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Ted Cruz ? Republican Party?s Best Hope
Ted Cruz or Bust
If the Republican Party is to be saved from Donald Trump, Ted Cruz’s runaway victory in Wisconsin will have been the inflection point. If you thought this service to the GOP would be met with plaudits and gratitude from the party’s insiders, you obviously don’t know anything about their relationship to the Texas senator. St. Augustine famously prayed, Dear Lord, make me chaste — but not yet. The GOP establishment’s prayer is, Dear Lord, deliver us from Donald Trump — but not with Ted Cruz. The increasing likelihood of a contested convention in Cleveland has led to chatter about such a conclave turning to a white knight who has the advantage of being neither Trump nor Cruz. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who ascended to the third-highest constitutional office in the land while (sincerely) saying he didn’t want it, is most often mentioned for the honor of winning a nomination he didn’t run for.
Poor Ted Cruz…………..The most despised man in Congress and many other places too………… is being use by the D.C. boys as their tool to stop Trump……….
He is wicked smart but new to politics and possibly somewhat naïve…… But I would not under estimate him…….
BTW
(Have you ever closely taken note of his face with the deep sunken squinty eyes and a Halloween type nose………IMHO……….He look like evil personified)
After the first ballot with Trump not selected…….
………. the Establishment elitist Cruz will be dropped like flies………..
… and D.C. dandies will then have “their” golden boy white knight candidate nominated……….
Think of the three R’s
Romney Rubio Ryan ……Sort of like getting Twiddle-dee and Twiddle-dumb with a “kicker”
My money is on Ryan who does not want the nomination…… Just like he did not want to be Speaker…….
Ryan is Toranaga, the guy who managed to become Shogun, by not wanting to be Shogun.
The Cruz Campaign is busy getting their people selected as delegates from the states. RNC members make up about 7% of the delegates.
Ted Cruz, not Paul Ryan, would probably win a contested convention
What I do know is Trump wins the state and the Cruz folks go in and get the delegates to back Cruz......... and recruit more or equal to the guy who won the state..........
Isn't what Cruz is doing against the rules?
The delegates are bound on the first ballot. What happens after that is (to varying degrees) up to them. If the Trump campaign wasn't savvy enough (I thought he hired the best people, and had the best brain?) to realize that that might become important, that's their fault.
No. It is, in fact, explicitly the rules.
It is a game that has been played by MANY politicians in both parties over the years.
Trump should have boned up on the mechanics of the process. Cruz did. And from what I hear, Cruz has been lobbying the party bosses in all the states for years now. He knows them all.
That's the good part. The bad part is: They know him.
Cruz has been a good closer in almost every state (if not every state). It seems that face-to-face-Cruz gives you a different impression than television-Cruz.
No he hasn't. That's why he's getting stomped.
I'm not the only one that gets the creeps watching him speak, lot of people say the same thing. There something very unnerving about him. He's like sweaty Nixon from the JFK era.
:lol: He has won the last four states in a row, and is now about tied in national polling.
Cruz overperforms his polls, as he can pick up late deciders once the campaign actually gets to the state, and they get to see him. Trump tends to stay at about or a little under his polling numbers, because he can't, and they don't.
If Cruz was getting stomped, Trump wouldn't be out there whining about how unfair everything was, and making up crap about how he's cheating.
Yeah - as I stated, it seems he gives off a very different impression in person than he does on television.
Are you ****ing serious? No, you are not the only one who has expressed that sentiment. But what you do have in common with others who have expressed that opinion is, you seem to be judging Cruz based on superficial nonsense. Get ahold yourself man.No he hasn't. That's why he's getting stomped. I'm not the only one that gets the creeps watching him speak, lot of people say the same thing. There something very unnerving about him. He's like sweaty Nixon from the JFK era.
Are you ****ing serious? No, you are not the only one who has expressed that sentiment. But what you do have in common with others who have expressed that opinion is, you seem to be judging Cruz based on superficial nonsense. Get ahold yourself man.
No he hasn't.
There is absolutely no path for him to take 1,237
even now that he has signed on as buttboy for the establishment
And he's not tied in national polling, Trump still beats him, every time.
He's about to be embarrassed in a couple of the largest states in the union.
Except, despite his persona I'd have been willing to vote for the guy if he took the nomination, said that from the start. But now that he's proven himself to be a sellout, added to the creep factor and I'd never vote for him.
:lol: "Sellout", of course, being defined as "Running against Donald Trump".
:lol: He has won the last four states in a row...
Except, despite his persona I'd have been willing to vote for the guy if he took the nomination, said that from the start. But now that he's proven himself to be a sellout, added to the creep factor and I'd never vote for him.
I sincerely cannot understand how Cruz is less palatable to people than Donald "It's yuuuuuuugeeeeeeeee" Trump. The man is as smarmy and disingenuous as any politician ever was and has the added benefit of being a delusion, raging narcissist on top of it.
This is a Cruz thread, leave Obama out of it.
Except, despite his persona I'd have been willing to vote for the guy if he took the nomination, said that from the start. But now that he's proven himself to be a sellout, added to the creep factor and I'd never vote for him.
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