" Ted Cruz has always been more of a mastermind than a wacko bird. Every politician plans, plots or schemes (depending on how pejorative you want to be about it); that's part of the job. But not every politician is a prodigy at it. Ted Cruz is. "
Long article, folks should read it all.
Ted is the man! GO CRUZ!!!
This should be interesting. I suspect a lot of Trump supporters actually preferred Cruz, but didn’t think he had a shot.
I still think a Trump/Cruz ticket is ideal - I could be way off the mark, but I think Trump is the battering ram needed to get into the White House, and Cruz being along with him to advise would be perfect. I think The Donald can bring in votes from the other side, due to his name recognition and popularity. Cruz can then take over after four years, with much of the cleanup well underway.
Join the Cruzade.
Cruz is not a natural born citizen, our Constitution says only a natural born citizen can be president of the USA. Plus he is one of the biggest flip floppers ever. Flip floped on TPA, flip floped on Syrian refugees, flip flop on H1B visas, flip floped on immigration. You want to put a foreign born flip flopers in the White House? Really?
Now, the drive-bys are in a bit of a panic.
“As the New York Times’ Nate Cohn put it at the time, ‘The most interesting question about Mr. Cruz’s candidacy is whether he has a very small chance to win or no chance at all.”
Nate, you’re a prognosticating genius. Your mommy must be really proud.
“But suddenly it seems that Cruz is running what even Dan Pfeiffer, a former top aide to President Obama, concedes is “the best campaign on the other side.””
Well...yeah?
He sat back and let Trump get the big issues on the table, and thus taking the massive hits and attacks. Trump survived and is now at the top of the bord.
2) Then the GOPe sent in waves of losers to take Trump down, along with open help from the media (Fox, Gawker,Huffington Post, Blaze, MSNBC). Each and everyone of them have been effectively repulsed.
Again, Cruz has had to do nothing but politely agree with Trump’s positions without having to be the ones taking the positions first.
3) Now that Trump has essentially destroyed his competition, the Cruz base is pouring on the sap about how Cruz is the only brave one in the race and is the true conservative....blah blah blah.
His poll number went up, not because “he’s catching fire”, but because everyone else has flamed-out by attacking Trump and some defaulted to Cruz, because...well he’s there and registers above 4% in polls.
And now we get hourly PSAs from his supporters demanding that we all get in his camp because Cruz is the “real nominee” and he will “destroy” Hillary. Never mind the fact that he still is just running as far from the heat as possible in order to keep under the radar. We get big bravado more now due to the effective neutering of the GOPe by Trump. So I guess it’s cool to do a Trump impression while screaming how he is the ultra-conservative and making appeals to conformity and purity to all of the people that got behind Trump because he was the one that made the big moves when it counted early on.
It’s frankly distasteful. And the massive pats on the back for him is embarrassing.
“With the possible exception of Frank Underwood, the fictional star of Netflix’s House of Cards, there may be no shrewder, more calculating figure in American politics than Cruz ... and so far, nearly all his calculations have paid off.”
Thee isn’t, not today. One of a kind.
A “positive” article about Our Man Ted from Yahoo?
Don’t believe it.
This is just “anyone, anything but The Donald”.
That’s all this is.
I could live with Trump/Cruz.
Tag along Palin as Energy Secretary and you will see Lib heads a’ poppin’ all over this grand, fruited plain of ours.
More and more it’s becoming apparent, even to those on the other side of the aisle, that Cruz is a force to be taken seriously.
I got most of the way through it but there was so much snark that I quit.
this article is brilliant.
i think it also gives more credence to what many here have hoped for, that is, if Trump wins the nomination, that Cruz would be VP. I remember reading how early on back in the late 80s Dan Quayle began strategizing to become Bush’s VP. Obviously he was successful....to the surprise of all insiders. Don’t know details, but that is sort of an impressive anecdote.
Obviously ...Cruz has SOME sort of master plan. That will presumably include some plan B as to what he will do if Trump wins the nomination. And, it seems, whatever he schemes for, will likely come about!
(All of which is not to deny that he could end up as the nominee).
And he's been hit from his left by Freepers as well.
How exceptionally presidential to have a master plan and have it working beautifully. It’s the sign of a leader whom people choose to follow. It’s what GOP needs in their nominee.
I'll be seeing them again in a couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to it.
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It sure helps to actually have the cognitive power!
He is the only one of the candidates that does.
The rest of the field appear to be completely captive to their emotions and libido.
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“showy obstructionism” = Democrats don’t like it when he doesn’t roll over and vote for their crap.
“basic logic problems” and “just doesn’t make sense”. How about a concrete example. Your magazine article suffers from basic logic problems and just doesn’t make sense.
“the key to leadership is essentially getting results by moving agendas ahead”. I couldn’t disagree more. This is a Dem concept. They can take their agendas and shove them. Their homosexual agenda. Their anti-American immigrant agenda. Their big brother government control of your life agenda. The key to leadership is honesty and integrity and wisdom. An intelligent, honest leader is one who can take us where we need to go and where we will ultimately benefit. It might be difficult, like charging up a hill into enemy territory, but the goals should be worth the sacrifices. What a leader is not: Someone who advances his personal agenda in order to line his pockets and indulge his sexual perversions (Clinton, Clinton, 0vomit, and too many other Democrats to count. And yes, some Republicans, too.)
My new T-Shirt: “I’m with the Wacko Bird!”
I’ve been a campaign contributor since early last Spring. I maxed out in the Summer and I’m now double maxed.
Early money is like yeast!
:-)
Many of us knew long ago who the player was, in spite of the MSM and Comrade Juan McNuts.