California stands a very good chance of going Republican for the first time since Reagan. LINK
Posted on 12/27/2015 8:04:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I know a televangelist candidate when I see one.
To hear the pundits and experts in Washington tell it, the problem with Ted Cruz is that he doesn't play well with others in the Senate, he's too hardheaded and doesn't compromise. In other words, he's exactly what the Republican primary voters want.
On this score, I side with the Republican primary voters. If Cruz's problem is that he is a conservative who has no regard for senatorial decorum and fights too hard for the right things, I'm all in.
But there is a far bigger problem with Cruz: Donald Trump is not the most self-absorbed Republican running for president--Cruz is. Whether you like Trump or not (and I don't), at least Trump makes no effort to hide his narcissism. In that sense, Trump is oddly genuine. Cruz, on the other hand, takes great pains to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. And the troubling thing is he's really good at it.
Occasionally, he offers a glimpse of his vanity and his need to be loved -- such as the hilariously painful 15 hours of B-roll footage his campaign put on the Web for use by his super PACs. My favorite part of that footage is the multiple times he and his family practiced the prayer scene before a meal ... once more, with feeling. There is nothing quite as genuine and humble as a rehearsed, made-for-TV prayer.
The other revealing scene is when Cruz is sitting on the couch with his mom and he says, "Not a day goes by that my mom is not lifting me up in prayer." Then mom agrees saying, "It's true." But then, Cruz can't help himself and he adds, "for hours at a time," after which mom can't take it anymore
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I know his record. He takes positions that are not to his personal benefit, but are the right conservative, constitutionalist positions — and stands by them.
GOP Establishment types view that as dangerous, opportunistic, and self-serving, while they view their own capitulation as principled.
In neither case did he lie. The media who are making this claim are distorting his record, hoping to pull his supporters away from him.
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