So opposing transgender restroom rights derailed Ted in Indiana? Does anyone actually believe that?
Every single blue collar dem I have talked to thinks the dem leadership is nuts on this issue. But they were all men, so maybe women really don’t care about men using their bathrooms? I don’t know.
Freegards
Nope
That’s what struck me, too. The Politico author posits that conservatives must give up on the “social issues” or forever be losers. Today “social issues” is no longer code for murdering babies, but letting mentally ill men use the women’s and girl’s restrooms. So we are forever going to lose if we don’t let the sickos into female restrooms. How can fighting that sheer lunacy-of-the-day be a losing position?
I agree, that is strategic reporting, painting common sense social issues as outside the lines far right wing "hate".
Trump is winning the nomination straight up, just like South Carolina. Ted was more weakened by 5 out of 6 third place finishes then he believed. He has been fingernails on chalk board for more than a few weeks now, and Indiana seems ready to give him a spanking.
I sure don’t. Is it the most important presidential issue at the moment? No.
I watched a video last night that documented the “protests” at Trump’s CA rally. It lasted one and a half hours. The yelling Mexicans and their waving the Mex flag everywhere is the issue of the moment. I saw the bloodied Trump supporters and the threatening behavior towards those leaving the rally.
If these invaders are not dealt with, the bathroom issue will not matter.
Cruz came out running first. He had his chance to lead on the big things. He didn’t. Trump came and picked up the yoke of illegal immigration and began to lead.
Cruz could have come out strong for America first. He might have been the front runner now.
Not by itself of course. He framed it as a moral issue. Trump framed it as a legal issue. Cruz will get some amens but Trump will get the votes.
So opposing transgender restroom rights derailed Ted in Indiana? Does anyone actually believe that?
Cruz is undone by many things — right now, most importantly, the fact that his own role now is campaign-wrecker, not campaigner — but not the bathroom question.
The writer is a moron, obviously.
Good Lord, no. That's a Politico reporter looking through a culture lens. It was never much of an issue at all until the culture warriors used it to stir up trouble, which was not an issue of social justice but one of hatred and political activism against those of us with the temerity to be normal. Ted may have outraged a few trendy liberals who weren't going to vote for him anyway, but that's about it.
“So opposing transgender restroom rights derailed Ted in Indiana? Does anyone actually believe that?”
I don’t think it is the fact that he opposed it that turns people off.
It’s the way he always states his position on an issue in the context of what he claims “Donald’s” position is.
It’s obvious right away that he cares more about trying to make Trump look bad than he does about the issue itself.
So he manages to come off as a political opportunist, a tattle tale, a holier than thou preacher, and insincere - all at the same time.
If he had brought up the issue himself things may have turned out differently, but time after time he just comes off as a rat fink.