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Is Ted Cruz The New Richard Nixon?
Daily Caller ^ | 11/27/2015 | Matt K. Lewis

Posted on 11/27/2015 7:56:40 AM PST by Isara

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I call this article a mild attack piece. Just as Rob Knowles predicted in his article yesterday:

"Since there's nothing on him at this point-no skeletons in his closet, no allegations of illegality-the left has resorted to doing what they say Cruz does best: Reframe the argument... Watch for this line of argumentation being used by the left in the coming weeks and months as Cruz rises. He's calculating, scheming, obsessed with winning, desirous of power, inhuman, callous, an opportunist, and overly shrewd. They'll try to make Cruz into the most unlikable person since Richard Nixon because it's all they've got. Don't buy into it."

1 posted on 11/27/2015 7:56:41 AM PST by Isara
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To: Isara

LOL @ The new Nixon.


2 posted on 11/27/2015 7:58:44 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Isara

Is Rodham Clinton the new Tokyo Rose?


3 posted on 11/27/2015 8:06:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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To: Isara

Somehow, I don’t see Cruz imposing wage & price controls, like Nixon did.


4 posted on 11/27/2015 8:09:24 AM PST by Maceman
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Mild attack piece? This is a sneaky deal killer. In other words, he is fakin’ it to get the nomination, then we think maybe he will be more like Bush to make us happy.

I admit these columnists and pundits are spending a lot of time being creative in their attempts to drag people down.

LOL


5 posted on 11/27/2015 8:10:18 AM PST by dforest
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To: cripplecreek
If anybody resembles Nixon in looks...

It's Huckelberry. Could be his brother.

JMHO

:-)

6 posted on 11/27/2015 8:10:22 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: dforest

More Reagan like. Even RR moved more to the center as time went on. He never lost his core conservatism though.


7 posted on 11/27/2015 8:13:41 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: dforest
In other words, he is fakin’ it to get the nomination, then we think maybe he will be more like Bush to make us happy.

I admit these columnists and pundits are spending a lot of time being creative in their attempts to drag people down.


Somehow, I don't see a fellow who would fake being a conservative to get the nomination as the kind who would enter college at Princeton carrying around "Was Marx a Satanist?" as reading material, as his bad movie screenwriter roommate reported.
8 posted on 11/27/2015 8:15:19 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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"Mild attack piece?"

He demonstrates remarkable "flexibility" on a large number of issues.

9 posted on 11/27/2015 8:18:32 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: Isara

Unfortunately, the article says exactly what I believe with the exception of beating Hillary. He cannot do that.


10 posted on 11/27/2015 8:21:24 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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Mild attack piece? This is a sneaky deal killer.

I'm being generous. He mentioned later in his article that "No-nobody is suggesting Cruz is "Nixonian" in the sweaty, paranoid Watergate burglary sense of the term.

11 posted on 11/27/2015 8:22:15 AM PST by Isara
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Matt Lewis is a propagandist for The Cheap Labor Express.


12 posted on 11/27/2015 8:22:27 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Isara
The left never mentions the fact Nixon won 49 states in 1972.


13 posted on 11/27/2015 8:22:49 AM PST by SeeSharp
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If it weren’t for his donors, I would harbor no doubts.
Meh, I don’t know.

Trump and Cruz are better than the others. They still don’t attack each other hardly at all. Could be there is strength in numbers. Right now there is two of them and they are going to try and hold the fort down to keep GOPe candidates down at the bottom until we get closer to Iowa.

Who knows?


14 posted on 11/27/2015 8:26:56 AM PST by dforest
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To: Isara

I’m coming to despise the rhetorical trick of making a statement in the form of a question, as seen so often in headlines these days.

Is Obama Really a Homosexual Muslim Traitor?
Is Joe Biden Naturally Stupid Or Is He The Result of a Lobotomy Gone Bad?
Can Hillary Win the White House If She’s a Lesbian?
Did Climate Change “Experts” Cook the Books to Create Panic?
Will Homosexual “Marriage” Destroy the Family?

Why not just have the guts to make a statement, rather than couching it as a question?

And yes, I appreciate the irony in my question ...


15 posted on 11/27/2015 8:33:23 AM PST by IronJack
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I want to know how the case is being made here that Cruz is the best candidate to beat Hillary?

No real track record on anything yet he can beat Hillary.

Well someone please explain that rationale. I can’t see it.
Cruz has to get support from areas that Trump is already polling well in. I guess we will just see.


16 posted on 11/27/2015 8:34:02 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Isara

In other words they think that Cruz is just like Shrillary?


17 posted on 11/27/2015 8:34:51 AM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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To: Isara

Must be the guy that drew the short straw to have to work today.


18 posted on 11/27/2015 8:39:31 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Why do Republicans always have to run a "compassionate, kinder, gentler" candidate while the Democrats can run a devious, cunning, nasty piece of work?

Enough of the Romneys, McCains, Doles and Bushes. It's time we ran somebody that the liberals fear.

19 posted on 11/27/2015 8:41:12 AM PST by SamAdams76 (It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
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Why do Republicans always have to run a "compassionate, kinder, gentler" candidate while the Democrats can run a devious, cunning, nasty piece of work?

Conservatives are better people and liberals are a bunch of rabid crap flinging monkeys.
20 posted on 11/27/2015 8:44:50 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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