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Is Ted Cruz The Republican Who'll Do What Others Couldn't?
Investor's Business Daily ^
| April 1, 2015
| George F. Will
Posted on 04/01/2015 9:25:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is Ted Cruz The Republican Who'll Do What Others Couldn't?
I don't know about that, but he's certainly the Republican doing what others won't.
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:29:43 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Boehner is the new Pelosi)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
His agenda is showing.
That's ok, mine is too. Cruz or forget it.
/johnny
To: 2ndDivisionVet
You are a zealot for sure LOL
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:30:10 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
To: sickoflibs
I don’t know how to play solitaire.
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:31:05 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
To: 867V309
“I don’t know about that, but he’s certainly the Republican doing what others won’t.”
Love your comment, 86!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
George needs to change his middle name to “Pretzel”.
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:37:21 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe labels have changed...
To me,
Jeb is a liberal Republican. Others fall into this category (several others).
Cruz is a Conservative Republican. Others fall into this category (not so many though).
Republican (it’s meaning) has changed considerably.
Democrat (has changed to Progressive).
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:38:35 PM PDT
by
Deagle
(ui)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:38:59 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(ONE DEATH)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The article inadvertently points about why nominating anyone BUT a true conservative will result in a loss.
Only someone truly inspirational (like Cruz) can break up the Obama coalition and reshuffle the map enough to ensure a Republican victory. ANY candidate put forward by the Republicans that tries to play it safe with a 50+1 strategy is doomed to fail.
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:46:28 PM PDT
by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: Deagle
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:48:19 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(ONE DEATH)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Cruz sits in a Senate that has no Republicans akin to the liberals Goldwater served with New York's Jacob Javits, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, Illinois' Charles Percy, New Jersey's Clifford Case, California's Thomas Kuchel. That may be true.
But the problem today is that the likes of McCain, McConnell and the party establishment have no ideology. They aren't liberal, they aren't conservative. They're conniving, self-serving, compliant...and ultimately corrupt.
Confronted by an intensely partisan and un-American Democrat party, they are being slowly co-opted and subsequently subsumed.
Will, having lived beside them in DC for so long, can't see this.
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:49:35 PM PDT
by
okie01
To: TexasFreeper2009
I agree/
But it will take a complete FLUSH of the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" down the toilet, before Ted Cruz can defeat the VILE DemocRATS COMMUNISTS !
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posted on
04/01/2015 9:50:18 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Today, however, there is no need to nominate Cruz in order to make the GOP conservative. Cruz sits in a Senate that has no Republicans akin to the liberals Goldwater served with New York’s Jacob Javits, Massachusetts’ Edward Brooke, Illinois’ Charles Percy, New Jersey’s Clifford Case, California’s Thomas Kuchel.
++++
Oops. Georgie needs to do his homework. He can start by typing the following into Google:
Mark Kirk wiki
I’m sure there are other examples. How about the Senate Majority Leader?
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posted on
04/01/2015 10:04:42 PM PDT
by
InterceptPoint
(>http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"But will they come when you do call for them?"We will come.
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posted on
04/01/2015 10:15:17 PM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(Obama stands with ISIL and the Caliphate.)
To: stilloftyhenight
Love your comment, 86!
Thank you.
When Cruz "outed" the GOPe I knew he was genuine.
He revealed, as STRATEGY, that GOPe Senators voted FOR cloture (60 votes needed to pass: GOP minority had an opportunity to kill the bill) and then voting AGAINST it, when a simple majority was needed, and the Rats had the majority.
This had the double GOPe win of passing a Demorat bill, and giving GOPe Senators a boost in their Conservative voting ratings for "voting against it."
Cruz was a GOPe pariah after that, if not before. No GOPe will ever get my vote, including my numbskull John Mica (billions for SlumRail) representative.
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posted on
04/01/2015 10:21:42 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Boehner is the new Pelosi)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If someone like George F. Will can’t see that Jeb Bush will LOSE simply because he’s a Bush — and I’m not saying that’s good or bad, simply that it’s true — then I question the rest of his analysis.
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posted on
04/01/2015 10:38:41 PM PDT
by
Hetty_Fauxvert
(FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s funny to listen to the talkings heads draw all sorts of inferences about the inelectability of Conservatives based on Goldwater’s shellacking. Goldwater lost for one reason and one reason only: the assassination of JFK.
LBJ was going to slaughter whomever the GOP nominated no matter what.
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posted on
04/01/2015 11:07:06 PM PDT
by
rhinohunter
(Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
George Will always supports the GOPe. No surprise here.
He is positively predictable and rarely adds anything new to a discussion.
Bush will not be POTUS. It isn’t just his name, it’s his progressive agenda.
To: stilloftyhenight
I knew this would crumble into a bash-GeorgeWill-fest. I suggest we look at his conclusion:
Any candidacy premised on conceding those 18 states involves a risky thread-the-needle path to not much more than 270 electoral votes. Writing in Politico, Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik notes that in the six elections since 1992, a majority of states have not been "remotely competitive."
Thirty-one plus the District of Columbia (they currently have 344 electoral votes) have voted for the same party in those elections. Another eight (71 electoral votes) have voted for the same party in five of the six. This is why, Sosnik says, "almost two-thirds of the $896 million spent on television" by the two candidates in 2012 was spent in five states that have been competitive since 1992 Ohio, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Virginia.
The Republican nominee must crack the ice that has frozen the electoral map. Cruz cannot do that by getting more votes from traditional Republican constituencies.
I have given Cruz money twice this week, so I hardly am defending Will in general, but his electoral construct needs to be pondered. We still have much time.
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posted on
04/02/2015 1:33:38 AM PDT
by
jobim
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