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Is Ted Cruz too mean to be president?
Jackson Hole News & Guide ^ | December 5, 2015 | Susan Estrich

Posted on 12/05/2015 10:33:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Is Ted Cruz too mean to be president?

Being nice is, for better or worse, not a qualification for the presidency. “Nice” is not a term one often heard associated with Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon, both — in their ways, and with obvious limits — highly effective presidents.

But I don’t remember reading quotes about either Nixon or Johnson from those close to them describing them as unqualified for the presidency on account of being just too mean, too arrogant and too self-centered.

After all, most nice people are not nearly so in love with the sound of their own voices as most politicians are; most of us don’t crave the adoration most politicians do; and frankly, being nice is often not consistent with the willingness to use people and then jettison them when they become a liability, which has become a hallmark of modern politics....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; demagogicparty; election2016; elections; jacksonhole; jacksonholenews; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; susanestrich; tedcruz; texas; wyoming
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1 posted on 12/05/2015 10:33:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is mean too, but for the wrong reasons.


2 posted on 12/05/2015 10:34:45 PM PST by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Susan’s comments are just plain juvenile, whiney and petty.

And .. I’d rather have a “mean” president than a cowardly, back-stabbing president, like the one we have now .. which I’m sure Susan voted for.


3 posted on 12/05/2015 10:40:39 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What most liberals call being “mean” is just telling the truth. Political correctness is nice to them because it puts truth secondary to feeling good about yourself, whatever it is you’re doing. It’s replacing right and wrong with what feels good and what doesn’t. But without truth, there can also be no love.


4 posted on 12/05/2015 10:42:06 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is Ted Cruz too mean?


Offhand I'd say ... no.


5 posted on 12/05/2015 10:42:22 PM PST by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Susie Estrogen is still around? I thought she slithered off to a booth in some dive bar years ago, chain-smoking Pall Malls and downing double bourbons on the rocks......


6 posted on 12/05/2015 10:42:56 PM PST by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

well, Obama is mean as his mentor Satan
and
Hillary is a b,,,h

(so why did he write an article about Cruz?)


7 posted on 12/05/2015 10:45:49 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shut up Susie Snowflake.


8 posted on 12/05/2015 10:46:25 PM PST by Politicalkiddo (“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts!"- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Viking2002

Had a couple of those tonight(dbl bourbons/rcks).


9 posted on 12/05/2015 10:49:22 PM PST by crosdaddy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If anything, Ted Cruz is too nice.

Mean? Susan Estrogen must be kidding.


10 posted on 12/05/2015 10:49:30 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Just say NO to muslim "immigrants")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“mean” = Will remind us that we should NOT be killing our babies.


11 posted on 12/05/2015 10:49:35 PM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
One man spent his free time writing frightening, NRA-loving, hate-filled screeds on Facebook about the other’s religion.

The other proved that what he wrote was accurate.

12 posted on 12/05/2015 10:51:14 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Gil4

Never have two threads open at the same time. Especially after midnight. (Yes, that was intended for another thread.)


13 posted on 12/05/2015 10:53:36 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: The Final Harvest
which I'm sure Susan voted for.

That's the problem. Not that obumber is president, but that we have a citizenry that would elect him. I don't see how we overcome that. Even a Trump and/or Cruz presidency could fix that.
14 posted on 12/05/2015 10:55:09 PM PST by JoSixChip
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To: crosdaddy
Really? How many fingers am I holding up?


15 posted on 12/05/2015 10:59:48 PM PST by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Tell us more about "mean", Susan:


16 posted on 12/05/2015 11:01:04 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Q: What do you call a Muslim who commits an act of terror? A: Devout.)
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To: Gil4

I knew immediately which thread.

And yes.


17 posted on 12/05/2015 11:01:44 PM PST by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: Viking2002

Ah,that looks like your big toe


18 posted on 12/05/2015 11:05:12 PM PST by crosdaddy
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To: JoSixChip

However, it turns out that the DemocRAT party is in the midst of dying. They are deeeeeeeply in debt; all their candidates are in their 60’s or close to it .. and there are no young DemocRATS to replace them.

So, the conservative voting block will do very well this election.


19 posted on 12/05/2015 11:05:14 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh dear.

20 posted on 12/05/2015 11:05:52 PM PST by McGruff (I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction - Barack Obama)
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