End of times for Cruz?

[fromderinside]

Ted Cruz wrongly accuses CNN of saying Ben Carson would end campaign http://www.wibc.com/news/national/ted-cruz-wrongly-accuses-cnn-saying-ben-carson-would-end-campaign

The controversy stems from a CNN scoop that was broadcast Monday night, minutes before the Iowa caucuses began. Reporter Chris Moody received information from the Carson campaign that he would be taking a break from the campaign trail after Iowa. Moody, and the other CNN reporters who followed up on the report, said Carson would continue campaigning after taking a break at home in Florida. His next stop, they said, would be Washington, D.C., for the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.

Ben Carson blasts Ted Cruz’s camp for ‘dirty tricks’ in Iowa http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/2/ben-carson-blasts-ted-cruz-camp-dirty-tricks-iowa/

Here come the horsemen.

Rubio Surges Behind Trump, Ted Cruz Falls In NH Poll http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/cruz-drops-rubio-surges-nh-suffolk-feb

Support for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in New Hampshire has collapsed precipitously, according to a Suffolk/Boston Globe poll released Friday which showed him falling from second place to fifth place in the state.

cheer, take shots whatever. Methinks he's toast.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

This race is so tricky because we are used to having the evangelicals and establishment and the oppressed white Republicans battling it out. This year, the guy in the lead has the support of people that have never voted before and consist of the uglier side of America. Cruz has a good deal of support from the evangelicals. That support will be hard to waiver and honestly, the fight in NH is hardly the same as in the south.

Rubio is supported in part by some evangelicals, but more a fraction of the establishment. He clearly was never the first choice, but it appears his support is coming from other establishment candidate supporters. But there is one major problem with Rubio, and it isn't his apparent disdain of going to work, but that he is rather unvetted at this point. In '12, the crazy people were getting vetted on the road to the Iowa Caucus. Hard to remember it in detail, but all the crackpots had cracked up before Iowa even happened. Bachmann won the Iowa Strawpoll, not the Caucus. So the incapables were rising and falling once people learned anything about them in the fall and winter of '11 and '12.

Rubio didn't get this treatment, floundering around 5 to 7%. So that means when things come up about how he can't balance a checkbook, his viability as a candidate is put into question, and at the absolute wrong time. I think this lack of a clearly popular establishment candidate keeping Cruz in it, because we've seen Republican Candidates often fall after they rise in the polls, and people remember why they were originally polling crap in the beginning.

And honestly, while Cruz's campaign messed up on Carson, it is hardly like that affected anything. Carson is dropping out soon. His batshit insane supporters will have to find some other evangelical to support, which almost has to be Cruz by default because Trump will quote from the Book of P-Salms and display how little he knows about religion.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

Ted Cruz wrongly accuses CNN of saying Ben Carson would end campaign http://www.wibc.com/news/national/ted-cruz-wrongly-accuses-cnn-saying-ben-carson-would-end-campaign



Ben Carson blasts Ted Cruz’s camp for ‘dirty tricks’ in Iowa http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/2/ben-carson-blasts-ted-cruz-camp-dirty-tricks-iowa/

Here come the horsemen.

Rubio Surges Behind Trump, Ted Cruz Falls In NH Poll http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/cruz-drops-rubio-surges-nh-suffolk-feb

Support for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in New Hampshire has collapsed precipitously, according to a Suffolk/Boston Globe poll released Friday which showed him falling from second place to fifth place in the state.

cheer, take shots whatever. Methinks he's toast.

Only if the confederacy secedes again before the SC primaries. I don't think it will.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

Rubio is looking more and more like he'll be the nominee, and that's bad news for Democrats, as Rubio is one of the few who may actually beat them in the general.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Rubio is looking more and more like he'll be the nominee, and that's bad news for Democrats, as Rubio is one of the few who may actually beat them in the general.

Until he picks Carly for his running mate!

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Cruz? Shades of Tricky Dick Nixon! He's so lovable.

 

[Derec]

Rubio is looking more and more like he'll be the nominee, and that's bad news for Democrats, as Rubio is one of the few who may actually beat them in the general.

If he finishes a strong second in NH he could easily steal the win in SC from Trump. Then he'd definitely be the man to beat.
But has he been sufficiently vetted. There have been hints of financial shenanigans as well as rumors of infidelity. Not to mention him being brother-in-law of Scarface (ok not really, but of a Cuban cocaine dealer nevertheless).
Forget dancing Cuban heel boots, I want to see some enterprising SuperPAC make an ad with Rubio digitally inserted into Scarface scenes, Forrest Gump style.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Only if the confederacy secedes again before the SC primaries. I don't think it will.

There is no polling data for SC or NV which makes it hard to be certain, but it is logical to presume Cruz will do better in SC than NH. NV would seem to be a wild card state. Any Hispanics actually registered Republicans there?

Rubio is looking more and more like he'll be the nominee, and that's bad news for Democrats, as Rubio is one of the few who may actually beat them in the general.

A true statement that he has the best chance, but Rubio faces an uphill Electoral College battle. He also needs to overcome his lack of experience. Obama can really give a great speech. Rubio, not as much.

Rubio is looking more and more like he'll be the nominee, and that's bad news for Democrats, as Rubio is one of the few who may actually beat them in the general.

Until he picks Carly for his running mate!

If Fiorina continues with the Planned Parenthood angle, it'll make her a liability as whomever the Dem VP is, they'll crucify her. Fiorina is terribly unqualified to be President, lacking any good work experience at all. She did enter the race to run for VP, but if Rubio is the guy, it'd be hard to put her as the VP as it does not strengthen his "lack of experience" issue (think Joe Biden). Kasich is his running mate.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Latest add on Fox radio.

"If you aren't with Rubio, you are electing the Democrats".

So he's going for the electability.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Latest add on Fox radio.

"If you aren't with Rubio, you are electing the Democrats".

So he's going for the electability.

Well, that's true. Both Trump and Cruz would lose huge to Clinton. Rubio would still lose, but it wouldn't be an embarrassing shelacking and the GOP might retain their control of one of the Houses.

 

[fromderinside]

Latest add on Fox radio.

"If you aren't with Rubio, you are electing the Democrats".

So he's going for the electability.

Well, that's true. Both Trump and Cruz would lose huge to Clinton. Rubio would still lose, but it wouldn't be an embarrassing shelacking and the GOP might retain their control of one of the Houses.

Its not about the republicans. Its just about the conservative lying face trickster Cruz. I'm going with the poll showing him dropping to 7% in NH. Republicans like strength, fear mongering, blunt speech, but they are very very hard on those are presumed to distort against their own just for the top billit.

As for the election, it comes down to whether Clinton can find a running mate who complements her experience with enthusiasm and her shaky moral performance with integrity. How about two women on the ticket? One a Senator from Massachusetts who has creds on financial reform. Or, how about a popular Californian Governor who is experienced in getting things done while being very environmental and progressive. Both will excite the base.

 

[untermensche]

Marco Rubio is a complete moron.

But of course that is what the billionaires propping him up to their bidding, not the nation's, like about him.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topo...ces-apocalyptic-preachers-20160205-story.html

[h=1]Ted Cruz embraces apocalyptic preachers and anti-gay militants [/h]
No question, the contestants for the Republican presidential nomination are a very conservative bunch, but there is something that sets Texas Sen. Ted Cruz apart from the pack: his endorsements from some of the religious right’s kookiest voices. Where the 2008 GOP nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, distanced himself from militants on the evangelical fringe, Cruz proudly embraces them.

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Looks like the MSM is picking up on all of this.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

It's tough to call Rubio. If his opponents were black then he'd be white so of course the Republicans would vote for him, but his opponents (in both parties - I'm not counting Carson) are white and that makes him a minority and everyone knows Republicans don't vote for minorities.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Since we know if the case is "Hispanic versus Black" that Hispanics count as White, but if the case is "Hispanic versus White" then Hispanics count as Minorities. That shows that Black has a higher minority score than Hispanic, but Hispanic has a higher minority score than White.

What if it comes to Rubio versus Hillary? Who has the higher minority score, a White Woman or a Hispanic Man?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Since we know if the case is "Hispanic versus Black" that Hispanics count as White, but if the case is "Hispanic versus White" then Hispanics count as Minorities. That shows that Black has a higher minority score than Hispanic, but Hispanic has a higher minority score than White.

What if it comes to Rubio versus Hillary? Who has the higher minority score, a White Woman or a Hispanic Man?

Since Nixon's Southern strategy, black Americans have been overwhelmingly pro-Democratic voters. Rubio might get the die-hard right winged Floridan Cuban vote but otherwise, Clinton has the edge here.

 

[untermensche]

Since we know if the case is "Hispanic versus Black" that Hispanics count as White, but if the case is "Hispanic versus White" then Hispanics count as Minorities. That shows that Black has a higher minority score than Hispanic, but Hispanic has a higher minority score than White.

What if it comes to Rubio versus Hillary? Who has the higher minority score, a White Woman or a Hispanic Man?

Since Nixon's Southern strategy, black Americans have been overwhelmingly pro-Democratic voters. Rubio might get the die-hard right winged Floridan Cuban vote but otherwise, Clinton has the edge here.

What Rubio will not get is the independent swing voter.

He will get the xenophobic, the anti-Communist dinosaurs, and the very old.

And of course the people who will only vote for a Republican.

What his appeal is alludes me totally. He is not bright, or a very good speaker.

He just mouths the same tired platitudes with a dull expression.

No potential for actual thought.

 

[fromderinside]

Poor Marco Rubio. He hasn't any accomplishments and his endorser Rick Santorum says as much.

Rick Santorum Endorsed Marco Rubio, Doesn’t Actually Know Anything Rubio’s Accomplished http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ame_any_of_marco_rubio_s_accomplishments.html

On Thursday morning, the former Pennsylvania senator got one of his first chances to play the role of Rubio advocate during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. It, um, did not go well. Asked repeatedly to name Rubio’s top accomplishment in the Senate, Santorum came up empty time and time again. “If you look at being in the minority in the United States Senate in a year when nothing got—four years where nothing got done, I guess it’s hard to say there are accomplishments,” Santorum said. “I mean, tell me what happened during that four years that was an accomplishment for anybody? It was complete gridlock.”
Things only got worse from there. When Joe Scarborough reminded Santorum that the GOP has controlled the Senate for more than a year now, Rubio's latest endorser responded by noting that Rubio has been awfully busy during that time campaigning for president—something you’d expect to hear from one of Rubio’ rivals, not one of his newfound allies. (“Joe, look, the Republicans have been in the majority for one year and one month, of which, as you know, he was running for president primarily,” Santorum said.) At another point co-host Mika Brzezinski felt compelled to jump in and offer her guest a lifeline in the form of a fill-in-the-blank question. “Jeb Bush ran Florida. Donald Trump built a company,” she said. “Marco Rubio... — finish the sentence.” (Santorum went with “the speaker of the Florida House, which is not something that’s a minor deal.”)

So Speaker of Florida House is not a minor deal? Really?

Can't do his own banking, has infidelity questions, doesn't attend to his 'job' in the senate, not a great speaker, always needs more water - wow . Accomplishment after accomplishment.

... and he's apparently been converted to a Mexico wall Hispanic. Any more certs or creds and he'll have to commit hari kari or its Cuban equivalent.

 

[bleubird]

End times.
Rubio creeps me out with that "care more about eternity with god than this life crap".

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

And it happens. As Rubio rises in the polls he goes from the reasonable alternative to the moron.