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GOP establishment should fear a Cruz run (Must read)
Washington Jewish Week ^ | December 17, 2014 | Jonathan S. Tobin

Posted on 12/18/2014 4:34:51 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Old Retired Army Guy
If Walker can be considered any kind of conservative, it's a fiscal conservative. He's been Public Enemy #1 on the Left because he took out the public employee unions, which is the foundation of lefty manpower and $$$.

Walker pierced the myth of invincibility of public unions, and took every shot they sent. That's a great accomplishment.

Don't make him something he's not, though.

41 posted on 12/18/2014 7:05:37 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: mac_truck

That doesn’t mean Walker is against ‘immigration reform,’ it means he’s against Obama’s executive order to accomplish it.


42 posted on 12/18/2014 7:11:31 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
GOP establishment should fear a Cruz run (Must read)

They do fear it, and will do everything within their power to defeat him.

43 posted on 12/18/2014 7:12:54 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Menthops

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Keep trying...


44 posted on 12/18/2014 7:16:34 AM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aide)
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To: gogeo

No it means he’s one of 17 state governors actively doing something to stop Obama’s executive amnesty.

He’s certainly not handing out teddy bears on the Mexican border either if you catch my drift...


45 posted on 12/18/2014 7:21:25 AM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aide)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Cruz not only sounds ornery much of the time, he generally looks it too–”

That’s OK.

I absolutely prefer that my 2016 presidential candidate be a pissed-off Conservative.


46 posted on 12/18/2014 7:46:02 AM PST by moovova
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To: mac_truck

Your post didn’t contradict mine...did you have a point?


47 posted on 12/18/2014 7:57:39 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m worried about the money. The big donors are looking at Jeb or Mitt or Christie.


48 posted on 12/18/2014 8:01:45 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Reagan Disciple
Cruz it or lose it!

Ha Ha! Love it!

49 posted on 12/18/2014 8:02:36 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

If every conservative in this country donated just $100, the problem would be solved.


50 posted on 12/18/2014 8:06:25 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: mac_truck; Menthops

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/11/20/2972351/scott-walker-backtracks-immigration-reform/


51 posted on 12/18/2014 8:11:28 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

> “If every conservative in this country donated just $100, the problem would be solved.”

They can, they must and I believe they will.


52 posted on 12/18/2014 8:12:21 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Hostage

Install Cruz control on this country.


53 posted on 12/18/2014 8:44:38 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: gogeo

Actions speak louder than words and if anyone is “soft” on immigration its the guy handing out teddy bears on the Mexican border.

Sabe?


54 posted on 12/18/2014 10:29:59 AM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aide)
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To: stormhill

The huckster will be trotted out by Rove to garner the evangelical vote away from Cruz. Ryan has shown he has drank the Potomac kool-aid and is more a threat to Jeb than Cruz. The Huckster, Walker and Paul are Cruz’s main concern. If it were to come down to Cruz and just one of these two I think he could take Bush out and win the nomination.

Prediction, if Cruz should win the nomination the long knives will be out for him from the GOPE and they will trash him the way they did Goldwater. Should he still manage to win if I were him I would gut the RNC top to bottom at every level and anyone who worked for the Vichy would be out.


55 posted on 12/18/2014 11:29:28 AM PST by sarge83
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
If Walker is not a conservative

Walker is a conservative with an "enlightened" viewpoint on illegal immigration. He recently told his legislature that he did not want his agenda derailed by Right To Work legislation.

56 posted on 12/18/2014 12:04:22 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: bert
reminder: Jesus Christ will not be running

Nope but the Anti-Christ will be.

57 posted on 12/18/2014 12:06:55 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Cruz won’t win votes from those who don’t like Washington dysfunction"

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58 posted on 12/18/2014 12:21:41 PM PST by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have no fear, I personally will donate $250.00 when Ted announces he’s running, and another $250.00 if Ted receives the republican nomination.


59 posted on 12/18/2014 1:13:04 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's better to die free than live as a slave)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The very conservative members of the GOP such as some of the Tea Partiers are generally considered to have an advantage in primaries because they are activists and highly motivated to beat the so-called Establishment.

Under this theoretical model of Republican politics, the most conservative candidates should win the primary for every office, not just the Presidential primaries—if, in fact, they are a majority of the party.

But somehow the votes are never there. So they always come up with conspiracy theories and villains who have stolen the election from the rightful winners.

Folks, math don’t lie. You have to win with votes and to get the majority of the votes you have to have the best candidate with the best message for the voters.

Cruz is smart, handsome and charismatic. Bush is smart, but not charismatic or handsome. It should be a good test so bring it on.


60 posted on 12/18/2014 2:27:31 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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