Here’s the latest from the rubber room.
The GOP is sabotaging Cruz to elevate Trump in order to clear a path for Rubio.
The thinking goes as follows: If Cruz loses Iowa, he peters out in New Hampshire and doesn’t pose a risk of finishing in a respectable second place. That allows the establishment winner out of the Granite State to build momentum as the anti-Trump alternative. A decent number of Cruz’s supporters, when asked to choose a second candidate, gravitate to Rubio. Polls show many more of Trump supporters, by contrast, would support Cruz. And even with Trump’s improving favorability numbers within the GOP, there are more Republican voters who wouldn’t vote for him under any circumstances than say the same about the senator from Texas.
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You can’t make this stuff up, folks. Oh, wait a minute… Yes. Yes you can…
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The whole GOPEE establishment is totally illogical.
Ocho Rubio is an anchor baby. Neither of his parents were U.S. citizens at the time of his birth.
The Chess Masters of the GOPe:
“King Me, muthahfuckah! I sunk yo Battleship!”
TICk off your base
atTACk the front runner
TOE the prog line
“If Cruz loses Iowa, he peters out in New Hampshire and doesn’t pose a risk of finishing in a respectable second place.”
Possible, but not absolute.
“That allows the establishment winner out of the Granite State to build momentum as the anti-Trump alternative.”
Possible, but only if they had momentum in the first place (Kasich? BWAHAHA).
“A decent number of Cruz’s supporters, when asked to choose a second candidate, gravitate to Rubio.”
Entering Dreamland here.
“Polls show many more of Trump supporters, by contrast, would support Cruz.”
…only in the General if Cruz were the nominee. Otherwise, this sentence is a non-sequitur.
“And even with Trump’s improving favorability numbers within the GOP, there are more Republican voters who wouldn’t vote for him under any circumstances than say the same about the senator from Texas.”
Okay…SO?!?
My head hurts. And it’s too early for a beer.
ALMOST.
Panic is so creative! I love it.