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Column: Cruz's Outspoken Tea Party Stances Alienate GOP Base
The Daily Gamecock ^ | May 31, 2015 | Griffin Hobson

Posted on 05/31/2015 6:52:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 05/31/2015 6:52:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I cant think of one of his positions that are extreme. and if they are considered extreme by the majority then this country is in a lot of trouble.


2 posted on 05/31/2015 6:55:46 PM PDT by dp0622
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When a leftist Communist terrorist-appeaser gives
suggestions to the GOP to “help” conservatives.

==> Psyops because Sen. Cruz is smack over the target.


3 posted on 05/31/2015 6:56:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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But Obama, Hillary, Pocahontas, Dick Durban, Elijah Cummings, John Kerry, and their like being obvious socialists - if not actually communists - doesn’t alienate a soul.


4 posted on 05/31/2015 6:57:37 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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This has to be one of the most far-fetched articles I’ve read...


5 posted on 05/31/2015 6:58:08 PM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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Senator Cruz alienates GOPEs, not the base.

He invigorates the base!


6 posted on 05/31/2015 7:02:45 PM PDT by Taxman ( I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!)
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Right, well these days staying in a budget and not bankrupting the USA is considered radical.


7 posted on 05/31/2015 7:05:28 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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The people on the left fail to realize that Romney overwhelmed the president with independents and lost because several million conservatives stayed home. If the Republicans nominate a conservative such as Ted Cruz, and he stays to form, he can attract votes from the entire political spectrum. Despite what we hear from the media, including this skull full of mush college writer, a conservative candidate will attract voters of all stripes if he says what he means and means what he says. People are dying for leadership in this wayward country of ours.


8 posted on 05/31/2015 7:09:08 PM PDT by dowcaet
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Why should we care what a little brainwashed liberal scribbling for the University of South Carolina school newspaper thinks? He is simply regurgitating what his Socialist Poli Sci professor spouts during every class period. Find this dweeb in ten years and see how he’s doing. Talk is really cheap when you think you know it all.


9 posted on 05/31/2015 7:10:23 PM PDT by txrefugee
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relatively nonpartisan PolitiFact

Is he series???

10 posted on 05/31/2015 7:11:06 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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Communist paranoia.


11 posted on 05/31/2015 7:11:51 PM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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This makes no case against his positions. It is a case against his cooperation with the Republican leadership. The author may think the leadership is the “base” but I always thought the voters were the base. The voters like Cruz and are mad that the leadership.


12 posted on 05/31/2015 7:12:36 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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Maybe that’s because the GeeOpee’s RINO/Rainbow fithcally convervative {uhh} but progressive “base”, isn’t the GOP’s base.


13 posted on 05/31/2015 7:13:03 PM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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He's the stereotype:

GRIFFIN HOBSON

Copy Editor

Griffin is a first-year economics student from Fishers, I.N. When not searching articles for grammatical errors, he enjoys politics and cats.

14 posted on 05/31/2015 7:13:39 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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...the relatively nonpartisan PolitiFact...


Got a little chuckle out of this.


15 posted on 05/31/2015 7:14:30 PM PDT by Yardstick
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Homosexual marriage compared to traditional marriage IS extream.


16 posted on 05/31/2015 7:15:45 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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Griffin is a first-year economics student from Fishers, I.N. When not searching articles for grammatical errors, he enjoys politics and cats.

Looks like a flaming lefty college freshman. And he's going to bat for polygamy. Some of his other recent columns on this page:

Thje Daily Gamecock

17 posted on 05/31/2015 7:19:22 PM PDT by Will88
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I don’t know what circles this guy is running in, but I have heard nothing but praise for the guy.

I have heard independents say this, but everytime I asked if they had heard him speak without the filter of the media, they have said no.

I had a few after going and hearing him speak from start to finish that they were awed by the guys intelligence and speaking ability. They were shocked at how badly twisted their impression was through the MSM.


18 posted on 05/31/2015 7:20:08 PM PDT by dila813
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With his pimples and lack of social skills, he’d better pray there is no polygamy. He’d be on the short end of the stick.


19 posted on 05/31/2015 7:23:09 PM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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the relatively nonpartisan PolitiFact has ranked more than two-thirds of his statements "Mostly False" or worse

"Relatively nonpartisan PolitiFact" translates to "Democratic Party organ", just like "mostly peaceful protests" means "violent riot."

20 posted on 05/31/2015 7:23:48 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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