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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 05/09/2015 1:31:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Establishment Republicans know I'm a reliable conservative but a lousy party guy.
Where we live, most local offices are held by Republicans. If conservative — any — voters here wish to influence who will hold the local offices that most immediately affect them, it's a logical decision to register Republican to vote in primary elections. There's no way to control — or know — how voters will cast general election ballots for statewide or national offices.
That logic helps to explain a common national media misconception about conservatives and Republican party politics.
National Review's Kevin Williamson wrote: "What a great many self-proclaimed political sophisticates do not get is that politics on the Right is not dominated by the Republican party; it is dominated by the never-ending contest between a Republican party that wants to make the conservative movement its instrument and a conservative movement that wants to make the GOP its instrument. ...
"We have a ... raucous and rivalrous gang of independent groups, precisely because GOP leaders cannot exercise the sort of control over their coalition that Democrats do over theirs. Left-leaning PACs and independent group(s) ... supplement ... the Democrats' machine; right-leaning groups are an alternative to the Republicans' machine.
"People who don't understand that the name 'Karl Rove' gets hissed every bit intensely as the name 'Barack Obama' simply do not understand what is happening on the Right."
That misconception explains the consternation of left-leaning national media over how U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a conservative Republican reviled by the "moderate" GOP congressional establishment, raised more than $60 million in days after announcing his presidential campaign. Bloomberg's Mark Halperin reported: "There are no known cases in which an operation backing a White House hopeful has collected this much money in less than a week."
Cruz's fundraising may be an outlier or, more likely, an omen. Here's why:
Fiscal conservatives disapprove of Republican spending habits, too. House and Senate Republicans have passed a bicameral budget resolution that, theoretically, grows spending more slowly than the economy but which contains gimmicks. For example, without explanation, it eliminates Obamacare spending but assumes Obamacare-levels of revenue. And, by continuing to spend vast sums for "Overseas Contingency Operations," extra-budgetary items that aren't counted against budget caps, spending would blow by caps.
Their budget resolution "balances" within 10 years — but, very probably, only on paper.
In fact, despite record U.S. Treasury tax receipts, American budget deficits will be greater this year with Republicans holding majorities in both houses of Congress than they were last year when Republicans controlled only one.
Among other considerations, congressional fiscal irresponsibility encourages conservatives to favor presidential candidates from among Republican governors with demonstrable conservative track records. Presently, as many as seven current or former GOP governors, some of whom will prove unacceptable to conservatives, may run.
Ultimately, the Republican nominee may not be Cruz, but media and the GOP establishment should view Cruz's record haul as more than 60 million clues that conservatives won't allow party operatives to force-feed them a 2016 presidential nominee.
The NRA should form a (truly conservative) political party. At least we would know where they stand on a few things.
Ted Cruz Ping! The same people who have no problem with Shamnesty and more big government spending.
Good column.
Cruz has supporters on this forum. What has he done that I should vote for him?(I would vote for him if he became the Republican nominee). However, for purposes of the Primary why should I vote for him.? What has he done?
This Shenk guy gets it.
Unless I’m grossly mistaken, the NRA endorsed Mitch McConnell.
Based on that, I will have nothing to do with the NRA.
I went back to make sure.
I was not mistaken:
The NRA needs to join the Brady campaign and be open in their disdain for gun owners and the 2A because they have certainly floated enough trial balloons with 2A infringements over the years to clearly delineate their actual position on it. Incremental destruction.
And that doesn’t even get into their political endorsement stupidity.
Did Cruz file a campaign finance report yet?
Does the 60 Million include PAC money?
That’s a super-impressive number. Once we get to the debates and TV ads he’s going to be in a strong position
I thought Jeb was having a hard time getting donors to fund him.
1) He’s been less bad than the others, though still not good, on illegal immigration.
[Why should I vote for him.? What has he done?]T
TED CRUZ - MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
For me it is either Cruz or Walker. I have given to Ted Cruz twice since he announced. Just wish I wasn’t treated like a brand new donor each time I go to give again. Maybe one lump sum is the answer.
1) He’s been less bad than the others, though still not good, on illegal immigration.
Ultimately, the Republican nominee may not be Cruz, but media and the GOP establishment should view Cruz’s record haul as more than 60 million clues that conservatives won’t allow party operatives to force-feed them a 2016 presidential nominee.
They’re planning on force-feeding us an amnesty candidate.
We need to be prepared to ignore the nosehlders and walk away.
(And Hillary will thank us/s)
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