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Ted Cruz Is Beating Rand Paul in the Tea Party Primary
The Atlantic ^
| Apr 14 2014, 2:51 PM ET
| Molly Ball
Posted on 04/14/2014 5:58:04 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: Signalman
Ted Cruz will be the first Historic President since Reagan.
To: Cruz_West_Paul2016
Its time to coalesce around a candidate now.
TED CRUZ IS THE GUY TO GET THE JOB DONE.
The longer we wait to decide, the worse...TEA PARTY/Conservatives pick TED !
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posted on
04/14/2014 6:55:44 PM PDT
by
gwgn02
To: SoConPubbie
I haven’t settled on a candidate yet. I just want a good conservative this time. Ted Cruz is one of the ones on my short list. Rand Paul is not.
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posted on
04/14/2014 7:04:46 PM PDT
by
Engraved-on-His-hands
(Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
To: gwgn02
he is gonna rock the world come debate time! will make the rest seem like amateurs! (well,except Rand).
To: gwgn02
can anyone imagine Cruz debating Hillary? we wont stop laughing!
To: Ditter
“Go and read the comments to this piece ...... or dont if you dont want to get depressed.”
Not depressed. Only leftists read the Atlantic. That comment section is akin to going to a dinner party on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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posted on
04/14/2014 7:10:00 PM PDT
by
BlueStateRightist
(Government is best which governs least.)
To: SoConPubbie
It is CRITICAL that we have a decent (or excellent) candidate this next election year.
Mitt was not enough to spare us from four more years of misery.
Please let's make sure we have a candidate who can win next time.
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posted on
04/14/2014 7:28:04 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Run Ted Run)
To: SoConPubbie
Rand Paul is palling around with McConnell here lately. What does that tell you?
To: Cruz_West_Paul2016
The doormat won’t debate.
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posted on
04/14/2014 8:02:47 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
To: SoConPubbie
Cruz is very hard for any candidate to deal with, he knows what he believes and why he believs it, he could care less about pandering to any person or groups, what you see is what you get, Cruz is a leader that knows how to inspire people and gain their
Trust, Confidence and Loyalty in order to restore and maintain a
Free Republic. IMO!
Cruz 2016!
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posted on
04/14/2014 8:19:37 PM PDT
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: SoConPubbie
Not to mention that Rand is turning to to be Ron Paul. He has shifted his views considerably over the past year. He is dangerously close to the leftists on too many issues and wants to declare that the values leg of the 3 legged stool is not necessary in the platform. He could not be more wrong. Values are what made America itself, apart from the valueless countries it was in competition with. Judeo-Christian values that set the love of God and loving your neighbor as yourself in high regard. Shoot, if we ALL lived like that, we would have no crime, but now the elites and the libertarians say we don’t need values to win. Well, play that game and you will see that the outcome will not be pretty. And it will be over for the GOP forever, as no one will ever trust them to actually be conservative ever again.
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posted on
04/14/2014 9:27:32 PM PDT
by
Shery
(in APO Land)
To: SoConPubbie
Cruz is the man IMO......Paul is just another one in the dynasty lines they keep putting out there "For" us to vote for. Just like this guy....
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posted on
04/14/2014 9:29:38 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Shery
Not to mention that Rand is turning to to be Ron Paul. He has shifted his views considerably over the past year. He is dangerously close to the leftists on too many issues and wants to declare that the values leg of the 3 legged stool is not necessary in the platform. He could not be more wrong. Values are what made America itself, apart from the valueless countries it was in competition with. Judeo-Christian values that set the love of God and loving your neighbor as yourself in high regard. Shoot, if we ALL lived like that, we would have no crime, but now the elites and the libertarians say we dont need values to win. Well, play that game and you will see that the outcome will not be pretty. And it will be over for the GOP forever, as no one will ever trust them to actually be conservative ever again.
Amen!
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posted on
04/14/2014 9:29:42 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: PoloSec
Cruz is very hard for any candidate to deal with, he knows what he believes and why he believs it, he could care less about pandering to any person or groups, what you see is what you get, Cruz is a leader that knows how to inspire people and gain their Trust, Confidence and Loyalty in order to restore and maintain a Free Republic. IMO!
Hear! Hear!
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posted on
04/14/2014 9:31:25 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: Cruz_West_Paul2016
Hillary won't run...too tired and too old....even another face lift isn't going to help...she's done IMO. ... They may make it look like she's running, but she'll bow out. I'm more interested to see who will be running against her...they will be my slam target.
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posted on
04/14/2014 9:39:59 PM PDT
by
caww
To: SoConPubbie
Cruz will not run. He knows that he is ineligible to the office of president or vice president.
I like CANADA, been there many times. I drink Canadian beer. I want my president to be born in AMERICA, not CANADA!
It’s bad enough that we allowed someone born in Kenya to become president, but we can’t continue to bastardize the office of president by allowing ineligible people to continue to occupy that office. Even when they are good guys and we agree with them on issues.
Primary opponents will make it an issue, Democrats will make it an issue. It will be a HUGH distraction.
Is it not fundamental that the president be born in the U.S.A.? Even low information voters will understand that the president needs to be born here.
Ted Cruz is a great American. I love the guy, he’s just not eligible. I wish he was.
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posted on
04/14/2014 9:55:30 PM PDT
by
faucetman
( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: faucetman
Regardless of how this issue is viewed in the "NBC" fever swamps - in the real world, Cruz was born a U.S. citizen and is eligible to be President.
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posted on
04/14/2014 10:08:13 PM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
(Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
To: SoConPubbie
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posted on
04/14/2014 10:14:39 PM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: SoConPubbie
Saturday's Freedom Summit, billed as an early audition for potential 2016 candidates, provided a rare opportunity for right-wing activists to directly compare the Texan and the Kentuckian. The senators spoke practically back to back, and the crowd clearly loved them both. But Cruz's theatrical delivery wowed them more than Paul's comparatively cerebral appeal, and his rhetorical focus on conservative red meat found more favor than Paul's detours into libertarian concerns."I like Rand Paul, I agree with a lot of what he says, but as far as charismatic leadership, I've got to go with Ted Cruz," Robin Parkhurst, a state-government worker from Newbury, New Hampshire, said
This is written by a Democrat with the usual spin, code words and memes. The audience is 'right wing'. Cruz is 'theatrical', delivering 'red meat'. Squishy conservative Paul is 'cerebral', compared to that Neanderthal Cruz who is 'charismatic'. The author outs the state worker as a Cruz supporter, noting exactly where she works. I wonder how long her government job will last?
To: caww
well,worst case scenario,she will either hire a “Deaf Interpreter”,or a “Progressive Ventriloquist Dummy” to take her place.
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