Palin is about moving the nation to the right, and creating a right wing movement with plenty of candidates and office holders to represent us.
“I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Palin,” Cruz said.”
They are not that to me but feel free to believe that.
Sarah Palin will never run for national office again in my opinion but maybe for senate somewhere one day
Cruz is running now
Actually if anyone is closest to Cruz it’s Mike Lee
I know your Sarah Palin support meter was always a spinal tap 11
Mine was a 10 at first but it’s dimmed a lot since
Cruz doesn’t spark emotion from me in his speeches like Sarah’s first ones did but he’s a more capable politician and unflappable
He has a shot
But I fear we are business as usual again:
Hostile media onslaught of GOP dwarfs for over a year in primaries etc while giving Dem more of a pass
Hostile media moderating GOP debates yet again making fools of all but Newt last time
A gaggle of conservative and sorta conservative GOP guys share same bloc through Super Tuesday while Jebbie with war chest and Fox News skates to nomination and we get yet another low turnout for yet another Rockefeller Bush style nominee and lose to any Dem
That’s how I see it baring something monumental and fortuitous
“I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Palin,” Cruz said.”
“...A gaggle of conservative and sorta conservative GOP guys share same bloc through Super Tuesday while Jebbie with war chest and Fox News skates to nomination and we get yet another low turnout for yet another Rockefeller Bush style nominee and lose to any Dem...”
That certainly seems to be the usual playbook that the GOP closely follows.
We (the political right) could kill that by coalescing around a candidate early. But we won’t. As usual, we can only be relied upon to form our passionate circular firing squad and do ourselves in.
You would think, when it comes to conservative creds, Cruz would be *at the very least* “reasonably acceptable” if not a slam-dunk. But even here on FR, in this very thread and others, fault must be found and pointed out.
I’m not saying that we have to be in lockstep and agree with everything a candidate says, but I am saying that if Cruz is not acceptably conservative enough to earn early support and vote pledges from the overwhelming majority of self-identified conservative voters, then there is simply no candidate we can ever hope to run that will do. If we find ourselves debating between Christie, Bush, Paul, Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee, Jindal, Walker, Pence, Kasich, Perry, Santorum, etc and Cruz as to which candidate aligns closest to conservative values, then we DO NOT deserve a conservative candidate. I mean, in this particular line up, it should be bloody obvious with no need for navel-gazing and nit-picking.