Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

76% of GOP now 'conservative,' pick Cruz for 2016 nomination
Washington Examiner ^ | September 27, 2013 | PAUL BEDARD

Posted on 09/28/2013 11:56:55 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

This won’t surprise Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid or GOP old bull Sen. John McCain -- the largest chunk of the Republican Party is now very conservative.

According to a new PPP poll, which has Sen. Ted Cruz the top choice for the 2016 Republican nomination, those who describe themselves as “very conservative” make up 39 percent of the splintered party. Add in those who consider themselves “somewhat conservative,” and the right-leaning voters comprise 76 percent of the party.

In the new poll of 743 Republican primary voters, 1 percent called themselves “very liberal,” 4 percent “somewhat liberal,” and just 18 percent as “moderate.”

Among the conservative voters, Cruz is the leading choice for the GOP nomination. He won 34 percent of that group. But he also shows remarkable crossover as 32 percent of the “very liberal” crowd also prefer him.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2016gopprimary; conservatives; cruz; cruz2016
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-79 last
To: ASA Vet
I won’t go there on FR anymore. Do what you want, but words have meanings.

Well, that reply's a bit too cryptic for me to decode, but I do know that Jim has pretty much put the kibosh on talk about eligibility. If that's what you're referring to, it's not a secret.

61 posted on 09/28/2013 5:56:49 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Epsdude

Cruz isn’t a NBC so I don’t see him running for president.


62 posted on 09/28/2013 6:07:19 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: Windflier; Arrowhead1952; TheOldLady

Some snakes are sneaking in, thinking the ground safe.


63 posted on 09/28/2013 6:18:09 PM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: esoxmagnum

I’ve heard her say on Hannity several times that she is DONE with the corpulent fellow. She has warmed very much to Cruz, it seems, though she USED to claim (wrongly) that he is ineligible for POTUS. Bob


64 posted on 09/28/2013 6:20:59 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("Guardian angels, wherever you may be Reach down and keep my soul for me. Al Stewart)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: txhurl
Some snakes are sneaking in, thinking the ground safe.

Same as it's ever been around here. It's why God made Viking Kitties :-)

65 posted on 09/28/2013 6:25:48 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: 9YearLurker

A MAN’S MAN ...A MANLY MAN ..A REAL MAN....NOT A DEMOCRAT I.E.


66 posted on 09/28/2013 6:32:39 PM PDT by jimsin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: ilovesarah2012

Republican Party? GOP?

Spit!


67 posted on 09/28/2013 6:39:06 PM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MayflowerMadam

Plus Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father. That’s basically the same circumstances as Obama. It is just not a good idea to run him even though he would make an excellent president. I honestly believe Hillary is going to win either way in 2016.


68 posted on 09/28/2013 6:43:42 PM PDT by Epsdude
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: ilovesarah2012
I don't see anyone running again. There is no reason for Comrade Barry to give up his throne.
69 posted on 09/28/2013 7:25:29 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: Theodore R.

It is our duty to show up and support Ted Cruz! We’ve had two leftist RINOs in a row. I can’t take another and the GOP-e will be busy pushing leftist RINO Chris Christie.

Cruz in 2016!


70 posted on 09/28/2013 7:28:00 PM PDT by opres
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: ilovesarah2012

Now the problem is will conservatives eat each other alive again in 2016?


71 posted on 09/28/2013 7:29:28 PM PDT by dowcaet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ilovesarah2012; JPG; Guenevere; austinaero; afraidfortherepublic; Chasaway; pattty; pollywog; ...

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!


72 posted on 09/28/2013 7:29:43 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Epsdude; Jim Robinson

You really don’t have a clue about the issue you try to insert on this thread.

Been hashed, rehashed and re-rehashed. Ad nauseum, ad infinitim.

You’re wrong.

Jim Robinson says so.

Mark Levin says so.

Ted Cruz says so.

The majority of legal scholarship says so.

The Constitution does not say you are right.

It does not define NBC.

Going elsewhere for that definition and looking for statutory laws or court decisions gets you to this -

Cruz is a NBC under the statutory laws of his birth year, and no court ever ruled otherwise on the issue. Under the relevant statutes, the child born to a citizen parent even if over a boundary line at time of birth is a natural born citizen.

No, statutorily it does not have to be two parents. That is spelled out clearly. No, it does not have to be within the U.S. border, likewise.

I’m not going over this again. Several FReeper researchers and JR himself have posted relevant documentation many dozens of times.

We don’t know where Obama was born. We know Ted was born in Canada. We know who his parents are. We know his citizen mother was older than the statutory age requirement. We don’t even know who Obama’s parents are. Purportedly the woman who gave birth to him was Ann Dunham, an American citizen. Purportedly it was in Hawaii. But we don’t know because of so many doubtful circumstances.

Here’s something we do know. The statute stated back then that Ms. Dunham needed to have been at least 18 yrs old to qualify under her statutory requirement and she was several months short of that.

You might as well give it a rest. Birtherism isn’t going to decide anything. And if you’re going to make an issue of birtherism, making short, cryptic, ill-informed statements on a thread about Cruz’s popularity and presidential candidate polling, isn’t going to cut it.

Attacking people, claiming they don’t care about the Constitution, won’t either.

That ship has sailed.


73 posted on 09/28/2013 7:39:56 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear." (Glenn Beck))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: ilovesarah2012

Where have you been on this subject?

Cruz says he IS a natural born citizen, and he is vastly, overwhelmingly supported in that assertion.

He has no reason to “not run” - not your reason or any other that I know of.


74 posted on 09/28/2013 7:42:06 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear." (Glenn Beck))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: txrangerette

I wasn’t claiming he wasn’t a natural born citizen. What I’m saying is that the left is really going to be pushing the fact that we were all over Obama for his citizenship, and then here we are with a candidate under similar circumstances. You know the left is going to be drilling that point hard.


75 posted on 09/28/2013 8:15:48 PM PDT by Epsdude
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: ilovesarah2012; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; campaignPete R-CT

Overall the PPP poll shows Cruz leading with 20% to Rand at 17%, Jabba the Governor at 14%, Jeb at 11%, Rubs and Ryan tied at 10%, Santorum and Walker bringing up the rear with 3% each. I think you need a microscope to see Pete King’s support.


76 posted on 09/28/2013 10:31:09 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Impy

King/Portman 2016! (as long as they stay in the presidential primary long enough to humiliate themselves and past the deadline for filing for re-election to Congress)


77 posted on 09/29/2013 1:30:39 AM PDT by BillyBoy (Liz Cheney's family supports gay marriage. Do you?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: txrangerette

Dual citizenship may pose problem if Ted Cruz seeks presidency

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130818-born-in-canada-ted-cruz-became-a-citizen-of-that-country-as-well-as-u.s..ece

I guess Cruz is as American as Obama. Heck, maybe Putin will run.


78 posted on 09/29/2013 5:18:21 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: ilovesarah2012

Supporters of Cruz need to get out stickers RIGHT NOW about him running in 2016 - imagine if we got Presidential stickers on millions of cars NOW? And if the media goes after him, turn the liberal mantra on themselves - oh, the liberals hate the HISPANIC candidate - they’re racist! TIME to use their own tactics against them...


79 posted on 09/29/2013 7:56:10 PM PDT by princess leah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-79 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson