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Why liberals should root for Ted Cruz
Vox ^ | March 14, 2016 | Matthew Yglesias

Posted on 03/14/2016 9:02:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 03/14/2016 9:02:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Cruz can’t blow up the Democrat party like Trump can.


2 posted on 03/14/2016 9:03:56 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal ( REINCE PRIEBUS: Yeah, but no...you google Ted Cruz ... and immigration...Those are his words,)
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...nobody thinks he's likely to win in November...

Bingo.

3 posted on 03/14/2016 9:05:26 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Trump is sucking the life out of the establishment of both parties.


4 posted on 03/14/2016 9:06:13 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aiderai)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump and Cruz would both cream Hitlerbeast and Sanders, provided no election fraud was occuring.

Also, lol Yglesias, that Ivy League education has him hopping between second-rate blogs to post his banal, hackneyed ‘analysis’.


5 posted on 03/14/2016 9:06:30 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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All the reasons given are part of the body of evidence that makes me pro Trump.


6 posted on 03/14/2016 9:08:37 PM PDT by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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Well, he is your employer after all...


7 posted on 03/14/2016 9:10:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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Trump is going to blow up the Democratic Party?


8 posted on 03/14/2016 9:11:45 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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But Cruz & Rubio would be picked off by the Dems on citizenship issues. Scream all you want, but it would happen and give Hillary the oval office. Or Bernie. Doesn’t bear thinking about.


9 posted on 03/14/2016 9:12:31 PM PDT by kiltie65
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Republican votes should read this.


10 posted on 03/14/2016 9:12:33 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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Ted Cruz can (maybe) stop Trump

LOL everyone says from National Review says to Vote for Cruz same reason but they don't tell he is a joke as a General Primary Candidate.

He comes in third in Ohio and Florida in a 4 Person Race LOL but he can beat Hillary

Liberals scared to death of Trump

11 posted on 03/14/2016 9:15:55 PM PDT by scooby321
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I doubt that Liberals are for the privatization of Social Security.


12 posted on 03/14/2016 9:19:33 PM PDT by miami33
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I figure liberals will vote for Cruz so they can drive the final nail in the natural born clause.


13 posted on 03/14/2016 9:20:59 PM PDT by walkingdead (It's easy, you just don't lead 'em as much....)
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14 posted on 03/14/2016 9:21:00 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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Liberal P.O.S. propaganda website VOX prefers Cruz because he’s most likely to lose for the following reasons:

1. “He’s a much weaker general election candidate”

2. “Running on a nakedly extreme platform and with plenty of intraparty enemies who’ll guarantee a steady stream of bad press.”

3. Cruz is “vetted through the same conservative policy apparatus as everyone else”, that is not an outsider, but an establishment candidate.

4. “People who know him best don’t like him”

5. “nobody thinks he’s likely to win in November”

6. “He should also be the liberal choice for anyone tempted to cross over in an open primary, or just for liberals sitting at home wondering who to root for.”

7. “And compared with Donald Trump he doesn’t offer any outlier downsides”, which I THINK means Cruz is a known quantity and/or has zero cross-over appeal in the general.

So, looks to me like VOX has been reading Free Republic and has figured out, like many of the political analysts at FR, that between Trump and Cruz, Cruz is the least likely to win the general election.


15 posted on 03/14/2016 9:23:34 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Is it just me, or is everybody else sick to death of anything slightly to the right no matter how left it is as being described as extreme?


16 posted on 03/14/2016 9:23:57 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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Or maybe he’s playing head games.


17 posted on 03/14/2016 9:25:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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A vox on the GOPe and its puppets


18 posted on 03/14/2016 10:00:13 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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Over the years he has deliberately positioned himself as more authentically right-wing than Mitch McConnell, John Boehner,

A tray of chicken from Buffalo Wild Wings is more authentically right-wing than McConnell and Boehner.

19 posted on 03/14/2016 10:03:34 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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Too easy — because Hillary can beat him in her sleep.

The only Republican she is afraid of is Donald Trump. That is why she is doing everything, with the help of the GOPe, to stop him from becoming the Republican nominee.


20 posted on 03/14/2016 10:37:05 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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