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On point (1), yeah, I'll admit that. Local politics is a different game, because the electorate is more homogeneous on a local level. That's why people like Dennis Kucinich, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders, people who could never build a national coalition, can still win local and statewide elections.
>2) you're ignoring the donald trump winning by beating other >republicans at being on message. make america great again, >immigration/trutherism, faux-christianity, harping on roberts.
They are all perfectly on-message, but they have different messages. Trump's message doesn't involve any conservative principles, just a right-wing attitude.
>trump has run for president many times. he's only getting >traction now because he's bullshitting his way through the >republican messaging. which shows you how powerful it is. > >(he's only gone loud on pp and iraq recently because he's >trying to pivot center for the general. he's exploiting >messaging...he's a parasite)
Well, he was talking about Iraq from the very beginning. He's also been away from the Tea-Party brand on eminent domain for a long time.
>3) you're ignoring that cruz is currently trump's biggest >competition after months of posts from you and others >proclaiming the viability of moderates like jeb, kasich, and >rubio.
Cruz isn't really competition. He's a base candidate. That means, he's competition in a primary election, but he'd be doomed in a general election. Cruz is just as unelectable as Sanders is, and for precisely the same reason: that a majority of the electorate considers him an extremist. In the super Tuesday thread, Mynoriti and I were laughing about the fact that Trump's only serious competition was turning out to be the only guy in the race even less electable than him.
When people like me have brought up Kasich and Rubio (I don't think anyone was ever afraid of Jeb), it's been about the fact that IF they won the nomination, they'd be VERY formidable general election candidates. They are the Hillaries of that side. Cruz is the Bernie of that side. The old cliche is that "Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line." Thankfully, that pattern has reversed this time. It's been gratifying, and entertaining, to see the Republicans allow their emotions to torpedo their general-election chances, while the Democrats appear to have avoided that fate.
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