Posted on 04/04/2015 11:25:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservative columnist George Will says that Sen. Ted Cruz’s theory for running for the White House — that he can get “more votes from traditional Republican constituencies” — was “slain” by the outcome of the 1964 presidential race and simply doesn’t add up.
“The 1964 theory was that many millions of conservatives abstained from voting because the GOP did not nominate sufficiently deep-dyed conservatives,” Mr. Will wrote this week in The Washington Post. “So if in 1964 the party would choose someone like Arizona Barry Goldwater, hitherto dormant conservatives would join the electorate in numbers sufficient for victory.”
Mr. Will said the theory was “slain by a fact — actually 15,951,378 facts.”
“That was the difference between 43,129,566 votes President Lyndon Johnson received and the 27,178,188 that Goldwater got on the way to winning six states,” he said.
Mr. Cruz, Texas Republican, announced his candidacy last week at Liberty University, which bills itself as the world’s largest Christian university.
On Thursday, the Cruz camp issued a press release touting how it has raised $4 million in the eight days since the announcement....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
HEY WILLARD GEORGIE ? YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT OPINONS ?
WELL YOUR’S STINK TO HIGH HEAVENS !
YEAH WILLARD GEORGIE !
I CHALLENGE YOU TO COME HERE TO DEBATE US PEASANTS !
He’s been in Washington far to long to where he’s been sniffing the political crap from the waste managememt system near the Naval yard in Washington.
CRUZING TO THE RIGHT.
UNITED WE STAND
UNI-TED WE CRUZ
UNITED WE WIN
Teflon Ted
POLORIZING HILLARY POLARIZING CLINTON POLARIZING HILLARY POLARIZING CLINTON POLARIZKNG HILLARY POLARIZING CLINTON POLORIZING HILLARY POLORIZING CLINTON POLORIZING HILLARY POLARIZING JEZEBEL POLARIZING BEYATCH !
Daisy ad took out Goldwater...my mother was conservative, and that ad by itself nearly kept her from the polls. (She wasn’t voting for LBJ, that’s for damn sure.)
Any candidate who tries to run from only one wing, left or right, while ignoring the center is a sure loser. Cruz has the right tied up. He has to convince the middle that his policies are best for the country or he will go the way of Goldwater.
Please!
Next you’ll be telling me, we should have REAL debates (ALL parties on the ballot, instead of the 2 party cartel; more than 30sec. sound-bites) and actual VOTING (you know, held on the SAME day to keep fraud/pandering to a minimum; non of this 30-day pre-voting and staggered crap)
I know you’re a real nut-job when you start pushing for ‘if you can’t pull the lever, you can’t donate /s
If I read you correctly Cruz has the benefit/advantage of knowing the history of Goldwater and Reagan. I also believe Cruz has the moxie to take on the powers that denied Goldwater a fair and open venue for his ideas at the time. I will be following/listening very closely as this conflict plays out.
Mr. Will, a story from Mr. Cruz’s birth homeland....
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Alberta when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?”
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, Why not?”
Mr. Yuppie parks his car, whips out his MacBook Air computer, connects it to his iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo using iPhoto and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his iPhone that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his iPhone and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized Canon LaserJet printer. Mr. Yuppie turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?” The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a Member of Parliament for the Canadian Government”, says Bud.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says Mr. yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ...
Now give me back my dog.
Teflon Ted>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Exactly. Lets make it so.
Clearly, the support for a staunch limited-government candidate is there, no matter what Mr George Will says happened 50 years ago. All that really remains to be seen is if the 5 "TEA" candidates will split their votes more than the 3 GOPe candidates do... and we have over a year to watch that unfold. Declaring anyone with over 7 percent of the GOP vote right now as "not having a serious chance of winning" this early in the game says more about the speaker than the candidates.
Well, I suppose we will just have to wait and see.
But it is really not so much about the history of what happened half a century ago. Rather, it is about the fact that swing voters (i.e. independents) typically decide presidential elections; and they are much more likely to vote for the candidate that they perceive as being more centrist.
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