Posted on 10/02/2014 5:16:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Despite his showing in polls of conservatives, it's not a done deal the Republican establishment is going to allow Ted Cruz the opportunity to mount a serious challenge in 2016 – if he chooses to run for the presidency.
For the second straight year, the first-term senator from Texas won the presidential straw poll at the Values Voter Summit sponsored over the weekend by FRC Action, the legislative arm of Family Research Council. Cruz garnered 25 percent of the vote this year, with Dr. Ben Carson finishing second with almost 20 percent. Last year Cruz garnered 42 percent.
Connie Mackey, president of FRC Action, says while Cruz is very popular among conservatives, she doubts he can get the Republican nomination.
"Given the history of the Republican Party, it would seem insurmountable that the Republican Party would allow someone like Ted Cruz to move forward," she tells OneNewsNow. "And by 'allowing,' that means the corporate dollars and those people who control an awful lot merely by their large donations and fundraising abilities."(continued)
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How could they stop him from running?
We are going ot have a primary process. Yes, there is room for mischief making, but still there really is no doubt that Romney won by beating his opponents in the long haul, primary after primary.
Cruz can win hte GOP primary if a majority of GOP primary voters favor him, it's as simple as that. No amount of Establishment entitlement can change that outcome, if the majority of GOP primary voters insist on it.
I certainly hope he does run. OTOH look what they did in MS with Thad Cochran.
Meanwhile the whores at RNC have changed convention rules to strengthen the RNC whores and their favored spineless windtunnel candidates at the expense of the public.
What Romney won in 2012 was the Wall Street/K Street $$$$ primary. If that process is repeated, then the only defense is defeating the GOP-E annointed candidate. I won't ever vote for an Establishment whore again.
Hucklberry’s sole purpose in running is to prevent a Conservative from upsetting the RINO cart. He doesn’t want to win, he’s just following orders: Keep the Conservative base split and keep Agenda 21 going.
Cruz does not need permission, he will just kick the door down, and charge in guns ablazing.
Will GOP establishment even allow Cruz to run? Well the GOP Establishment in Texas tried to stop him from being elected Senator, but he defeated an entrenched, well-funded, sitting Lt. Governor and defeated him very handily. Actually, he beat him like a drum. Ted Cruz is not ordinary politician. He’s a brilliant statesman and one helluva campaigner.
He has to have a Herman Cain type problem for them to do a “Herman Cain” on him....
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Herman Cain was a womanizing whore monger. If he was innocent of the accusations made against him, he would have bowed up and fought like hell and said: “I want to face my accusers”. But, no, he dropped out of the race, kept the campaign cash he raised, and ran whining and hid behind his wife’s skirt and God. The very mention of his name makes me want to puke.
What happened to Thad Cochran?
They pulled just about every dirty trick in the book to keep the coot in office.
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