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Ted Cruz Has Zero Chance of Winning
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Ring of Fire ^ | March 26, 2015 | Justin Lane

Posted on 03/26/2015 3:14:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

“To me, he’s just a guy with a big mouth and no results…”

By now, you’ve heard that Ted Cruz thinks he’s running for president in 2016. Ted Cruz’s entire political career has been marked by opposing progress. He has no significant legislative or leadership record to speak of. But let’s be clear: Ted Cruz is not a serious candidate. He is not a serious politician.

He is a serious pain in the ass.

His own party rejects him, and that rejection highlights the schism inside the Republican party. In an interview with CNN, Rep. Peter King said that Senator Cruz is just a “big mouth” who has “basically led the Republican Party of the cliff.”

“To me, he’s just a guy with a big mouth and no results,” King said.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Cruz is kidding himself, playing out the fantasy of his ridiculous supporters.

Cruz appeals to a far-right moral conservative base that others in the party tend to be more distanced from. He is more akin to Dr. Ben Carson in the reasons for his political rise. Neither Carson nor Cruz is a legitimate potential contender though.

Both lack the political power to rally the social conservative base of the Republican party in a serious way. He’s virtually hated by the party at large. What Cruz is banking on is that the fundamentalist branch of the GOP will be strong enough to win out against the moderates of the party.

It won’t be. He will lose.

Beyond this, his positions are pathetic. Take healthcare as an example: Ted Cruz wants to repeal Obamacare and replace is with nothing. That’s an irresponsible tactic that fits perfectly with Ted Cruz as a congressional politician who would rather make philosophical grandstands than pass meaningful legislation. As a potential president, his position is wholly unacceptable.

It becomes clear that Cruz will stop at nothing to drive his esoteric positions home. He is willing to divide and ransack his own political party to gain headlines. As a president, he would almost certainly be willing to rip apart this nation to garner himself more attention.

While it may be getting him attention from fundamentalist extremist conservatives, it won’t play well on the national stage with voters.

Ted Cruz is kidding himself and playing out the fantasy of his ridiculous supporters. Ted Cruz will lose.


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: christions; peterking; socons; tedcruz
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All they have is Peter "IRA" King and calling names? Is every Cruz supporter and those looking at him seriously a fundamentalist? How was the GOP "led over the cliff" when they won the biggest number of seats in almost 100 years? Did Justin not see the articles about the explosion on fund-raising and the 30% of former Rand Paul/Ron Paul supporters who have hit Cruz control? Not to mention former adherents of other candidates.

Heidi needs to grab the girls and head to some drapery stores. LOL

1 posted on 03/26/2015 3:14:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somebody’s havin’ a case of the Muuuundays...


2 posted on 03/26/2015 3:16:14 PM PDT by sayfer bullets (“I didn’t leave the [---] party, the [---] party left me.” - Ronald Reagan)
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He is a serious pain in the ass.

There is more coming - get some!

3 posted on 03/26/2015 3:17:13 PM PDT by corkoman
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If the left truly believed that Cruz could not win, all the newspapers and tv stations would be singing praises about him right now.


4 posted on 03/26/2015 3:17:14 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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One thing though is sort of sobering....

if Cruz does win...what’s next? Civil war?

The hatred towards him is extraordinary.


5 posted on 03/26/2015 3:17:24 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hah, the “not qualified” train left when they nominated and go Obama elected.


6 posted on 03/26/2015 3:17:47 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These people sure spend an awful lot of time writing about someone who has no chance.


7 posted on 03/26/2015 3:17:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Same thing “they” said about Reagan in 1979.


8 posted on 03/26/2015 3:18:12 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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To: ConservativeDude

Don’t tease me.


9 posted on 03/26/2015 3:18:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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Somebody write that down.


10 posted on 03/26/2015 3:18:43 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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Holy mackerel, they’re scared. I had no idea. I’m as of this moment all in with Ted.


11 posted on 03/26/2015 3:18:46 PM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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Today I was at the food court at the mall I had a toothpick and began to use it I felt kinda embarrassed and thought I was being a little rude to do that at the table.

Then I thought of everything the GOP is advocating today. ... and I picked and felt no more shame. That’s why I’m voting for Cruz.


12 posted on 03/26/2015 3:18:46 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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They can’t get anywhere calling him stupid.

They are trying to call him self absorbed and egotistic. I don’t see it. I don’t think they can get him on that.


13 posted on 03/26/2015 3:20:06 PM PDT by Yaelle
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Glad to hear the heroin addict weighing in. I think it was particularly fitting that a murdering Kennedy...Skakel,drove the shaft of an expensive golf club through the neck of a young girl that the had the hots for...had a heroin addict Kennedy (RFK Jr) appear in court as a character witness at his sentencing.
14 posted on 03/26/2015 3:21:46 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The people are sick of Kennedys, Clintons and Bushes in politics.

Ignore the braying donkeys. Cruz is a good man.


15 posted on 03/26/2015 3:22:08 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Walker/Cruz 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Ted Cruz’s entire political career has been marked by opposing progress.”

When you’re on a bus barreling toward a cliff, slamming on the brakes is the right idea, even if the passengers are annoyed by you “opposing progress” toward their destination.


16 posted on 03/26/2015 3:22:36 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let them underestimate him. It’s all good.


17 posted on 03/26/2015 3:22:40 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Gluteus Maximus
Next Monday he'll get another personal $100 that I can't really spare. I once sent just about a whole month's net Army pay (around $460) to then former Governor Reagan in 1980 and it's deja vu all over again.
18 posted on 03/26/2015 3:22:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I remember, zero was nothing until Hilary f’d up at the beginning of the primaries and the press jumped on him.


19 posted on 03/26/2015 3:22:57 PM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL! Is this a serious article/website?

When you’re getting ridiculous flak like this, you are definitely over the target ;-)

JT


20 posted on 03/26/2015 3:23:20 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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