{"id":3249,"date":"2016-01-29T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2016-01-29T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:21:42","slug":"silencing-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3249","title":{"rendered":"SILENCING THE CROWD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you watched Fox News or CNN, Marco Rubio won the debate.\u00a0 All of the main stream media wants us to believe that Rubio won the debate.\u00a0 They are all terrified that Ted Cruz might be the next President of the United.\u00a0 He terrified Republicans, because he does not play the game and because they really believe a strong conservative will lose in the general election.\u00a0 The Republican establishment, much like liberals, believes a lot of things that are not true.\u00a0 They really believe that they need a charming RINO to win election.\u00a0 They definitely believe that Ted Cruz will lead them to disaster.\u00a0 Plus, they hate him.<\/p>\n<p>At first I had trouble figuring out who was most effective.\u00a0 It was obvious that this was a Cruz &#8211; Rubio debate.\u00a0 No one else mattered.\u00a0 Rubio did have his good moments.\u00a0 He is a very charming guy and the moderators gave the chance to glow in the spotlight..\u00a0 But then it dawned on me.\u00a0 The truly great performer is the one who can silence the crowd.\u00a0 There is an old story about when Elvis performed in a singing contest, before anyone knew him.\u00a0 He started singing and the crowd went completely silent.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t even clap when he was done.\u00a0 He thought he had done poorly.\u00a0 Instead, he had shocked them into silence.\u00a0 Last night Ted Cruz silenced the audience.\u00a0 He silenced the moderators who literally stopped asking him questions.\u00a0 He silenced the other candidates.\u00a0 No one even mentioned him during the last few minutes of the debate.\u00a0 I believe the reason was that he stunned them with how eloquently and effectively he presented his position.\u00a0 Now the real question is how the TV audience and more importantly, how the voters in Iowa responded.\u00a0 If they saw what I saw, Ted Cruz will win Iowa big time.\u00a0 If they didn&#8217;t, then Rubio will surge past him in the polls and Donald Trump will be the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you watched Fox News or CNN, Marco Rubio won the debate.\u00a0 All of the main stream media wants us to believe that Rubio won the debate.\u00a0 They are all terrified that Ted Cruz might be the next President of &hellip; 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