Posted on 01/04/2015 9:34:15 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Hill reports:
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will headline the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention this month, joining a pair of other potential presidential candidate[s] also weighing bids to enter the 2016 field. . . . The roster of speakers also includes former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who ran for president in 2012, and Ben Carson, the Tea Party favorite and former neurosurgeon who’s debating entering the fray.
It’s not uncommon for Cruz to play to this sort of crowd. He is a favorite among the most conservative members of the GOP, where he doles out one-liners (Abolish the IRS!) and is never compelled to provide actual solutions to nettlesome problems like health care, defense spending and tax reform. But therein lies his problem: He has become so identified with an ideologically extreme and politically impractical brand of conservatism that he has put off just about everyone else who may vote in the GOP primaries....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Innuendo rules.
Just noticed who the writer is............YAWN..........moving on!
provide actual solutions to nettlesome problems like health care,....What WAS the problem with our hospitals and doctors? Everybody got treated for free.
Ted is living rent free in her head.
In other words, he COULD have become a RINO squish like the rest of the GOPe. Instead, he is doing the exact things we Texans want him to do which is why those very same Texans handed him a blow-the-doors-off win.
No thanks Mrzz. Rubin, Jeb Bush is not right for this country (yeah, I checked your articles) any more than you offer a conservative perspective at WP.
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“It’s not uncommon for Cruz to play to this sort of crowd. He is a favorite among the most conservative members of the GOP, where he doles out one-liners (Abolish the IRS!) and is never compelled to provide actual solutions to nettlesome problems like health care, defense spending and tax reform. “
Dear Jennifer, why don’t you ask Ted to provide you with solutions? I bet if you sit down with him he could spend the better part of a week giving you solutions. Stop echoing the liberal mantra and do your job?
He has become so identified with an ideologically extreme and politically impractical ???
I never heard the grass roots referred to as “extreme” and “impractical”, to who and for whom ?
I noticed the left turn signal was on for this “right turn” article....LMAO, because DC still doesn’t get it. When a half a million people turn up for a Tea Part in DC, followed by a wave that washes the DC houses clean of old leadership, and you still think Cruz is extreme ?
Cool, the RINO’s in DC didn’t get the message, like the Dems they won’t know what hit ‘em in the 2016 primaries.
Just saying.
Elect Ted Cruz, but Ted Cruz, come out strongly for returning American jobs to America.
We need to stop building up China, and return jobs here to America.
Blah blah blah!
Thanks Jennifer, now buzz off.
When was she elected Queen?
“He has become so identified with an ideologically extreme and politically impractical brand of conservatism that he has put off just about everyone else who may vote in the GOP primaries.”
So was Reagan. I SPECIFICALLY remember that...he was considered so “reactionary” that there was “no way” he could win the general election...that was the main objection to him, not really what he stood for.
And then I’m in college and a college-aged girl (who otherwise never talked politics) says to me: “I like Reagan because he won’t let this country get pushed around”. I knew right then that the rest would be history.
It is UP TO CRUZ to present himself properly. If he can, he wins, if not he loses. At this point NOTHING MATTERS because the election is not today. Reagan was likely 50 to 1 longshot in 1979 because the media had, effectively, painted him as a total EXTREMIST.
But what people don’t understand, or are unwilling to understand (or won’t acknowledge) - once you are painted as an “extremist” the ONLY WAY to go from there is UP. Reagan was able to say that his first appointee to the Supreme Court would be a woman...and yet he still KEPT HIS BASE LOCKED DOWN.
As we saw in 2008, a “moderate” cannot do this, because a “moderate” is always fighting to win the base over in the first place. In 2008 McCain, despite being the PERFECT MODERATE, obviously had polling that showed he would get TROUNCED by Obama, simply because the base had no interest in turning out - so he was FORCED to run with Palin (someone he disagreed with on about everything, and likely hated too). Once that happened, the media could paint him as extreme and make sure that he didn’t win - while much of the base stayed home anyway, because of the top of the ticket.
So look at the difference: Reagan can move from Right to Center (significantly), bring in a new batch of voters, and yet STILL hold his base. McCain is forced to move from Center to Right, allowing the media to paint him as an extremist (thereby pushing much of the squishy center to Obama) and for that he only picks up a small amount of support from the base.
That is now politics works here and also for the Democrats. Obama never campaigned as a left-wing radical because HE DIDN’T HAVE TO. He had his based locked-down, and thus could effectively campaign more in the center...so all the talk about “racial harmony” and fixing this country, etc. got him a LOT of votes from the squishy center.
So let’s not get fooled. Yes, Cruz can blow it, by sounding like a right-wing zealot AFTER getting the Republican nomination, but he’s also VERY SMART, and more importantly, he DOES NOT NEED TO MOVE RIGHT, as he’s already got his base locked down.
(hmmm, this posting is so good, I think I also need to do it stand-alone)
She is paid to write hit pieces about Cruz apparently.
The left is very afraid of Ted Cruz apparently
I’m sure Jennifer was wearing her Bush for President t-shirt when she was typing this drivel on her computer. We get it Establishment Lady you and the rest of the GOPe are trying to stop Ted Cruz. Well, we’ll see about that.
That is her job!
There was never any chance that the token “conservative” of the MSM would ever be an actual conservative.
I think Hillary is more her type
She’s a liberal Jewish girl. We’re never going to see her moose hunting with Sarah Palin or writing kinds words about ANY conservative.
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