Question for Rubio/Cruz supporters

[Indy Texas]

The Republican argument is that Barack Obama is a terrible president because he's too weak to stand up to our foreign adversaries.

Why are you supporting a candidate who was too weak and timid to stand up to a geriatric reality TV star in a debate for months until approaching a point of no return?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The Republican argument is that Barack Obama is a terrible president because he's too weak to stand up to our foreign adversaries.

Why are you supporting a candidate who was too weak and timid to stand up to a geriatric reality TV star in a debate for months until approaching a point of no return?

Really. This is Donald freaking Trump. Do you guys think I wanted him to be my hero on day one? Answer IndyTex's question!

[100% pro-life no matter what]

The Republican argument is that Barack Obama is a terrible president because he's too weak to stand up to our foreign adversaries.

Why are you supporting a candidate who was too weak and timid to stand up to a geriatric reality TV star in a debate for months until approaching a point of no return?

We made a campaign mistake in that we assumed he was a fad and that he would fade away on his own.  I think we got in just in the nick of time tonight, though!!

[yankeesfan]

When there's 10 people on the stage it's impossible to throw down with and isolate one person.  Even in a debate of 5 people, when Cruz/Rubio had Trump on the ropes, Ben Carson or Kasich would say something that completely got everyone off topic.

[IceSpear]

I don't think it's that they were scared. They just assumed he would implode on his own, so it would be a complete waste of effort and time to go after him.

[Indy Texas]

When there's 10 people on the stage it's impossible to throw down with and isolate one person.  Even in a debate of 5 people, when Cruz/Rubio had Trump on the ropes, Ben Carson or Kasich would say something that completely got everyone off topic.

It would have been very easy to bring up Trump University or the immigration lawsuit in an earlier debate. None of this is secret information. Your campaigns don't even have opposition research on the guy - you can find this stuff on Google.

It's very easy to throw down and isolate one person when that one person has been in first place in national polling averages literally this entire campaign and is literally in the center of the stage at every single debate. It was done to virtually every poll leader in the 2012 primaries at some point.

The fact that the other candidates so badly misread that situation for so long speaks to a total lack of judgment. I think it goes without saying that Hillary Clinton would never have let Donald Trump get this far.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Why roll around in the mud with the pigs? Although at this point everybody is already dirty.

[Fargobison]

Everyone was so concerned with their own lane that they didn't see the bigger picture. Just look at Jeb, he probably spent as much money on attack ads on Rubio as he did on Donald.

Heck Chrisite could have had a much bigger moment taking down Donald if he had focused on it. Cruz might be the one that erred the most, he got all buddy-buddy with Donald when he should have been taking him to task.

[Indy Texas]

Everyone was so concerned with their own lane that they didn't see the bigger picture. Just look at Jeb, he probably spent as much money on attack ads on Rubio as he did on Donald.

Heck Chrisite could have had a much bigger moment taking down Donald if he had focused on it. Cruz might be the one that erred the most, he got all buddy-buddy with Donald when he should have been taking him to task.

Ted Cruz is still convinced he can push Donald Trump out of the race and pick up his supporters.

He really thinks that as someone who worked on George W. Bush's presidential campaign and in his administration and who is married to a Goldman Sachs managing director, he is anti-establishment and is going to be embraced as a friend of the little guy.

[cinyc]

I don't know what you're talking about.  Cruz has been attacking Trump in debates since at least before Iowa, and his campaign has been running anti-Trump ads in a number of states.  Remember the whole New York values exchange in the debate before Trump ducked the Fox News debate in Iowa?  The Cruz campaign turned New York values into an Iowa attack ad.  And Rubio's PACs have been running some anti-Trump ads, too.

It's much harder to get traction in a debate with 10 people than it is in a debate with 5.

[Crumpets]

The Republican argument is that Barack Obama is a terrible president because he's too weak to stand up to our foreign adversaries.

Why are you supporting a candidate who was too weak and timid to stand up to a geriatric reality TV star in a debate for months until approaching a point of no return?

Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama is too weak to stand up to our foreign adversaries. He's getting exactly what he wants out of them. He is trying to change this country. He wants America to become more like the rest of the world. We don’t want to be like the rest of the world, we want to be the United States of America. And when Rubio's elected president, this will become once again, the single greatest nation in the history of the world, not the disaster Barack Obama has imposed upon us.

Clearly.

[Inmate Trump]

Because who ever thought America would go for someone aiming to be its dictator? Turns out there are more idiot voters in the country than anyone thought.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Former Kasich supporter here. After TRUMP was still around after the first debate, I knew whose side I was on. "OMG, he'll be a dictator! He's a fad!" I'd hope that you guys who don't meet Real Americans can at least conceptualize them. We're one half decadent, hedonistic, and egotistical and one half hopeless and looking for a savior. TRUMP was made for this country. Any "serious" leader would just prolong the charade; it doesn't help your case that he's better equipped to appeal to non-conservatives than Puppet and Droopy. Who the Hell told you guys those two should lead the nation? A man-child without a mind of his own and a shady past mired in cocaine and park hookups, and a sociopath whose face and voice disqualify him from ever representing anything beyond the Third World petro-state he hails from. And you call Donald TRUMP a joke!?

[Coolface Sock #42069]

The Republican argument is that Barack Obama is a terrible president because he's too weak to stand up to our foreign adversaries.

Why are you supporting a candidate who was too weak and timid to stand up to a geriatric reality TV star in a debate for months until approaching a point of no return?

No, the primary reason we don't support Obama is because he is so liberal.

That does concern me a bit, however.