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Ted Talks In New Hampshire: Can Ted Cruz Cajole His Way Into 2016 Contention?
The Huffington Post ^ | March 29, 2015 | Scott Conroy

Posted on 03/29/2015 5:41:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Steely Tom

Unfortunately for them, Cruz knows about them and he is not going to try to go after them, please them. He is not going for a hundred percent nor even the moderates.

His supporters won’t care about any painted rocks


21 posted on 03/29/2015 6:20:14 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Steely Tom

the utter hypocrisy of the media has begun and will continue to reach ‘HISTORIC’ proportions as they start to pound on Cruz, after “0” and the media allowed to the bar to be set so low that you shouldn’t even be able to trip over it anymore.


22 posted on 03/29/2015 6:24:55 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: LibFreeUSA

You forget that in MSM-land, the bar can be in two positions at the same time, one position for liberals, and another position for conservatives.

This is just simple logic. Mathematics.


23 posted on 03/29/2015 6:27:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t have time to collate it right now, but the same poll from CBS that had Cruz in 8th place last week with his negatives as high as his positives now has him in 5th place on positives with more importantly his negatives cut in half:

Would you vote for Ted Cruz: yes 37%, no 22%.

That’s a poll of republicans.

And. This poll was taken during his announcement.

This is the same poll that Rove was white boarding about Cruz last week.


24 posted on 03/29/2015 6:31:56 PM PDT by ziravan (Choose Sides.)
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25 posted on 03/29/2015 6:46:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The headline is completely ridiculous. He doesn’t have to “cajole” himself into contention, he’s already a major contender. Of course the media can’t bring itself to admit that.


26 posted on 03/29/2015 6:50:04 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: cdcdawg

Based solely on the title...

Why is Cruz cajoling? Can he not make a reasoned argument and see if the voters agree with him? Look at Killary Klintoon, she has a screechy, hectoring, nastiness to her voice. And she cajoles, hectors, and bitches the stupid to vote vagina, just like Obastard cajoled them to vote black. And the next one will be for them to cajole for some faggot or dyke.

Cruz isn’t going to shame me or you into voting for him, he’s going to have to convince us that voting FOR him is a worthwhile endeavor. And then the general public to vote FOR him in the general election if he is the nominee. Which 10 months out from the first primary, is a pretty big IF. 18 months is a long time, and things change in a heartbeat just ask Howard Dean.


27 posted on 03/29/2015 6:53:39 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: cdcdawg

Amen !


28 posted on 03/29/2015 7:04:28 PM PDT by jlindseyx42 (Namaste)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
they are very very afraid of Ted!!!


29 posted on 03/29/2015 7:17:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Ladysforest

I think you’re in for a treat. : )


30 posted on 03/29/2015 7:20:14 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Cajole?”

That’s sexist. That word can not be used against Ted. /s

Hillary has her words. We have ours.


31 posted on 03/29/2015 7:25:44 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Better a head set mic than lugging a teleprompter to every rally.

TED CRUZ 2016
The 2nd Great Communicator
http://www.tedcruz.org/


32 posted on 03/29/2015 7:32:50 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Sasparilla

Yessirree...the liberals are twisting themselves in a pretzel over senator Cruz......read sample comments in HuffPo following this article:


Allen Atkinson · Top Commenter
I don’t know what is more entertaining...Cruz’s nutty antics or these fawning articles written about him. This man will never be on a national ballot for president, and will probably be a one-term senator. How anyone can take him seriously is beyond me.

Ed Botsko · Top Commenter · Ambridge Area High School
The difference is President Obama and Senator Clinton are competent, caring folks... Calgary Cruz is a destroyer...

Raymond Ledoux · Top Commenter · SMCC
how can we take ANY republican leader seriously ? their all friggin’ nuts.

David Worthington · Top Commenter · Photon herder at David Worthington Photography
Fox news, tea bagism and gerrymandering are pretty thick here in Texas. Wish I could agree on the one term Senator thing.

Nick Vanocur · Author of “From the Desk of NickiLeaks” at Political Humor Columnist, “From the Desk of NickiLeaks”
There once was a man named Cruz
Whose goal was to get in the news
But we grew suspicious
That he was just vicious
And not what the US could use

Frank Brownell · Top Commenter · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Showman? Con man is more like it....

Michael Rinella · Top Commenter · Senior Acquisitions Editor at State University of New York Press
Cruz is pretty much everything that is wrong with the politics of the Empire in one unappealing package: an ideologue, with no ideas, no concern for the American worker, and the same delusions of unipolar swagger internationally. His candidacy will be cooked with single digit polling faster than than you can say “Texas BBQ” lol.

Steve F Brown · Top Commenter · Owner at Self-Employed
Has anyone informed Ted that you need 67 votes in the senate in order to repeal a law?

Raymond Ledoux · Top Commenter · SMCC
,,,the republicans are a bunch of freakin’ sick cartoon characters, not one of them fit for “dog catcher” even in my little home town. I feel a Democrat landslide win coming on, thank God.

Amalek the Goat Herder
Promise to nuke Iran and give him a pardon, and Sheldon Adelson will give him a billion dollars.

Chris Ward · Top Commenter · El Paso, Texas
He isn’t one of us. Note only 28 percent of eligible voting Texans participated in that election and he didn’t garner all of us by a long shot.

Karey Smith · Top Commenter
“The former college debate national champion...” I stop reading or listening to anyone who can preface a statement with this with a straight face. Our current president graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, was president of it’s Law Review and lectured for several years on the Constitution at one of our best universities, but that has never been good enough to concede Barack Obama is a smart man. Now, only a few years later, Cruz winning a debating championship and taking a class at Harvard on the constitution gives him near angelic levels of smartness. I’m not sure if its the American press’s role in dumbing down America that ticks me off more, or the pervasive double standard when it comes to covering Democrats and Republicans.

Ann Treadway · Top Commenter
Come on! He might appeal to Texas————but he’ll never get by with his preachy way on the international Stage! People see this Fake coming a mile away! An he’s given the Democrat’s a lot of JUNK for their Campaign Ad’s if he nominated to run for the GOP an a lot of it so embarrassing that the GOP would be hanging their head in shame, when the real campaign kicked off in ernest!

Stanley Bonk · Top Commenter · Works at Retired
“Ted Cruz knows how to give a speech” I’ll say! A speech that frightens children and anyone old enough to have lived through Joe McCarthy’s reign of terror.

Elizabeth Pengson · Top Commenter
no he knows how to give a speech for people of single digit IQ.. that’s about it.

Soma Somasoma · Top Commenter · Universtiay of Nevada
Ted Cruz is a great salesman. He got his fellow Republicans to hate Obamacare while he signed up for it. Republicans who follow the herd are stepping in sh.t.

Ed Botsko · Top Commenter · Ambridge Area High School
The answer is NO... Ted is a charlatan and a joke... The press is propping him up because it’s cheap, easy “journalism”... Ignore him for a week and he will disappear.

Henri Walker · Top Commenter · Programer Analyst at Government
Anyone that votes for this idiot is a fool.

Lee Olech · Top Commenter · Retired Principal Scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories
Texas is in the business of ensuring ignorance in its population. How else can a rank demagogue lie his way into political office?

Stephen McKay
Please... can we just agree that he’s an opportunistic traitor and put him behind bars? http://missingmistersmith.blogspot.com/2015/03/ted-cruz-for-president.html

Allen Karaniuk · Top Commenter
Ted Cruz’s Presidential aspirations will fail for the simple fact that Fox “News” will not support him. They will anoint Screw eyes Scott Walker and downplay the rest of the clown car posse.

Mary Lawrence
Punch your parents in the nose? After they have paid for your braces, tuition sacrificrd and scrimped so you might get a shot in life? Rafeal is absolutely without a clue.

Gary R. McClendon · Top Commenter · Production Electrician at Visable Energy Management Specialist
He is too smarmy, greased back hair, beady eyes. The gop voters always judge their books by their covers

Elizabeth Pengson · Top Commenter
he looks reptilian with a forked tongue

David Farrar · Top Commenter · UNCW
I am sorry to have to say this to my fellow Tea Party friends and neighbors, whose hopes and dreams for a better future were raised recently with the presidential announcement by and for Sen Ted Cruz, but this guy is playing us all for suckers. When you stop and consider Cruz’s excellent legal background, for this shyster to now suggest that just because he was fully naturalized at birth by statute, with no need to attend any further naturalization procedures at some later time,* as a person foreign-born of US citizen-parent(s), that somehow makes him an Art. II, §I, Cl. 5 natural born Citizen should shock the conscience of every honest, red-blooded American. Please save your money.This guy is going to get run out of town by his own petard long before the primary election.
* Source: THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW 3-11-2015 commentary

Amalek the Goat Herder
The fascist revival is underway. Wrap yourself in the flag and blame the other. It has worked to get dictators elected in the past. I hope and believe Americans are smarter than that.

I do expect he gets some help from Al Qaeda and ISIS. Terror attacks may scare the sense out of many people. And he is the perfect candidate for ISIS - the one most likely to play right into their hand.

Scott Biggerstaff · Top Commenter
Please quit calling Ted Cruz a national champion debater. The National Debate Tournament is the premier tournament since 1947. Ted won the first year of the North America Debating Championship which was held at McGill University in Canada in 1992. More like the “Arena League,” hardly a national event.

Shane Earl Cheung · Top Commenter
I doubt it if he will finish in the top 3. He will most likely finish anywhere between fourth and sixth. His actions as a Senator, undermined his own chances. He has shown he cannot be trusted and that he has not learned the art of compromising. He is too extreme.

Lynn Clark · Top Commenter · University of Nebraska at Omaha
Ted Cruz is a Ivy League elitist ... Harvard Law, National Debate Champion ... blah, blah, blah. We need fewer Ivy Leaguers and high achievers ... and more regular folk in Washington.

Douglas D. Troxel · Top Commenter · Holualoa, Hawaii
I intend to vote FOR him in the primary. He would be the easiest Repub to beat.
Reply · · 4 hours ago

Jeffrey Dziuban · Top Commenter
You would think that such a smart man would not need to lie so much.


33 posted on 03/29/2015 10:39:06 PM PDT by entropy12 (Real function of economists is to make astrologers look respectable.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Translation: It is our intent to cajole folks to not consider Cruz because he scares the crap out of us commie-oriented morons.


34 posted on 03/30/2015 4:11:10 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can Ted this, can Ted that, see Ted Run, run Ted run.

The media has gone hysterical about all the Can this Can that negativity.
And so are the GOP RINO's going bonkers. Their status quo campaigning is
being ripped out of the earth and thrown off the cliff.

The political status Quo is what America is sick of, including the disgusting
bold faced Lies, and I hate to say it 'From Both Sides".

35 posted on 03/30/2015 4:20:19 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: entropy12

“Read sample comments in Huffpo.”
The comments there always enlightening about what we are against with tge self proclaimed intellectuals there.
The consensus there after the November trouncing was about how stupid voters are.


36 posted on 03/30/2015 12:09:13 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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