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Can Ted Cruz's hawkish populism actually win? ("There isn't really a natural Cruz constituency")
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| April 30, 2015
| Zack Beauchamp
Posted on 04/30/2015 1:59:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
As my great-grandfather Horatio Vernon Salter Storrs III used to say, when they attack like rabid, meth-addled homo tranny lobotomized epinephrine-tweaked chipmunks, you know you got a winner.
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posted on
04/30/2015 2:24:51 PM PDT
by
golux
To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; ...
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!
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posted on
04/30/2015 2:25:45 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: reasonisfaith
How likely is that to happen in the Middle East?
Especially given all the sectarianism and factionalism?
How good is our government at finding the right leadership and putting it into place?
How good are those foreign leaders at keeping the peace between factions? Or staying honest?
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posted on
04/30/2015 2:26:18 PM PDT
by
x
To: x
My comment was not clearly stated. What I meant was the right U.S. leadership.
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posted on
04/30/2015 2:41:26 PM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Cruz’s strategy is not to shape his principles to win the most votes, it is to articulate such principles as to shape voters.
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posted on
04/30/2015 2:43:17 PM PDT
by
DaveyB
(Live free or die!)
To: American Constitutionalist; All
"me personally I want the UN far away from US shores as possible."
Totally agree, like Lake Geneva, all the Stalinist Dictators, new/aging Marxists and
despotic "Peoples Socialist Republics" Reps. can cavort and spent $$$$ there..and not
bother us with anti-social / illegal actions< /center>
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posted on
04/30/2015 2:57:35 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
("Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedy Lamarr)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, there’s stupid, and then there’s Voxstupid.
- JP
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posted on
04/30/2015 3:41:33 PM PDT
by
Josh Painter
("Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." - Jerry Garcia)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"There isn't really a natural Cruz constituency" But there is a "natural consituency" (whatever that is) for corrupt lesbian shrews and shadowy black marxist schmoozers?
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posted on
04/30/2015 3:54:10 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Astroturf and Media Shills ping.
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posted on
04/30/2015 4:06:15 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: captnorb
From your keyboard to God’s ears....
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posted on
04/30/2015 4:10:50 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
W gave Cruz a job; Jeb gave Hillary a medal.
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posted on
05/01/2015 12:21:34 AM PDT
by
Plummz
(pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I believe that when we go to war smart bombs should be used last, or in certain
circumstances. All this PC War does is get us killed, and that's not the point of War.
Letting God sort them out isn't a joke, it's winning.
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posted on
05/01/2015 12:30:30 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
“there isnt really a natural Cruz constituency”
we the people
10’S OF MILLIONS OF US YEARNING FOR SOMEONE TO VOTE
((F O R))
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posted on
05/01/2015 8:53:52 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The author...
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posted on
05/01/2015 8:57:22 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: reasonisfaith
I don't think that's how it works. If the US government is confident enough to intervene abroad, it's usually not going to simply scoot back home ASAP.
It's not about nation-building, though. Who's talking about that now? It has more to do with not letting ISIS or al-Qaeda or pro-Iranian forces take over the rubble and use it as a base for further attacks.
"No nation-building" is a hollow slogan nowadays. It's what politicians accuse their opponents of doing while they do pretty much the same thing themselves.
What are the alternatives? Either we find some native force to re-establish order (which involves something very like nation-building) or we do it ourselves with our own troops or allies from the region, or we hightail it back home and our intervention is accused of being a failure or futile or counter-productive.
I notice that Ted Cruz did vote against ground intervention in Syria, and that supports the writer's argument. But I'm not sure that he'd behave all that differently from Rubio or another possible president if he were elected. The difference between what politicians say when they're running for office and what they do when they get in is very familiar by now.
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posted on
05/01/2015 1:28:32 PM PDT
by
x
To: x
See if you can tell a difference between Cruz and most politicians.
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posted on
05/01/2015 3:40:48 PM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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