Cruz nomination would set up a clear choice

The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier ^ | May 17, 2015 | Former Rep. Dave Nagle (D-Iowa)

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If we see many more DemocRATS, or Liberal media, singing the praises of Ted Cruz, that will tell me that the DemocRATS/Liberals want Ted to be the GOP nominee because they think he is an extreme, right-wing whack-o and would be the Pubbie most easily defeated.

I get a very different impression from this particular editorial and author. I don't get the feeling he is trying to promote a Republican candidate that he believes can be easily defeated. My gut feeling is Dave Nagle recognizes leadership of the modern Democrat Party has become radicalized to an extreme beyond any resemblance to what it was in years past and the people they represented. I hear a silent scream in his writing warning more traditional, Reagan Democrats and the nation to pull back from the edge of the cliff and a plunge into socialism without coming right out and saying it.

[Din Maker]

Ref. your Post #42: I hope you are correct in your assessment.

[wardaddy]

I don’t agree with Cruz every utterance or decision

But he is my first pick no doubt of that

I sent money to his senate race

But he’s a long shot

It happens but he’s still a long shot once you get outside this forum

What sucks is we will have at least 7-10 deadbeats sucking up oxygen he will need but Jeb doesn’t

Jeb breaths helium. Huge cash and apparatus

Cruz also trails Rubio and Walker in that sphere

I wish he could peel off some of that big Texas cash that the Bushes and GOPe customarily get

Freepers love small donor aura but it’s the big money that buys the election lifeblood of airtime in the early primaries where media attention focused

It’s gonna be Jebs to lose till he does

And if at least some of the Pickens Simmons Koch etc cash switches recipient it could work like a bow thruster and change course of the nomination journey

There are really only two unflappable guys in

Cruz and Huckabee and Huckabee is soft on identity issues

So Cruz wins the unflappable award

Something I sure couldn’t do

I’m more the Preston Brooks school of debate unfortunately

[CyberAnt]

Exactly! Sorry I didn’t include “Constitutional”.

I just get irked when people call us a “Democracy”.

[ConservativeMind]

Folks, this just came up in the Washington Post, and the author does, in fact, show that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, among others, said the United States had a “Representative Democracy” form of government:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/

Apparently, each of you like to set our Founding Fathers straight.

[CyberAnt]

Well, our flag salute is to a TA-DA - “the Republic for which it stands”.