that capture the ongoing optics of the Cruz campaign?

Vote Trump

75 posted on 04/27/2016 7:30:36 PM PDT by sargon (Cruz should've focused on EARNING people's votes instead of STEALING delegates that represent them.)
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To: sargon

In the real world, his performance would have gotten him fired long,long ago.
Prediction here is that the voters of Texas will do just that next election.


76 posted on 04/27/2016 7:35:14 PM PDT by Arrian
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