I’m most interested to see if my theory was right that Ted Cruz would pay a fatal price for being hated by everyone. No matter how unpopular the Republican Establishment is, they still have a lot of influence. And it matters that people are more interested in seeing that Cruz doesn’t come in second in Iowa than they are in assuring that Trump doesn’t come in first.
But Cruz has invested in a ground game and made a lot of connections with influential people in the state.
Something’s gotta give.
Oh goody.
Ted Cruz is well liked by the white supremacist theocrats of Iowa.
Excuse me, the ‘people of the land. The common clay of the new West. ‘
Fuck Iowa, seriously. Who the hell decided that THEY get to decide for ME who gets to be president?
It’s long past time for a single national primary day.
First Tuesday in September.
That would be awesome! Snowball candidates (as in ‘Not a snowball’s chance…’) will last for months and months. Full employment for the nations political comedians!
No exploratory of official campaigns to begin before the immediately preceding June 1st. Avoids the snowballs.
Well he has really pissed off Redstate and the Freepers with this mail flyer
http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/30/cruz-campaign-mailers-shame-voters/
Despite the conspiracy theories, the Cruz campaign has confirmed these mailers are theirs and did send them out.
In my view, this is not how you go about convincing people and persuading them. This is a Donald Trump tactic and Cruz’s team should know better. Shaming people into voting is a great way to get them to vote for somebody else if they decide to do so.
http://www.redstate.com/uploads/2016/01/AmericasBelleXO_2016-Jan-29.jpg
“Cruz’s team should know better.” Snorted my coffee laughing!
Trump is laying it on thick with the birther question still and again and putting ‘he’s not a nice guy, nobody likes him’ sprinkles on top. Since no fellow members of Congress seem to be stepping in to endorse or even defend Cruz, what’s an Iowa voter to think?
Pressure from beneath is squeezing Cruz. Probably why he’s spending money on slamming Rubio but it’s becoming more obvious that Cruz has lost all traction. He’s jello (and not the yummy kind).
” … Trump is laying it on thick with the birther question still … “
Seems like the sensible play …
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“LGM”
Oh, Cruz’s dad is worst the Rev. Wright. There is a lot more tape out there of Rev. Cruz saying some real bat** crazy stuff. There is a PAC out there just waiting for the right time to dump the tap.
He’s jello (and not the yummy kind).
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA
I think the word you are looking for is oleaginous. Oily and obsequious.
Yes, also Unctuous. But I still like the visual of jello sliding down and over the punch bowl cliff with no traction.
This guy would have fit well in Salem a few hundred years ago.
Cruz takes second. The establishment abandons the party. Bloomberg enters the race.
Can somebody explain to me how Bloomberg would get more than about 27 votes? I know he thinks he should be president, but who else does?
Because Mayors Lindsay and Guiliani were electable POTUS candidates — until they weren’t.
Aside from the obvious fact that all three were mayors of New York City, the cases are almost totally different. The only thing they have in common is that it is precisely the experiences of Lindsay and Giuliani as mayors that killed their presidential ambitions, and that would be no less true for Bloomberg.
Lindsay was mayor from January 1966 to December 1973, which was a period of constant municipal crises that he was ill-equipped to deal with. His presidential campaign took place WHILE HE WAS STILL MAYOR, and he switched to the Democratic Party (he was an unimaginably liberal Republican by today’s standards). Lindsay was a good guy; a civil rights advocate, an opponent of the Vietnam War, certainly aware of the role of the CIA in it, and for these and other reasons he had become a national figure. But he was caught in the quagmire that was New York City as well as horrible national politics of the Vietnam era.
The only rationale Giuliani had for running was 9/11. He came out of that looking heroic and smelling like roses. But that was short lived, because the mayoral primary, which was supposed to have been held on 9/11, was postponed two weeks, and on the eve of the vote Giuliani, who was ineligible to run because of term limits, suggested he might challenge the term limits and run again. This made him look like he was capitalizing on 9/11 to grab power (which is exactly what he was doing, like all the other Republicans) it largely canceled out the “heroic” illusion and was badly received. Other things soon came to light that canceled it out even more.
Bloomberg was fairly popular for a while, but by the time he left office the majority of New Yorkers had had quite enough of him. His anointed successor Christine Quinn did poorly in the primary, and Di Blasio won the mayoral election by a huge margin, mainly, I believe, by his being seen as the un-Bloomberg. (Largely an illusion, John Liu was the real un-Bloomberg.) But in addition, Bloomberg has, IMHO, little national appeal. Bloomberg is all about $$$ for the rich, and that’s out the fashion. As a third party candidate, whatever votes he would get would be drawn away from Hillary Clinton, NOT Bernie Sanders.
Move this to Breitbart. They’ll appreciate it.
Yes, they do seem to appreciate “law and order” type pronouncements based on lies and false claims than Democrats do. Well, except when the speaker is a Clinton and then both sides close their ears.
What is Breitbart?
He’s a far right writer with a blog, yes? Don’t know the address, nor why I’d spend time there.
You troll rate me for posting this clip? Is it so insidious in your eyes? Lordie.
Have to get with the program. From the center to a smidgen to the left of it, IOKIYAC.