Posted on 04/04/2015 8:51:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced his 2016 presidential campaign last month, making him the only current official Republican candidate — for now. All of that is expected to change next week as Marco Rubio and Rand Paul make their own announcements, and likely push Cruz into the presidential background.
But it’s not just me who believes that Ted Cruz has no shot of being the party nominee, much less the eventual President in 2016. Here are four pretty persuasive groups who also say that President Cruz is never going to happen.
1. His fellow Texas politicians
It’s pretty hard to fight for the party nomination when you don’t have the support of your own party members. It’s even worse when you don’t have the support of your local party leaders. Texas Republican Congressman Rep. Pete Sessions told Politico that he doesn’t think Cruz can rally the Texans behind him, saying, “We need someone who can win the state of Florida, can win the state of Pennsylvania … and can win the state of Ohio. We can have favorite sons. … There is nothing wrong with that, but Republicans want to win before we want an ideological [candidate].” Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, another fellow Texan, also said he won’t be behind Cruz, at least, not right now. “You know, we’ve got a lot of Texans who are running for president, so I’m going to watch from the sidelines,” he told Politico.
2. News outlet political pundits
It’s not just his fellow lawmakers shooting him down, either. The political pages of numerous media outlets think he’s a no-go, too. The L.A. Times called him a “Sarah Palin with a high IQ,” which is supposed to be flattering but still shows he doesn’t have a prayer, saying, “Because most Americans are not keen on going back to the 18th century, chances are reasonably good that Cruz will be no more successful in national politics than Palin has been.” U.S. News and World Report’s politics column refers to him as “The Imaginary President,” all rhetoric and no results. “While he likes to imagine himself the heir to Reagan (the good parts, anyway) Cruz’s rhetorical style seems to have served him far better than any legislative ideas he might have come up with. (Abolish the IRS? The department that collects the money that pays for roads, schools, cops and wars?) And considering he’s a member of arguably the least productive Congress in modern times, it’s not like there’s an actual record for him to run on.”
3. Policy folks who are supposed to know this sort of thing
What are Cruz’s chances, according to the Hinckley Institute of Politics? Pretty near zip. “I give him almost zero chance of winning the nomination,” said Kirk Jowers, with the Hinckley Institute of Politics, told a Utah news station, adding that Cruz is a “dangerous candidate” for the Republican Party. He said that “safe money” is on Jeb Bush, but a Marco Rubio candidacy has the best shot if Hillary Clinton ends up with the Democratic party nomination.
4. The IRS
So how do people who work in the government feel about Cruz’s chances? One agency most likely to be impacted by a President Cruz would be the Internal Revenue Service, since Cruz claims that his administration would get rid of the whole thing. Current IRS Commissioner John Koskinen says that is never going to happen – and is completely unrealistic to boot. ”Politics are politics,” he told Bloomberg News. “It is interesting to me. When you say you’re going to abolish the IRS and everybody will fill out a small card, somebody has to collect the money.” He then addressed Cruz, saying, “You could call them something other than the IRS if that made you feel better.”
So, sorry, Senator Cruz, it looks like 2016 isn’t going to be your year. Maybe you should focus on 2020 instead. Feel free to make an early announcement whenever you feel most comfortable.
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Robin Marty is a freelance writer and editor who focuses on women's rights, reproductive rights and politics. She spent the previous three years working with a national progressive online news network and currently consults for a reproductive health news organization.
To the Author:
Hey babe, what about the American people who are sick and tired of
the insanity that has enveloped a once great God blessed nation.
Perhaps they will have an opinion?
“ We the people” It really does mean something.
He still got a ice sack on his head smarting from that one.
Gotto put some ice on that one dude.
The author is Abortion Midge.
Another weird looking man
None that I could say without getting banned for life.
Hey Robin Marty darling, abolish the IRS ? Repealing the 16th admendment would be a good start.
What a mean looking woman. Hardened dykes won’t be voting for Cruz, but they don’t matter.
Because they waste ink by the barrels ?
Perhaps ? The size of those, and support of those who really support gay rights and abortions is not there, or as large as they would have us to believe..... Astro support, astro turf.
Maybe they are really scared because their foundations is really a house of cards.
Cruzaphobia on full display.
Robin looks like she like to dine at the Y
With this RFRA thing, we’ve been seeing a bit of a run of short-haired female moonbat writers.
Robin looks like on of her X's lost a leg.
In the foreseeable future, it's unlikely any Republican can be elected president, unless a third party Leftist candidate pulls votes away from the Democrat nominee.
Because of massive legal immigration, the GOP candidate must get at least 62% of the white vote in a two-man race to win a majority of electoral votes.
Only Ronald Reagan (1984) and several of the Founding Fathers have crossed the 62% threshold since 1792.
Wonder how she gets along with her dad. Young women with loving, attentive fathers tend not to be so fired up about killing babies and government as god.
I did a bit of background on her...she’s simply a Progressive feminist who strongly supports abortion and celebrates it’s advancement so she attracts that crowd.
Married with three kids....and from her sites i believe she often is in conflict.
Also she infiltrates Pro-life demonstrations...and will even speak to that affect.
Ted Cruz won 41% of the Latino vote in 2012. Do you know what you call someone who wins that much of those votes in a national election?
Somebody pissed in her cornflakes more than once.
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