Posted on 12/16/2014 2:42:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sorry, senator -- it's not happening.
To the surprise of approximately nobody, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is proceeding full steam ahead with plans to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. The Tea Party icon has already settled on a location for his campaign headquarters (Houston), made the requisite appeals to GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, and decided on a campaign strategy. That strategy, National Review’s Eliana Johnson reports, centers on energizing the GOP base, not wooing moderates and independents to the Republican fold. Of course, the hard demographic truth is that a Republican can’t win the presidency by relying on the party’s older, white base alone, so the senator also aims to win over Jewish, Latino, and Millennial voters, Johnson reveals.
The notion that the Republicans are on the cusp of scoring big gains among Jewish voters is an old one, and while it never pans out, it reliably reappears every presidential cycle. But before we get into that, let’s dispense with Cruz’s fantastical idea that, in the event he were to capture the GOP nod, he’d bring large numbers of Latinos and Millennials into the GOP camp. According to Johnson, Cruz and his advisers believe that his brand of “populist and pugnacious conservatism” will attract traditionally Democratic voter groups, including Latinos and young people. This is delusional.
To be sure, Cruz’s internal figures reportedly show that he captured 40 percent of the Latino vote in his 2012 Senate race, but he still lost Latinos to an opponent whom he defeated by 16 points overall. (It’s also worth noting that Texas Latinos skew more Republican than Latinos nationally.) Moreover, Cruz hasn’t done himself any favors among Latinos with his strident opposition to President Obama’s executive action on immigration; 89 percent of Latinos....
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I'll wait to hear from someone who did not start shaving yesterday.
Well, then this Poo Poker has nothing to worry about.
Translation:
Luke Brinker thinks that Jews are stupid enough that they will forever continue to turn out in force to support a Democratic Party that has morphed into an abomination that gleefully welcomes virulent anti-Semites into its ranks.
I have a Jewish neighbor and I would, in a NY minute, vote for Senator Cruz!!
The libs in my office are jubilant at the idea of a Jeb candidacy.
One of them told me that instead of the election being about a continuation of Obama’s policies, it becomes this:
“Voters, please choose: did you like the Bush years better, or the Clinton years?”
Yay!
G-d bless beautiful you!
I am amazed at how the Clinton groupies have appropriated the Reagan economy, helped along by economic reforms of the 104th congress which Clinton resisted tooth and nail, as their own.
Cruz spoke to roaring standing ovations at most recent annual meeting of the Zionist Organization of America. Any Jew who, like me, my wife, and our voting age children, who support the State of Israel in its war against islamofascism will be thrilled with Cruz’s positions on all major foreign policy issues. Plus he knows that among the President’s most important job is foreign policy — unlike our current tragedy of a President, whose only foreign policy is to shrink the United States. There are most such Jews every day, thanks to President Hussein.
MORE such Jews every day.
Go Cruz, Go.
stopped reading at “Salon.com”.
Looks like a homosexual communist, writes like a homosexual communist.
No thank you.
5.56mm
Jews are programmed by the Talmud to be altruistic and selfless. If they believe that altruism is the highest virtue, then it is easy for them to take the next step and favor big government to mandate that everyone be altruistic.So they will not desert libtardism.
Thanks, my gaydar just conked out, because of signal overload.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/jewvote.html
What this country could use, then, is a Jewish president or vice-president. Why not?
:o) I can ENVISION some of the campaigning.
Get on the (matzo) ball and vote for ... oh, never mind. It was just a thought.
I got new for this little faygala: the fastest growing cohort of Jews are Orthodox Jews and they are being fruitful and multiplying while other denominations are shrinking fast. And Orthodox Jews are overwhelmingly conservative, especially on social issues. Bottom line: the slow moving wave of Jews switching to Republican voters is picking up speed. Ted Cruz would get a lot of Jewish votes.
See my post no. 39. You are right but not about Orthodox Jews.
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