Posted on 11/25/2014 11:55:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The New York Observer excerpted some choice lines from Ted Cruz’s meetings with various prominent Jewish leaders in New York City this week.
He’s definitely doing prep work for 2016 and, thanks to gross mischaracterizations of him by both Republicans and Democrats, he is probably quite underestimated all around. He is also smart enough to turn this to his advantage in these early stages of the election cycle. Responding to a question inspired by one of the more popular narratives — he can’t win — that Democrats and moderate Republicans are eerily in sync on, Senator Cruz had this to say:
Mr. Boteach said, “You are arguably the strongest U.S. Senator when it comes to Israel. But if you run, can you win? You’re seen as a champion of the tea party. And the media tends to caricature.”
Mr. Cruz replied, “Historically, the media has had two caricatures of Republicans. We are either stupid or evil.”
“Sometimes both!” volunteered one of the lunchers.
Mr. Cruz laughed and continued. “Reagan was stupid, according to the media. George W. Bush, Dan Quayle, stupid. Nixon was evil, Cheney was evil. I sort of take it as a backhanded compliment that they’ve invented a new caricature for me—crazy. At the end of the day, that caricature doesn’t trouble me because it’s fundamentally false. The American people have a history of making up their own minds.”
Mr. Cruz said that as groups who might be skeptical—like the one in this room—come to know him, doubts will be dispelled and stereotypes will be shattered.
He is right about this and the will guarantee that his detractors will expend a lot of effort trying to falsely define him.
Cruz surprised some by saying:
"I don’t think I’m all that conservative. And it’s interesting. Reagan never once beat his chest and said, “I’m the most conservative guy who ever lived.” Reagan said, “I’m defending common sense principles—small businesses, small towns.”
The senator is correct about this as well. The Democrats were hijacked by ’60s era radicals and have been drifting ever-leftward for at least forty years. Republican moderates, driven by a desperate need to be liked, tend to get caught up in the wake of the Democrats and drift along with them, even if slowly and behind them. So, relative to a political class that is moving away from the American people, Cruz might seem uber-conservative. Real conservatives, however, don’t have a malleable set of political principles to work with. We’re where we have always been on the political spectrum, and a lot of the American people have always been here with us.
When you look at a red/blue map after the last election, the Democrats are ideologically and geographically at the outer edges of America. They’re literally a fringe party right now.
Ted Cruz isn’t an extremist, no matter how many times Democrat hacks and the John McCain crowd say he is. He’s aligned with regular Americans who are tired of Washington raiding our wallets.
I hope that at some point you will start making sense, so far that hasn’t happened.
That’s okay if you don’t understand the disaster of the Federal Reserve for conservatives, ansel, thank you for all your posts tonight about Reagan and JFK.
As to how Reagan did away with the last vestiges of EO 11110? I’d say he did it for the same reason that he ended up with HW Bush on the ticket.
But do your homework so you can understand how a son of a bankster family like JFK suddenly had a sea change and tried to reign in the Fed with EO 11110.
JFK issuing EO 11110 is like a King suddenly turning on the monarchy.
What I don’t understand is your confused ramblings that don’t connect.
Ditto here. And looking back, several of us had the same trouble understanding you and your posts back in April.
Seemed you were pushing some “do or die” meme about supporting Ted Cruz back then, too. And you seemed to be carrying Karl Rove’s “Todd Aiken” Tea Party water...
We all thought you were a troll.
Now wondering what you are “selling”.
You are absolutely nuts and evidently not all there.
Todd Akin? I was anti-Akin, and as far as Rove, Rove was anti-Akin, I was never involved in akin discussions and April?.
And while I have always supported Ted Cruz, I have no idea what “April” is about, nor what your “do or die” comment is about, I guess all this gibberish is like you saying that Reagan changed his mind a few months after writing his letter about JFK and your gibberish about Christianity and EO 11110.
Just some weirdo not playing with a full deck, and on the internet.
It would be helpful to observe the fact that ansel12 is prone to trolling, and attempting to stonewall logical communication.
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That is a lie of course, but it was a very troll personal attack for you to show us.
Are you capable of posting on a topic or responding to posts, in a way that is relevant?
Once one recognizes what you are, you are truly amusing!
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LOL, so no actual useful input just your “attempting to stonewall logical communication.”
Done.
“The Fringe map Ted Cruz mentioned. RATS are the color they SHOULD be seen as: Communist Red. Republicans are blue.”
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Yes, and they used to be displayed that way (Red for carried by the ‘RAT and Blue for carried by the Republican). They switched when it started becoming apparent that “Red” was beginning to describe the ‘RAT political positions.
He meant by ‘not all that conservative’ that both he and Reagan were applying common sense. Common sense isn’t ‘radical conservative’ or any else. Common sense is itself.
AMEN.
I will vote for Ted Cruz for POTUS in 2016. Take that to the bank.
Wasn’t it the Democrats who actually did that? There was no GOP majority in the Senate during the shutdown.
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