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Ted Cruz may win the battle (Iowa) by focusing on social issues but he will lose the war. He will completely disqualify himself among Trump's base who are largely moderates on social issues. He will also lose a whole slew of northeastern and rust belt primaries down the road.
1 posted on 01/15/2016 11:27:09 AM PST by springwater13
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Trump will not be losing anything...that debate ‘performance’ from those ‘governors and politicians’ last night was all Trump’s idea....every one of them...

KEEP AMERICA IN THE LAWS THAT WERE SET UP WHEN AMERICA WAS FOUNDED!!!


2 posted on 01/15/2016 11:29:58 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (.."THE FORCE AWAKENS"!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP 100%....)
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An angry woman is on Rush now, describing Cruz as sounding like a radio preacher her mother used to listen to who would urge his listeners to scrounge up two dollars for a prayer cloth.

Come to think of it, Cruz does have that quality to him. I hadn’t been able to put my finger on what it was that left me a bit unsettled about him.


3 posted on 01/15/2016 11:30:49 AM PST by CASchack
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"He’s pro-choice. He’s pro- gay marriage. He’s against traditional values. He’s New York, and he’s got to talk about that."

I don't know what Cruz gains from including New York in this, and (as a New Yorker myself) I wish he wouldn't.

5 posted on 01/15/2016 11:31:50 AM PST by dem bums
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Social issues are important but I think more people think they are not as important as national security (terrorism) and the economy.


6 posted on 01/15/2016 11:32:05 AM PST by Amntn ("The only special interest not being served by our government is the American people" - Donald Trump)
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He will completely disqualify himself among Trump's base who are largely moderates on social issues.

Good luck trying to win the general election without pro-life, pro-family, pro Christian values voters.

7 posted on 01/15/2016 11:32:07 AM PST by wmfights (a stranger in a hostile and foreign land that used to be my home)
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Cruzz has become unhinged ...


9 posted on 01/15/2016 11:32:47 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (FUBO)
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But he will gain Christians, who agree with the Bible’s teaching: “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul?”
It is troubling that Trump told us that he has never asked God for forgiveness, which disqualifies him as a Christian, because Jesus requires the repentance of every sinner.


10 posted on 01/15/2016 11:33:15 AM PST by txrefugee
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The head line is a bit misleading. The article is more about what Cruz might attack with, if he needs to counterattack. It is a Cruz staffer saying this.


11 posted on 01/15/2016 11:33:16 AM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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“He’s pro-choice. He’s pro- gay marriage. He’s against traditional values.”

Trump’s own words support that.


12 posted on 01/15/2016 11:33:19 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Go, Cruz! Tell it like it is. Rip the disguise off this faux conservative!


15 posted on 01/15/2016 11:33:37 AM PST by Genoa
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Ted Cruz may win the battle (Iowa) by focusing on social issues but he will lose the war.

No he won't.

16 posted on 01/15/2016 11:33:46 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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Who needs a moderate anything? Moderates brought you Mitt Romney....loss. John McCain....loss. Moderates are liberals who don’t have the balls to call themselves that.


17 posted on 01/15/2016 11:34:16 AM PST by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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IMHO until some other candidate adopts Trump’s positions on immigration, Muslim refugees and global trade treaties, no one is taking him out in this race.


18 posted on 01/15/2016 11:34:42 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Cruz is keeping his eye on the ball: win Iowa. He loses Iowa and all other points are moot. He can address the moderate “wing” of the GOP and independents later.


31 posted on 01/15/2016 11:39:52 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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Cruz wants to be President, not Trump’s friend, so he has to do EVERYTHING he can to win.

With that said Cruz got stung BADLY last night when he attacked Trump... He better watch out.


35 posted on 01/15/2016 11:40:44 AM PST by SteveSCH
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Cruz wants to replow old ground. I think TRUMP is up for that game. TRUMP can answer the charges as he already has.
TRUMP pleads, “GUILTY, AS CHARGED!” and then reasons why he did this or that and when and why he changed on this or that.

We can hear it again, Ted. We can hear it for the umpteenth time, if you want to go there. But, what is new, Ted, is that it’s you who is finally for the first time in your life, that is being vetted and exposed, on your own history, and it isn’t going to be any better against you, than your complaints against TRUMP.

There are LIVE videos, in living color, and with fine audio of Cruz speaking, in his own words, in the exact same terms that he accused Rubio of recommending, last night in the debate. “Pathways to legalization” is a phrase Cruz owns, to the same extent as Rubio, whom he tried to rail against.

Can’t wait for TRUMP to meet fire and crap bluster, with fire and crap bluster of his own. It will be a quite even match if Cruz really wants to start the smear contest.

The little squirrel is not in TEXAS anymore and the whole nation is awakening to his opportunistic shenanigans. Drip, drip, drip.

Iowa is about to drop him on his head in the next several days, so Cruz needs some kind of a strip-show starting in order to advance his “look-over-there” strategy, to avoid the coming avalanche of scrutiny he is about to enjoy from the national media, the GOPE, other opponents, and old Senate enemies.

Popcorn and butter, baby!


43 posted on 01/15/2016 11:43:47 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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I don’t know. Teddy has the best favs/unfavs in all recent internals.
I think some underestimate Teddy. I don’t think it is just Iowa. Trump has had a big pass. I can’t wait to see the ads against DT.


44 posted on 01/15/2016 11:44:48 AM PST by libbylu (Cruz: The truth with a smile.)
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Cruz also opens himself up to attack from the right because he has his own spotted past with gays/New York.

Cruz has at least THREE gay billionaire backers that date back to his Senate days... Do the people of Iowa know where Ted gets his money?

This whole thing feels like Ted’s people got his ear and are making him do this as they feel this is his only shot at beating Trump.


45 posted on 01/15/2016 11:46:12 AM PST by SteveSCH
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Internal polls must show some decline for Cruz in Iowa.
He is starting to attack Trump.


64 posted on 01/15/2016 11:58:46 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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Cruz plotting new attacks on Trump

Ominous. How about, " Leonidas plotting new attacks on Xerxes?"

5.56mm

65 posted on 01/15/2016 11:58:57 AM PST by M Kehoe
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