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Posted on 10/14/2013 6:25:56 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Did you really have to be a pluperfect political prognosticator to have foreseen that none of Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann or Donald Trump was going to be the 2012 Republican presidential nominee?
Yet on today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough—by way of establishing his fortune-telling street cred—boasted of having made those predictions, before proceeding to claim that: 1. Ted Cruz will not be the 2016 Republican nominee; and 2. there's a "very real chance" that Cruz will break from the GOP and run as an independent. View the video
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2013/10/14/scarborough-very-real-chance-cruz-will-run-president-independent-2#ixzz2hhcVlMnX
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I concur too, but of course the point of the article is that JS thinks Ted Cruz is going third party - and clearly that is not his plan.
No, he’s trying to split the vote—so Hillarity! can win.
Cruz seems to have come to terms with the fact that the GOP nominating process really IS that broken.
Great, let's make it a 3-way with Cruz. At least conservatives will have a fighting chance as the liberals split themselves between Hillary and RINO-of-the-month.
In a two-way race, for every mush brain we pick up, we lose two conservatives. The communists have perfected building a 51% coalition out of their hard-liners and mush brains, using birth control and abortion as the bait.
A 3-way race looks much better. If we can hold our 40%, and get the GOP to nominate a mush-brain dreamboat like Jeb or Christie, we stand a good cahne to win.
Well at present I would love to see a CRuz/Palin ticket.
I went thru the debacle of the long eared galoot from Texas who split the ticket and ushered Clinton into the WH. I don’t wish to see that happen again.
Ronald Reagan was very much treated the same way Ted Cruz is. He didn’t run off and start a third party.
The media conveniently ignores how the Tea Party Pubs, led by Cruz & Lee, have stopped obama in his tracks. They stopped gun control, So far amnesty has been stopped, so far killing the sequester and raising taxes has been stopped, and turning the focus back to obamacare has been done. We have a lot of liberal Pubs who want to give in on these things, but the longer the fight goes on the better our chances.
The liberal Pubs in the House are going to have to ask themselves if they really want to give back their perks as the majority if they surrender, because if they do surrender I think it's likely the Tea Party Pubs will toss out Bohner.
I voted for Palin, I voted against Obama, and I voted for Ross Perot. I realize now what a disaster that McCain would have been. We would have global warming and other socialist BS shoved down our throats setting up the country for an Obama-type socialist. Romney was only slightly better than McCain due to his measured (although liberal) response.
Split the votes among the GOP canidates while the Dems get behind one canidate and what do you get? There’s your answer...
They dont seem very scared at all. Now they are making demands of GOP in return for a Debt limit increase, Reid : 'So you need a debt limit increase?? Well then you must pay!'
Where do you see fear?
if the citizen’s vote actually meant something the power elite that controls the US government would not allow us to vote
Because the US needs a 2nd political party to oppose the existing one. I hope when an opposition party forms it has a way to attract unhappy democratic voters also. There’s plenty of dissatisfaction all around.
libs won't support a RINO... ever... to them, RINOs are too conservative...
It pretty much sums up Slow Joe's career.
“...a burning desire to get into Nina’s knickers. “
He would have a lot more elbow room getting in her head. It’s empty.
That's partly true, but only because the media can portray a RINO like Romney as "ultra conservative" because there are no conservative candidates to compare to. Think of it this way: having a both a RINO candidate and a conservative candidate dilutes the propaganda power of the media.
That would be one way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
No Joe there is a very good chance Cruz will run and the GOP nominee.
At this moment in time, I will vote for Cruz regardless of the Party he runs under. If he was the dem nominee, for the first time in my life I’d vote dem.
Cruz sure seems to be the patriot we need at this time. I think he’d be the most anti-nobama as would be possible and could easily reverse all the dems past and present damages, with or without Congress, if by no other means than to follow the dem’s playbook rules.
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