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To: Wallace T.

If the political game is “fixed”, are you saying that Ted Cruz is the ONLY one not in on the fix? I admire the heck out of Ted Cruz and I think he would make a terrific president.

Are you going to help him raise the funds necessary to fend off the liberal media and big money elites on the left? What if Ted Cruz doesn’t run, will you claim to be yet another victim of the eeeeeeeeevil “GOPe”? (whatever that is)

Here on the premiere conservative website, the thought process among many frequent posters is to attack anyone who’s not.....their choice. “I’m not gonna vote for X if he/she is the nominee, not good enough!”

It’s so easy to be the victim, isn’t it? Obama has taught you well.


154 posted on 04/15/2014 8:27:48 AM PDT by swpa_mom
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To: swpa_mom
,Rand Paul is a good choice as well, although I am not convinced he has walked away entirely from his father's pacifistic views on foreign affairs. I have reservations about Marco Rubio on immigration matters, but he is sound overall. So Cruz is not the only choice out there, though he is the best one.

But we cannot play the GOP-e vs. Democrat game ad infinitum. The conservatives in the Republican Party must focus on one candidate to overcome the moderates in the party. Their successes in Presidential primaries from 1988 onward have been predicated on their focus on a single candidate against a multiple field of conservatives. Last time around, Michelle Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain did not have a prayer of winning, but they stayed in the primary contention long enough to prevent a coalescence around a single candidate to oppose Romney. Ditto for 2008, 2000, 1996, 1992, and 1988. Since 1940, there have only been two conservative wins in the GOP presidential nomination process: Goldwater and Reagan. In both cases, the conservatives were united, and the moderates divided.

157 posted on 04/15/2014 10:51:28 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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