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Posted on 11/19/2015 5:18:26 PM PST by VinL
After the Paris terror attacks, do voters want a candidate who opposed the NSA and U.S. action in Syria? The Paris attacks have put a lot of things into focus. Including a new focus on a particular trait of a particular up-and-coming presidential candidate: Ted Cruz.
The Texas senator has been the stealth contender. He has quietly built his donor base and erected an early-state infrastructure. He has identified his main opponents and deployed strategies to poach voters from each. He flatters Donald Trump and Ben Carson, waiting to scoop up support if they fade. He lambastes Marco Rubio, presenting himself as a purer pick for the conservative base.
But more notable at the moment is Mr. Cruz’s calculated effort to peel off Rand Paul voters by pitching himself as Paul-lite on foreign policy. The strategy isn’t surprising to anyone who has watched Mr. Cruz’s career. A dictionary definition of “opportunistic†is to “exploit chances offered by immediate circumstances without reference to a general plan or moral principle.†And that helps explain why Mr. Cruz is both so loved and so disliked.
The senator’s supporters adore him because they see him in those moments when he has positioned himself as the hero. To them he is the stalwart forcing a government shutdown over ObamaCare. He’s the brave soul calling to filibuster in defense of gun rights. He’s the one keeping the Senate in lame-duck session to protest Mr. Obama’s unlawful immigration orders.
Mr. Cruz’s detractors see a man who engineers moments to aggrandize himself at the expensive of fellow conservatives. And they see the consequences. They wonder what, exactly, Mr. Cruz has accomplished.
ObamaCare is still on the books. It took the GOP a year to recover its approval ratings after the shutdown....
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Rubio tried to sell us out- and the WSJ can try to distort facts and divert attention til the cows come home-- but a traitor is a traitor is a traitor.
WSJ wants open borders, hardly pro-security
WSJ: “do voters want a candidate who opposed the NSA”
Not this same manure again.
Yes, we—who supposedly live in the “land of the free”—don’t want to be spied on by our own government.
And no, I am not willing to accept such spying just because the last several presidents have imported a few million mohammedans into our country. The solution is not to slowly turn us into a police state; the solution is to get rid of the obvious danger—deporting those who constitute a threat.
Now go sell an amnesty sandwich to some sucker, WSJ.
Fortunately, the WSJ doesn’t vote in the Iowa Primary ... “We Do” ...
If you run into Kimberly find out how she likes her high school internship at the Journal and tell her to pass on that I won’t be buying or reading that rag anymore.
Thanks in advance
Kim Stassell couldn’t hold up for 5 minutes in a showdown with Ted.
Just further confirmation of who the GOPe candidate is. They couldn’t drag Yeb across the finish line, so now they’ll go with Yeblite.
Wall Street Journal = Cheap Labor Express propaganda
I am not sure what Cruz has advocated about Syria, but if he opposed Obama’s attempt to oust the secular, somewhat multicultural dictatorship of Assad in favor of a murderous Islamist dictatorship, that works for me.
Cruz may have talents and may make a good AG or justice but as a candidate he is a disaster and failing. He should quit and get back to work in the senate. Besides, he really needs to look at what Americans want, which is not what he is selling.
Senate Majority Leader would be the best fit.
GOPe hauling out the same canard. What IS it with female establishment writers at WSJ? They're predictable, lazy, and inaccurate.
Seems to me that most Americans prefer the middle ground between security and freedom and in this case, Ted Cruz is actually trying to prevent terrorists from ever getting here in the first place.
Right now I consider the WSJ a security threat.
Anyone for open borders is my sworn enemy. They might as well be pointing missiles at my town, like the Soviets used to.
That link should be posted with every Fox poll and every WSJ pro-amnesty article.
CRUZ has the money and grassroots organization to go the distance. He’ll be one or two.
Hahahahahahahahaha! Keep telling yourself that.
Kimmie will be assured a spot on the Sunday talks...probably FNS!
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