Posted on 10/13/2015 2:25:15 PM PDT by 100American
Indeed, they are so blinded by their programming they have advanced to the brazen in your face mode real quick, me thinks a nerve has been touched...
Makes me a bit ....sad...
LOL
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>> “The site has a serious beef with Cruz” <<
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Of course they do!
He is a well spoken eloquent conservative that has put huge dents in the globalists agenda, like keeping us free of the jurisdiction of the World Court.
That one smacked them hard.
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Ted Cruz has been overshadowed by the charisma and media savvy of Donald Trump.
That said, in a race without Donald, Ted is electable and is highly valued as a candidate that America needs.
But Donald is in the race and has taken much of Ted’s support base. But not all is lost. In fact, nothing is lost.
If you believe, as I do, that everything happens for a reason, as written by God, then the advent of Donald Trump is a blessing to Ted Cruz.
Donald is 69, Ted is 44.
Ted as the GOP candidate can garner up to 52% of the vote, but that’s only if people come to vote against the democrats. Whatever the case may be, it’s not enough.
Donald as the GOP candidate can garner near 60% because he is attractive to LIVs and dem voter blocs. He wins a landslide which is what is needed to stop the democrat’s hard-core leftist agenda.
What Ted Cruz needs to do is to continue keeping his poll numbers rising. He should garner a solid 15% in the primaries and he has the funds to go all the way.
Donald Trump will garner a solid 35% or more in the primaries, then it becomes possible that he should select Ted Cruz as his running mate. Ted as VP will allow him to grow on America.
Where does that leave Carson? Surgeon General? No. Ben Carson would be wasted on such a post. Secretary of State? No. He doesn’t have the negotiating skills that Donald requires. Actually, the mostly ceremonial post of VP would suit him.
Where then does that leave Ted? Appointment as SC Justice? No, though it seems logical, Ted really wants to gain executive experience and be President. If not VP because of Carson, then what? Ted needs to spend the first term of Donald Trump’s presidency building his reputation as a hard-line badass. Under Donald’s wing, Ted can get his marching orders and negotiate diplomatically as Secretary of State while interfacing with Donald’s chosen trade delegation team. Building a reputation in foreign policy as a hard-liner will prepare Ted as either Donald’s 2nd term VP pick or as a presidential candidate when Donald leaves office.
Do as I say, not as I do...
The crux of the Psychological impairment of children is an association of bad behavior and age as making it acceptable
Mommy drinks (my sister) and her children are struggling with issues downstream.
She invites her daughter, a recovering alcoholic to a BBQ and insists on trying to get her to drink again...
Truthfully she, my sister is no longer in my life...
To thine own-self be True...
“He has a plan, he’s working the plan and we’ll see how it turns out.”
I have a friend that says this about himself and his company all the time - he is a Christian (as am I). Sometimes we don’t see the endpoint, or know how it will all work out - we just make sure we have the best plan, that it is what we think God wants us to be doing, and have FAITH even if we can’t see the final result just yet.
I imagine Cruz has benchmarks along the way. It will be interesting to see how/if he meets them, and how he adjusts things.
I agree totally...
Donald for 4-8 years with Ted focusing on The Justice Dept and other crap that he is a master in. If he can unspool the conspirators a lot of folks will sing or ...
Visit Ft. Marcy...
Ted after all of this is well established and he has repaired a major crack in the foundations of our country. He will then be the obvious choice to continue on the work of Our side to Make America Great Again!
Well Done!
Semper Fidelis!
The problem is that you need to hear him speak. The Media enemies (and their GOPe allies) are doing their best to keep him bottled up.
In a way I wonder if they pushed the attention to Trump to minimize the time they'd give to Cruz. Seems that way -- but it also seems to have blown up in their faces as they backtrack to do all they can to convince us that Trump is a 'loose cannon'.
'Loose cannon', or not, he beats those on the approved GOP list.
I prefer Cruz, but I'll take Trump. He does not seem to be hamstrung by a PC tongue.
Donald trump will not even get close to winning the GOP nomination. Registered Republican voters oppose him by a heavy margin. Unfortunately they are unfocused in their opposition presently, so their declarations are all over the board.
When they are counting real votes instead of MSM push polls, it will look much different.
Cruz is the only electable Non-GOPe candidate, and that is why so much bitter propaganda is directed his way.
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This is a rather silly article. Cruz is, while not perfect, the best candidate I've seen in decades. And yet he polls single digits. Fine, we understand we have two problems: one, Trump sucks most of the air out of the room, and two, the remaining field is highly fractured.
So if you ask "is he electable", if you can do math you have to admit its a long shot. The writer implies that there is something wrong with Cruz supporters recognizing the arithmetic challenge they face. We get it. Cruz gets it. He is prepared to continue on regardless. He has the finances, he has the organization, he has the debating chops if he can ever get a question to answer, and looking down the road he is one of the best qualified men for the job to hit the ground running from day one.
One more thing: Cruz supporters are generally favorable toward Trump and Trump supporters are generally positive toward Cruz. Either one stumbles, the other one receives a goodly part of that support.
It used to be all in for Cruz, but then some Freepers were distracted by the loud, shiny thing that showed up.
I'm sticking with Cruz, no matter how hard they try to convince me that Trump is the One. I wouldn't vote for that liberal under any circumstances.
Agree, they are trying to sow discord and lack of cohesion and purpose by us or our candidates
We are in their minds, children..
They are so in trouble...
“The site” to which I referred was “conservativetreehouse”, not our own, beloved FR.
I read it and it appears the writer thinks Cruz is too much of a Christian to win and he needs to move to the center to get enough votes to win. That would be like McCain and Romney - I forget what their terms as president were like - oops, they didn’t win.
The writer also dumped on David Barton, who is working with Cruz in campaign finance. Barton is a magnificent historian who was the Vice Chair of the Texas Republican Party for a number of years when I was working with the party and I admire this Christian man and the work he does. I found out from him something I didn’t know about our Texas Republican Party. The man who started our state party was a black man from Galveston, Texas.
Let’s wait until after Iowa to see the ratings then.
Both observations are factual.
Not all Freepers have fallen for Trump, it’s important to note. Cruz wins the FR straw polls, but Trump supporters tend to be louder.
Agree, take it out of the design studio and on the road...
Will be interesting...
I didn’t know David Barton was working with Ted.
The myth of the “electable” Republican...I wonder if we will ever learn.
He’s absolutely right on why it looks now like Cruz can’t win:
“In order to win support of the scope and scale necessary to win a national election, you first have to appeal on a platform supported by a national electorate.”
But Cruz ‘may’ develop that appealing platform in the coming budget/spending/debt battles in congress.
That’s a seemingly impossible ‘row to hoe’.
No one’s ever been able to surmount the media narratives against fiscal responsibility, but he’s known from the beginning that upsetting the usual narrative then would be necessary to run as a conservative.
... (Cruz)....” He’s a formidable guy, just brilliant. He has a plan, he’s working the plan and we’ll see how it turns out.”.....
Yes....and the field is really just begun to narrow down....more to go yet. It’s very interesting watching Cruz’z campaign operations.
Trump excels as a communicator because he meets his audience. He uses what they know and connects things in a way they can follow. That's not what one would expect from a Wharton alum also a Billionaire developer. So it's an acquired skill. I think someone figured he connects on a fifth grade level.
Ted Cruz, on the other hand, is very demanding of an audience. I think the same source said he connects on a twelfth grade level (and if I'm not exact, I apologize.) We connect well with Ted because we have an education. We understand the Republic, separation of powers, a Constitution and inalienable rights. We understand the difference between freedom (self explanatory) and freedumb (free stuff.)
Because we're educated, Ted is just saying (and very well) what many of us have been thinking. I think it was a supporter of Adali Stevenson who called him the thinking man's candidate. He replied he needed more than that to win. That's Ted's curse.
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