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Ted Cruz’s 2016 plan is somehow both smart and really dumb
The Washington Post's Post Partisan ^ | December 18, 2014 | James Downie

Posted on 12/18/2014 2:13:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Earlier this week, National Review’s Eliana Johnson reported on how Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) plans to approach the 2016 presidential campaign: “His strategists aren’t planning to make a big play for so-called independent voters in the general election if Cruz wins the Republican nomination,” writes Johnson. “According to several of the senator’s top advisers, Cruz sees a path to victory that relies instead on increasing conservative turnout; attracting votes from groups — including Jews, Hispanics, and Millennials — that have tended to favor Democrats; and, in the words of one Cruz strategist, ‘not getting killed with independents.’”

The plan has gotten plenty of snark from the middle and the left, and much of it is deserved. Cruz’s people seem to think that the senator can make inroads with female voters despite a host of anti-women votes, such voting against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. (The reauthorization had real bipartisan support: Half of Senate Republicans and one-third of House Republicans did vote for it.) They also seem to think that Cruz can do well with Jews because he went to a dinner for the neo-con magazine Commentary, “attended New York City’s Israel Day concert and parade in June — and then raised $100,000 at Abigail’s, a kosher restaurant in Manhattan.” And his pursuit of Hispanics will be made much harder by his die-hard opposition to President Obama’s immigration executive orders, of which more than 70 percent of Hispanics approve.

But Democrats should hope that one of Cruz’s core insights — that focusing on turning out the base is more important than winning independents — won’t catch on with the rest of the GOP. As Cruz’s people point out, the candidate who won independents lost the popular vote in three of the past four presidential elections....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016; amnesty; cruz; gop; gotv; hispanics; immigration; independents; jews; latinos; millennials; tedcruz
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To: TADSLOS

You’ve been added to the Ted Cruz Ping List!


21 posted on 12/18/2014 10:55:50 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Jack Black

Thanks, we can all HOPE that Elizabeth Warren and Hillary have a catfight, as that will keep most of the crossovers at home.


22 posted on 12/19/2014 4:12:30 AM PST by BobL (I'm so old, I can remember when most hate crimes were committed by whites - Thomas Sowell, 2014)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

President Obama at a White House Hanukkah Dinner: I Am ‘Jewish in My Soul’

By Kara Pendleton (13 hours ago) | Culture, Lifestyle, Nation, Politics, Religion, World

In an overheard conversation at the recent White House Hanukkah Dinner, it’s been reported that when someone commented on the event saying they didn’t realize President Obama was Jewish, Obama stated in a lighthearted manner while walking away:

“I am, in my soul.”

In light of that statement, let’s take a short walk down memory lane and review a few of his comments and actions regarding Israel. Breitbart News reports on one of Obama’s first actions as president. It notes him reaching out to the Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA) president.

Obama’s first call in office was to PA’s Abbas. He still has not cut off aid to the PA, even after their peace deal with Hamas.

But that is not all. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) notes, among other things, that in July 2009 Obama said he wanted to put “daylight” between the United States and Israel because during the Bush years

There was no light between the United States and Israel, and nothing got accomplished.

His claim is patently false, but let’s move on to September of that year. Speaking to the UN, Obama said, to much applause:

“America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.” He went on to draw a connection between rocket attacks on Israeli civilians with living conditions in Gaza. There was not a single unconditional criticism of Palestinian terrorism.

In March 2010 when new construction in Jerusalem was announced by Israel, the WSJ goes on to report that Obama “launched an unprecedented weeks-long offensive against Israel.” Then when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the White House 10 days later, he was given a very frosty reception that included “no photo op, no joint statement, and he was sent out through a side door.”

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/12/219350-3-white-house-hanukkah-dinner-obama-claims-jewish-soul/


23 posted on 12/19/2014 7:16:12 AM PST by KeyLargo
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