Cruz’s college roommate has been ripping him on Twitter. Dude had to live with him.
It may be the exact opposite. There were some articles a couple weeks back about how Trump is running his campaign like a stand-up comic: he finds topics that resonate with people and starts rolling with them. Then he pretends like he’s felt that way the whole time.
Miramon
4525
I think they’re both hypocrites. But Trump is a gonzo narcissist who just seems to wing everything, showboating for his audience, where Cruz is more considered and deliberate in his hypocrisy. Trump’s whole identity reposes in his ego; he has no ideology because he doesn’t identify with any cause or system outside of himself. In comparison Cruz keeps his nasty little ego hidden behind an ideological mask he has put on for the purpose of securing power and privilege.
Mm. Yeah, there’s some mileage there, I think. Compare/contrast with Steve Martin’s old act from the 1970s, which was also all about ridiculous ego.
Menzo
4527
Trump is the villain in a comedy about politics.
Cruz is the villain in a drama about politics.
Cruz is scarier, but they’re both villains.
Timex
4528
This only makes sense if you totally ignore what trump says, or the fact that he clearly had some sort of narcissistic disorder bordering on sociopathy.
Trump is saying stuff that is profoundly unamerican, and suggests a complete disregard for even basic morality. Discounting him by saying stuff like, “oh, he won’t actually do that stuff” is horrific. The Germans who elected the Nazis probably didn’t think they were going to start a world war, but that’s fucking what happened.
I’m not going to elect some guy who says absolutely horrific stuff, on the off chance that he doesn’t believe what he’s saying.
When you say you are going to round up 11 million people, or close the borders to an entire religion, or that freedom of speech doesn’t matter if it interferes with security? No, fuck that. You become the worst, period.
Nesrie
4529
I don’t disagree with what your saying, but I get the impression Cruz wants to run a Theocracy, which would also be unamerican. The fact that Trump can say or do anything, as others have rightly pointed out, makes his rise scarier to me.
RichVR
4530
Honestly, I get a little nervous when people in this thread say, well Trump is still better than (whoever).
As well you should. But I think the question we are dancing around is “If the general election somehow came down to Trump vs. Cruz, and one of the two is going to end up POTUS, which would you vote for?”
Hands down I’d vote for Trump instead of Cruz. Trump is an unknown in many ways, I think we know exactly what Cruz would be, and it would be awful.
CraigM
4532
That’s like asking if you would rather cut off your right arm, or play Russian Roulette.
Rick Perry endorses Cruz.
“Of those individuals who have a chance to win the Republican primary, at this juncture, from my perspective, Ted Cruz is by far the most consistent conservative in that crowd,” Perry told Politico on Sunday night. “And that appears to be down to two people.”
Way to qualify the hell out of that endorsement, Rick. “At this time, under the present circumstances, and barring any unforeseen events like someone else rising in the polls, I reluctantly wholeheartedly endorse this boll weevil rather than the other mealworm.”
“Of those individuals who have a chance to win the Republican primary, at this juncture, from my perspective, Ted Cruz is definitely one of them.”
Most of the Republicans who would have voted for Bloomberg already jumped ship to the Democrats anyway. Bloomberg would appeal to a very, very small set of inside-the-Beltway/wealthy-Long-Island Republican voters—he’s too nanny-state and anti-gun for the Republican base, and too pro-cop and pro-Wall-Street for the Democrat base, but he’d take more votes from Sanders or Clinton than from any of the Republican contenders.
Does anyone seriously believe Cruz could win the general? Aside from his odious politics, he actually looks like and has the charisma of the toad-demon that undoubtedly inhabits that ill-fitting meatsuit.
It’s more or less even money, going by the national matchup polling that’s been done lately. Delusional elderly communist Bernie Sanders (two can play at the candidate mudslinging game!) has a slight edge, Clinton (no reason to further insult a perennial candidate who is already doomed; I have a heart) has a slight deficit; both are probably well within the margin of error for that kind of poll aggregation.
Yeah, seriously, just seeing that stupid smirk of his makes me want to smack him.
Trump is also a nightmare. How in the actual f*ck are these guys leading among the GOP candidates.
Cruz-Clinton: the race to see who can field the best meat suit before November.
Lizard tongue “shaping artists” are already working overtime, and contact lens manufacturers are developing lenses that block out the telltale glow of Satan without the annoying dry eye effect from the current model.
It feels like America’s on-track to act out that fucking horrid first season two-parter of New Doctor Who, Aliens of London/World War 3.
You know, the ones where politicians that looked like this were secretly Slitheen in people-suits.
The fact that their faulty gas-exchangers caused constant flatulence even keeps with Hillary’s bizarrely long bathroom trips at the debates!
RichVR
4541
I polled various conservatives about Bloomberg. The sample size was people posting about Bloomberg in r/guns and r/weekendgunnit. They all hate Bloomberg.
