Posted on 03/13/2016 6:41:33 AM PDT by OddLane
Reading the headline might leave some in disbelief for different reasons. Is Senator Ted Cruz an outsider? He’s a first term United States Senator who has alienated everyone and has yet to secure a single Senate endorsement. Businessman Donald Trump even has more Senate endorsements than him. How much clearer of an outsider definition can that get?
Valid, to a degree, but there’s more to the story at this point. Senator Cruz’s background in politics extends a lot further back than his rookie Senate career. To be clearer, it extends back more than a decade and a half, when he joined the presidential campaign of George W. Bush in 1999. As a member of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign, he was a domestic policy advisor to the then-Texas Governor. Senator Cruz was later responsible for helping assemble Bush’s legal team, which included John Roberts.
Fast forward to the present day.
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Not at all.
The long knives are all around
No, this is definitely self-inflicted.
He is the political equivalent to a “lady of the night”
That’s a good counter-example. I think Liddy was ornery enough to enjoy Nixon in all his splendour.
Well, according to Mr Trump, a little hyperbole never hurts.
In my mind, I keep seeing that scene in “Dead Zone” where the presidential candidate is using the baby as a human shield, only it’s Ted Cruz holding the baby.
A lot of people saw right through this phony carnival barker.
Me either. It’s a regular high-tech lynching.
Yeah, lets follow some Paultartds blog.
He’s establishment. The more you pay attention to what he says AND doesn’t say, the more obvious it becomes, to the point of it smacking you in the face. Look at what he said yesterday, when talking about bringing jobs back to the US:
“My flat tax plan is what’s called border adjustable which means all exports are tax free, all imports pay that tax,” Cruz said. “What that means is we will see millions of jobs from overseas from China and Mexico, coming back to America, coming back to Missouri, coming back to Illinois. We will rebuild the American middle class that has been hammered by seven years of failed Obama and Clinton economy.”
Nothing about NAFTA. Nothing about TPP. Tax cuts are great and all, but this notion that changing taxes is going to fix everything about how jobs have been shipped out of this country is ridiculous. And notice how he doesn’t say anything at all about Republicans having also supported the disastrous job-destroying policies of the past? That’s because he also supports those policies.
He’s a globalist who distracts people with lots of fancy talk and grandstanding. Substantively, he is for open borders and the destruction of the middle class.
It’s because Trump is as much of a divider as Obama. The difference is that Trump is also dividing the Republican Party...
Big time.
Yes it does appear to be wrong.
How can he be an outsider when Chad Sweet is his campaign Chairman
He’s a guy with horrible interpersonal skills who wanted to be in the GOPe club.
Bush administration
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devising strategy, and drafting pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, in the case Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two wins for the Bush team. Cruz recruited future Chief Justice John Roberts and noted attorney Mike Carvin to the Bush legal team.
Canadien/Canadian
I’m not kidding. I know it’s my subconscious playing games. But every time I look at Cruz, his nose seems longer.
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