Posted on 03/31/2015 5:40:27 AM PDT by cotton1706
Republican Congressional leaders aren't exactly known as the biggest fans of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., but their current legislative strategy could inadvertently benefit his presidential candidacy.
Cruz has rankled the likes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, due to a confrontational style that has triggered high-profile battles, most notably the effort to defund President Obama's health care law, which led to a government shutdown in fall of 2013.
After Republicans took over the Senate, McConnell declared, "Let me make it clear: There will be no government shutdowns and no default on the national debt." The words effectively meant that McConnell intended to limit the influence of Cruz — avoiding bruising confrontations over funding of government and raising the debt ceiling.
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This is where Cruz benefits. More than anything, Cruz's popularity among conservatives is rooted in the feeling that he's the only one willing to take the fight to Obama. To the extent that conservative voters feel disillusioned with Republican leaders who they see as largely ineffective, Cruz will stand to gain by promising to fight liberals tooth and nail. The more frustrated conservatives become with Congressional Republicans, the more they'll find Cruz's brand of confrontational conservatism appealing.
To avoid this scenario, Republican leaders are going to have to deliver some clear wins to conservatives. I wouldn't expect they'll win over many outside of Washington by touting a permanent Medicare "doc fix."
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The last republican to win Michigan. His Detroit nomination acceptance speech has everything Cruz needs to win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nukzTmu8tPA
“...conservative voters feel disillusioned with Republican leaders who they see as largely ineffective...”
Leading candidate for understatement of the decade.
Yeah but you left out the part where after he showed his extremism he only won 49 states
... and pulled enough ordinarily Democratic voters to have an entire swath of them named after him. But, of course, only Ford could have attracted independent and marginal Democrat voters, or so we were told endlessly.
Ted Cruz wins overwhelmingly if he is unapologetic, uncompromising, and tells it like it really is in exposing liberal idiocy. Young people will gravitate towards him because he is the opposite of Obama in every conceivable way.
CRUZ or LOSE!Does MN still boast as the only state to reject Reagan and Bush(es) in every election? People there truly believe in their liberalism.
I hope you are right, but people in TX and FL surely believe in Bushes.
He ( Reagan ) doesn’t know how true his words were “ unprecedented calamity that has befallen us “ are in our day.
Republican leaders have become Ineffective AND treateriously treasonous.
Amen, those sitting on the fense would hear his message and the wheat will be separated from the chaff.
The young hopefully will finally see the MSM for what it really is.
Almost everyone here in Texas with whom I speak regarding this next election have expressed their interest in someone other than another Bush.
“The more frustrated conservatives become with Congressional Republicans, the more they’ll find Cruz’s brand of confrontational conservatism appealing.”
Republicans willing last November could help Cruz. With the memory of their rapid capitulation fresh in my mind, I’m not willing to vote for any GOP establishment candidate.
willing should have been winning.
If I’m going to use new technology that changes my words, I need to double-check it!
Confrontational Conservatism!!!!!! Let’s wipe the floor with the Bushes’ Compassionate Conservatism!!! We are here to get back the freedom for the individual as per our Constitution. Not to kiss butts across the aisle, who want socialism for their own power.
If he wants hispanic voters, he should talk about expanding small business with seed money - money taken from the Dem’s corporate welfare.
Does MN still boast as the only state to reject Reagan and Bush(esh) in every election? People there truly believe in their liberalism.
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Wait until mid-2016 and ask Minnesotans how Obamacare is working for them.
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