Will Ted Cruz Be the Candidate to Unite the Blue-Collar and White-Collar Wings of the GOP?

New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer ^ | December 21, 2015 | Ed Kilgore

[jpsb]

No, he supported the legislation, TPA, that enable the job killing TPP plus two other super secret “trade” deals. He is on record for wanting to increase legal immigration and greatly increasing H1B visas. He is also wobbly on illegal immigration. Ted Cruz is not a friend of American working class voters. In fact he looks an awful lot like a globalist. However he would be better then anyone running other than Trump and vastly better than she who shall not be named.

[jpsb]

I am pretty sure the founding fathers did not mean a person born on foreign soil to a foreign citizen father and an American citizen mother when that put the Natural Born Citizen (NBC) clause into our Constitution. IMHO there a three types of citizens.
NBC Two American citizen parents born on US soil (acceptations for Military and Diplomats)
Citizen at birth Parents are a married couple with one parent a US Citizen. Or mother is a US citizen.
Naturalized Citizen.

I know born on US soil gives citizenship at birth but I think that needs to be changed pronto. I also do not think that was the intent of the 14th

[Duchess47]

I completely agree with you.

[Sybeck1]

Didn’t I read somewhere, Cruz is polling 25% with blacks or something like that?

[2ndDivisionVet]

I believe so.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The site owner agrees with me, not you. Are his “good intentions helping our march to Hell” as well?

[2ndDivisionVet]

The site owner agrees with me, not you. Are his “good intentions helping our march to Hell” as well?

[moehoward]

Were these blue collar voters as dumb and uneducated when Obama was courting them 7 years ago?

Maybe the common folks are drawn to Trump not because they are ignorant, but because they’ve been getting screwed for decades.

[Duchess47]

It is his site, he will and should support the candidates he likes best. That doesn’t change my opinion, however, I have not devoted millions of hours and millions of dollars to providing this website for the public. I will not insult the man for his beliefs.

[2ndDivisionVet]

But you’ll insult me? Okay.

[Duchess47]

And I am insulting you how?

[DoodleDawg]

There is no way blue collar Whites and Reagan Democrats will back Cruz.

The conservative ones will. The moderates will stick with Trump.

[CatherineofAragon]

Scratch the surface of many Trump supporters and you find interesting things lurking beneath.

Things like birtherism, anti-Christian sentiment (one of the most recent comments concerned Cruz’s “silly religious crap”), support for Obamacare, and dismissal of abortion as no big deal.

Oh, and I saw a post which said the Constitution is dead and we need to install Trump as a dictator.

And people expect me to support Trump? Not a chance in hell.

[dforest]

Cruz rally threads do good to get 20 posts on FR. Geesh