Innuendo rules.
provide actual solutions to nettlesome problems like health care,....What WAS the problem with our hospitals and doctors? Everybody got treated for free.
Ted is living rent free in her head.
In other words, he COULD have become a RINO squish like the rest of the GOPe. Instead, he is doing the exact things we Texans want him to do which is why those very same Texans handed him a blow-the-doors-off win.
No thanks Mrzz. Rubin, Jeb Bush is not right for this country (yeah, I checked your articles) any more than you offer a conservative perspective at WP.
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Just saying.
Elect Ted Cruz, but Ted Cruz, come out strongly for returning American jobs to America.
We need to stop building up China, and return jobs here to America.
Blah blah blah!
Thanks Jennifer, now buzz off.
When was she elected Queen?
“He has become so identified with an ideologically extreme and politically impractical brand of conservatism that he has put off just about everyone else who may vote in the GOP primaries.”
So was Reagan. I SPECIFICALLY remember that...he was considered so “reactionary” that there was “no way” he could win the general election...that was the main objection to him, not really what he stood for.
And then I’m in college and a college-aged girl (who otherwise never talked politics) says to me: “I like Reagan because he won’t let this country get pushed around”. I knew right then that the rest would be history.
It is UP TO CRUZ to present himself properly. If he can, he wins, if not he loses. At this point NOTHING MATTERS because the election is not today. Reagan was likely 50 to 1 longshot in 1979 because the media had, effectively, painted him as a total EXTREMIST.
But what people don’t understand, or are unwilling to understand (or won’t acknowledge) - once you are painted as an “extremist” the ONLY WAY to go from there is UP. Reagan was able to say that his first appointee to the Supreme Court would be a woman...and yet he still KEPT HIS BASE LOCKED DOWN.
As we saw in 2008, a “moderate” cannot do this, because a “moderate” is always fighting to win the base over in the first place. In 2008 McCain, despite being the PERFECT MODERATE, obviously had polling that showed he would get TROUNCED by Obama, simply because the base had no interest in turning out - so he was FORCED to run with Palin (someone he disagreed with on about everything, and likely hated too). Once that happened, the media could paint him as extreme and make sure that he didn’t win - while much of the base stayed home anyway, because of the top of the ticket.
So look at the difference: Reagan can move from Right to Center (significantly), bring in a new batch of voters, and yet STILL hold his base. McCain is forced to move from Center to Right, allowing the media to paint him as an extremist (thereby pushing much of the squishy center to Obama) and for that he only picks up a small amount of support from the base.
That is now politics works here and also for the Democrats. Obama never campaigned as a left-wing radical because HE DIDN’T HAVE TO. He had his based locked-down, and thus could effectively campaign more in the center...so all the talk about “racial harmony” and fixing this country, etc. got him a LOT of votes from the squishy center.
So let’s not get fooled. Yes, Cruz can blow it, by sounding like a right-wing zealot AFTER getting the Republican nomination, but he’s also VERY SMART, and more importantly, he DOES NOT NEED TO MOVE RIGHT, as he’s already got his base locked down.
(hmmm, this posting is so good, I think I also need to do it stand-alone)
She is paid to write hit pieces about Cruz apparently.
The left is very afraid of Ted Cruz apparently
I’m sure Jennifer was wearing her Bush for President t-shirt when she was typing this drivel on her computer. We get it Establishment Lady you and the rest of the GOPe are trying to stop Ted Cruz. Well, we’ll see about that.
She’s a liberal Jewish girl. We’re never going to see her moose hunting with Sarah Palin or writing kinds words about ANY conservative.
Go to hell Jennifer Rubin!
She’s one hell of a peach...I read one of her pieces of advice to Republicans for 2015 and it was to IGNORE talk radio, as it is just entertainment.
Yes, Rush admits that entertainment is part of the job - but are his callers “entertainers” too? They are the ones even angrier than Rush. Are they shills for him...meaning that the entire show is STAGED? I guess she must believe that, or else she would be advising Republicans to listen to at least the callers...
Of course, most likely, the following greats would be considered "obnoxious" by those same "moderate Republicans":
John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and the other leaders who authored the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights which, by the way, makes it possible for Rubin to exercise her rights to freedom of conscience, speech, and the press to spout her views in 2015.
Ted Cruz's ability to understand and articulate those ideas which are essential to such liberty is what makes him a threat to all, in both political Parties, are bound up by politics instead of fidelity to the Constitution's limits on coercive government power.
Future generations are apt to revile those who have refused to be the "obnoxious" voices of 2014, for they will see them as the generation who compromised away their liberty.
Abolishing the IRS is “extreme”?
It was Leftist extremism to have passed it as an Amendment.