Posted on 10/15/2015 11:51:08 AM PDT by Isara
'The press conference at the White House was a little bit awkward. Every time a reporter addressed a question to Your Holiness, Obama answered.'
Ted Cruz sometimes campaigns as though he were doing a set at The Improv.
The junior Senator from Texas’ comedic timing is one of his sharper skills. So, too, are his impressions of figures as varied as the late President Reagan, radio host Mark Levin and journalist Sam Donaldson, not to mention The Simpsons characters, Darth Vader and JFK.
His humor might also be his riskiest trait. Like former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole, Cruz’s jokes could come across as mean-spirited if voters aren’t in on the joke too.
But when Cruz hits it, he connects with the audience in a very real way. He has his act down and he knows it.
“I spent most of last week in Washington, D.C.,” Cruz told his audience packed into a Beef, Bread and Brew restaurant this week in Keokuk, Iowa. “So it is great to be back in America.”
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In the meantime, he’s organizing like gangbusters in the early nominating states. A caucus-goer in Iowa or a voter in New Hampshire cannot escape a Cruz event without turning over contact information to junior aides, and Cruz is the first—and only to do so publicly—to announce a chair of every county in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
So while he waits for his early organizing efforts to pay off and rivals to implode, Cruz is having fun.
Obama is often his favored target....
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GO Cruz. This is how you beat a Cult of Personality like 0’s. You mock it.
Imagine a president who does not use teleprompters.
Every one-liner that I’ve heard has been a ten, and that’s hard to do. I enjoy the laughs. Our side needs them.
His jokes also expose the opposition in a disarming way.
With the things the Dems say the jokes almost write themselves. For example when they say that climate change is the biggest national security threat I tend to want to hear someone say, “Well, yeah, I guess a nuke would drastically alter the weather patterns.” Not exactly funny maybe.
Ol Bob Dole is a fool.....that’s what ol Bob Dole says....
Exactly. The left can’t deal with being mocked. They get angry and show their true faces.
I think its cool that he can fall into a Princess Bride routine so easily with an audience member.
“Well, yeah, I guess a nuke would drastically alter the weather patterns.”
I was just thinking the same thing a few days ago.
Obama says Global Warming is the greatest problem we face so his solution is to give Iran nukes and give us nuclear winter.
Reagan was much funnier than Ted, but Ted is excellent in his own right. Like you said, humor “disarms” your opponent.
Trump/Cruz WOULD BE AN AWESOME TICKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8 years of Trump/Cruz, then 8 more of Cruz/Palin
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Ted Cruz ?
Another thing you need to do is fine them and rien in the “ unconstitutional powers “ of the E.P.A. or absolve it all together ....
Yeah, but the giant Reagan was not a hypocrite like Cruz.
Corker Bill
TPA
He votes one way, then opposes his own vote with righteous indignation.
But his supporters don't care.
My friend, Reagan screwed up too, sometimes royally. Look at Simpson-Mazzoli. And we are still paying for that horrendous mistake on an issue so simple a child could have understood it. Bob
Worry about your own candidate who supports...
Obamacare on steroids.
Normalization with Cuba. (Props up the Castro boys)
Anti Free Market renewable fuel standards and ethanol subsidies.
Eminent domain property seizures to give to cronies.
Funding the “good parts” of Planned Parenthood.
Indeed it is. And, the reason he's succeeding.
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