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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 06/04/2015 3:17:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took a shot at former Gov. Jeb Bush's (R) prospects of clinching the 2016 Republican nomination for president on Thursday by wondering (rhetorically) if Bush could win any of the three crucial early primary states —New Hampshire, South Carolina, or Iowa.
"If you look historically since World War II no one has ever won the nomination without winning at least one of those first three," Cruz said Thursday afternoon in an interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox News. "That has certainly been history. I think it's an interesting challenge for a number of other of these candidates. You look at —the media describes Jeb Bush, for example, as the frontrunner. It becomes an interesting question when you ask, which of those states does he win?"
Bush hasn't yet announced his candidacy for president (but he's picked a date for it) but already there have been questions about whether he could compete in Iowa.
In January Bush hired David Kochel, a former top adviser to Mitt Romney with deep ties to Iowa, to serve as campaign manager for an eventual run. The move was seen as Bush laying the groundwork for an aggressive push to win Iowa. But in mid-May Bush decided to skip the Iowa Straw Poll, sparking outrage from the the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party.
A Quinnipiac poll released just before Bush decision to skip the marquee Iowa event showed the former Florida governor lagging behind the rest of the field in Iowa.
National Journal also recently reported that Bush was aiming to compete heavily in New Hampshire and try and win that early primary state in lieu of avoiding the Iowa caucus. Polling has shown Bush to be much more formidable there. In South Carolina, Bush has polled closely with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) at the head of the pack.
Cruz, by contrast, polls on average near the head of the pack in Iowa, in the middle in South Carolina, and actually near the head of the pack in New Hampshire, right behind Bush.
But Cruz suggested he's far more competitive than Bush across the nation.
"We are competing nationwide. We're putting together a team on the ground, a grassroots team nationwide," Cruz said.
You betcha they are.
It’s the dual duty of MSM & GOPe to defeat Ted Cruz.
I wonder if they realize that by going “full Palin” on his slip of the tongue with Joe Biden that they gifted him about $20 million dollars worth of free publicity?
I don’t watch MSM, so I only read about it here.
So what if he pulled a Biden when he was speaking about Biden? He immediately apologized.
I sincerely hope we can nominate Ted Cruz against the combined efforts of The Ministry of Propaganda, the RNC and The Cheap Labor Express.
It’s a uphill battle, to say the least.
No pain, no glory, the upside of a mountian is getting to the top of the peak and see the view.
Ted Cruz Ping! The only “conservatives” not supporting Ted Cruz are either
(1) Not Conservative to begin with
(2) Birthers hiding behind a website giving their minions the same talking points to go after him on HB1-Visas, TPP, etc in order to not show their ignorance on the man and his logic and the real reason that they don’t support him because they think he isn’t an NBC (Just look at some posters history on the ones repeating this same stuff over and over again in every Cruz thread, then look up their activity in the Birther threads and it all makes sense)
(3) Conservatives just flat out afraid to support him that have bought into the BS that he’d be another Goldwater while ignoring the results of 1980/84.
I will say this again. The likely Democratic nominee has lied, cheated, stolen, and is responsible for thousands of deaths. Conservatives should be able to run Mickey Mouse if he offered a conservative platform and win this race easily.
Ted Cruz can win a general election against Hillary Clinton. The fact he is also a great speaker and backs up what he says are super bonuses. If Cruz couldn’t beat Clinton then the country is lost and this whole discussion is moot anyways.
Cruz it or lose it.
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I get the impression there are too many people who want a Bush / Clinton rematch, regardless of the quality of the candidates.
I **AM** for Ted. But can he not see how destructive to his candidacy this disgusting trade deal is? He has, or had a very solid core of support, deservedly, but if his base come to distrust him, it’s all over.
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