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| Mission Accomplished - name is in the papers |
I couldn’t help but think that about the news reports that went out Friday that tried to make it seem like a dramatic moment in the story of Election ’16 – former presidential hopeful Ted Cruz will vote for Donald Trump for president.
IF
YOU THINK about it seriously, who’s he really going to vote for?
This
is one of those tea party-type dinks whose political philosophy is based so
heavily on believing that Hillary Clinton (and her husband Bill) are exactly
what is wrong with this country.
I’m
sure that in the mind of the senator from Texas, his biggest regret is that it
won’t be himself who gets to take on Hillary and drive a political stake
through her heart. He probably would enjoy that image, and would love to go
down in the history books as the guy who beat Clinton.
Of
course, that’s not going to happen. Because Cruz wound up being a part of that
mass of Republican candidates who couldn’t rise above the pack – resulting in
the GOP giving its presidential nomination to Trump.
ADMITTEDLY,
CRUZ WAS the last of all those 18 people to drop out. He was the final holdout.
And some people who remember his performance at the Republican National
Convention seriously wanted to believe that Ted was somehow acting on some sort
of anti-Trump principle.
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| Which of these candidates ... |
He
wasn’t.
What
bothered him was that he lost. History won’t record the concept of “President
Rafael Edward ‘Ted’ Cruz,” at least not in this election cycle. He’s exactly
the type who may try running again in future years.
For
all we know, he may actually get the nomination. Or maybe he’s just destined to
be a perennial joke – constantly appearing on the ballot and screeching to
steadily declining crowds as the years pass by.
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| ... makes your blood boil over? |
HE’LL
PROBABLY MAKE the focal point of his future campaigns the chance to rant and
rage about all the actions that will be committed in the next few years by “President
Hillary R. Clinton” – if that concept becomes a reality.
The
idea that Cruz would ever back Clinton was an absurdity.
If
anything, this election cycle is becoming one less about radical change. The
idea that people would suddenly vote against their usual political interests
isn’t going to happen.
Many
Democrats are finding it in them to accept the idea of Clinton as president,
while many Republicans (including the Ricketts family, although there’s
evidence that daughter Laura thinks that father J. Joe can stick it) are
finding it within themselves to back Donald.
THE
BIG SHIFT may be those so-called “alt-right” (real people call them “white
supremacist”) voters who usually think the Republicans are too wimpy to take
seriously. Many of them think Trump has balls enough to stand up to the
foreigners and perverts and racial mongrels (which they would phrase more crudely) and all other people who aren’t just like themselves.
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Could they wind up giving Trump enough political support to win come Nov. 8? Particularly if combined with apathy from certain segments who theoretically should be Hillary-backers?
A
lot of it will depend on the incumbent President, who according to the Gallup
Organization had a 52 percent approval rating as of Friday. The more people
like the idea of Obama, the more they will want to ensure his philosophies will
be carried on by the next U.S. president.
That
will wind up being what decides the upcoming election – not anything that Ted
Cruz would have said or done as he tries to figure out how to remain
politically relevant. Which really is the only reason he bothered to make a
statement Friday to begin with.
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