LETTERS: Ted Cruz, Cruising to Victory or Unguided Cruz Missile?

The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 30, 2015 | Various

[2ndDivisionVet]

Regarding your editorial “The Cruz Candidacy” (March 24): Shades of 1964! For those of us old-timers who worked in the Barry Goldwater camp during that campaign, we see an ominous parallel shaping up because all of the ingredients are there. As ardent conservatives we admired the charismatic retired Air Force general who projected all of our conservative values.

Sadly, as history reminds us, he attracted far too few votes from centrist and liberal Republicans, from the independent sector and from middle America in general during the 1964 campaign. This led to one of the worst electoral debacles in our country’s history.

We see the same disturbing trend in the Cruz candidacy.

Marvin O. Maul

Colorado Springs, Colo.

Constitutional conservatives welcome the refreshing honesty of people such as Sen. Ted Cruz, who fight to maintain the vanishing principles of a limited government. It is painful to think that we must vacillate from those ideals to court various interest groups that profit from a liberal agenda. We may not win now, but we must keep traditional, founding values at the forefront or they will be silenced forever.

Judy McNeil

Lafayette, Calif.[continued]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Lincoln or Washington would have had a hard time beating Lyndon Johnson so soon after the "martyring" of JohnF. Kennedy, as most people who were alive then or are familiar with history know.

[corbe]

Another round for Ted and his strategerist.

Noone is talking about Walker, Rand, Rubio, Bush or Christy right now.

Hope this keeps up and the $$$$$ keeps being donated.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He gets another one tomorrow.

[Always A Marine]

In Ted Cruz, the WSJ claims to see Goldwater. I see Reagan. Viva Cruz!

[stanne]

Dear Editor,

It’s so encouraging to see journalists doing their most important work, trashing conservatives of all walks of life, including the honorable former solicitor general of Texas and hard working senator, ivy leaguer sen Ted Cruz (who-does-he-think-he-is-TX)

It is also edifying to realize that when one compares Hillary Clinton (wife-AR-Il-NY-DC-?) to our current president, pres Clinton, her ‘husband’, and, Lyndon Johnson, btw, we see many parallels in her campaign style, her associates, her destruction of foreign affairs (almost as bad, so far, as that of the media-silenced horrors of those of LBJ) and certain to be worse than all, and disregarding her parallels to Nixon in his worst hour in hiding communications, these same journalists will only compare Cruz to past debacles, leaving the HIllary untouched by such low journalism

We out here appreciate all you do to rig these elections to your ideological visions. How else could we procure cheap labor ?

[Olog-hai]

LBJ had nowhere near the character of either Washington or Lincoln, so that question remains open.

And I take anything from the “there shall be open borders” crowd with more than just a lone grain of salt.

[Fungi]

Wonderful. The press is now in full apoplectic mode and the race has not even begun. Ah wonderful ah wonderful, ah one two three. Lawrence Welk.

[FreeReign]

In Ted Cruz, the WSJ claims to see Goldwater. I see Reagan. Viva Cruz!

The WSJ is purposely ignoring the Reagan comparison because Reagan won...twice...by a lot.

[BlackAdderess]

I have zero interest in yet another libertarian. Give me a good salt-of-the-earth evangelical who isn’t an amnesty hoe.

[USS Alaska]

Lincoln or Washington would have had a hard time beating Lyndon Johnson so soon after the "martyring" of John F. Kennedy, as most people who were alive then or are familiar with history know.

I voted for Goldwater, BUT I knew he could not win just because of JFK {and it wouldn't surprise me if LBJ had a hand in kennedy's demise}.

LBJ was a thief and a racist and just a plain evil man but he had the election won before it started.

I don't want to see the Cruz can't win because it is like '64 all over again.

[Wolfie]

I just can’t vote for anyone whose wife worked at Goldman Sachs.

[Lowell1775]

So Cruz is another Goldwater, not a Reagan?

The obvious question is why is not
(fill in the blank with your choice of corporatist RINO)
going to be a flaming hole in the ground LOSER like:

Ford
Bush I (second term)
Dole
Bush II
(included here since he is really just Bush I in cowboy boots with Hank Williams playing in background that damaged country as much or more than Obama)
McCain
Romney

Could it be that the WSJ is a pack of bought dog, boot licking corporatist lackeys that masturbate every night to a poster of Nelson Rockefeller wearing bicycle pants?

Nah. Couldn’t be.

[InterceptPoint]

As I recall, Bush lost the popular vote in 2004 to Gore. He won it in 2000 and his father won the popular vote in 1988. Count up the elections: Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Bush-Bush-Obama-Obama. That’s the most recent 7 elections. The Dems won the popular vote 5 times and the GOP won it twice.

Not good.

[Lake Living]

Wall St. Worried, ha, ha, ha, ha
He’s both you lib’tards, but he’s GUIDED!!!
Cruz missile Impact in 4, 3, 2...

[CPT Clay]

Not gonna happen this time.

[Always A Marine]

The WSJ is purposely ignoring the Reagan comparison because Reagan won...twice...by a lot.

Exactly!

[2ndDivisionVet]

The don’t. None of us is going to follow you into the voting booth and force you to do anything. I put my life on the line so you would have the freedom to vote for the person of your choice.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I didn’t say he had the character of Lincoln or Washington. All I said was that the circumstances of the 1964 election, with a young, beloved president being assassinated only about 11 months prior, made it very difficult for any candidate to beat his successor. Were you alive then?