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Conservative darling is not electable
The Bucks County Courier-Times ^ | March 30, 2015 | The Editors

Posted on 03/29/2015 9:55:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wasn’t taking any chances the other day when he announced he will seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016. Cruz launched his bid at what for him was the friendliest of venues: Liberty University in Virginia, a Christian school founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. It would have been difficult for Cruz to pick a more receptive crowd for his announcement.

And he didn’t disappoint. He asked Christian conservatives in the audience and across the nation to imagine a United States without the IRS, without Obamacare and without abortion rights. Said Cruz: “I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America.”

It is that very belief that has to cause the Republican Party a great deal of concern when considering Cruz as a potential nominee. While his message about doing away with the IRS might draw approving nods across the political spectrum, his promise to get rid of Obamacare surely does not. And he is out of step with mainstream America on the abortion question as well.

Liberals will not give Cruz a second thought, except perhaps to hope that the GOP is nutty enough to nominate such a polarizing candidate for president. While Cruz no doubt appeals to the further reaches of the conservative right, there aren’t nearly enough voters of that particular persuasion to carry a national election.

Cruz’s message might indeed resound very well in the lead-off caucus in Iowa and in the early primary in South Carolina, two states where Christian conservatives have a lot of clout and abortion is a hot issue. But no one knows better than Cruz that he will have to attract significant moderate support elsewhere on the primary circuit if he’s not to become an early casualty in the battle for the nomination. Should Cruz emerge from the Cleveland convention as the party’s choice, he would then have to move even closer to the center to have any chance to prevail in November.

Frankly, we don’t think Cruz has it in him. He is a right-wing, tea party conservative through and through. If he tries to sound the least bit moderate, he’ll probably choke on the words.

And don’t forget he’ll be vying for a spot on the national ticket against some Republican heavyweights who likely also aspire to lead the country, among them Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker and Chris Christie.

The debate over the constitutional mandate that the president be a “natural born citizen” and Cruz’s citizenship — he was born in Canada to an American mother — has pretty much been settled in his favor. But that and the fact that he’s a darling of many on the far right are about all he has going for him. He’s not the choice if Republicans have any hope of reclaiming the White House.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; 2016electionbias; cruz; dnctalkingpoints; election2016; gettedcruz; pennsylvania; teaparty; tedcruz; tedcruz2016; texas
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Their flop sweat is becoming a flood hazard.

1 posted on 03/29/2015 9:55:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here we go again with the “not electable” crap.

Frankly, I’m for Walker. But Cruz is definitely electable!


2 posted on 03/29/2015 9:58:29 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS
Here we go again with the “not electable” crap.

It's more than a little annoying, but also hilarious! They REALLY fear this guy!

3 posted on 03/29/2015 10:00:29 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe so, maybe no. Either way, if I am living on election day I will vote for him.


4 posted on 03/29/2015 10:01:48 PM PDT by sport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good one

They protest way too much

Btw:

‘Cruz’s citizenship — he was born in Canada to an American mother — has pretty much been settled in his favor’

I kind of think it as ‘in HIS favor’ but in ours


5 posted on 03/29/2015 10:02:16 PM PDT by stanne
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To: BradyLS

Frankly, I’m for Walker. But Cruz is definitely electable!


Same here.

I think Walker is more electable than Cruz but both are electable.


6 posted on 03/29/2015 10:03:26 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: JennysCool

The Tories really don’t like Whigs, no matter which party they profess allegiance to.


7 posted on 03/29/2015 10:03:42 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Cruz launched his bid at what for him was the friendliest of venues.

Oh, and Rat's don't do that when they announce. Ok, then...let's see how many Dimmies announce their candidacy at a FR convention.

8 posted on 03/29/2015 10:04:05 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: sport
Either way, if I am living on election day I will vote for him.

LOL. You don't live in Chicago, do you.

9 posted on 03/29/2015 10:05:04 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: JennysCool

What they fear is the conservative democrats they have ignored for years, you know the ones they drove to be indies.

These folks will vote for Cruz, just like they did for Reagan.


10 posted on 03/29/2015 10:05:05 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This just in: A now majority of people in this country say that they won't vote for Ted Cruz only because he is unelectable.

Wait a minute...

11 posted on 03/29/2015 10:05:40 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

BIG TIME and the “editors of this rag are just plain old NUTS, listing wannabes with less than NO chance of winning the primaries as “heavyweights”; with maybe Walker being the only “possible”, though I doubt he’s going to stop making gaffes, that will not help him at all.


12 posted on 03/29/2015 10:06:22 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: laplata

Hard to tell right now, Obama is doing things that no one expected every a few months ago. Give Boehner credit. That speech blew the whistle on Obama’s plans to revolutionize American foreign policy and in a direction hat gives pause even to some Democrats, especially the Israelites who worship the same Baal as he.


13 posted on 03/29/2015 10:07:13 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They sure do write a lot of stories about a guy they do not think can be elected.


14 posted on 03/29/2015 10:07:18 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, which GOPeer is?


15 posted on 03/29/2015 10:08:23 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Keep it up guys, the more the better. You have broadcast your true intent long ago. Have fun.
16 posted on 03/29/2015 10:08:33 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution: no science, no truth, no nothing. Full of faith, faith in the "god" of chance.)
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To: jospehm20

They’re trying to convince themselves and whistling past the graveyard.


17 posted on 03/29/2015 10:08:52 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: JennysCool
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, ”Electable is as electable does.”

The truth is, nobody is electable until he or she makes his or her case. Ted Cruz is quite capable of making his case to the American People without the support of the MSM, and in fact he can do so in the face of MSM sabotage at every turn.

And, BTW, listen to this: "While his message about doing away with the IRS might draw approving nods across the political spectrum, his promise to get rid of Obamacare surely does not.

What faraway galaxy are these yoyos publishing from?

18 posted on 03/29/2015 10:11:43 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

What they fear is the conservative democrats they have ignored for years, you know the ones they drove to be indies.

These folks will vote for Cruz, just like they did for Reagan.


And they’ll vote for Walker, too.


19 posted on 03/29/2015 10:15:49 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata
I think Walker is more electable than Cruz but both are electable.

I thought that a month ago. Now I realize Cruz is the most electable. He's not like Walker-soft on illegals.


20 posted on 03/29/2015 10:16:13 PM PDT by 867V309 (Boehner is the new Pelosi)
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