Posted on 09/10/2015 10:45:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The PAC backing Ted Cruz calls Mitt Romney a “terrible candidate” and believes Cruz will be able to turn his Cuban heritage into Hispanic votes if he wins the GOP presidential nomination. In a report titled, “Can He Win?” the PAC now headed by David Barton is sharply critical of Mitt Romney and his campaign for the presidency. CNN posted a link to a slide show with the same content back in July, but that link now is dead.
The report repeatedly tells readers, “In 2012 a terrible candidate with a terrible campaign almost won” and then refers to Romney’s performance among African-Americans and Hispanics. Here is the Colorado analysis:
Given Cruz’s Christian nation positions and the addition of very un-Libertarian Barton as head of the Keep the Promise PAC, my opinion is that this is wishful thinking.
A big part of the Keep the Promise strategy is to use wedge issues to get white voters to stay in the GOP fold.
What will bring out the white voters? According to Keep the Promise, Common Core, Immigration, Future not Past, National Security and Foreign Money. Honestly, I am not sure how Cruz is going to drive up white and Hispanic vote at the same time if his wedge issue is immigration.
Readers, do you think this PAC will bring home a Cruz victory?
Fundamental misunderstanding. Cruz’s “wedge issue” isn’t immigration—it’s the lawless Washington Cartel that have abandoned America’s citizens on all fronts: immigration, Religious Liberty, Common Core, Federal Over-reach (which will play well in Colorado right now after the EPA’s massive mistake on the Animas River), Foreign Affairs, and judicial tyranny.
Multiple polls of legal immigrants show that they a.) want the border secured and b.) are against amnesty by about a 2-to-1 margin. Not surprisingly, immigration is a very powerful issue among immigrants -- but not necessarily in the way one might think.
Nonetheless, Cruz' "wedge' issue isn't immigration -- it's the "Washington cartel".
After Trump tears up the carefully crafted battle terrain the enemedia and Rats/RINOs have prepared Cruz will be the adult left standing. God Bless America.
I still say Romney did not lose. He just did not win by enough to overcome Rat fraud. We live in one of those states and the irregularities in just our neighborhood were astounding. Banana Republics have better elections.
“After Trump tears up the carefully crafted battle terrain the enemedia and Rats/RINOs have prepared Cruz will be the adult left standing.”
It’s not clear that Republican voters want an adult.
Two out of Three Hispanics Oppose Immigration Increase
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3335535/posts
Many are ignorant about what it took in the “swing” states.
This is why we Americans need a movement to create an overwhelming landslide across states and beyond the executive branch no one can deny.
I think it's some of both....they are not really mutually exclusive notions. To be sure, there is fraud. But to be sure, Romney ran a horrible campaign, was terrible in the third debate - and squandered an easy win opportunity.
“... he decided not to take the fight to Obama for some reason. Weird.”
GOPe didn’t want him to win?
The third debate was about foreign policy. While watching it, I thought that surely Romney would play his ace by bringing up Benghazi, but he never did, even though I was yelling into my TV screen, "Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!"
At least they didn't seem to want the conservative vote. The Republican National Convention offered nothing for conservatives--Sarah Palin was nowhere to be found, and Newt Gingrich, known for his barn-burning oratory, went out of character with a platitute-ridden, uninspiring speech--probably at the GOPe's insistence. When it was announced that a "mystery guest" would make an appearance, we all thought it would be Sarah Palin, but it turned out to be some washed up has-been Hollywood actor who gave a rambling address.
Seems the GOPe got its wish. On Election Day, five million conservatives stayed home.
Hispanics don't vote Republican because they don't like their policies, not because Republicans are 'mean' on immigration
It is precisely a failure to halt the immigration tsunami in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s that leaves the Republicans vulnerable and needing to make weak efforts to pander to people who do not like their policies. Mexicans do not cross the border clutching copies of Von Mises or Friedman; if they liked Anglo-Saxon small government they would have created such systems in their own countries. Reverence for the Constitution and the Founding Fathers are pretty much a White thing; such appeals may rally the White base but likely leave everyone else cold.
Even on social issues Hispanics are not wildly different than the native population and probably more liberal than evangelical Christians. In other words they don't like Republican economic policies and are not really driven by Republican social policies.
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