Posted on 12/11/2014 2:18:14 PM PST by PROCON
Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz gave a major foreign-policy speech at the Heritage Foundation critiquing the disastrous nature of what he labeled as the Obama-Clinton approach to the subject. His desire to lay out his foreign-policy views in detail at such a venue as well as his focus on Clinton was a clear indication of something that is not exactly a secret: hes planning on running for president in 2016. Members of his partys establishment, which generally despises him as much as his fellow senators and the liberal media, do not take Cruzs ambition too seriously. But as much as it seems unlikely that he will be taking the presidential oath at the Capitol in January 2017, that establishment should be a lot more afraid of Cruz than they seem to be. Anyone who thinks he will not be a formidable primary contender is paying more attention to the media caricature of Cruz than the facts.
Lets start by conceding that Cruzs well-earned image as a Senate bomb-thrower and his truculent public personality makes him a poor bet as a general-election candidate. Being a true believer is an asset in a primary but his uncompromising style wont win many independent or crossover voters. Just as important, Cruz not only sounds ornery much of the time, he generally looks it tooand in the television era its far from clear that Americans will ever again elect someone who doesnt strike them as being nice or personable. But lets put those issues aside for a moment and consider Cruzs chances of winning the Republican nomination in a context in which liberal media bias as well as the imperative of winning the center wont be as decisive as they would be in a general election.
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Cruz is thoughtful and eloquent enough to speak on his own. He doesn't need Palin as second banana.
The GOPe is as deserving of tar and feathers as any ‘rat up there.
Yes.
2. Will he pull in the Hispanic vote?
He will pull in the patriot vote, regardless of ethnicity.
A Cruz presidency may not be able to undo all this, but he sure could become a pain in the butt and expose these monsters to the American people.
You know the scene in Ironman where Tony rips that electrical harness out of Jeff Bridges’ suit saying ‘hey, THIS looks important!’: that’s what Ted is chomping at the bit to do, rip off all the short-circuits the Marxist RATS have soldered onto our Constitution in order to defeat it.
Also, he’ll pull 50% of the Hispanic vote (pulled 40% in ‘12), and I don’t think Holder’s people are going to be lining up to cast votes for Fauxcahontas.
Your comment doesn’t make sense.
I never mentioned exit polls and did not reference or consult them.
My point was that Palin helped McCain, but he squashed her ideas so he could lose.
If he would have been a conservative he would have embraced her Tea Party/Conservative policies and ideas and could have won election.
But that was never his purpose, his GOPe handlers wanted Obama for president so they would appear black friendly and be a part of history.
Same thing they will do if the dems run a woman for President and the GOPe doesn’t.
If he would have been a conservative he would have embraced her Tea Party/Conservative policies and ideas and could have won election.
Just how ready and prepared Palin and her ideas were in 2008 is something to discuss, as is just how much McCain really wanted to win, but after the bottom fell out of the economy no Republican could have won.
There was no magic Palin pill or bullet that would have pulled McCain over the top when people were worried about losing their jobs and savings and blamed the crisis on Bush.
Only “proof” I ever saw was the exit polls.
I think it is insanity to pick a candidate for PC reasons. I knew we were finished when McCain did that. Immediately. Everyone thought I was nuts. We’ll probably make the same mistake again.
I’ve been accused of not liking attractive women candidates. Wrong. I didn’t want Palin because she would drag the ticket down and I knew Wendy Long would lose too.
Look what the Maestro Bill Clinton did. He picked a white southern male. Twinsy. Against all received wisdom about balancing the ticket. And he was right, because it said to the voters “I’m so great you can have two of me.” The exact opposite of what the stoopid GOP is determined to do.
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