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Tracking the Ted Cruz moment
The Salem News ^ | April 15, 2016 | David M. Shribman, executive editor, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Posted on 04/15/2016 8:57:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...though Cruz has been the beneficiary of the calendar before — his performance on Super Tuesday helped force out of the race Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida...”

This statement doesn’t even make any sense. Cruz finished a dismal 3rd in FL. It was Trump slaughtering Rubio in FL that drove him out of the race.


21 posted on 04/15/2016 9:44:39 PM PDT by euram
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To: caww; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; bigbob; JoSixChip; Just mythoughts
freeper Beautiful_Gracious_Skies wrote:

COLORADO is for CHEATERS!

In 2012, 66,000 Republicans voted.

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney with over 6% of the vote.

Rick got only 6 delegates.

Romney took 28 delegates

Colorado’s good at cheatin’

Most the folks too high to notice.

The GOPe is against the social conservative - unless he's sold out to them, like Kim Jong Cruz.

LOL! I never get tired of seeing Kim Jong Cruz's chubby little cheeks in that TOTALLY apropos picture. :)

22 posted on 04/15/2016 9:49:37 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another free advertisement for Cruz on FR.


23 posted on 04/15/2016 9:49:38 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: euram
This statement doesn’t even make any sense. Cruz finished a dismal 3rd in FL. It was Trump slaughtering Rubio in FL that drove him out of the race.

agitprop. "The chocolate ration will be increased to 25 grams from 30 grams".

That's why propaganda guys are innumerate. :)

24 posted on 04/15/2016 9:51:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: Randy Larsen; 2ndDivisionVet
Another free advertisement for Cruz on FR.

Hey! That's kind of disrespectful.

2ndDivisionVet contributes to FR by, well, contributing free advertisements for Cruz on FR.

So back off!

25 posted on 04/15/2016 9:54:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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To: kiryandil

Cruz supporters would need rubber rooms, IF Trump were the beneficiary, of the PTA style delegate selection. So Cruz wins a few delegates, but will not win the state come November... And they call Trump supporters low information voters.


26 posted on 04/15/2016 9:55:43 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The second was that voters would tolerate torrents of invective and insult from a candidate for a position that Franklin Roosevelt, the president against whom modern presidents are measured, described as being primarily an office of moral leadership.

If our candidates have to be measured against FDR, it's no wonder we're so far down the socialist road.

27 posted on 04/15/2016 9:58:35 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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You can't steal something that isn't someone else's....delegates are out there to be 'won'....Besides it's pretty dang hilarious that Trump can't handle Colorado elections but yet supposedly he "gets things done"...the man didn't even show up!

At least by 'making an appearance' in Colorado and Nebraska and 'making his case' to 'earn' the delegates would have brought something,..but no he waited in NY until he had been thoroughly thrashed in Colorado and whining that the delegates chosen 'by participants' in the March caucuses didn't kiss his ring because He Is The Donald!.....

Furthermore if that's cheating then Trump needs to give back those he was awarded above the actual raw vote.


28 posted on 04/15/2016 9:59:37 PM PDT by caww
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To: kiryandil
That photoshop could equally place Ted Cruz as Curly in The Three Stooges.


29 posted on 04/15/2016 10:00:51 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: Just mythoughts

If you think the Donald can beat Hillary just by tweeting a few insults, you may want to check the 50+ most recent polls concerning a potential match up with Hillary. The most recent show Hillary up by 12%. Trump won just two of those polls, neither by more than the margin of error, and ‘none’ in 2016.

Remember, IF he wins his home state NY, as expected by the margin expected, it will be the ‘first’ time he has broken the 50% mark in any state, and that’s just of the Republican party, with some Dem crossover in open primaries. ...think Electoral College.


30 posted on 04/15/2016 10:04:12 PM PDT by caww
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Well....The fact that Trump admits to taking advantage of and abusing our system for his own profit for the past 30 years certainly should give anyone with any degree of grey matter pause.


31 posted on 04/15/2016 10:10:51 PM PDT by caww
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Yupp, absolutely mind boggling that Cruz had the entire GOP machine working overtime to make sure they denied Trump any delegates in Colorado, as seen by their #Nevertrump tweet after Cruz won them all. They just couldn’t hide their excitement at that fact that they worked the system to silence any potential Trump delegates.

Rules or no rules, does anyone think the average working class family with kids has the time and money to spend on fees to enter the CO convention system? It doesn’t take a genius to realize the system was designed for party regulars, activists and politicians...not the average voter. You shouldn’t have to read an instruction manual and pay enterence fees just to have your vote count.


32 posted on 04/15/2016 10:15:14 PM PDT by Rufus Shinra (Voting in my first primary in PA on April 26th!)
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freeper Beautiful_Gracious_Skies wrote:

COLORADO is for CHEATERS!

In 2012, 66,000 Republicans voted.

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney with over 6% of the vote.

Rick got only 6 delegates.

Romney took 28 delegates

Colorado’s good at cheatin’

Most the folks too high to notice.

The GOPe is against the social conservative - unless he's sold out to them, like Kim Jong Cruz.

33 posted on 04/15/2016 10:16:43 PM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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Cruz in Colorado was indeed a pyrrhic victory. Not exactly damaged goods, but certainly diminished.


34 posted on 04/15/2016 10:18:09 PM PDT by Beer30 (Every man has to believe something. I believe I'll have another beer.)
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He won a big victory in Wisconsin. He pierced the Donald Trump mystique

No question, Wisconsin was a big victory for Cruz. Did he pierce the Trump mystique? No, not really. I don't know where they get this stuff.

Probably just sprang from their fertile minds.

35 posted on 04/15/2016 10:19:38 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Free Cruz advertisement again.


36 posted on 04/15/2016 10:24:17 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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You can't steal something that isn't someone else's....delegates are out there to be 'won'....Besides it's pretty dang hilarious that Trump can't handle Colorado elections but yet supposedly he "gets things done"...the man didn't even show up!

The Colorado GOP made rules, to depress the vote, so they could control, who they would give the delegates of their choosing, to the candidate of their choice. NOTICE I did not mention any candidates name. Try and step outside of the tiny Cruz box, and look at the big picture. You are ignoring the Colorado tweet after the shame election of 'NEVERTRUMP' was sent out. The game was rigged and fixed... it just so happened that Cruz was the NEVERTRUMP GOP's choice.

Trump actually outfoxed the Colorado GOP by NOT showing up and exposed them for their liberal/progressive election technique. Cruz so called victory by seducing delegates to NEVERTRUMP looks 'dirty' outside of Cruz box.. The mere fact you can cheer this process says you are part of the problem.

At least by 'making an appearance' in Colorado and Nebraska and 'making his case' to 'earn' the delegates would have brought something,..but no he waited in NY until he had been thoroughly thrashed in Colorado and whining that the delegates chosen 'by participants' in the March caucuses didn't kiss his ring because He Is The Donald!.....

Trump's whine as you call it has exposed the GOP as making and playing by the same rule making as the liberal/progressives... GOP is 'dirty' is the real perception. And the GOP once again turns off the majority of voters giving the election to the liberal/progressives...

Furthermore if that's cheating then Trump needs to give back those he was awarded above the actual raw vote.

Again you miss the point... Colorado GOP dissed the citizens of Colorado... who knows who would have won if there had been a 'real' primary election.

37 posted on 04/15/2016 10:24:50 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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Boo-hoo.


38 posted on 04/15/2016 10:27:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why do people keep pumping up Cruz?
It soon will be over for Lying Ted.

The debate over whether or not Senator Ted Cruz is eligible for the U.S. Presidency is about to end. It has now been confirmed that Senator Ted Cruz is neither a “U.S. natural born Citizen” or a “legal U.S. citizen.”

http://politicsinformation.com/20016-elections/breaking-cruz-is-not-legal-us-citizen-its-all-over-for-him/

I want an AMERICAN for President not a Canadian.
What the HELL is wrong with you people. Get your head out of the sand hole. Wake up !!


39 posted on 04/15/2016 10:32:02 PM PDT by hapnHal (**)
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The rules were put in place to put rinos like Bush or Kasich in.... You really think they were trying to guarantee delegate for a true conservative like Cruz? ....If that’s the case, Trump really was fatally lazy by not making an appearance..... Unless you are including him in the RINO category.... Given his past, that is understandable.


40 posted on 04/15/2016 10:32:28 PM PDT by caww
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