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Will GOP establishment even allow Cruz to run?
OneNewsNow ^ | October 2, 2014 | Chad Groening

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)

(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2016; bush; chrischristie; cruz; gop; republicans; romney; tedcruz
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To: Jean2

How could they stop him from running?


21 posted on 10/02/2014 8:16:31 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I detest articles like this. They imply that the GOP is some hidden group in the background that can control all events. This is the conspiracy theory of politics, and it's one that is usually associated with libtards and 99 percenter OWS idiots.

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.

22 posted on 10/02/2014 9:49:49 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide.)
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To: tbw2

I certainly hope he does run. OTOH look what they did in MS with Thad Cochran.


23 posted on 10/02/2014 10:02:56 PM PDT by Jean2 (ox)
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To: Jack Black
There is no conspiracy just a bunch of Wall Street and K Street and US Chamber of Crony Socialism $$$$ obsessive greedheads who think that by spending enough money they can buy nominations. In the 2012 primary, in NW Illinois, you could not turn on the radio without being assaulted by wall-to-wall Myth Romney lies in ad form. His campaign bought sooooo many spots that there was little or no time for the other candidates.

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.

24 posted on 10/02/2014 11:04:58 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Rack 'em Danno!)
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To: House Atreides

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.


25 posted on 10/03/2014 4:13:26 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz does not need permission, he will just kick the door down, and charge in guns ablazing.


26 posted on 10/03/2014 6:10:40 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: sport
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The GOP-E has launched it's "last" national campaign loser candidate ... Mitt Romney.

The party will literally disappear (go extinct) in 2016 in Ted Cruz isn't the nominee.

Period.

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27 posted on 10/03/2014 7:13:55 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (.)
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To: Sirius Lee
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dittos his quid pro quo financial arrangement (given a free tv show slot on fox news) ...



28 posted on 10/03/2014 7:15:14 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

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.


29 posted on 10/03/2014 8:40:07 PM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

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.


30 posted on 10/03/2014 8:45:10 PM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: Jean2

What happened to Thad Cochran?


31 posted on 10/04/2014 8:50:34 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

They pulled just about every dirty trick in the book to keep the coot in office.


32 posted on 10/04/2014 9:44:32 AM PDT by Jean2 (ox)
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