One Fact Everyone Has Forgotten About Ted Cruz Might Be His Key To The White House

Western Journalism ^ | October 1, 2015 | Randy DeSoto

[Sal]

I know this is not what you are proposing, but IF both of them are being damaged or hindered too much by GOPEE stooge questioners, Trump could buy the time and put the two man debate on at the same time as the GOPEE debate. Can you imagine the difference in audience numbers...

[Jack Black]

Ted's problem is getting elected. No doubt he'd be effective in many ways once in office. But so far he's not been able to break into double digits anywhere except Texas, and floats between fourth and eighth place.

As some of the other candidates doing even worse drop out I think he might pick up some support. Jindal and the other 1%ers should go. Even Bush might go soon, his trend is totally negative. Drudge was showing him at 4%, that's not what his million dollar donors are paying for!

So, Ted's doing better than many, but still hasn't made any moves that make me think he will be the eventual nominee.

[ForYourChildren]

Thanks for including the link.

[Jack Black]

Ted's problem is getting elected. No doubt he'd be effective in many ways once in office. But so far he's not been able to break into double digits anywhere except Texas, and floats between fourth and eighth place.

As some of the other candidates doing even worse drop out I think he might pick up some support. Jindal and the other 1%ers should go. Even Bush might go soon, his trend is totally negative. Drudge was showing him at 4%, that's not what his million dollar donors are paying for!

So, Ted's doing better than many, but still hasn't made any moves that make me think he will be the eventual nominee.

[midlander]

Brilliant!

[Carl Vehse]

Don’t expect the fifth-column leftist media buttboys and whores (e.g., David, Scott, Lester, Gwen) to inform the electorate about the relevant experience of Ted Cruz.

[altura]

That’s ridiculous. Ted Cruz performed admirably in that administration and if you are implying that George W. Bush was some kind of crook, that’s just crazy.

He may not have been the ideal conservative president but he was a good, decent man ... the like of which we have not seen in 7 years.

[altura]

I can only assume one of two things:

You have never actually listened to Ted Cruz speak, or,

You are so enamored with another candidate that you are willing to make an unfounded remark about Cruz.

[Isara]

First He’d have to find it.

With our help.

[Isara]

You’re welcome!

[trisham]

I don’t think He needs our help.

[American Faith Today]

See, I don’t think Trump is all that dynamic as a speaker.

I mean, to each his own, and I know, well, not necessarily that I’m in the minority, but I know a lot of people will and do disagree.

I listen or watch some of the beginnings of his speeches/YouTube videos (admittedly not all) and it’s like it takes him half an hour (okay exaggerating a bit) to start to get to a relevant point. To me he just kind of meanders along talking about how well he’s doing in the polls and how poorly someone else is doing and how everything is great with him, etc, etc.

I certainly don’t hear any real SUBSTANCE or anything delivered in the tone that a Reagan did or that even Cruz does.

To me, Trump shot out of the gates based on two factors- yes his tough talk. But also his celebrity status. We go crazy over celebrities in this country. Even when it comes to voting for them or supporting them for president and even amongst conservatives it would seem.

[mkjessup]

That’s ridiculous. Ted Cruz performed admirably in that administration

Political reality = If America does not want another Bush in the White House, promoting the idea that you were part of the last one is political suicide. If Americans wanted another Bush and the people who inhabit Bush administrations, we would see Jeb soaring in the stratosphere

and if you are implying that George W. Bush was some kind of crook, that’s just crazy.

I'm not implying that at all. What I will SAY is that GWB was as much a creation and tool of the GOPe as any mewling RINO, it was thanks to his buddy Karl Rove that the elitists took complete and total control of the Republican Party, and it was thanks to GWB that our Republic came under the boot of the fascist minded Department of Homeland Security, it's vile little cousin the TSA, and thanks to that so-called 'Patriot Act' (which was not at all patriotic), our freedoms and liberties under the Constitution have been trashed. You can tell me that GWB did all those things with the 'best of intentions' but the reality is that HIS administration provided the tools of political oppression that Obama has been more than happy to use to go after all who oppose him.

He may not have been the ideal conservative president but he was a good, decent man ... the like of which we have not seen in 7 years.

"Not the ideal conservative president"? BWHAHA!! Oh you do have a sense of comic timing! In case you missed the memo, GWB turned out to be just as big a spender as that other liberal loser from Texas (LBJ), he never even found his veto pen until 2006, and while there is no question that GWB loved our troops and did all that he could in that arena, his foreign policy resulted in way too many of them being killed and maimed. Examples:

Afghanistan - trying to embark on a 'nation building' project in that Godforsaken hell hole was a mistake from the beginning, our sole mission should have been to destroy the Taliban completely, along with any and every possible military asset they possessed, KILL Osama bin Laden (instead of letting him escape into Pakistan, a direct result of GWB's good friend General Tommy Franks screwing the pooch and failing to commit sufficient troops) and then: get our troops OUT. We've been in Afghanistan for damn near 15 years now, and what do we have to show for it, except for our military being ordered to look the other way while those Afghani savages rape little boys?

You want more?

While (in my opinion) toppling Saddam Hussein was NOT a bad thing (had we not gone after Saddam there would be not one but THREE nations in that region racing for a nuclear capability, i.e., Iraq, Iran and LIBYA), the follow up was a total Mongolian cluster f--k. Had we employed the MacArthur model which worked successfully in Japan to rule Iraq until they returned to social, economic and political stability, we would not be witnessing the slow motion breakup of Iraq right now.

As for Iran? After taking out Saddam, GWB lost his balls when it came to Iran, he talked the big talk about "not letting Iran obtain a nuclear weapon" but he never walked the walk, and we can see the results of that now.

And North Korea? How did those 'Six Party Talks' work out? So far as Kim Jong Il and his insane offspring Kim Jong Fat Boy, they worked out real good, as North Korea now has a rudimentary nuclear capability. But GWB's screwup in North Korea doesn't end there, when he read a book written by a North Korean defector by the name of Kang Chol-Hwan (The Aquariums of Pyongyang) which detailed his horrific life in the North Korean torture camp system, he got an invite to meet with GWB in the White House where they discussed what might be done to help the North Korean people. They spent a half hour talking which is a good block of time when you're the President of the United States. So what did GWB do to 'help' the North Korean people?

He signed off on his State Department taking North Korea OFF the list of state sponsors of terrorism in 2008, his final year in office, which further empowered and enabled Kim Jong Il in the internal torture of his people, and the periodic external aggressions against South Korea.

Heckuva job Georgie.

[Svartalfiar]

Ted's problem is getting elected. No doubt he'd be effective in many ways once in office. But so far he's not been able to break into double digits anywhere except Texas, and floats between fourth and eighth place.

I'm pretty sure Ted'll do just fine. Every other candidate has had a fast rise, followed by a hard fall (Walker/Perry are out of the running even!), the one exception being Trump. Half of his poll is cause he's a celebrity, the other half is cause he's been so brash and anti-Dem. But he doesn't have nearly the conservative background that Cruz does, and Trump certainly hasn't been working to get the ground game out and convincing voters to actually vote. Cruz has been building up quite the local offices and social media presence.

[theymakemesick]

Bookmark post 33, heck of a good one, mkjessup. Thanks!

[mkjessup]

Thank you FRiend. It may irk the GWB groupies to hear the truth about him, but his legacy was to weaken our Constitution, and to empower our domestic enemies who are now working non-stop to finish burying our Republic.