Posted on 08/10/2015 10:04:35 AM PDT by Isara
Birmingham, Alabama (CNN) - Ted Cruz is hoping to gain attention by being precisely where his rivals aren't: the South.
In barbeque joints and tea rooms, Cruz is courting the southerners who are likely to play an outsized role in next year's Republican primary. Eight southern states are slated to cast ballots on March 1, a day now monikered the "SEC Primary" after the top-performing college football conference that voters here cheer.
So Cruz and a large group of aides are spending the congressional recess not in New Hampshire -- a more liberal state, for instance, that he has not visited in more than two months -- but on a bus tour in places like Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Van Buren, Arkansas, hoping to quietly build the infrastructure and lavish candidate attention on SEC states while rivals spend time in Iowa.
"Like the SEC does two-a-days, we're doing two-a-days here right now," said Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe as Cruz greeted a crowd in Huntsville. "Everybody comes in for a Fourth of July event -- a big speech, or some sort of cattle call -- but spending the time, doing these type of events? We don't see that from anybody else."
Cruz and his allies see a hand-in-glove fit between a Texas tea partier who is the son of an evangelical pastor and a church-going electorate many miles removed from Washington politics. He's known for being a bit of a rebel himself, in his unwillingness to tow the establishment Republican line and aligning himself closely with this primary's most famous D.C. outsider, Donald Trump.
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And where are the naysayers whom ? Recently in the last month or so told us that Cruz was dropping in the polls, that he was at 4 % 7 % in the polls and losing steam ?
Ted Cruz is well positioned.
In the 1973 Preakness Stakes Secretraiot broke dead last out of the gates, dead last as he passed the stands, but made his unprecedented move ? In which ? Has never been seen ever in horse racing, thrusted toward the right and outside into the first sharp turn at the Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore , MD.
Logic tells us that if you want a advantage in horse racing you go to the inside along the rail.
Secretraiot displayed a miraculous display of acceleration never seen in horse racing into the first turn, passed all the horse into first place coming out of the 2nd turn into the back field at Pimlico and never gave up first place to win the Preakness Stakes in 1973, go check it out on YouTube.
What Secretraiot did at Belmont was Supernatural.
What many tend to forget during the running of the Cripple Crown in 1973 is that Sham was a race horse of racehorses, his record was nothing to sneeze about either, it’s just Sham came across greatness.
That was the link I posted earlier in the thread. Thank you for posting the picture.
It’s lovely. He’s the real deal
Yes indeed....and I think we all understand the value of Trump as well
Tender moment with Trumps wife and the Cruz girls
Yep...I don’t always take the time to tell people I’ll post their photo link....heck I rarely do...lolol...but some are just so good they need to go up! That one was...Other times i don’t have the time to open links so I miss them...sadly.
I just think it really humanizes Sen Cruz, to see him with his family, especially his little daughters. He’s giving them heck on the debates yet he’s such a good dad. He comes off sincere. How many politicians can say that?
He’s got my vote. I feel honored to vote for him. The only other president I felt happy to vote for was the first one I voted for. President Reagan
"When I tell you I will do something, I mean what I say and will do exactly that".....GraceWorks Church Chattanooga TN
Secretraiot was born in 1970, Ted Cruz was born in 1970.
Thanks, I did see that picture Thursday night.
I loved it! I so hope there will be a synergy there—it could be epic!
I like the name of that church, GRACE WORKS.
Not Grace plus works, but, Grace works, Jesus Christ’s finished work on the Cruz.
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Nice picture!
He’s not traveling up to the NYC area?
Many loving parents will relate to that moment of endearment, like God the Father loving to hear the joy and laughter of his children.
God is putting touches of gray on the sides of his head, the bible speaks of white hair as wisdom.
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