Posted on 03/27/2015 9:22:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Why are "we in the media" supposed to do anything other than report on it? They're not even trying to hide it anymore.
The early polls in the last election without an incumbent (2008) were getting everyone ready for a squeaker between Rudy Guiliani and Hillary Clinton.
How'd that turn out again?
Here's a novel idea: how about we wait until campaigning begins in earnest and we approach the first primaries and caucuses before we declare who's serious and who isn't? The track record on that ain't very good.
Quote: [ On the other hand, many leading figures in the Republican Party — people who control money and influence voters — believe Mr. Cruz would severely damage the party’s chances of winning in 2016 and will fight against his candidacy if he becomes a serious threat. ]
No secret that the Republican establishment hates Cruz.
They hated Lincoln, Goldwater and Reagan, too.
Wonder if the media seriously believe if they say it enough, “He also has virtually no chance of winning the Republican nomination, let alone of becoming president.”, that people will believe it? Some sure, but I have to think that an awful lot of people will find Ted Cruz refreshing and that point add further dismissal of the media for misleading them.
They are trying to reassure themselves that the variety of National Socialism, mistakenly labelled as "Liberalism," is not threatened. Cruz understands not only that the Constitution does not authorize the absurd Federal forays into local education & medical care; more important, he understands why the Constitution does not authorize such forays--that is, he understands the whole experience based understanding of Government, the importance of individual responsibility, local control of local matters, and the reality that people are not hunks of interchangeable biology.
To collectivist/egalitarians, who see big Government as the agency to achieve a uniformity of the human condition, very popular on the social wish lists among Leftist Academics & those they have successfully indoctrinated; reality is always a threat.
When you are part of a fantasy seeking culture--as is most of our contemporary media today;--the threat of a return to reality is very threatening.
Forgive the bump, but my #26, remains apt.
When other candidates go into the media lions den they most often come out with some real bruising, when Cruz enters the den he does so as the lion tamer, the only scars are on the backside of the lions.
They are trying to convince us that he has no chance at winning because they want to and need to stop him early in the race.
They are also trying to dishearten and discursge his supporters so they won’t support him and donate money.
They know the power force behind the Tea Party and message behind Ted Cruz so they have to stop him early.
They have to marginalize him so he won’t become a effective force and a effective voice, all of us with his voice as one voice.
THE TED CRUZ DEINERS !
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