Their flop sweat is becoming a flood hazard.
Posted on 03/29/2015 9:55:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wasn’t taking any chances the other day when he announced he will seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016. Cruz launched his bid at what for him was the friendliest of venues: Liberty University in Virginia, a Christian school founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. It would have been difficult for Cruz to pick a more receptive crowd for his announcement.
And he didn’t disappoint. He asked Christian conservatives in the audience and across the nation to imagine a United States without the IRS, without Obamacare and without abortion rights. Said Cruz: “I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America.”
It is that very belief that has to cause the Republican Party a great deal of concern when considering Cruz as a potential nominee. While his message about doing away with the IRS might draw approving nods across the political spectrum, his promise to get rid of Obamacare surely does not. And he is out of step with mainstream America on the abortion question as well.
Liberals will not give Cruz a second thought, except perhaps to hope that the GOP is nutty enough to nominate such a polarizing candidate for president. While Cruz no doubt appeals to the further reaches of the conservative right, there aren’t nearly enough voters of that particular persuasion to carry a national election.
Cruz’s message might indeed resound very well in the lead-off caucus in Iowa and in the early primary in South Carolina, two states where Christian conservatives have a lot of clout and abortion is a hot issue. But no one knows better than Cruz that he will have to attract significant moderate support elsewhere on the primary circuit if he’s not to become an early casualty in the battle for the nomination. Should Cruz emerge from the Cleveland convention as the party’s choice, he would then have to move even closer to the center to have any chance to prevail in November.
Frankly, we don’t think Cruz has it in him. He is a right-wing, tea party conservative through and through. If he tries to sound the least bit moderate, he’ll probably choke on the words.
And don’t forget he’ll be vying for a spot on the national ticket against some Republican heavyweights who likely also aspire to lead the country, among them Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker and Chris Christie.
The debate over the constitutional mandate that the president be a “natural born citizen” and Cruz’s citizenship — he was born in Canada to an American mother — has pretty much been settled in his favor. But that and the fact that he’s a darling of many on the far right are about all he has going for him. He’s not the choice if Republicans have any hope of reclaiming the White House.
Their flop sweat is becoming a flood hazard.
Here we go again with the “not electable” crap.
Frankly, I’m for Walker. But Cruz is definitely electable!
It's more than a little annoying, but also hilarious! They REALLY fear this guy!
Maybe so, maybe no. Either way, if I am living on election day I will vote for him.
Good one
They protest way too much
Btw:
‘Cruz’s citizenship — he was born in Canada to an American mother — has pretty much been settled in his favor’
I kind of think it as ‘in HIS favor’ but in ours
Frankly, I’m for Walker. But Cruz is definitely electable!
Same here.
I think Walker is more electable than Cruz but both are electable.
The Tories really don’t like Whigs, no matter which party they profess allegiance to.
Oh, and Rat's don't do that when they announce. Ok, then...let's see how many Dimmies announce their candidacy at a FR convention.
LOL. You don't live in Chicago, do you.
What they fear is the conservative democrats they have ignored for years, you know the ones they drove to be indies.
These folks will vote for Cruz, just like they did for Reagan.
Wait a minute...
BIG TIME and the “editors of this rag are just plain old NUTS, listing wannabes with less than NO chance of winning the primaries as “heavyweights”; with maybe Walker being the only “possible”, though I doubt he’s going to stop making gaffes, that will not help him at all.
Hard to tell right now, Obama is doing things that no one expected every a few months ago. Give Boehner credit. That speech blew the whistle on Obama’s plans to revolutionize American foreign policy and in a direction hat gives pause even to some Democrats, especially the Israelites who worship the same Baal as he.
They sure do write a lot of stories about a guy they do not think can be elected.
So, which GOPeer is?
They’re trying to convince themselves and whistling past the graveyard.
The truth is, nobody is electable until he or she makes his or her case. Ted Cruz is quite capable of making his case to the American People without the support of the MSM, and in fact he can do so in the face of MSM sabotage at every turn.
And, BTW, listen to this: "While his message about doing away with the IRS might draw approving nods across the political spectrum, his promise to get rid of Obamacare surely does not.”
What faraway galaxy are these yoyos publishing from?
What they fear is the conservative democrats they have ignored for years, you know the ones they drove to be indies.
These folks will vote for Cruz, just like they did for Reagan.
And they’ll vote for Walker, too.
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