Posted on 03/31/2016 1:28:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I got to meet Texas Sen. Ted Cruz last week in New York City.
Normally after eyeballing a public figure up close, you report back to friends that, “he’s a lot different in person” – shorter or taller, friendlier or unfriendlier, aloof or “really down-to earth.”
Not so with Cruz.
That impressed me.
Besides being, OK, slightly smaller and significantly better looking in person than on TV, the Ted Cruz I saw and briefly spoke with at an off-the-record sit down at my old political club in Manhattan was the exact same one I’ve been watching in action for the past several years. He was sincere, unwavering, driven and humorless, with that man-on-a-mission feel we saw in the primary debates.
Cruz clearly isn’t a New York politician. He demeanor screams, “Bible Belt” (he’s the son of a baptist minister) and he’s far too smooth to be a Northeast politician. New Yorkers have an aversion to slicksters, and Cruz undeniably lends himself to that description. He’s also more conservative than most Republicans in these parts, not necessarily in what he believes, but in what he chooses to emphasize. There are plenty of socially conservative Republicans in New York, but they rarely lead with it.
Cruz goes there.
The biggest knock on Cruz to most Americans is that he was willing to shut down the federal government over the debt limit a couple of years back. A lot of very smart people called that reckless, but in fairness to Cruz, so is adding hundreds of billions of dollars in red ink to our already suicidal $19 trillion debt load. It was a bit of brinksmanship I personally didn’t mind....
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Pill till ya hear a pop, you demented cruzholes.
The thing with Cruz is that if we follow him in a principled conservative political & philosophical rebellion, we will probably lose very badly.
Weren't you one of the ones giving Cruz hell for not having any endorsements from his fellow GOPe senators and other assorted congresscritters? Hmmm, maybe that was Trump.
Yeah, no one liking you inside the beltway is a sure sign that you're GOPe.
The crap some people will believe......
Where is the democrat candidate? I just see Trump vs Cruz. Your premise that Cruz cannot win Ohio is based on a premise which is not valid.
Goldman Sachs is THE crown in the jewel of American crony capitalism.
Crony Capitalism - An onward march since Abe Lincoln. Cross their path at your own peril.
America is RAPIDLY approaching critical mass. The Hessens are thoroughly entrenched - 1776, 1860, 2016.
Cruz has had years as a Senator to do that. \He hasn’t.
In comparison to a reality television star? Maybe we should have run Flip Wilson instead of Ronald Reagan in 1980?
You’re talking Trump, right? The candidate who has participated in and perpetuated the system we are now fighting?
Oreilly lives in a dream world. Cruz has been bought
Cruz is GOPee
Put it this way, Raphael is so pathetic and unappealing to the voters that Bernie would beat the POS by 20 percent across the country.
She since Hillary beat Obama in Ohio, pa, ad Florida in 2008, you theory is he would not have been able to win any of those states in November. Yet he won them all. That’s a faulty premise.
Hammer meet nail. It is kind of hard to lead a GOP rebellion when you employee the Bush family. Adding to that difficulty is both you and your wife working under their wings for most of your adult life. Then, we get to actively accepting and praising their endorsements. One can assume none of this matters though because Cruz uses the word Constitution 15 times a minute.
Don’t mess with a Cubanadian...
Silly to deny that Neil Bush would ever be working with anyone who was not.
Well, CanuckTed’s voting for TPP is in alignment with Heidi’s “NO BORDERS” North American Union policy.
At least CanuckTed would formalize the Establishment Traitor Party.
The Cruz campaign is now being run and funded by Jeb’s people. He’s just a placeholder for the GOP bosses now. Once he’s fulfilled his purpose of denying Trump a first ballot victory, both Trump and Cruz will be ignored and the GOP will select one of their own. For God sakes, they are saying so publically now. Trump supporters will walk away from the GOP if the frontrunner isn’t chosen.
If Trump weren't in the race, the border and illegal immigration wouldn't even have become an issue.
You mean an honest billionaire who honestly takes both sides of every issue honestly
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