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Ted Cruz Should Try Speaking to People Instead of at Them
National Review ^ | 03/24/2015 | Charles C.W. Cooke

Posted on 03/24/2015 6:43:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

We don’t even know how to appreciate a statesman anymore. He may need to work on that for TV debates. Personally I don’t need a salesman if they aren’t solid at the core. Cruz is solid.


21 posted on 03/24/2015 6:58:17 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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22 posted on 03/24/2015 6:59:13 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: SeekAndFind

Strange. I’ve never gotten the impression of condescension or superciliousness from Cruz’s speeches...rather, the opposite.

Perhaps Cooke is confusing him with Jeb...?


23 posted on 03/24/2015 6:59:13 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: randita

Have you been following what has been going on in Washington DC since Cruz got there? Reading your comment, it appears you have been living in a cave since 2012. Maybe you should get out more.


24 posted on 03/24/2015 7:00:22 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: SeekAndFind

Is he suggesting that Cruz have a “listening tour” like Hillary did? That really helped her out! Snort))))))))


25 posted on 03/24/2015 7:00:38 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: SeekAndFind

Praise and damnation wrapped up in one article. Early in the process and Cruz
is the first out of the blocks so he is going to get both. Once more are in the
field the articles will be less targeted, imo.


26 posted on 03/24/2015 7:01:29 AM PDT by deport
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To: SeekAndFind

Based on this and a plethora (all in the short span of a single day) of kickback we have seen from liberals and RINO Establishment arrayed against him, I’d say it is panicked preemptive strikes to keep him from getting in front of the nation in a debate against a Democrat nominee (and against the Dauphin in the run up to that).

Collectively, they are all so scared sh!tless, they can’t even focus clearly.


27 posted on 03/24/2015 7:02:00 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

Ah Charlie, you agreed with and loved what Ted said, you just don’t like him, your friends agree, they don’t like him either and you really, really don’t like the confident way he engages others when he speaks. I’ve got it.


28 posted on 03/24/2015 7:03:17 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: jughandle
And how would this guy classify obamas condescending lectures?

That was my first thought as well.

29 posted on 03/24/2015 7:03:58 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Yosemitest

Oh, I like that one.


30 posted on 03/24/2015 7:04:10 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, at least he wasn’t talking “at” a telepromter.


31 posted on 03/24/2015 7:07:56 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dear Mr. Cooke,
Get back to us when you have argued nine cases before the Supreme Court and won them all, OK?
_________________________________________________

EXACTLY!!!


32 posted on 03/24/2015 7:08:01 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Get the USA out of the UN then get the UN out of the USA; send bamaboy back to Kenya ASAP!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, like the “#RaceTogether” crowd was interested in talking _with_ people. Examine thyself, author.


33 posted on 03/24/2015 7:09:53 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: HarleyLady27

Anybody with a keen sense of observation knows that Ted Cruz spoke TO the people yesterday and they went wild.

And note: HE DID IT WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER, WITHOUT NOTES!

Try that, Obama.


34 posted on 03/24/2015 7:10:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This is just a bunch of hogwash. Anybody that thinks the National Review is going to be a friend of the conservative GOP candidate is naïve. The GOP will be hand in hand with the drive by’s trying to destroy Cuz. Restoring the Constitutional Republic scares them as badly as it scares the Dems.


35 posted on 03/24/2015 7:12:39 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I did a little research on Charles C. W. Cooke. It looks to me like he basically a Rand Paul libertarian. So he is not going to buy into the very conservative Ted Cruz views on where we should be heading as a nation.

But I do. I think his speech yesterday was amazing. No notes. Right from the heart. The libs and the Cooke's of the world have every right to be frightened.

36 posted on 03/24/2015 7:13:12 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (>http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now he’s TOO good of a speaker....


37 posted on 03/24/2015 7:14:03 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: BenLurkin

Yea, I don’t get it. The author of this article isn’t making any sense to me.


38 posted on 03/24/2015 7:14:09 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: SeekAndFind

“Cruz speaks in exactly the same way when he is addressing CPAC; when he is meeting with small, friendly, informed groups”

Consistent?

Yeah, I’ll take “on message” for $1,000 Alex


39 posted on 03/24/2015 7:18:37 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Excellence
Click on it.

Take a good long look at where "Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS take us.


40 posted on 03/24/2015 7:18:51 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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