Tornado Alley (PROG)

[migo]

all of this focus on Trump has only allowed the brownshirts and white robes out of their caves. the real republican election is focused on candidates that they can control. is Cruz controllable? he is venal, no doubt about that, but he is also a demagogue, who is easily besotten by power. (in my opinion)
so while republican "moderates" look to Bush or Rubio, the fanatics are looking at Cruz. Tonight's debate will be "kremlin watching" interesting, but there is a lot of scurrying behind the scenes to get rid of Trump.

well, it appears that the evangelical right is now focused on Ted Cruz.


Inside the Secret Meeting Where Conservative Leaders Pledged Allegiance to Ted Cruz by Tim Alberta December 14, 2015

On the first Monday of December, inside a boardroom at the Sheraton Hotel in Tysons Corner, Va., several dozen of the nation’s most prominent conservative leaders slouched in their chairs and braced themselves for a fifth round of balloting. They were physically and emotionally drained. The activists had watched daylight come and go from the hotel’s windows, and yet they seemed no closer to a conclusion. Four times already they had voted between two candidates, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and four times the result had been the same. Cruz had a majority, but not the 75 percent supermajority required to bind the group’s membership to support him. The initiative, spearheaded by Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, had originally brought together a loose coalition of some 50 like-minded conservative leaders from around the country. Together, beginning in early 2014, the group — referred to internally simply as “The GROUP” — met every few months to discuss the state of the race, to pray for guidance, and to conduct a straw poll to see which candidates enjoyed the most support at each stage of the campaign...

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428515/conservative-leaders-ted-cruz-earns-allegiance-private-meeting