Dispelling the Idea That Ted Cruz Is Unelectable

 

ted cruz latino closeupWe’ve reached the point where if the field doesn’t produce an anti-Trump in the next two weeks or so, Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination. Up until Tuesday night, the general feeling was that Marco Rubio could fill that role and that the others should make way for him. That was good, except now, out of 15 contests, Rubio has won exactly one.

That would seem to point to Ted Cruz as the anti-Trump savior. Unfortunately, the thing I hear over and over again from conservatives and some libertarians, is that they prefer Cruz, but that he is unelectable. Just so everybody is clear: I don’t have a guy. Other than being anti-Trump, I don’t have a dog in this fight. But I find fault with the argument that Ted Cruz is unelectable.

First things first, can we all agree that this presidential election cycle is unprecedented? Having a former First Lady as a major party nominee alone makes this a historical election. As does a woman being the major party nominee. As does a candidate who has a non-zero chance of getting indicted between now and election day.

And then there’s Trump. A year ago, I sat in the audience of his CPAC speech and laughed loudly at just about every line. I, and others around me, marveled how he went from General McArthur to Bowe Bergdahl to Iran to a border wall to executive orders to Common Core to the Second Amendment in under 90 seconds. But nobody’s laughing anymore. Donald Trump has defied all models, expectations, and attempts at self immolation.

Add to that the atypical mood of the electorate, the fatigue at the end of an eight-year presidency, the general chaos of the world and the nation, the whims of the electoral process, and it becomes damn near impossible to predict anything.

So then why the assumption that Cruz is unelectable?

Ted Cruz has two enormous things in his favor: he is a master strategist and he has the ambition to win. He realized he needed to win an early state. Since he’s a Senator from Texas, it wasn’t going to be New Hampshire. He realized the key to Iowa was evangelical voters, so from his announcement, Cruz geared his campaign towards winning that block. He has a plan and he executes that plan with enormous discipline. In the debates he stuck to his message and laid low until the number of opponents became manageable. Cruz held off attacking Trump and left the door open to welcome in his supporters until such time as it was no longer practicable. (After all, everyone knew that Trump would eventually self-destruct.)

Even now, in the most recent debate, he let Rubio get down in the muck with Trump. Cruz’s attacks were more subtle, repeatedly setting up Trump to hang himself. (For example, by getting him to praise Qaddafi.) And on Tuesday, that strategy of letting Rubio crawl through the mud paid off.

At this point, calls for Rubio or Cruz to drop in favor of the other are mostly coming from those who favor one candidate or the other. I consider them premature. But if Rubio can’t win any primaries (especially the one in Florida) it seems unlikely that he could win the general election.

A Cruz primary victory means he would be running against Hillary Clinton in the fall. There was a reason we had 17 candidates at one point: even George Pataki smelled blood in the water. Hillary Clinton is a wounded candidate. She’s wounded by her record, the primary fight, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation, her husband’s scandals, the FBI investigation, and she’s dragged down by the same anti-dynastic sentiment that doomed Jeb Bush.

The conventional wisdom says that Cruz cannot possibly win. For an arch-conservative Senator from Texas, that might be true in a typical year. But I think we can all agree that this ain’t a typical year.

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  1. Tuck Inactive
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    Nice post, Fred.

    To the electability question, the only proof of that is winning elections. Rubio’s not doing well there, so far. And I think he comes across better than Cruz, whom I prefer. Cruz is oleaginous. But this whole election season has been a mystery to me, so far.

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  2. Bucky Boz Member
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    Tuck: oleaginous.

    That is a $100,000 word for “oily” that I had to look up.  Can you elaborate on the distinction in connotation between the two words that would help me know when to use oleaginous over oily?

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  3. St. Salieri Member
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    Boy, Fred, I hope you’re right.  By the way nicely written and argued post.

    I’ve never felt so buffeted in my opinion or fair-weather in my support, blame it on the flu and this bizarro-world election season.

    It seems to me that Cruz couldn’t win the general, maybe the negatives on Hillary are true, but the media will savage him and his personality and record seem likely to not garner the votes needed to win nationally.  Hopefully that isn’t the case and he can and will win if he can knock Trump out as the GOP candidate.

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  4. Bucky Boz Member
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    St. Salieri:Boy, Fred, I hope you’re right. By the way nicely written and argued post.

    I’ve never felt so buffeted in my opinion or fair-weather in my support, blame it on the flu and this bizarro-world election season.

    It seems to me that Cruz couldn’t win the general, maybe the negatives on Hillary are true, but the media will savage him and his personality and record seem likely to not garner the votes needed to win nationally. Hopefully that isn’t the case and he can and will win if he can knock Trump out as the GOP candidate.

    Meh, anyone can beat Hillary but Trump.  Don’t forget James Carville singled out Cruz as the GOP candidate he was most worried about long before the race got underway.  Maybe he’s trying to pick his opponent, but I think Carville was generally concerned about Cruz’s ability as a candidate facing Hillary in a general.  Cruz is by far the best debater on substance of the field.

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  5. Tom Riehl Member
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    No dog in this fight, other than being anti-Trump?  C’mon…

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  6. Duane Oyen Member
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    Cruz is about as unattractive as Hillary, except that he doesn’t start out with NY and California electoral votes without uttering a cackle, plus Legacy Media  there non-stop eager to drag her across the finish line.

    Other than that, and all of Washington being unnecessarily alienated, Cruz is great.

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  7. Hoyacon Member
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    Duane Oyen:Other than that, and all of Washington being unnecessarily alienated, Cruz is great.

    I thought alienating Washington was a good thing.  It’s not like Cruz might have any use for campaign networks and political intel from other Republicans who have won races in their respective states :)

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  8. Vice-Potentate Inactive
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    It takes 270. Where does Ted get them? He needs Virginia, Florida, Ohio and something else. Can he bring in Midwestern states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin….? Can he roll out a western/southwestern strategy, colorado, nevada, new mexico…?

    You can look at a target demo if you want and extrapolate it across states it would swing. For instance, economic protectionism could throw the rust belt into play. I think the ripest target demo is college educated voters. They can help serve up Virginia and Colorado which gives a clear path to the nomination. So far Cruz is targeting serious constitutional conservatives and evangelicals, which could net Iowa and maybe help a touch in Virginia; while also keeping wobbly states in the fold like North Carolina and Missouri.

    I don’t see how Cruz nets 270. If you can’t explain the nuts and bolts of it to me, I can’t support him in the primary. I’m willing to talk abstraction too, but grounding talk of “electability” in on the ground reality is crucial.

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  9. Joseph Stanko Coolidge
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    Mate De:Hillary and the media will try to destroy anyone who runs against her including Rubio. They won’t hold back anything

    Of course they will try, but what do they have to work with?  We have to measure each candidate for vulnerabilities the other side can exploit.  Trump’s are obvious, do I really need to list them?  I agree with Fred (hard to believe I just typed that) that Cruz could win, but the media will paint him as preachy, judgemental, slick, and untrustworthy, and his whole persona unfortunately plays into that story line.

    The big anchor dragging down Rubio in the primaries — Gang of 8 — is if anything a plus in the general.  See, he’s a moderate Republican who tried to reach across the aisle and work with Democrats!  That’s catnip to swing voters.

    Other than that the media have had months to dig for dirt and what have they come up with?  He once bought a nice boat, and his wife got some parking tickets.  They’ll have to do a whole lot better than that.

    Most likely they’ll go with the storyline that he’s too young and inexperienced, so we should vote for the eminently experienced and highly qualified (ha!) Clinton.  But will voters in our youth-obsessed culture, in an election cycle when both parties despise career politicians, really buy it?

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  10. Bucky Boz Member
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    Vice-Potentate:It takes 270. Where does Ted get them? He needs Virginia, Florida, Ohio and something else. Can he bring in Midwestern states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin….? Can he roll out a western/southwestern strategy, colorado, nevada, new mexico…?

    You can look at a target demo if you want and extrapolate it across states it would swing. For instance, economic protectionism could throw the rust belt into play. I think the ripest target demo is college educated voters. They can help serve up Virginia and Colorado which gives a clear path to the nomination. So far Cruz is targeting serious constitutional conservatives and evangelicals, which could net Iowa and maybe help a touch in Virginia; while also keeping wobbly states in the fold like North Carolina and Missouri.

    I don’t see how Cruz nets 270. If you can’t explain the nuts and bolts of it to me, I can’t support him in the primary. I’m willing to talk abstraction too, but grounding talk of “electability” in on the ground reality is crucial.

    All of this will be a function of 1)Driving HIllary’s negatives sky – high and 2) Tapping into Trump.  Cruz’s failure to date is his inability to overcome Trump while hobbled by Rubio’s dogged determination to deprive Cruz of delegates by remaining in the race.  Once Rubio tells his supporters that it’s OK to vote for Cruz and all of the “liar” and “no integrity” arguments were just politics, then Cruz will have consolidated conservatives and will be out to persuade the irrational new voters that he is the outsider, not Trump.  You are already seeing him make that argument.  If the outsider argument holds the newly minted voters supporting Trump through November, then Cruz wins by utilizing the expanded electorate delivered by Trump.  Running a campaign predicated on the need to expand the electorate is very risky, but he’s giving it a shot.

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  11. Vice-Potentate Inactive
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    Bucky Boz:

    Vice-Potentate:

    ….

    I don’t see how Cruz nets 270. If you can’t explain the nuts and bolts of it to me, I can’t support him in the primary. I’m willing to talk abstraction too, but grounding talk of “electability” in on the ground reality is crucial.

    All of this will be a function of 1)Driving HIllary’s negatives sky – high and 2) Tapping into Trump. Cruz’s failure to date is his inability to overcome Trump while hobbled by Rubio’s dogged determination to deprive Cruz of delegates by remaining in the race. Once Rubio tells his supporters that it’s OK to vote for Cruz and all of the “liar” and “no integrity” arguments were just politics, then Cruz will have consolidated conservatives and will be out to persuade the irrational new voters that he is the outsider, not Trump. You are already seeing him make that argument. If the outsider argument holds the newly minted voters supporting Trump through November, then Cruz wins by utilizing the expanded electorate delivered by Trump. Running a campaign predicated on the need to expand the electorate is very risky, but he’s giving it a shot.

    Having a massive groundswell of previously untapped support is always tempting, but not really a strategy.

    1) Every strategy has this as an element.

    2) As you said it seems awful risky. What states are put into play by vacuuming up Trump voters?

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  12. BThompson Inactive
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    The idea that Rubio is denying Cruz victory but not the other way round is pretty hilarious.

    There have been 15 states contested. Rubio has outperformed Cruz in seven of them, Cruz has outperformed Rubio in eight. The differential between Cruz and Rubio in votes received is entirely due to Cruz’s home state of Texas. That is essentially the case for the delegate totals as well. If you take out Texas from the analysis, Rubio has received more votes and almost the same number of delegates compared to Cruz.

    Rubio has been unlucky in how the delegate allocation rules have played out in the states where he has outperformed Cruz. Rubio got no delegates for second place in South Carolina or his third place finish in Vermont. He also got no delegates for thirds in Tennessee and Alabama. Cruz, though, was only denied delegates in one of his third place finishes and one fourth place finish. Further, Cruz has gotten about 28% of the vote, but has 34% of the delegates. Rubio has received 21% of the vote but only 16% of the delegates.

    If Rubio wins his home state of Florida, the vote total and delegate totals will be roughly equal with the states favoring Rubio upcoming, while Cruz will struggle to find many more states where he would have an advantage over Rubio. The idea that Rubio is unreasonably denying Cruz something that he has otherwise rightfully earned is just not a justifiable claim.

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  13. Sash Member
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    If Ted Cruz won I would have to listen to his awful voice an awful lot more than I’d like.  I am one who actually dislikes him.  I have a had time keeping him on the TV if he comes on… he does seem to be working on it, my daughter noticed that he isn’t being as preachy as he used to be.

    I haven’t noticed, if I hear the Reagan coalition one more time!

    But  as the alternative to Trump… well of course!

    I’m almost excited about starting a new party.

    Can we go back to saying Rubio is the best, because I can get behind that.

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  14. Sash Member
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    Tom Meyer, Ed.: Just to be clear, though, Rubio’s single victory and string of 3rd-places has been sad, in both senses. If he can’t win Florida next week, then I agree it’s real hard to see how he wins.

    Sadly.  That is probably true.

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  15. Francis Member
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    At this point I don’t believe worrying about who is most electibilty against Hillary should be the main concern, eliminating Trump should be the priority. At this point Cruz has the best chance and am confident that he can put an end to a 3rd Obama term.

    As a Canadian who was thoroughly disappointed this last October when Conservative Steven Harper was defeated  after three election victories (10 years) he had basically reached his expiry date. That said he was one of the most conservative and disliked leaders Canada ever had. Like Cruz he was a brilliant stategist who wasn’t afraid to promote his conservative values both to his party or the Canadian electorate and frankly wasn’t very likable to the general public.

    That said, if experiences north of the border counts, don’t worry about Cruz’s electability.

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  16. BThompson Inactive
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    Sash:

    Tom Meyer, Ed.:

    If he can’t win Florida next week, then I agree it’s real hard to see how he wins.

    Sadly. That is probably true.

    I kind of agree that Rubio has to win Florida to justify remaining in the race, but only if Kasich also drops out. If Kasich wins Ohio and stays in and Rubio loses Florida and drops out, I think Trump gets to 1237. With Kasich in the race I think Cruz has a tough time winning a three way battle many places, and I don’t think Kasich is strong enough to win enough states in the north and midwest to deny Trump the nomination.

    If Rubio wins Florida and Kasich loses Ohio and therefore drops out, I think Rubio can still win enough races going forward to deny Trump 1237 even if Cruz stays in. Then I think Rubio gets to the convention with the second most delegates behind Trump. If Cruz got out altogether, say before Pennsylvania at the end of April, Rubio would probably go to the convention with the lead in delegates.

    If Rubio loses Florida, and Kasich loses Ohio, but Kasich drops and Rubio doesn’t, that is an interesting scenario. Then I could see Rubio still winning enough states to deny Trump the nomination and also overtake Cruz in the delegate battle.

    If all four stay in, Trump probably gets 1237 or close enough that the GOP couldn’t justifiably deny him the nomination.

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  17. BThompson Inactive
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    Francis:At this point I don’t believe worrying about who is most electibilty against Hillary should be the main concern, eliminating Trump should be the priority. At this point Cruz has the best chance and am confident that he can put an end to a 3rd Obama term.

    As a Canadian who was thoroughly disappointed this last October when Conservative Steven Harper was defeated after three election victories (10 years) he had basically reached his expiry date. That said he was one of the most conservative and disliked leaders Canada ever had. Like Cruz he was a brilliant stategist who wasn’t afraid to promote his conservative values both to his party or the Canadian electorate and frankly wasn’t very likable to the general public.

    That said, if experiences north of the border counts, don’t worry about Cruz’s electability.

    Not a good comparison. The electoral college system is very different from a parliamentary system. If it were a matter of Cruz simply winning the popular vote, it might be comparable, but Cruz could crush Hillary in all the states that Romney won and run close to Hillary but ultimately lose all the states that Romney lost. That could potentially give Cruz a win in the popular vote but still put him well short of the electoral college votes he needs.

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  18. J. D. Fitzpatrick Member
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    Duane Oyen:Cruz is about as unattractive as Hillary, except that he doesn’t start out with NY and California electoral votes without uttering a cackle, plus Legacy Media there non-stop eager to drag her across the finish line.

    Other than that, and all of Washington being unnecessarily alienated, Cruz is great.

    Which Republican candidate starts out with NY and California?

    Alienating Washington is a plus when Washington has made itself comfortable by alienating me–its boss.

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  19. J. D. Fitzpatrick Member
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    Vice-Potentate: For instance, economic protectionism could throw the rust belt into play.

    This is a really good point. Historically, America has had tariffs on imports, and they were campaign issues. Now those tariffs did coincide with much lower govt regulations on economic activity (which explains in part why the country was still able to attain phenomenal growth in the 19th century) but they were voting issues for blocs of people.

    I’m starting to wonder if there is an upper ceiling on the amount of free trade the voters will tolerate. It wouldn’t be the first time that people made short-sighted decisions

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  20. J. D. Fitzpatrick Member
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    BThompson: Further, Cruz has gotten about 28% of the vote, but has 34% of the delegates. Rubio has received 21% of the vote but only 16% of the delegates.

    It’s not about percentages at this level or the national level; it’s about delegates. Smart campaigns adjust their strategy to win delegates, not votes.

    Just to throw in some actual numbers: If you take out Texas, its Cruz 127, Rubio 102. I don’t know enough about primaries to say if that’s significant or not. In the language of statistics, it could be considered “a whopping 25% more delegates with 25% of the delegates pledged!”

    In a prisoner’s dilemma where the goal is to beat Trump, the man who is even only 1% behind is getting in the way.  Maybe in two weeks that will be Cruz, but for now, its Rubio.

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  21. BThompson Inactive
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    Your take on being smart about winning delegates is self serving. Less than 30% of the delegates have been contested and Rubio has more reason to believe he can appeal more to the remaining voters. Cruz’s advantage isn’t a matter of being smarter, it’s a matter of his state arbitrarily being given earlier placement in the primary schedule.

    The fact is that our primary system is badly designed. It’s not set up to pick the most electable candidate or even the candidate most representative of the party. It’s a basically vestigial process from over forty years ago, the rules and sequence of which are controlled by special interests with no regard for the actual will of the majority of the party or the country’s interests whatsoever. It’s an idiotic exercise in hoop jumping that wastes hundreds of millions of dollars and repeatedly produces lousy results.

    Claiming Rubio should get out because Cruz essentially won a coin toss in terms of which home state voted first, where neither Cruz nor Rubio even a a say in calling heads or tails, and tossing notions about the prospects for the general election out of the set of considerations is just dumb. Rubio still has as much chance to win the nomination no matter what the current delegate count is, and that is all that matters.

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  22. Ball Diamond Ball Member
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    Fred Cole: So then why the assumption that Cruz is unelectable?

    Because I adore Ted Cruz and even I can’t stand his God-bothering.  Don;t get me wrong — I’ll gladly accept it.  But sheesh, what a turn-off.

    Yet isn’t he the unity candidate in this primary?  This is a three man race, and two of them are unacceptable to each other’s constituency.

    The GOP has been given a clear opportunity to put our money where our mouth is.  I expect nothing.

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  23. Freeven Member
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    I mostly ignore non-electability arguments for two reasons. 1) I don’t think I’m smart enough to know and evaluate all the variables that influence millions of others voters. 2) I don’t think you are either.

    Why should I eschew voting for the guy I deem best because somebody else pretends to know what millions of others are going to do six months from now? You know what makes someone electable? Voting for him. My advice is that if your candidate has a reasonable chance to win, stop over thinking things and just vote for him.

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  24. I Walton Member
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    If Trump is the candidate Hillary will not be indicted because they think, perhaps incorrectly that she can beat him.  Why else all the cross over voting and all the almost positive press coverage.  If Cruz is the candidate she may be indicted and we’ll see Biden/Warren.  Maybe we need to go to a convention Trump could win some of the winner take all states and win more of the proportional states if the others get out.  Moreover this gives the Democrats the expectations that Trump will be the candidate.   The trick will be to bring Trump supporters along behind a Cruz candidacy.   What can make Trump happy?

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  25. BrentB67 Inactive
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    Lazy_Millennial:

    Hoyacon:

    Richard Finlay:

    Mate De:Hillary and the media will try to destroy anyone who runs against her including Rubio. They won’t hold back anything

    Therefore we need someone who might fight back. If not Trump, Cruz seems more likely than Rubio to do that effectively.

    Maybe, but Cruz also has more baggage to defend. The government shutdown, for better or worse, was not generally popular. People still remember it. The Dems will hang that around his neck big time.

    Disagree on the baggage: Cruz went for the shutdown due to Obamacare. Turning that attack around is easy.

    For a not insignificant number of voters this is a huge asset and anyone who’s rates and deductibles are up and  coverage down is going to wonder why the gov’t isn’t still shut down. This is an asset.

    I’m a Rubio supporter. But Rubio’s got baggage, and Mike Murphy didn’t show all of it. His opposition to abortion even in the case of rape will be front and center of Hillary’s campaign.

    I don’t know what Murphy has/had, but if all it amounts to is a fishing boat, credit card bill, and wayward brother-in-law, meh.

    Cruz, probably has baggage we don’t know about, because no one’s really gone after him. Yet.

    Dewhurst’s guys went after him hard. You know the Texas establishment is its own posse’. I don’t think there is much, if any.

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  26. BrentB67 Inactive
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    Duane Oyen:Cruz is about as unattractive as Hillary, except that he doesn’t start out with NY and California electoral votes without uttering a cackle, plus Legacy Media there non-stop eager to drag her across the finish line.

    Other than that, and all of Washington being unnecessarily alienated, Cruz is great.

    Duane, out here in redneck hickville far away from the faculty lounge many of us believe that rambling old guy, Reagan I think was his name, was on to something when he said government is the problem.

    If government was a problem in the 80’s it is a category 4 catastrophe in the 20-teeens.

    Being hated by everyone in Washington in their 2nd term or later is tied with having the Constitution memorized for the biggest asset Cruz brings to the fight.

    I hope Mitch McConnell calls Paul Ryan in November to let him know he is resigning, but in lieu of that I hope he at least tells Paul Ryan that if they want to pass anything that even smells of gov’t expansion they better have a veto proof majority on the first vote and then line up a solicitor to fight the President before SCOTUS over refusal to implement.

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  27. BrentB67 Inactive
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    Freeven:I mostly ignore non-electability arguments for two reasons. 1) I don’t think I’m smart enough to know and evaluate all the variables that influence millions of others voters. 2) I don’t think you are either.

    Amen.

    Why should I eschew voting for the guy I deem best because somebody else pretends to know what millions of others are going to do six months from now? You know what makes someone electable? Voting for him. My advice is that if your candidate has a reasonable chance to win, stop over thinking things and just vote for him.

    If I understand you correctly what you are saying is that if we vote, volunteer, support, etc. that matters more than ephemeral opinion polls of 800 people dumb enough to answer their phone last year?

    Do I have this correct? Do you mean it is about substance and hard work and not which candidate smells like fresh baked cookies?

    Novel concept. First time I’ve read this on Ricochet. We should have everyone in the kitchen sniffing the cookies read this.

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  28. Tom Meyer, Ed. Member
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    Ball Diamond Ball:Yet isn’t he the unity candidate in this primary? This is a three man race, and two of them are unacceptable to each other’s constituency.

    I’ve wondered that myself. Unless I’ve missed something, I’ve not encountered anyone who’s #NeverCruz.

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  29. BrentB67 Inactive
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    Tom Meyer, Ed.:

    Ball Diamond Ball:Yet isn’t he the unity candidate in this primary? This is a three man race, and two of them are unacceptable to each other’s constituency.

    I’ve wondered that myself. Unless I’ve missed something, I’ve not encountered anyone who’s #NeverCruz.

    Do you read Ricochet much or have you met any U.S. Senators, perhaps the senior senator from South Carolina?

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  30. Tom Meyer, Ed. Member
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    BrentB67:

    Do you read Ricochet much or have you met any U.S. Senators, perhaps the senior senator from South Carolina?

    My coffee is just kicking-in (and my sense of humor is usual a few steps behind), but…

    1. No, I honestly don’t recall any Ricochetti saying that they won’t vote for Cruz in the general. Have you?
    2. Even Graham said he might have to support Cruz.
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