Posted on 04/13/2016 10:47:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Candidates like Donald Trump are exciting. Trump is guaranteed to bring out thousands to his events and generate copious decibels of noise. He has built a campaign on telling it like it is and refusing to be politically correct.
Ted Cruz, on the other hand, is boring. He brings hundreds to his events and utters Ronald Reagan’s name a few times to get the crowd going. His demeanor is confident but not quite as in-your-face as Trump is. But for those afraid of what Trump stands for, Cruz may be the far more dangerous candidate.
For one, Cruz is much more reliably conservative. For instance, Trump donated money to the Carter campaign — against Reagan no less. While Cruz has consistently advocated against abortion, Trump was pro-life until the last few years, and has just recently gotten harsher on issues like gun laws and health care.
I’m sure he has changed as a person, but Trump seems to be saying exactly what the people want to hear. President Trump would act differently than candidate Trump. As Jimmy Carter put it, Trump is “malleable” while Cruz is not.
The biggest difference between the two is that Cruz knows what he’s doing. Take last weekend’s Colorado nominating process, for example. I call it a process because it was not a primary, nor a caucus. At the nominating convention, “voters” decided the 34 delegates who would attend the national convention (the one in Cleveland). Cruz ended up with every single delegate.
The Cruz campaign had volunteers on the ground handing out lists of the delegates it wanted. Trump’s organization was not quite as extensive. This is a problem he has had throughout the primary campaign. As a result, Trump’s difficult delegate math got even tougher, and the odds of a contested convention got even bigger.
Trump’s problem is one shared by a lot of far-right candidates of his sort. The enthusiasm and energy are easy; the organization is much harder. Furthermore, these sorts of candidates elicit a response from all parts of the political spectrum — Ted Cruz has become the anti-Trump.
This is why far-right candidates and parties struggle to make head way, both in the US and in Europe. In France for instance, the National Front (FN) can never quite knock either of the traditionally powerful parties out of office. French elections can go to a runoff between the top two candidates, and if the FN is one of them, the rest of France unites to keep it out of office.
While the US is of course different, I think we could see that effect in November if Trump wins. He would elicit the same type of response that the FN does. Moderate independents and even some Republicans would ensure a Democratic victory. But I’m not sure Cruz would elicit this response. Even though he is historically more conservative in his views than Trump, he won’t be perceived as an extremist. And that’s what should make a Cruz candidacy scary for liberals.
When did the Harvard trained lawyer turn into a conservative?
- In 1998, Cruz served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner’s lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.
- Cruz joined the Bush–Cheney campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising President George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform. There he met his wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, another policy adviser who works for Goldman Sachs.
- Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings in the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, winning twice in the U.S. Supreme Court.
- After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Globalists are not conservative. Cruz is a Globalist. Therefore hes not a conservative.
Would a conservative help draft Bush’s NAFTA bill?
Would a conservative vote FOR the patriot Act?
Would a Conservative team up with Ryan to push TPP?
would a conservative vote FOR TPA?
would a conservative try to increase H1B visas by 500%?
would a conservative try to double the number of Muslims?
would a conservative side with BLM protestors against police?
would a conservative hand out gift baskets to illegals at the border?
would a conservative lie to his supporters about the fact the GOPe is providing his delegates and he will not win nomination?
WHAT EVERY VOTER NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT TED CRUZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcYCwaBKnQ&app=desktop
“Did you notice that Cincinatus’ Wife has “disappeared”?”........
Yes, I had noticed that for some time now.
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Yes, why won’t this be addressed by 2ndDiv:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2511742/posts?page=20#20
20 posted on 5/12/2010, 3:03:41 PM by 2ndDivisionVet (Don’t care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A “Natural Born” citizen requires two US parents!)
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We’ll never have another opportunity to really shake up the GOPe/RNC like this again - and Cruz is throwing it away instead of leveraging it for a future run where he could be successful instead of trashing a once in a Nation-Time opportunity.
If he Cruz is so scary to liberals why aren’t any of them showing up to disrupt Cruz events?
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Because the loudmouth Trump will give them the attention they are craving. He will tell people to beat them up and if they are lucky they will be physically accosted and make the news which is the point after all.
I find it telling when none of the Trump supporters addressed either one of our comments.
We’ll never have another opportunity to really shake up the GOPe/RNC like this again - and Cruz is throwing it away instead of leveraging it for a future run where he could be successful instead of trashing a once in a Nation-Time opportunity.
What a crock of shit, all you Trump supporters are chasing is another Obama.
Right you are. And what many people don’t know is that when Cruz assembled the legal team for Bush v. Gore, the second member he recruited was his friend and former fellow law clerk—John Roberts. Yep, though he now tries to distance himself from Roberts, he and Cruz are joined at the hip.
No, the account is still there. Hasn’t been used since March.
The Cruz team must have stopped paying her.
Looks like her hubby posted only very rarely. That one hasn’t posted since early March. Last use by her was March 26 if memory serves.
Even Norm Lenhart, who I agreed/disagreed with (as gentlemen) but I always liked hearing from Norm, hasn’t been seen since January.
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