Ted Cruz is the real radical in GOP race

CNN ^ | March 24, 2016 | Julian Zelizer

[2ndDivisionVet]

The greatest political sleight of hand in the 2016 campaign has been Sen. Ted Cruz's remaking himself into the reasonable, establishment candidate in the GOP race.

The strategy seems to be working. Now that Marco Rubio is out of the race and John Kasich struggles to win any state other than Ohio, where he is the governor, a number of prominent officials are turning to the Texas senator.

Former Republican candidate Mitt Romney, who has decried what Donald Trump would do to the legacy of his party, campaigned for Cruz in Utah and said that he will vote for him. Jeb Bush, the scion of the so-called establishment, formally announced that he was endorsing Cruz.

The campaign within the GOP to stop Trump now seems to be placing much of its firepower behind a politician who has been at the far end of the political spectrum and who has practiced an aggressive, smashmouth style of politics that has sometimes made Trump look tame....

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[tophat9000]

So Teddys been playing “hide the Cruz missile?”..... here comes my Bunker Buster!!!

[tophat9000]

wrong thread

[20yearsofinternet]

Still somewhat appropriate. LOL

[Seruzawa]

Great! Now radical left wing CNN is trying to help out conservatives! Ain’t it grand?

[central_va]

Trump has all the right enemies.
Cruz has all the wrong friends.

[marron]

Ted is the real radical. That’s what I like.

[2ndDivisionVet]

You take this as a positive article about Cruz?

[fortheDeclaration]

Cruz is a globalist, just like the GOP establishment.

[fortheDeclaration]

Well put.

[GodGunsGuts]

Washington Times “reporter” that supposedly confirms Ted Cruz had “affairs” was himself previously fired for altering newspaper headlines w/o authorization

http://insider.foxnews.com/2013/08/02/chattanooga-free-press-editor-drew-johnson-firing-after-shove-it-obama-headline

[RoosterRedux]

Ted is a double chin dud.

He is a horn dog. More sex than Clinton...but unlike Clinton, he isn't a rapist...he's just a horn dog.

And that's OK. Just as long as the voters know it.

[Slambat]

“Still somewhat appropriate. LOL”

Yea if you believe it.

“political sleight of hand”?
“remaking himself”?

Taking advantage of “ a number of prominent officials are turning to the Texas senator.”

And the “campaign within the GOP to stop Trump now”.

I don’t think he’s playing hide the Cruz missile. It’s
more like all aboard the Cruz missile.

[Slambat]

globalist: noun, someone who ​believes that ​economic and ​foreign ​policy should be ​planned in an ​international way, ​rather than ​according to what is ​best for one ​particular ​country : He is a globalist, ​whereas we are ​nationalists who will put ​our ​country first. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/globalist So Ted Cruz believes the right of other countries are more important than the right of America? You really believe this? You expect me to believe this because you said so? I like Trump too but I'm not that fanatical.