Ted Cruz Ping! If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!
CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 07/31/2015 4:24:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is a very smart accomplished guy. That does not mean he will ever be elected president, the office he currently seeks. His views are well to the right of most Americans, and that includes Republicans. Cruz also has a penchant for losing the filter that exists between his very capable brain and his mouth. Slamming one of your party’s leaders on the Senate floor isn’t normally a good idea.
In national polls, Cruz gets about 5 percent of the Republican vote. Among the early voting states, he does a little better in Iowa and South Carolina and a little worse in New Hampshire.
So why is Cruz, who’s still in his first term as a senator, a more viable candidate than, say, John Kasich, who is in his second term as governor of Ohio after spending 18 years as a Congressman? Kasich may end up being a contender, but as of right now he’s polling behind Cruz. Why is that? Part of it has to do with charisma, which Cruz has in abundance. Part of it has to with the fact that primary voters tend to be more conservative, which plays to Cruz’s strengths. But a big reason, like a really big reason, is that Cruz has someone to bankroll him.
Cruz has a super-PAC that received $10 million from one individual. All told the super-PAC has raised tens of millions of dollars, which covers a lot of staff and eventually commercials. Since it’s a super-PAC, Cruz has neither control over it nor contact with it.
Cruz is not the first candidate to have such an arrangement. He’s not the only candidate in this election with such an arrangement. In 2012, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were basically able to stay afloat in their challenges to Mitt Romney because of this arrangement, which is a direct result of the Citizens United case decided by the Supreme Court in 2010.
It means that if someone is so inclined they can anonymously collect and donate as much money as they wish in support of a political candidate. They can run commercials in support of their candidate or against the opponent. The only caveat is that they don’t coordinate with the candidate. It’s the reason why we get elections based more on how much money was spent than on ideas put forth.
I take him as seriously as I possibly can—and donate money, also.
Maybe it’s not a smart idea but it’s the right idea. How many great Americans have gone the right way as opposed to the smart way? Cruz has gambled his career and his reputation to stand firm against the monsters who control Washington. He deserves kudos, not blame.
Ted Cruz Ping! Its still way early.
You don’t win in the first 10 laps of the Daytona 500.
I am wondering about this myself.
His message is the similar to Trump’s, but his delivery is so reasoned that it may fly over many heads. To the extreme, he may be seen more as the thinking man’s conservative, despite the fact that he has demonstrated leadership.
Cruz is busy getting rid of ‘leadership’. He’ll get back into campaign mode when that’s done.
His views are well to the right of most Americans, and that includes Republicans.
Shaun, keep telling yourself this fallacy. I look forward to your head exploding on Jan 17, 2017.
“You don’t win in the first 10 laps of the Daytona 500.”
Unless you lap the field during that time. IF Mr Cruz doesn’t watch out Donald Trump may do that.
I like Cruz better that Trump but Trump is leading the pack 6 to 8 car lengths right now
When is the last time the guy leading this early won?
And the first debate is the “Competition Caution” which takes that entire advantage away.
Slamming TRAITORS IS!
“politics” per se’ or does that include office politics?
“When is the last time the guy leading this early won?”
Jimmy Carter?
Seems like he sort of came out of no where and stayed in front
Telling the truth = Slamming one of your party’s leaders on the Senate floor. Makes sense to me. Not.
For all the reasons in this world, I wish my husband were here to discuss this with him. Like many of you know, he was an acclaimed medical doctor with a 40 year practice in psychiatry, who had such insight into people and into so many subjects.
Left on my own, I have given hundreds of hours of thought to your question dearest 2ndDivisionVet and in my less than stellar thinking all I've been able to come up with is that Ted Cruz is so much more brilliant than almost all of the US populace, that he tries to hide it by not speaking with passion.
He speaks in a measured manner. He never lectures or gets enthusiastic. Like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz doesn't need notes or a teleprompter, but unlike Trump, Cruz rattles off names, dates, numbers, facts, history etc. with absolute accuracy on any and every subject!
I could most certainly be wrong, but he comes across to me that he doesn't want to be accused of being "too smart," or of being "the smartest in the room," which is truly *is*!
He's shy. He's extremely polite, and perhaps to a fault.
I stand with Ted.
NOW is the time for all good conservatives to come to the aid of your candidate
At that time the dims could have run anyone and won
SO you think Wimpy Mtch lying to every republican in the senate is something that should just go by unmentioned????
You may be part of the problem
I stand with humble God fearing Ted at his %5.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.