Cruz is of the cohort of Republicans who grew up on Rush Limbaugh commercials for whole life insurance, annuities, gold contracts and super memory vitamins. His values, vision, strategy and tactics are forged in the crucible of entertainers, who’re not responsible for getting elected or doing anything besides attracting gullible listeners.
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If he says anything at all he’ll probably blame some staffer but this is something Ted would totally do. Grading conservatives and coming up with a Ted Score. What’s your Ted Score?
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cruz is the slimiest of snake oil salesmen!
Considering the group he’s in, that’s something to worry about.
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Thank you!
Besides, they caucus together, they’re neighbors KNOW how they voted!
cruz’s base…Only the super slow witted!
I’d be interested in knowing about the overlap of people worried about what their neighbors think about their voting habits with those who have yard signs for a candidate.
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It’s pretty remarkable to have a candidate that makes someone like Donald Trump look comparatively likable.
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Whatever happened to the good old days of obsessing over the important stuff in other people’s lives?
Bob’s a pencil-dick and his wife is doing their dentist.
There, now everyone at the card table has tonight's topic of conversation. No Alice, we're not talking about the goddamned 2012 Caucus, so give it a rest!!!
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Speaking of blowback, check out the reaction of Ted’s own daughter to him: Ted Cruz Rejected By His Own Daughter | Crooks and Liars
Most losing candidacies fail gradually in one way or another, but some have pivotal moments that appear to precipitate their demise in particularly dramatic fashion. Muskie’s alleged tears defending his wife in NH, Ford stating in the debate that Poland wasn’t under Soviet domination, Dukakis’s turn as Rockey the Squirrel in the tank, Rick Perry’s “Oops,” Romney’s 47% video, and the revelation of Carson’s pyramids-as-granaries belief are some of the more notable.
In most of these aforementioned cases, the incident didn’t reveal new information so much as confirmed in a very vivid way notions about the candidate that were already in the public consciousness. Ford was already regarded by many as a clumsy doofus, Dukakis seemed a bit hapless on the campaign trail, Perry was a doltish Texan yahoo, Romney was the arrogant plutocrat, and Carson was simply nuts. With Cruz, those who follow politics with even a cursory interest have heard many times how widely disliked he is. Many people can dismiss that as “just politics,” but to see his own flesh-and-blood reject his attempts at physical contact with what appears to be disgust cannot but arouse visceral reactions in any non-sociopath.
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Precisely. This is pretty standard low level dirty trickery stuff for the GOP. Trump should have a sit down with his buddy Stone and talk about dirty tricks sometime if this is the worst he has heard of.
And he hasn’t seen anything yet. Negative campaign ads is preschool stuff to the GOPers that live and breathe dirty tricks. I suspect SC is where we really see them pour it on.
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OUCH!
And there is a certain amount of karma involved that its his own daughter that he has repeatedly taken out as a campaign prop, now flicking him off and rejecting him in front of cameras on the campaign trail.
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Wont intimidating voters lead to some kind of backlash ? People usually don’t like insinuations about their behaviour …
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The public, both supporters and detractors, already know Trump is a xenophobe, a racist, a misogynist, knows damned little about public policy or intricate military strategy, and is prone to having vague and simplistic notions of approaches to governing. What mistakes can he make, what can he say or do, that amounts to crossing some line, a pivotal moment sinking his candidacy? He bases his very campaign on such a pivotal moment not existing.
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More than being a comment on Iowa voters’ stupidity, this demonstrates the Cruz campaign’s intent to exploit the gullibility of the small number of voters who won’t “get” the con. Just because they’re naive, or inexperienced, or their elderly minds are getting feeble doesn’t mean Grifter Ted can’t benefit from their confusion.
omg I’m going on vacation before the Trump and Berniebro* circus rolls into SC.
*note: no offense to anyone here
Myrtle Beach is a vacation spot 
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A huuuge disgrace! Yea like he gives a shit about scaring people with total bs to get a vote.
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The only answer I can concoct is that Trump is regarded as an entertainer or celebrity rather than a politician, and therefore his supporters simply aren’t interested in policy. They don’t give a shit about all that pointy-headed stuff—they’re reacting to him purely on an emotional, lizard-brained level.
Besides, I’m not convinced that Trump hasn’t already sunk his own candidacy. A large portion of the GOP’s elite are terrified of him being the candidate, including established conservative organs like the National Review, and he’s in open warfare with the GOP’s propaganda network at Fox. Perhaps most critically for a general election, Trump’s unfavorables ratings are dramatically higher than any other candidate, and it’s clear he simply doesn’t give a shit. If he were to get the nomination and run against HRC and then lose badly, I wonder if the Beltway pundits will then say “See, the signs of his demise were there all along.”
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Wait. I thought the GOP was against screwing with the sacred duty of voting. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
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Ooooh. Iffy.
That was one of the reasons I was for a Trump GOP Nomination. However, I am having a few second thoughts…in divergent directions.
A. Trump gets the nomination and continues the trajectory of his behaviour, resulting in a cannibalism of the American political discourse, resulting in a boorishness and actual inciting of physical violence.
B. Trump gets the nomination and both the entertainment and “political” sectors of the MSM, along with FOX and the RNC put their full weight behind the inevitable Etch-A-Sketch. The entertainment folks will produce well-packaged videos of versions of “What’s Donald Trump REALLY Like?”. The political folks will do PRECISELY what Steve Schmidt did to Lawrence O’Donnell, who completely startled Lawrence by conflating Trump’s vagueness with “vision”, Trump’s boorishness with “debating power against Hillary or Bernie” and implying that Trump is speaking to significant pluralities of Democrats.
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