Posted on 10/08/2015 5:43:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Cruz is jockeying to win Trump & Carson backers when they crash. Even if he fails, his influence will be inordinate.
After several months of political shock and awe, the contours of the coming GOP primary race are starting to come a little bit into focus. We have a Florida smackdown between Jeb! and Marco! as the establishment choices and the two frontrunners, Carson and Trump, will continue to one-up each other daily with obnoxious, indecent and mind-bogglingly ignorant statements until, it is assumed, even their yahoo followers will decide that they’ve gone too far.
Whether that’s going to actually happen I’ll leave to the political soothsayers. The rest of the field mostly seems to be mired in irrelevance although it’s always possible that someone will surprise us.
I have made the point before that if I were a betting person, I’d put a couple of bucks on Ted Cruz to be that someone for the simple reason that he’s the guy most likely to inherit the kook constituency should Trump and/or Carson finally flame out. It’s unlikely that he’d get all of them, but the validators of right wing crazy, from local Iowa conservative radio superstar Steve Deace to Rush Limbaugh to Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham all see Cruz as either the guy or an excellent second choice, and they could certainly help move voters to his column. And the reason for that is that he is a true-believing, hard-core right wing zealot who checks off every single box — from railing about “amnesty” to hiring fanatical Christian “historian” David Barton to run his Super PAC, to leading the charge against Planned Parenthood to calling President Obama “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism”. He is the real thing....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Go Cruz!!
Salon is telling us all who is keeping them up at night.
” validators of right wing crazy”
Flattered.
One could hope...
Articles following this same buzz have certainly been plentiful lately.:)
Cruz is scaring them. His take down of the Serria Club President must have rattled them.
Articles following this same buzz have certainly been plentiful lately.:)
I used to be Cruz #1 but now for Trump. Cruz is great but still a Washington insider by virtue of his job. And he seems to have that political slant at times, talks about working with Democrats to get things done, going through the process, etc.
He’s my #2.
Salon: “Hey, but pedophiles? Salt of the earth.”
No. Salon called him an ‘evil genius’ and ‘dark horse’ in one headline. That’s all the idiots need who read that cretinous ‘publication’.
I hadn't known that. Thanks.
Salon writers really want to believe they’re not extremist.
No, they’re not, which is why we still have evil stupid on display with sites like salon.com.
He’s my #2.
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Ditto!
Trump will be President because he splits the Democrats.
Cruz will not be President because a) He’s poison to Democrats and b) he splits the Republicans.
VIDEO: Watch Ted Cruz Make A Fool Out Of The Sierra Club President On Global Warming
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3345627/posts
I don’t mean “waking up to the truth” I mean “waking up to how dangerous Ted Cruz is.”
Oh look another hearing, and nothing will come of it.
God Bless and God Speed, Senator Cruz.
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