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.
Yep, they said that when he ran for US Senator.
This Philadelphian ranks Cruz 1, Walker 2. The rest I could care less.
“I’ll vote for Cruz, as it stands now, but Walker is squishy on ILLEGAL immigration.”
Not just squishy, he is flipflopping.
Ever seen Ted do that?
“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.”
I haven’t heard Cruz or anyone talk about going moderate. He has no plans on doing that and that is why he is going to win.
Anyone to the left of Cruz is a liberal and the country is sick of liberals.
Bucks rag said Cruz is “polarizing”, but Clinton had demanded that MSM not refer to her as polarizing. Got it.
You’re reading my mind. I just thought “whistling past the graveyard”, then read your post. I hope they’re having nightmares and wetting the bed, too.
It’s amusing that so much time is spent degrading a guy that will never win.
Looks like Walker is changing his position on immigration since he took a trip to the border with Gov Abbott.
In the recall election in CA, if everyone that didn’t vote for Tom McClintock because he was “unelectable” did vote for him, he may have won.
No.
Romney had, at the most during the early primaries, no more than a quarter of the primary votes. The only way Romney won the nomination was that the establishment GOP continued to pay vanity candidates to enter the race pretending to be "the" conservative candidate -- the slate-of-eight, against one RINO GOP-e non-candidate. Romney lost the general election against the absolute worst Democrat candidate in the history of the USA. Any one of the slate-of-eight might have won, if running as the lone conservative.
Cruz is the lone conservative in this race. As I previously predicted, Walker just cannot stop pandering and pretending, and cannot articulate a consistently conservative message. The rest of the potential candidates are even worse, far worse.
He got a dose of reality. That’s a good thing.
Being from the area, the editorial board of this fish wrapper are majority leftists who would NEVER describe a candidate as too LIBERAL.
Ignore and move along.
Yes. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Told by the CA GOP.
Want to bet? Last time they said this was with Reagan—he won and served well—so well even Democrats repected him. The electibles—like Dole, McCain, Mittens, went down to flaming defeat because they stood for nothing and could be turned into SNL Clowns and pummeled with the Rich, selfish, out of touch mantra. Time to turn Right and try a conservative who stands for something.
Perhaps....
What I posted and what you thought is the patently obvious/only thing that comes to mind. Those writing all of these EXTREMELY negative articles are indeed scared, having hysterics, nightmares, and wetting their collective beds.
You’re 100% correct !
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