2016 Presidential Primaries [ SUPER TUESDAY | 3-1-'16]

Louisiana was called early for Chump, but Cruz has closed to about seven points.

Waiting for Kentucky results from Louisville and Lexington.
 
Saturday's winners and losers:

Winners:
Ted Cruz: Picked up wins in two states and may have gotten a few more delegates than Trump.
Donald Trump: Keeps racking up win, especially in the south (still boggles my mind).

Losers:
Marco Rubio: Just brutal day and night. No nice way to put it.
John Kasich: Not getting as much press as Rubio's day, but it did not go well for him either.
Republican Establishment: Really taking it on the chin right now.
 
Cruz would be a great president. An intellectual man who loves America. Makes me feel better that the Sanders socialist wing of the liberal party hates him.

I don't know if he has a path to victory though. Seems like he's moving out of his target region.
 
weso1 said:
Cruz would be a great president. An intellectual man who loves America. Makes me feel better that the Sanders socialist wing of the liberal party hates him.

I don't know if he has a path to victory though. Seems like he's moving out of his target region.
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This is the best take I've ever read on Ted Cruz's intellect:

"Ted Cruz is an ideologue and a grandstander who has conflated loudness with leadership and hardline orthodoxy with sophistication, and the end result is a remarkably shallow candidate. He's got an Ivy League education and has argued before the Supreme Court, and the latter at least is not something you get to do if you're a moron. But Ted Cruz the candidate is not Ted Cruz the jurist. Any of us could reproduce his policy platform by grabbing bumper stickers of conservative catchphrases and planks from the last 25 years and assembling them in a rough order. For all his erudition, he sure seems to be using it wrong — like taking a state-of-the-art racquet and decades of practice and firing 150 mph serves into the net again and again."

--Jeb Lund
 
Ted Cruz seems to be the right's version of Obama...

Just not as pleasant to listen to (nasally voice and a creepy smile)
 
Julio3000 said:
This is the best take I've ever read on Ted Cruz's intellect:

"Ted Cruz is an ideologue and a grandstander who has conflated loudness with leadership and hardline orthodoxy with sophistication, and the end result is a remarkably shallow candidate. He's got an Ivy League education and has argued before the Supreme Court, and the latter at least is not something you get to do if you're a moron. But Ted Cruz the candidate is not Ted Cruz the jurist. Any of us could reproduce his policy platform by grabbing bumper stickers of conservative catchphrases and planks from the last 25 years and assembling them in a rough order. For all his erudition, he sure seems to be using it wrong — like taking a state-of-the-art racquet and decades of practice and firing 150 mph serves into the net again and again."

--Jeb Lund
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First let me say that I totally respect weso's right to vote and pull for anyone he chooses, after all if you're not following an extremely flawed individual from one of our two collections of numbnuts then it shows you're not following any member of those two parties. Just because I could never get behind him doesn't mean someone else doesn't have that right. By the way I do disagree with the whole "socialist" thing, each and every one of us in this forum is a socialist, it's just a matter of degree.

It should actually tell Repubs something when both TX, KS and OK go for Cruz. Some of you who actually have time and "want to" enough to look this up, see how many times Rafael either was responsible for shutting down the government or held little things like funding for the medical care of veterans and 9/11 first responders hostage to try and get his way about stuff like repealing Obamacare so that corporations could make just a little more profit. Repubs at the state level have totally effed up all 3 states and they're all about 1/32 of an inch from imploding as we speak.
 
Julio3000 said:
This is the best take I've ever read on Ted Cruz's intellect:

"Ted Cruz is an ideologue and a grandstander who has conflated loudness with leadership and hardline orthodoxy with sophistication, and the end result is a remarkably shallow candidate. He's got an Ivy League education and has argued before the Supreme Court, and the latter at least is not something you get to do if you're a moron. But Ted Cruz the candidate is not Ted Cruz the jurist. Any of us could reproduce his policy platform by grabbing bumper stickers of conservative catchphrases and planks from the last 25 years and assembling them in a rough order. For all his erudition, he sure seems to be using it wrong — like taking a state-of-the-art racquet and decades of practice and firing 150 mph serves into the net again and again."

--Jeb Lund
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Lund has no clue what he's talking about. Cruz is running a very intelligent and well thought out campaign. IMO, he's running the best campaign of any candidate on either side outside of maybe Hillary. To simplify his campaign the way Lund did in that quote is willful ignorance. It's a data driven campaign with a clear strategy to not only win the primary but also win the general election. What he says, how he says it and when he says it is all calculated.

Think about the fact that Ted Cruz is actually an insider. He had a significant role in G-Dub's campaign and his wife worked for freaking goldman sacchs. Somehow he is the only insider candidate that nobody thinks is an insider. This was a calculated move from the beginning. Cruz recognized where America was heading and purposely presented himself as an anti washington establishment guy even though he is absolutely an insider.

He has a hideous face, burned lots of bridges early in his career because of his over agressive desire to advance himself and is actually an insider, yet he finds himself as the lone candidate with a smidgen of a chance to defeat the phenomenon known as Trumpism.

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50PoundHead said:
I've heard this floated and all I can say in response is "Hello President Clinton." It might help them keep the Senate because it would keep turnout up on the conservative side of the ledger. But it puts Hillary in the White House.
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Hillary is winning the WH. I don't think it's a question any more (if it ever was one). Sasse is from my tribe (both religiously and politically) and there's no way, if we are consistent, to not oppose a narcissistic demagogue like Trump.
 
50PoundHead said:
Haven't been following today, but this must spell the end for Rubio.
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Yep. Much like Christie going after Rubio showed up Rubio and was the demise of Christie. Going after Trump and playing in the mud with him is the final nail in Rubio's casket. And it allowed Cruz to somewhat rise above things for the moment.
 
weso1 said:
Cruz would be a great president. An intellectual man who loves America. Makes me feel better that the Sanders socialist wing of the liberal party hates him.

I don't know if he has a path to victory though. Seems like he's moving out of his target region.
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Rubio may have done better in states outside of the South and Southern Mid-West. It'll be interesting to see how Cruz fairs there.
 
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