Posted on 04/27/2016 4:29:43 PM PDT by poconopundit
I agree with you and the longer Cruz stays in the more obvious who he really is becomes. I suspect this will cost him when/if he runs for reelection in 2018. It will be much harder for Cruz to pull off his outsider schtick when people see how he comported himself in this election.
Even those of us who saw Cruz as a second choice saw the truth when he took on Neil Bush and the Bush cabal. I was willing to overlook TPA and Coker, but going establishment with the Bush I was not going to overlook.
Blaming Trump and his supporters by siding with BLM and Moveon.org were too much. Since then it has been like reliving the Obama blame Bush game with Cruz. He never speaks but that it is some nasty half truth or lie about Trump.
He is NO conservative. He is a self serving jerk.
Well, the humidity is a killer.....but, hey, we don’t age as fast. :)
Self-serving indeed...
These rants and exaggerations are tiresome. You could put Trump’s name in there and change some words and it would be as true. What candidate isn’t self-serving by definition of running? What campaign hasn’t bashed the other candidates? A campaign is associated with hundreds of people. You could easily find someone who endorsed or associated with any candidate who is unlikable for some reason.
One thing is unequivocally true, Cruz IS a conservative. Like Rush said, he’s a straight, down-the-line, Reaganesque, ideological conservative.
Cruz is dry toast without butter. He’s not likable at all.
Well, at least you and Rush have stopped saying Cruz follows the 'original intent' of the Constitution... And neither you or Rush will ever make Cruz a 'natural born' US citizen... Only Cruz's parents could make him a 'natural born' US citizen... but they were citizens of Canada and made Cruz a natural born Canadian.
Can't wait for the battle with Cankles. I was mighty impressed with Trump's foreign policy speech today. It was not only "presidential", Trump is acting as if he's President. He's already filling a leadership vacuum in DC.
...whom only a few desperate holdouts still like.
Six months of winter is rather long. And that's why my wife was so eager to go south.
Trump is and has been getting a larger percent of evangelical vote
than Cruz.
It is my belief that Trump is getting the “normal” Christians.
Cruz is getting the “snake handlers”.
This election is a fairytale of sorts in which Trumpelstiltskin has pushed his way to the forefront in this epic fable. Dream or nightmare? Good question.
Sure, Obama's liberal to the hardcore leftists. But the low-information crowd that elected him didn't think of him that way. Obama was responding to certain circumstances at the moment like the Iraq war, and he was able to position himself in a situational way and not even have to run as an ideologue.
Good point and well said.
Cruz has followed the traditional conservative consultant's playbook -- You basically have one stump speech, you give it over and over again. And the stump speech is regionalized based on focus groups and polling.
Problem is: instead of the candidate being who he is, a consultant creates a candidate based on the consultants' polling. And while all this is going on, the candidate never has a chance to develop as a human being, because consultants turn them into robots.
And you end up slicing and dicing voters so that virtually everything the candidate says is geared toward an interest group rather than the electorate at large. You're focus-grouping interest groups, you're focus-grouping women here, men over here, immigrants here, Hispanics there, you tailor your message.
No. Ted Cruz is who he is and there doesn't appear to be much regional or demographic tinkering in his message at all. That may be his problem. Because elections are situational rather than ideological, Ted's constant ideological emphasis doesn't win uncommitted voters over to his side. And no, nobody turned Cruz into robot. That's what happened to Rubio. Any faults Ted has can't be blamed on consultants, except in so far as they couldn't change who he was..
At this time in our history, populism Trumps ideological conservatism.
However another explanation [for Cru'z failure] is that Cruz was not the consistent conservative he claimed to be. A label like "Lyin' Ted" doesn't stick unless there's some truth to it.
Vote Trump
Yep.
Ted Cruz failed, because Ted Cruz is a fraud.
Average Americans could care about ideology.
That interests only a certain kind of purist for whom dogma is everything.
Most Americans look for someone who can help them solve their problems - and who understands them.
That person will be our next President - not the one who has satisfied a checklist for the true conservative.
Americans are not big on ideology, for good reason.
I moved from the Pocono area almost 4 years ago...so glad your in warm, nice area...I thought of moving to the South before I decided to move to Utah to be nearer to my family, has worked out fine...
While living in the East for 17 years, I did pick up the ‘say it like it is’ and have used it here a few times...people in Utah aren’t used to the Eastern way of life, I loved it, but love being with my family...
Will get back to you soon...
Like putting pennies in a fuse box.
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