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Memo to GOP Establishment: Ted Cruz is the Best Deal You’re Going to Get from Conservatives
Conservative HQ ^ | March 2, 2016 | George Rasley, editor

Posted on 03/04/2016 1:03:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: nopardons

Cruz can’t win? They said the same about Reagan. I see Ted Cruz as another Ronaldo Magnus, an opportunity of a lifetime. We should unite behind the true conservative, Ted Cruz, and I assure you that he will win and go on to be a great president.

-Frank (Navy vet)


21 posted on 03/04/2016 3:08:06 AM PST by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pretty rediculous comments the Trumpets keep making. Must be the only things they can come up with.


22 posted on 03/04/2016 3:09:10 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Neither.


23 posted on 03/04/2016 3:09:29 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (You don't have to like Trump, his enemies certainly don't.)
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To: Daniel Ramsey
I just figured you were partaking in some cannabis with that statement and it's legal in those states.
24 posted on 03/04/2016 3:13:01 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How cool is it though that Trump gave money to Reagan!


25 posted on 03/04/2016 3:13:41 AM PST by Boardwalk
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To: Boardwalk

And Jimmy Carter?


26 posted on 03/04/2016 3:14:42 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is not beholden to anyone!


27 posted on 03/04/2016 3:17:23 AM PST by Boardwalk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz won’t negotiate with those powers, he cannot answer a question ever, he does not have a military based stategic plan or a backup, no flexibility.

In summary he will react in a bad fashion like a spoiled child, if a kid throws a rock at him he would grab daddies gun and shoot back.

Its saber rattling for attention from these countries, they just want to push and expand, you have to be a flexible thinker, Ted isn’t. Just like Trump said last night about being committed to a set course, well Cruz is like the captain of the Titanic, set a course and the hell with ice bergs.

Trump will settle the sabre rattling in an easy save your face manner, and without ratcheting it up.


28 posted on 03/04/2016 3:21:56 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (You don't have to like Trump, his enemies certainly don't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, we all get it. Cruz is the true social conservative. No one denies that. It isn’t selling. Few think social conservatism is the solution to our present danger.

And as a former submarine officer, I find his talk about CINC condescending. He knows nothing about it because he never ran anything more than his mouth.


29 posted on 03/04/2016 3:25:12 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Daniel Ramsey

That. Is what bothers me. Trump talks about getting great generals and supporting them. Cruz talks about how great he is going to be commanding his new toy. It is frightening.


30 posted on 03/04/2016 3:31:34 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Cruz is fixed, and predictable. Reminds me of WW2 and Rommell.


31 posted on 03/04/2016 3:37:25 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (You don't have to like Trump, his enemies certainly don't.)
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To: dinodino
The Republican Establishment reminds me of Charlie Brown repeatedly trying the kick, only to have Lucy yank the ball away at the last second.

Don't consider the Republican Establishment to be stupid. They are not. The Republican Establishment is corrupt.

They know their role is to maintain the PRETENSE of opposing the Democrat (really the Globalist) agenda, while not actually beating them on anything really important to the Globalists.

The Republican Establishment would prefer to lose the White House, than be put into the position of actually having to deliver what they have promised to the American people.

32 posted on 03/04/2016 3:37:25 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: AndyJackson

Describe Don Trump’s military experience to me.


33 posted on 03/04/2016 3:37:32 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I listened again last night to this phony canard that is being used to show that Trump can not win the General Election. It is some version of this: Well you haven't got more than 50% of Republican voters so that means that 50-60% don't like or support you. What does that stupid argument say for the other candidates who are behind Trump by 20 percentage points or more? We all know Cruz is the most conservative of the lot but if Trump were not there taking the flack, the multi-headed enemy would be about destroying Cruz. He has zero ability to appeal to and get cross-over voters and the media and GOPe will destroy him in a general election in a heartbeat. Worse yet, he will not have any money to wage a war against Hillary, because he is not independently wealthy like Trump and he will have relatively few large donors supporting him vis-a-vis Hillary's money machine. The enemy hates Trump, but their vitriol is even higher for Cruz. I hate to say this but Cruz would go down in the General as another Goldwater. His campaign would look very much like his filibuster on defunding Obamacare. He will put up a helluva good fight, but no victory. Right now, the enemy strategy is take out Trump, then demolish Cruz. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. We are in high stakes politics for this Country right now and we better get it together.
34 posted on 03/04/2016 3:39:05 AM PST by iontheball
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz is a condescending jerk towards the military. It is a toy. Trump treats it with respect and makes clear it is a last resort, not a first one. Lots of folks talk about taking the war to Putin. Trump has the sagacity treat him with firm ness but respect.


35 posted on 03/04/2016 3:47:48 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: iontheball

Logic matters not.


36 posted on 03/04/2016 3:51:39 AM PST by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: iontheball
We all know Cruz is the most conservative of the lot but if Trump were not there taking the flack, the multi-headed enemy would be about destroying Cruz.

No they wouldn't.

They would have destroyed him months ago. He would only be a distant memory by now.

Cruz owes his current political standing all to Trump.

Cruz isn't tough enough to take 10% of what Trump has and will take.

37 posted on 03/04/2016 3:55:30 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The civil case about Trump’s school is still in court and not decided on, yet. So saying he “scammed” people is another Cruz lie, at this point. Cruz lies a lot.


38 posted on 03/04/2016 4:10:23 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Balding_Eagle

e all know Cruz is the most conservative of the lot but if Trump were not there taking the flack, the multi-headed enemy would be about destroying Cruz.
No they wouldn’t.

They would have destroyed him months ago. He would only be a distant memory by now.
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Yes, you are right. My analysis was less than precise. At whatever point Trump would be out of the mix, all incoming would be immediately shift to Cruz. He would find himself out of money very fast and that would be the end of it.


39 posted on 03/04/2016 4:16:41 AM PST by iontheball
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The problem with Cruz, with all the Pub candidates except Trump, is that they are getting their money from rich donors who will expect to influence policy in return.

All new presidents begin immediately to campaign for the next election. That campaigning requires money, lots of it. A President Cruz, Rubio, or Kasich will have to satisfy their major donors if they expect more money.

This puts the rich donor class right back in the Presidential driver’s seat, molding policy to their satisfaction, & not necessarily to the satisfaction of the people who elected them.

If Cruz had refused all big donors & focused on a grass roots campaign, I would be backing him now. As it is, Cruz is owned just as all the others are, with the exception of Trump.


40 posted on 03/04/2016 4:37:29 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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