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Cruz: GOP can empower grassroots by ditching consultants, ‘Soviet-style campaigns’
The Washington Times ^
| May 31, 2014
| Seth McLaughlin
Posted on 05/31/2014 7:27:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I've made my choice.
To: 2ndDivisionVet; SoConPubbie
God bless and keep Senator Ted Cruz and his precious family!
He is absolutely the very best!
Senator Cruz ROCKS!
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:32:05 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yup, ditching the consultants and strategists is the best thing they could do.
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:32:54 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends
A lot of Republicans tend to have top-down Soviet-style campaigns, Mr. Cruz said.
It is very odd for a party that believes in free market that they run campaigns through command and control.
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:34:03 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We’re being treated to the idiotic Neel Kashkari by the dying RINO “establishment”.
Already voted for Tim Donnelly. Like Cruz in Texas, a new generation of solid Conservatives will do what they can in California.
But because of limp wristed clowns like Pete Wilson and his ilk in not doing anything about the border, its over for the so-called GOP in California.
Just one big Detroit....
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:34:31 PM PDT
by
Regulator
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What Cruz sez echoes what this book says about GOP consultant driven campaigns:
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:37:01 PM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(Do NOT suffer fools gladlyÂ…and message boards are full contact arenas)
To: Regulator
We need more conservatives here to balance out the freaks coming here for jobs that’ll make a mess out of Texas like they did their home states.
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:38:05 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He’s right. Being from Iowa and involved heavily in the political scene, I deal with these asshats and their minions all the time, especially during Presidential years. Generally clueless about winning campaigns, really good at spending a bunch of money down a hole. They don’t care, if they lose they go on to some other job. If we lose here, we have to live with it.
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:39:33 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:39:45 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:40:21 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:49:19 PM PDT
by
Graewoulf
(Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yes, ditch ‘em all the way down to the state and local level. Dan Patrick, who won the runoff for Texas Lt. Gov has a crap consultant named Allen Blakemore who did Patrick no favors. Michael Berry, on his radio show, emphasized the way consultants exert malevolent influence long after the campaign is over and far into the politician’s term. Berry was sincerely worried about the injection of Blakemore into the most powerful office of Texas, which is probably similar to how Ted Cruz feels about Karl Rove and company on the national stage.
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:52:27 PM PDT
by
Shugee
To: All
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:52:34 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The more I hear Ted Cruz, the more I like him! Go, Ted!!!
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:55:08 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: Free Vulcan; All
The ‘political consultants’ that parachute in to Iowa or anywhere also hate normal middle class Americans because they are, admittedly lowly members, members of the professional political class which is culturally leftist and coarsely secular and materialistic. These people genuinely hate those who have an operating moral compass and values as they have none other than some sort of supposed commitment to’tolerance and compassion and inclusivity’ and it makes them very nervous to be around anyone who does believe in something. This is true of pretty much the entire political culture and the upper ranks of the bureaucracy, the military and the foreign policy establishment. It is very daunting for normal middle class Americans to keep their heads above the water and keep their children from being corrupted into coarsely sensual little statist materialists. The political operatives don't want conservatives to win and give lousy advice and guidance because both their biases and their ignorance of the local terrain.
To: Free Vulcan
I lived in Iowa (Slater, Kelly and the South Side of Des Moines) from 1974 to 2001. Worked on the Haig campaign and for the Polk County GOP.
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posted on
05/31/2014 7:57:37 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: Regulator
It’s not Pete’s fault. The one great thing he did (maybe for cynical reasons but it was great nonetheless) was Prop 187. The courts shot it down, and the state was soon flooded with illegals, and then Clinton’s Motor Voter turned a precarious balance into a Democrat wipeout. Pete is a moderate wimp, no doubt, but he didn’t kill the party in California. Demographics did, and on that, he fought.
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posted on
05/31/2014 8:00:16 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
To: Shugee
To: onyx
I worry very much about Cruz’s safety. The people in charge are Stalinist at heart. They have no moral qualms about wiping out their enemies, only political ones. If they could get away with it, they would. And so they may try. And, sadly, I believe that guys like McConnell would secretly be happy, and there would be no consequences. Guys like us would be ridiculed as conspiracy nuts for even thinking the government could do that.
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posted on
05/31/2014 8:04:49 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Washington-centric consultants are corrupt.
When you empower the grass roots you avoid that problem.
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