Posted on 09/16/2014 1:40:13 PM PDT by C19fan
Mike Huckabee dropped his biggest hint to date yesterday that he might run for president in 2016. Should he run, his national name ID and his strong 2008 run probably doom any chance Rick Santorum has (Santorum’s 2012 vote largely overlapped with Huckabee’s 2008 backers). But it also throws a huge monkey wrench into any hopes Senator Ted Cruz has of winning the nomination.
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Cruz is Southern Baptist. Like me. Except I think he’s a little more committed to it than I am.
Why would anyone assume Ted Cruz is everybody's cup of tea?
Looking at who gets the Republican nomination every time, it doesn't look like Ted would be every primary voter's first choice.
We conservatives just hope that you vote like a Southern Baptist.
Outside of FR, I’ve never met a fellow Catholic or a Baptist who dislikes one another due to theology.
Both are Christian.
Our differences are slight in the scale of things.
Maybe mittens meant Perry... he was pretty adamant, though.. about not running and throwing support to someone else early on.
I responded to you. This thread was apolitical until you brought in his religion. Unlike you, I have no beef about anyone’s religion. I voted for Romney because I thought he’d at least love America and try to protect her - did you?
Thanks to people like you, I’m now wary of evangelicals and “Calvinists.” You have reaped what you have sown, buddy.
Yep, Cruz/West.
Very interesting - wish I had heard it. He and Perry really really didn’t like each other early on. I can’t remember how hard Perry did, or did not, campaign for him after that.
Not that Texas was ever in question....
It’s very true what you say - I have never met with prejudice (outside of childhood in a small town). It’s been shocking here at FR.
Yes, indeed, in the end, we are all Christians.
No Romney.
No Rubio.
No Paul.
You can say that again!
You SHOULD care about evangelicals because 6 months or so ago it was concluded that 40% of them *never* vote. Getting these guys off the sofa is the key to a landslide.
I should go find the threads I keep referencing as backup, but believe me, they’re here.
You really are spewing nonsense, the thread was apolitical until I pointed out that the writer was incorrect about Cruz having a problem with Evangelicals?
Then you launch from attacking Evangelicals and southern Baptists to defending Mormonism and Mitt Romney?
Then you cap off your bigoted rantings with “Calvinists”?
I am convinced that you drink during the day, this is just goofy stuff.
What we do know is that Evangelicals are our most pro-life, conservative voters, and Southern Baptists are the best voters of all for life and conservatism.
That is why the democrats are so eager to import voters from the Latin countries.
If he does, I haven’t seen any evidence of it. I like him, and his qualifications are outstanding:
“Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[32] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.[18] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[27] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[25]
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[2][7] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[33] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[33] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[34][35] Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[34]
Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,” draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”[31][36]
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree.[2][37] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[7] Referring to Cruz’s time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”[19][38][39][40][41][42] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[43]
Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.[43][44]”
Source: Wikipedia
Oh, now I REALLY like that.
So, you didn’t vote for Romney. What a surprise! Thanks for helping to destroy America.
I know he’s a decent man. Look at him sticking up for Jews in the Mideast!
What we also know is Cruz has natural appeal for Americans of hispanic descent who would vote for him with zeal.
So the inverse is true: Cruz is Huckster’s worst nightmare.
Absolutely. I would love for him to be the nominee. He’s brilliant, brave and patriotic.
I’ve read that about evangelicals. I could never be like that. I vote for the most conservative in primaries and then the Republican in the general. I’ve hated doing that but, in the end, I don’t regret it. I think Romney would have been much better than the monster we have now. I could be wrong (despite his awful healthcare plan!) but I doubt it. We must bend with the wind or we’ll break.
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