Posted on 09/08/2015 9:19:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz's team thinks they already beat Jeb Bush -- three years ago.
That's when Cruz, a young lawyer with a thin resume but political talent, elbowed his way through a crowded field with just enough cash and just enough endorsements to topple an establishment hero with more money than a candidate could ever hope for.
The Cruz foe then was David Dewhurst, and he continues to cast his shadow. If he could be beaten then, say Cruz's truest believers, Cruz can't be beaten now.
"They're all Bushes," said Morgan McComb, an online activist who proudly chose to wear one of the original 50 "Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate" shirts as she waited in line Thursday for Cruz to sign her Cruz-tattooed, custom-made Converses.
Advisers, allies and donors who dream of a Cruz-Bush showdown constantly harken back to the 2012 come-from-behind shocker that the Texas Republican scraped together.
That psychology of bravado was never more obvious than here on Thursday, when Cruz returned to the same tea party rallies and grassroots gatherings that were "ground zero" of his insurgent victory.
He's now working to defend his home state from presidential rivals, and nearly every surrogate who spoke at Cruz's three events shared memories of 2012 and expressed little worry this campaign will turn out differently than that one.
"Y'all saw what we did in the Senate race," Cruz told a standing-room only crowd here in the Fort Worth Stockyards. "Let me tell you something: The same thing is happening right now."(continued_
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Corker Bill....
Cruz has a solid ground game, better, I think, than all other contenders. And, he has early strong funding, which he still has in the bank.
That will pay off.
We are the ground team.
Let’s go!
Are they suggesting that Cruz had a thin resume’? Did they say the same things about the idiot currently in the White House?
The Dhimmicraps are trying to “turn Texas blue.” Ted Cruz is one man who can stop that. And he has fought for many of our causes when no one else would.
That and the TPA are the only two reasons I'm not solidly in Cruz' camp. He may be the best we've got, but there's some splainin to do. What I've seen so far doesn't cut it.
His explanation on the Corker Bill was fine. Maybe not so much the TPA. Of course, you can’t name a single candidate who has “less splainin” to do....not by a long shot.
Yep.
While others wrestle with “is the hill I want to die on”, Cruz knows that you have to fight on every hill or hand them to the enemy.
No, it is not fine.
All the senate has to do is declare the damn thing a treaty and then treat it as such.
They can call it whatever they want, and Obama can’t do a damn thing about it.
To have voted for this bill is to be for the agreement while hiding behind a false no vote against it, which is typical GOP bullshit.
you are assigning the Corker amendment the entire weight of the entire damned process.
you are being idiotic to judge Cruz’ answer the way you would McConnell or Boehner for example.....you are judging it in a vacuum, which is shallow low informtion thinking.
Abbot didn't do too bad either. He got 59% of the vote. Against Dem/MSM "superstar" Abortion Barbie....
What matters is that it’s going to happen, and that all their names, except for Tom Cotton, is on the vehicle that allows it to happen.
And no, it is not shallow low information thinking.
I’m not going to support anyone who is responsible for having the name of my country associated with an islamonazi nuke.
This is an apocalyptic betrayal to every freedom loving person on this earth.
that is indeed shallow thinking.....and if it was 99-1 - because there were some redeeming things in the bill that might mitigate the final result, you are being an irrelevant purist while supporting a candidate far less pure - WHOEVER you support.
What redeeming things are in the bill?
What final results will be mitigated?
What difference does it make as to whom I support?
Let me make it clear for you.
Anyone who put their name down as supporting Bob Corker’s kabuki theater bill is a complete and total asshole.
Anyone who proceeds as if Bob Corker’s bill applies to this treaty at all in any way, shape or form is a TRAITOR.
Not to me because it represented a gross error in judgment. The procedural value of what he chose to do was illusory, while the political value of standing with Cotton in opposition would have been worth far more.
The large majority of conservatives support free trade (aka don’t support high TAXES on imports), seems to me that those that oppose it, like the union bosses and the large majority of libs, are the one’s with explaining to do on that front.
So it isn't as simple as "free trade," no matter what the economic simpletons might think. No other nation bears the burden of world peace that does ours. All therefore benefit from viable domestic industries that must not be sacrificed on the altar of comparative advantage when all costs and risks are not accounted therewith. As things stand now, those decisions are therefore political until we have better ways of accounting those differences.
fine, go ahead and sell your conservative soul down the road for a new shiny toy because of a lapse in judgment. Go ahead and swallow camels while straining gnats. I can’t think in such an absurd manner. I don’t understand it.
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