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hey Cecile- how is Cruz going to bring in any moderates or liberals?
Same way he is bringing the establishment around. By standing on principles.
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hey Cecile- how is Cruz going to bring in any moderates or liberals?
hey Cecile- how is Cruz going to bring in any moderates or liberals?
Hey, dumbass. How is Trump going to bring in anyone but you?
hes brought in more moderates and libs already than cruz will ever get. Why don't you answer the question?
All of it is false?
Only if they get caught.........and that isn't often.They tried the Ivana ad first................you know damn well Cruz has access to these PAC's that they later deny using............They drew first blood.So much for his pledge........huh.....Donald has also opened Cruz up for a third party run. He isn't going to back Trump if he is the nominee.
If he wanted his support trump shouldn't have betrayed his trust. No one who falsely attacks my family would ever have my support. Marital goes trump politics
You know very well he doesn't have access to any PACs. If he had he would be facing criminal charges right now.
Personality and bringing sides together with the split congress is key in today's politics. Trump has the personality and the experience to make good deals for the US and American people, in general. Cruz will get nothing done. No one likes him- even his own Party! lmao.
They tried the Ivana ad first................you know damn well Cruz has access to these PAC's that they later deny using............They drew first blood.So much for his pledge........huh.....Donald has also opened Cruz up for a third party run. He isn't going to back Trump if he is the nominee.
If he wanted his support trump shouldn't have betrayed his trust. No one who falsely attacks my family would ever have my support. Marital goes trump politics
You know very well he doesn't have access to any PACs. If he had he would be facing criminal charges right now.
You know very well that Trumpettes aren't interested in proving anything. They just want to make the allegations, and then back down.
If that is coming for someone who's against the establishment and corruption up there.............Hand them the **** over.......Have you figured it out yet that I don't give a **** what you think.Well you need to get your bumper sticker then and join the Dems and the establishment there..............New Book Explains Why Ted Cruz Can't Win Without Winning Over GOP Establishment
Movement Conservatives, Cruz's Base, Are Less Than 40% of the GOP; Establishment Conservatives Will Decide Who Wins
January 21, 2016 07:41 ET | Source: Henry Olsen and Dante Scala
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sen. Ted Cruz has rocketed to the top of the Iowa polls, and to second in national polls, on the strength of backing from religious and Tea Party "very conservative" voters. But a new book shows that won't be enough to elect the brilliant but controversial first term lawmaker. According to co-authors Henry Olsen and Dante Scala, Cruz can win only by winning over the very establishment conservatives he has built his career by antagonizing.
Olsen and Scala's new book, Four Faces of the Republican Party: The Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination, uses twenty years of exit poll data to break the GOP into four ideological factions. "Very conservative evangelicals," who are 20-25 percent of the party, and "very conservative seculars," who are 10-15 percent of the party, are Cruz's base. Polls show that Cruz leads the field, even Donald Trump, among these two groups. But together these factions are 35-40 percent of the Party. To win, Cruz needs to capture at least one of the other factions.
Moderates, who are 25-30 percent of the GOP, are the group least likely to back the vociferously conservative Texas Senator. So to win, the authors conclude, Cruz must turn to the group he has criticized the most: the establishment "somewhat conservative".
"'Somewhat conservatives' are the most powerful and the least understood of the GOP's four factions," says co-author Henry Olsen, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "These voters are conservative in both senses of the word: they favor movement conservative ideals but are also classically cautious and suspicious of rapid change. These are the voters who prefer John Boehner or Mitch McConnell to the Tea Party - and they are the largest faction in the GOP."
Olsen and Scala show that "somewhat conservatives" are about 35-40 percent of the GOP, and they are the only faction that has backed every GOP nominee in the last four election cycles. When they allied with moderates, they nominated Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. When they allied with the two "very" conservative factions, they nominated George W. Bush.
"The path to the nomination runs through the 'Boehner conservatives'," Olsen said. "That will be a very tough challenge for Sen. Cruz to meet."
New Book Explains Why Ted Cruz Can't Win Without Winning Over GOP Establishment
I'm sorry, are you thinking that you're making some sort of brilliant point? Because if you're going for, "We have to vote for Trump to WIN!" you can shove that right up your ass. If God Almighty Himself came down and told me to vote for Donald Trump, I'd choose to go to Hell first.
Right after you get your horns and pitchfork and go stand where you belong.

I've been around long enough to know how the games are played..............Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.Only if they get caught.........and that isn't often.They tried the Ivana ad first................you know damn well Cruz has access to these PAC's that they later deny using............They drew first blood.So much for his pledge........huh.....
If he wanted his support trump shouldn't have betrayed his trust. No one who falsely attacks my family would ever have my support. Marital goes trump politics
You know very well he doesn't have access to any PACs. If he had he would be facing criminal charges right now.
You mean because there is no evidence. Can't imagine why we don't fine and prosecute people without evidence.
Slick Willy looks like a teenager compared to Ted!....But at least he's NOT a ******* bisexual like the Obomanation is!





Goes back to opinions and assumptions point I already made.......If that is coming for someone who's against the establishment and corruption up there.............Hand them the **** over.......Have you figured it out yet that I don't give a **** what you think.Well you need to get your bumper sticker then and join the Dems and the establishment there..............New Book Explains Why Ted Cruz Can't Win Without Winning Over GOP Establishment
Movement Conservatives, Cruz's Base, Are Less Than 40% of the GOP; Establishment Conservatives Will Decide Who Wins
January 21, 2016 07:41 ET | Source: Henry Olsen and Dante Scala
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sen. Ted Cruz has rocketed to the top of the Iowa polls, and to second in national polls, on the strength of backing from religious and Tea Party "very conservative" voters. But a new book shows that won't be enough to elect the brilliant but controversial first term lawmaker. According to co-authors Henry Olsen and Dante Scala, Cruz can win only by winning over the very establishment conservatives he has built his career by antagonizing.
Olsen and Scala's new book, Four Faces of the Republican Party: The Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination, uses twenty years of exit poll data to break the GOP into four ideological factions. "Very conservative evangelicals," who are 20-25 percent of the party, and "very conservative seculars," who are 10-15 percent of the party, are Cruz's base. Polls show that Cruz leads the field, even Donald Trump, among these two groups. But together these factions are 35-40 percent of the Party. To win, Cruz needs to capture at least one of the other factions.
Moderates, who are 25-30 percent of the GOP, are the group least likely to back the vociferously conservative Texas Senator. So to win, the authors conclude, Cruz must turn to the group he has criticized the most: the establishment "somewhat conservative".
"'Somewhat conservatives' are the most powerful and the least understood of the GOP's four factions," says co-author Henry Olsen, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "These voters are conservative in both senses of the word: they favor movement conservative ideals but are also classically cautious and suspicious of rapid change. These are the voters who prefer John Boehner or Mitch McConnell to the Tea Party - and they are the largest faction in the GOP."
Olsen and Scala show that "somewhat conservatives" are about 35-40 percent of the GOP, and they are the only faction that has backed every GOP nominee in the last four election cycles. When they allied with moderates, they nominated Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. When they allied with the two "very" conservative factions, they nominated George W. Bush.
"The path to the nomination runs through the 'Boehner conservatives'," Olsen said. "That will be a very tough challenge for Sen. Cruz to meet."
New Book Explains Why Ted Cruz Can't Win Without Winning Over GOP Establishment
I'm sorry, are you thinking that you're making some sort of brilliant point? Because if you're going for, "We have to vote for Trump to WIN!" you can shove that right up your ass. If God Almighty Himself came down and told me to vote for Donald Trump, I'd choose to go to Hell first.
Right after you get your horns and pitchfork and go stand where you belong.
Have you figured out yet that I categorically reject the idea that you CAN think?
Are they..........he's losing.
And yet people are uniting behind him. How odd
Don't you think it's kind of concern isn't for Donald that he gets two enemies with one phoney story?
Do you know where the first place was that I heard about this story? It wasn't a serious journalistic report on it. It wasn't even the National Enquirer itself (because yeah, like I'd read that rag). It was Trumpette Stacy Dash, demanding an investigation of Cruz's sex life.
The story quoted exactly one person directly: a shill for Trump named Roger Stone.
Trump's own spokesperson was one of the women implicated, and when she denied it, she took the opportunity to throw shade at the other women.
Again, to quote my new hero, Matt Walsh, "this thing has Trump's dirty, stubby fingerprints all over it."
Congratulations, Donny Boy. The GOPe may now "steal" the nomination and hand it to anyone else they like, including Mickey Mouse or Big Bird, and I won't say one ******* word in your defense. In fact, I'll cheer as I head to the polls to vote for someone who isn't you while you sit and pout.
Donald has also opened Cruz up for a third party run. He isn't going to back Trump if he is the nominee.
I still have to cling to the hope that someone will wave smelling salts under the noses of the GOPe and wake them the **** up, so that they do the smart thing and nominate Cruz.
Well Cruz is pulling ahead in Wisconsin so we may see that
I'm actually very curious to see how this smear campaign by Trump and the Trumpettes affects the polls over the next week.
Oh no!Donald has also opened Cruz up for a third party run. He isn't going to back Trump if he is the nominee.
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Do you seriously not see how it is literally impossible for Donald Trump to unify the party?
I don't think he WANTS to. I think it's impossible to believe he could be this divisive by accident.
It's quite possible. But I think it's also just as likely he thinks if he wins he can just bully the rest of us into supporting him. He cant
No, his bullying is having the opposite effect.
The always brilliant Camille Paglia sums up Lyin' Teddy Cruz in one paragraph:
.....Ted Cruz, whose unctuous, vainglorious professions of Christian piety don’t pass the smell test. Trump is a blunt, no-crap mensch, while Cruz is a ham actor, doling out fake compassion like chopped liver. Cruz’s lugubrious, weirdly womanish face, with its prim, tight smile and mawkishly appealing puppy-dog eyebrows, is like a waxen mask, always on the verge of melting. This guy doesn’t know who the hell he is—and the White House is no place for him and us to find out.
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