News from the front lines somewhere near Waterloo ...
Posted on 01/29/2016 6:58:48 PM PST by Red Steel
Ted Cruz started the month riding high in Iowa. Now, he just wants to get out of the state alive.
The self-styled rock-ribbed conservative is under siege, battling attacks from his right and left flanks who say the Texas senator with tea party and evangelical credentials isn't who he claims to be.
And as Cruz appears to be falling farther behind front-runner Donald Trump, his campaign is now looking in the rear-view mirror, concerned that Marco Rubio and the rest of the GOP field are closing in.
Cruz's problems were in sharp relief at the Fox News debate in Des Moines Thursday night, where he was everyone's favorite punching bag. The consistent charge: Cruz is a fake.
"This is the lie that Ted's campaign is built on, and Rand touched upon it -- that he's the most conservative guy, and everyone else is a -- you know, everyone else is a RINO," Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday night. "The truth is, Ted, throughout this campaign, you've been willing to say or do anything in order to get votes."
A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll shows that Trump has overtaken Cruz by 7 points, leading 32% to 25%.
Most tellingly, both his campaign and one of his super PACs on Thursday launched new television advertisements against Rubio, a candidate they already saw on defeated.
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Meanwhile, Trump is free to skip debates and constantly question Cruz's eligibility to serve as president.
"I'm glad I wasn't there 'cause I guess all of that -- he got pummeled, wow," Trump said Friday of the Fox News debate. "And you know they didn't even mention he was born in Canada."
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Hmmm? Imagine that. Thx, C.
Are you saying that Ted Cruz hasn’t been an American citizen since birth?
I wonder who of his friends and family talked him into running or who tried to talk him out of it.
Looking forward, that info will be valuable for whatever is next for him.
I don’t see it in those terms. If I get two bad choices I will write in the name of someone I respect. I won’t be bullied into submission. You can blame those who won’t support him but I think the blame is with those who do support him. We should choose a conservative and not a con man. Conservatives gripe about the GOPe surrendering too fast in Congress, but they do the exact same thing in elections. They (GOPe and many of its critics) lead with compromise to liberalism. They are two sides of the same opportunistic, power-grubbing coin.
You understand that the founder of this website is a Cruz fan, right?
The Bushes fully backed David Dewhurst for Senator when Ted Cruz was running. The Bushes have NEVER backed true conservative candidates and are the poster family for elite Rs. Everything the Bushes say about Ted Cruz (past, present and future) is completely unsupportive and tainted. They have and always will be Cruz haters and will say and do anything to keep the status quo of the RINO elite intact and cling to their dwindling power. The Bushes are going the way of the Kennedys. Nobody in Texas gives a flip what they say anymore.
Well good luck up there on your judgmental perch. I’ll tell you something, Donald Trump is a living example of democracy and capitalism. He’s successful, hard working, and has a fabulous family that he has been hands-on with.
He is adamant about protecting the 2nd Amendment and that didn’t just come up. His entire family shoots, supports 2nd Amendment.
He believes strongly in border control, owes no pro-amnesty types to stop him from building a wall.
Just those areas would stop the bleeding from the liberals thousand cuts. But hey, if he doesn’t measure up 100% to your standards, then by all means, elect Hillary and finish us off.
Once Trump threw Cruz off of his coat-tails and the free ride ended , we now get to see what a weak candidate Cruz truly is
Depending on how many Iowans asked that question there might be some warm discussions in the various caucus rooms.
Yep , Beck and Levin sure didn’t do Cruz any favors in their desperation to trash Trump
You make my point. The Bushes are not all that conservative and were able to work nicely with Cruz during the campaign because they. were. like. minded.
Their general dislike came when Cruz flipped the switch to ultra conservative and borrowed the Tea Party train to advance himself. The staff dislike of Ted was already out there apparently, and surfaced in the media already. Between W’s remark that was leaked to the press and the staff opinions known, the story line took on legs, growing exponentially to include more of the same opinions existing in the US Senate.
What's your point, THEO?
I hope you Trumpsters will all be completely content when you have replaced Obama messiah with Trump messiah. Perhaps you can gather school children to chant Trump’s name.
Of course W. doesn't like Cruz. W. doesn't like to be beaten and Cruz beat him.
"Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt to re-open the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row.[38][42][44][52] With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate.[47][59] They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention.[60] Texas won the case in a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them."[47][59]
The so-called true conservatives do not think about the fact that if Reagan were alive and running today, some of his policies would be different.
There is no Soviet Union anymore, and no bipolar world. Those were BIG in 1980. At that time, many people thought the USSR was more powerful than America. (It was not true, but many believed it.)
The country was not yet dying from socialistic principles. Reagan was following a very weak 1-term Democrat.
The flood of immigration was not threatening to swamp America.
American jobs had not been exported by the tens of millions to Asia and Latin America. Reagan had to deal with the USSR first and foremost-—a principal goal which led to his own admitted disappointment about other things he would have like to have done, like balancing the budget. The evils of WTO, NAFTA and other globalist programs were to come much later, so it was okay for Reagan to say he was for free trade.
It was a different time.
Islamism had just begun — ignited in the Iranian revolution. It did not seem to be a direct threat to America, certainly not a big-league threat like the USSR.
And so on. I can easily see Reagan as a proto-nationalist.
Certainly, he led, he inspired . . . he Made America Great Again.
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