Posted on 12/16/2014 7:50:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Texan wants to win the presidency by rallying conservatives -- and hoping people forget why they dislike him.
Ted Cruz shut down the government; now he wants to preside over it. The junior senator from Texas is apparently moving closer to announcing his presidential candidacy, and National Review’s Eliana Johnson spoke to the people involved in Cruz 2016 who think they’ve figured out a way to propel their boy to the Oval Office: rally the conservative base, ignore independents, and eat into some of the traditionally Democratic constituencies.
It’s a strategy that’s very similar to the one embraced by Michele Bachmann in her ill-fated 2012 presidential campaign. Bachmann presented herself as a Tea Party champion, an uncompromising antagonist to the D.C. “establishment” (both Republican and Democratic), and a crusader for conservative causes. She enjoyed her short-lived frontrunner status, steadily bled support as concerns about her electability mounted, and abandoned the race after a terrible performance in the Iowa caucus.
Would the same fate befall Cruz? Obviously it’s tough to say – Cruz is a better politician than Bachmann ever was, but he inhabits the same space as a right-wing rabble-rouser with appeal that is concentrated among the hardcore conservatives. He also doesn’t have many friends (Cruz sets fire to bridges as they’re being built) and you can make a strong argument that he’s set back the cause of conservative governance by refusing to even entertain the notion of compromise. Bachmann was mocked, whereas Cruz is actively disliked.
But Cruz’s people have a plan: turn out the base and build a pro-Cruz coalition of Jews, Hispanics, and women....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
THE LEFT CERTAINLY LEAVES NO DOUBT WHO AND WHAT THEY FEAR THE MOST———TED CRUZ, 2016
Something that’s easy to get usually isn’t worth much, is it?
I smell FEAR.
I could eat a can of alphabet soup and crap out a more intelligent article than anything that appears in “Salon.”
Yes, I’m sure they just want the best for us. /s
If Cruz is good enough then he will get votes. It should not matter the negativity if the population really wants him.
No doubt.
I wonder when “RINCE” comes out of the closet?
One man with courage is a majority.
~Thomas Jefferson
I am sure that Ted Cruz is inconsolable about the fact that Salon doesn’t like him.
I’m sorry. I don’t understand what your trying to say.
I’ll send him 5 Bens AND a bunch of gift cards for whichever restaurants border his campaign address!
Hell! I’ll deliver it! With Stogies!
My (blue chip) company forced me onto direct deposit and the resultant cash is piling up so high I don’t have the time to withdraw and spend it, with the hours I work.
Consider the source. They’re all in the bubble feeding off the rest of us.
He must be doing something right. They can’t stop talking about him. Smell the fear.
Cruz must be right on target and have the left scared to death.
Yo, Simple Simon Maloy, if a lying, unaccomplished, incompetent, inexperienced, affirmative action moron, Marxist, Muslim, foreign-born, arrogant, ignorant, America-hating traitorous jerk can claim POTUS anything is possible.
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