Understandable reaction but I fear you may be sitting out the Republican primaries.
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I wonder if Cruz has given any thought at all to what will happen to him after the 2016 R primaries if he doesnât get the nomination? I get the feeling from what weâve seen of him so far that he will have trouble with that defeat. Sure heâs been ineffectual as a Senator, but it seems he spends all his time grandstanding and so far it hasnât hurt him to âfailâ because it plays to his narrative.
Once he doesnât get the nomination doesnât he just become another politician that has failed Conservatism since Conservatism never fails? Does he even keep his seat in the Senate after this? Iâd bet $1 he doesnât. If he starts to realize that I see the gloves coming off.
So Cruz says:
âDonald Trump had a rally in Phoenix, Ariz. [to which] between 10 and 20 thousand people came out.
(There is a gap âbetweenâ those two numbers large enough for an aircraft carrier.)
And Rachel Maddow calls BS on Trump claims about the size of his crowd, and her call is deemed to be true:
In a statement shared with PunditFact, the city fire department said capacity for the North Ballroom was 4,200 people. The doors were closed at 4,169 attendees, said Phoenix Fire Department spokeswoman Shelly Jamison.
âOnce that capacity was reached, we closed the doors,â she said. âThe Phoenix Convention Center has a fire prevention specialist who is an expert on large events (e.g. Super Bowl Fan Fest, Comicon, etc) assigned specifically to the Phoenix Convention Center to enforce fire code compliance.â
Might we also note that Trump has made no secret of the fact that he has hired people to show up at his events to make them look bigger.
Donald Trumpâs big presidential announcement Tuesday was made a little bigger with help from paid actors â at $50 a pop.
New York-based Extra Mile Casting sent an email last Friday to its client list of background actors, seeking extras to beef up attendance at Trumpâs event.
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Amen. Itâs time to wean Trump from the TPM teat.
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There seem to be less Trumpettes than there were yesterday which seemed to be a record.
This is analysis is 180 degrees off the mark. It misses the big picture. Trump and Cruz doubtless have an alliance. Cruz with be the Donaldâs VP choice. And they will announce when the time is most politically expeditious. Doing so will all but lock up the nomination for Trump-Cruz by forcing the ârespective fourâ (i.e., Bush, Rubio, Kasish, and Walker) to compete among themselves for the center-right plurality of Republican primary voters â a competition none of them can win. Itâs Trump-Cruz 2016. You heard it here first.
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And Trump has acted rationally and sanely so far?
But, but Ted Cruz is the smartest guy in the room. Just ask him!
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If Cruzâ senator ship goes south he will follow his mentor, Jim DeMint, over to Heritage and rake in the big bucks from them. I donât think Cruz was ever in it for the long haul, he was there to make trouble for McConnell/establishment GOP. Cruz is an opportunist who will bend whatever way the money waves.
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Youâre close. They will lock up enough support to force the GOP to select neither Trump/Cruz or Walker/Bush, but the dark horse untainted by the GOP Clown Car Battles of 2015/16, Mittens.
Has Cruz?
Even Cruz falls for the Trump BS Machine. The fire department in Phoenix stated that the max. capacity for the Phoenix Convention Center is 4200. Both candidates canât stop exaggerating and lying.
Small room.
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It may be old news to some, but it is fair to say that Donald Trump has also out-Christied tell-it-like-it-is, straight-shooter Chris Christie.
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You SERIOUSLY think Jeb and the Bushâs would go for a Veep Post? REALLY?
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While I like and respect some of the regulars expressing âTrump fatigueâ I canât help but think of the brilliant and infamous Onion piece asking why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock? when complaining in the comments of another Trump article.
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I canât see a Trump/Cruz ticket. Since they take up the same space, Cruz has nothing to add to the ticket. Look for the eventual nominee to cover the bases by adding Fiorina just, for the sake of diversity. As of today Rubio/Fiorina, are looking like a good possibility.
Donât put Walker in the right of center crowd. He is as extreme as you can get. His strategy is to disarm by looking like âjust a regular guyâ. Who can forget when asked a serious question about Iran his answer was about tying yellow ribbons on trees as a boy, constant references to his boy scout years and his $1.00 shirt from Kohls? He wants to portray a nice guy image. He is anything but. Look what he did to Wisconsin.
Just for fun, a link to a 29 second clip on the $1.00 shirt story.
Iâd really like to know how people like Trump, Walker and Cruz manage to make their way through the day with their pants on fire. I have not recently read/heard quite so many outright, palpable lies as I see from the Republican candidates for President. "âDonald Trumpâs just using the same old tired talking points of the DemocratsâŚâ Yes, I remember clearly when FDR accused Hoover of losing WWIâŚoh, wait, THAT NEVER HAPPENED. Yet the media continues to report the antics of these obviously insane people as though any of them is qualified to be dog catcher, let alone President of this country. I am so sick and tired of the transparent liesâŚ
I think that alone may do him in. When people of a certain political stripe read about him they may well go hell yes" but hearing him is another matter. Just not âmanlyâ enough for the GOP types & just really annoying to the rest of us (though the second may be mainly due to content rather than presentation).
Sad the media canât talk about itselfâŚhours of cheap, high viewer interest programming but at what cost?
As shock over the failed Trump Red Wedding fades no one appears to consider the flip side of the broken media take-down machine, the old power media fluffer-upper chrisma infuser. Take a frail, sickly JFK, add some, then, new fluffer-upper and some actual uppers and bam, a legend is born. Fast forward, take a dorky elitist private sector failure, add some deregulated fluffer-upper and bam, a regular guy you can share a beer with turned young war leader until multi-platform digital sinks in and re-informs part of a nation.
Itâs BYO fluffing now but next to the multi-decade McLuhan-charged media cool/hot of Trump a newbie can only go from pale to wanâŚ(Trumpâs debate/blood triumph wasnât just a FOX loss)