Cruz to the Front

Townhall.com ^ | March 27, 2015 | Erick Erickson

[kingattax]

Cruz would win by default as the only declared candidate..ridiculous.

the writer proves once again that humor should be left to professionals.

keep scaring the hell out of em, Ted !

[subterfuge]

Cruz or Lose!

[LibFreeUSA]

-"Many Republicans still think it was a mistake to make a one-term senator from Illinois the president of the United States."

If any Republicans actually espouse this BS (which is so FLAT OUT STUPID), then I presume that they are EXTREMELY HAPPY that a '3 TERM GOV' got elected TWICE!!!! (1992, and 1996).

[rovenstinez]

He has picked up my endorsement. I’m in.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Did you stop reading? It’s generally a pro Cruz article....not an endorsement, but not negative by any means.

Tho I do agree that lead was weak.

[NorthMountain]

Many Republicans still think it was a mistake to make a one-term senator from Illinois the president of the United States.

I'm a Republican only by voter registration ...

but I don't think it was a mistake to elect a one-term Senator.

I think it was a mistake to elect a dishonest communist moslem who grew up in the third world, hates America, has never done anything useful with his life, and is determined to destroy this Great Republic from within.

It has nothing to do with (lack of) "experience".

[Maceman]

Many Republicans still think it was a mistake to make a one-term senator from Illinois the president of the United States.

Well I agree that it was a mistake to make a one-term senator from Illinois the president of the United States -- one who is:

* an America-hating, narcissistic megalomaniacal tyrant with delusions of Godhood and a severe case of attention deficit disorder;

* who has never known or spent five minutes in his life talking to anyone who wasn't an America-hating totalitarian leftist or a member of the Muslim Brotherhood;

* who prior to his election had never run anything, or had a job, or an actual pre-presidential accomplishment in his entire life;

* who lost his law license under mysterious circumstances that have never been explained;

* about whose background America knew and still knows practically nothing;

* who is completely ignorant about American history and values;

* who is a lying psychopath that sympathizes with Muslim terrorists in general and the Iranian mullahs in particular.

Obama's (and America's) problem isn't that he only had one term in the Senate.

To compare Ted Cruz's qualifications for the presidency with Obama's is preposterous.

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

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Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

CRUZ or LOSE!

CRUZ or LOSE!

[jacknhoo]

TED CRUZ 2016!

[Kaslin]

BTTT

[Maceman]

Let's compare Cruz's actual experience with Obama's: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416074/ted-cruz-bush-years-jim-geraghty

[Impy]

Were the election for president held today, Ted Cruz would be president of the United States. It would not be by virtue of his polling, his positions or his charisma. Cruz just happens to be the only officially declared major party candidate for president. That will soon change.

This paragraph is just stupid.

[The Toll]

I wonder if this “one-term” Senator’s Wife has ever been proud of her country before?

[DaveA37]

“.........there are two parties in Washington, the stupid party and the evil party”.......

That pretty well sums it up but WHY does this theory have to have fallen all on ONE party like the Republicans?

[painter]

Everett Dirksen, the Senate Republican Leader in the 60s, is often cited as coming up with the saying that there are two parties in Washington, the stupid party and the evil party. Every once in a while the stupid party and evil party get together and do something that is both stupid and evil. The press then heralds it as a bipartisan accomplishment.

That is a profound statement!, and true.

[Kenny Bunk]

Question # 1.

Can Cruz win?

Question # 2.

The real question is, "Has the country gotten into enough government trouble for a Cruz to convince enough people to vote for him." When Reagan ran, the answer was clear. The 'Reagan Democrats' supported him in their millions.

Question # 3.

But 50 years later, there's another question. "Given the vast demographic change of the voting population, are there enough people around who can recognize how bad things have gotten under Obama?" Many new Democrat voters simply do not know better. They do not remember the difference between Carter and Reagan. They weren't here. Many cannot figure out how they would even live without government subsidy.

So maybe the answer to #1 is, "Yes. Cruz can win if there are enough voting people still around who are smart enough to become 'Cruz Democrats.'

[Kaslin]

I bet you that she has and still is

[SoConPubbie]

So maybe the answer to #1 is, "Yes. Cruz can win if there are enough voting people still around who are smart enough to become 'Cruz Democrats.'

At least half of the electorate do not vote in Presidential elections.

A goodly portion, at least half, if not significantly more, are people fed up with the GOP and who would never vote Democrat.

Add to this that the Democrats won't have a Barack Obama to bring out the young in 2016 and Hillary won't be doing it and you have a perfect storm for a true-blue, principled conservative like Ted Cruz to pull a Reagan all over again.

[Kenny Bunk]

...... Democrats won't have a Barack Obama to bring out the young in 2016 and Hillary won't be doing it and you have a perfect storm for a true-blue, principled conservative like Ted Cruz to pull a Reagan all over again.

From thine lips to the RNC financiers' ears!

In the back of my so-called "mind," I have the paranoid suspicion that the Democrats are going to do a "gimme" for 2016, and run a placeholding loser team. I'm only half-kidding when I say it's going to be Joey Plugs and La Moochelle. It's a punt for field position in 2018, 2020 and probably the rest of the Latin American Century!

The Democrats are reliving FDR and want full credit for pulling us out of this Depression, which they can blame on the Republicans.