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This is an interesting observation by Hugh Hewitt on MSNBC. He says that the Republican D.C. establishment resents Cruz because "He made them pieces on his chessboard."
It is easy to see how these people might not appreciate that. And what's more, it also appears that Cruz has made Trump a piece on his chessboard as well. You can just imagine where this race might be heading if Jeb Bush was facing off against Ted Cruz as this contest winds down, perhaps discussing a contested convention with Jeb in second place.
But with Trump in the lead, Cruz has against all odds found a way to marshall the forces of the Republican establishment outside of DC to support his campaign, and the DC crew appears to be slowly but surely starting to come around. And the convention will be run by the broader Republican establishment, not just the DC component that we ordinarily refer to with disdain as "the establishment."
Ted Cruz has never been the favorite of the D.C. establishment, but if you look at the Republican establishment outside the Beltway. Most of the Central Committee of the Orange Country Republican Party has endorsed Ted Cruz. The California Assembly Republicans...
I only know two guys who have argued nine times before the United States Supreme Court, and one of them is the chief justice now. So Ted Cruz is definitely not your ordinary candidate...
He isn't normal and the people in D.C. don't like Cruz because he made everyone pieces on his chessboard. He crushed David Dewhurst in Texas with conservative votes...
This truly amazing to behold. Ted Cruz is orchestrating a virtual miracle in political terms, right before our eyes. With all this in mind, does anyone really still believe that Ted Cruz is not likely to be the Republican nominee?
This truly amazing to behold. Ted Cruz is orchestrating a virtual miracle in political terms, right before our eyes. With all this in mind, does anyone really still believe that Ted Cruz is not likely to be the Republican nominee?
I can't believe, that anyone would believe, with all this in mind, that Cruz will be the nominee. Cruz is being played like a fiddle.
The "miracle" that you mention, is being orchestrated at the behest of the very "establishment" which despises him. When he is successful, and Trump is prevented from taking the nomination, even though he is the front runner, then the establishment will turn on Cruz too. He will be out before you know it.
Anyone who thinks Cruz will be nominated, despite what might or might not happen to Trump. Isn't thinking. They will put in Rubio or another establishment hack.
(here's a hint. don't take opinion from MSNBC as anything close to being fact.)
I can't believe, that anyone would believe, with all this in mind, that Cruz will be the nominee. Cruz is being played like a fiddle.
The "miracle" that you mention, is being orchestrated at the behest of the very "establishment" which despises him. When he is successful, and Trump is prevented from taking the nomination, even though he is the front runner, then the establishment will turn on Cruz too. He will be out before you know it.
Anyone who thinks Cruz will be nominated, despite what might or might not happen to Trump. Isn't thinking. They will put in Rubio or another establishment hack.
(here's a hint. don't take opinion from MSNBC as anything close to being fact.)
Like when the Establishment tried to stop Ted Cruz's run against Establishment Dewhurst - like that? LOL!
I can't believe, that anyone would believe, with all this in mind, that Cruz will be the nominee. Cruz is being played like a fiddle.
The "miracle" that you mention, is being orchestrated at the behest of the very "establishment" which despises him. When he is successful, and Trump is prevented from taking the nomination, even though he is the front runner, then the establishment will turn on Cruz too. He will be out before you know it.
Anyone who thinks Cruz will be nominated, despite what might or might not happen to Trump. Isn't thinking. They will put in Rubio or another establishment hack.
(here's a hint. don't take opinion from MSNBC as anything close to being fact.)
Hugh Hewitt is a very well known conservative. What venue he is speaking at does not change that.
If this gets to a second ballot, Trump is done and it will have been Rafael Eduardo Cruz, the junior Senator from Texas who will have vanquished him. That is a fact.
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Sorry but I'd vote JEB before Cruz. If Ted had a plan - it was to be nice to Trump in the beginning as he was smart enough to see that everyone that took Trump on soon left the race. I think Teddy surprised himself and only thought that maybe he'd be Trump's running mate as VP but then more and more candidates fell and Teddy actually believed he could make it all the way.
Strategy would have been getting out from behind the pulpit and toning down the televangilist bit - more people liked him more when he acted human rather than the preachers healing people on Sunday morning TV and then hitting the viewers up with donations.
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