Posted on 12/15/2014 10:51:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
To hell with the independents. That’s not usually the animating principle of a presidential campaign, but for Ted Cruz’s, it just might be.
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. 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.”
Twenty-three months from the presidential election, it seems all but a given that the freshman senator, who has been in Congress just two years, will mount a bid for the White House...
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
Romney cleaned up with Independents in 2012.
Well I’ll have to explain you how Fox Nation works as you are factually incorrect.
Fox Nation, where this article comes from, was created in the spring or summer of 2008 to follow the presidential election. But it is not really the Fox News website, though it is on the site. Mostly what it has become is a portal and aggregator that just does snippets of articles, like this site even, and sends you a link to the rest. It also sometimes does video in the posts as it likes to focus on segments done on Fox News. But one can comment on the articles posted at Fox Nation. So it is more like Lucianne Goldberg’s site or here at Free Republic than Drudge Report in that regards.
What I have noticed is that the aggregator rarely does actually articles from Fox News. If it does it will send you to the site to finish the article. But mostly it likes to use other sites around the web like The Washington Times, Weekly Standard, and Breitbart but also leftists news sources when needed like New York Daily News or Huffington Post.
So this article was not really Fox’s but it came from The National Review. Fox Nation just re-posted a blurb from it and the rest is at NRO’s website.
So it is the NRO’s Eliana Johnson who is slanting this that way.
I’m an Independent. George Bush sent me there. I’m an Independent because I don’t identify with either main party. They’re both too left for me.
Many of the most conservative people at FR, are Independents, many of whom left the GOP in recent years, because it is too liberal.
Why do you think that FR is not a republican site?
As soon as Cruz starts “Constitutionalizing” the GOP-e lapdogs will pounce like they did to Michelle Bachmann. The only question is: are we going to jump ship?
“Eliana Johnson is media editor of National Review. She provides editorial direction for the website’s daily news coverage and covers the White House, Congress, and campaigns. She has worked as a producer at the Fox News Channel and as a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. She graduated from Yale University in 2006 with a degree in History. “
that’s all I need to know
>> “ If there’s a group Cruz tells to GTH it’s those who don’t follow the Constitution.” <<
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Which means to the sNooz Media that he must be destroyed at any and all cost.
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>> "Obama won by expanding the size of his base Fraudulent votes, not by pandering to the scourge of politics, 'Independents'." <<
.......so, if your DEFINITELY not a democrat and sick of the GOP in it’s current malaise, what do you call yourself?
I was thinking about Obama, but yes, him also.
“Who would YOU rather see as the nominee?”
Romney, McCain, Obama, Huckabee, Jeb Bush, Santorum, etc. no doubt.
The paid trolls are starting early.
The MSM can go to hell. Cruz is NOT extreme, he is one of the few voices of common sense in the Senate. Cruz could debate ANY of his MSM critics and show them for the shallow, ignorant, bigoted POS’s that they are.
Some just went home and got drunk.
Or just because he'd be happy with either in office.
I don't think it's so much that he loves Hillary. He recognizes that the parties alternate in power and she's a Democrat he can live with, like Tony Blair was a Labourite that he could live with.
True "independents" are capable of reasoning between alternatives. The key is offering them persuasive reasons for your position.
William Flax
This is pure b.s. As if this witch knows all independents, young people and Hispanics don’t care about small businesses, the constitution (especially the part that protects one against execution via cop without a trial) and they all love the NSA spying on them and the TSA sexual molesting them, their gradmas, babies and children so Muslims feel good about their nasty selves. They are especially crazy about the government bailing out banksters and paying twice as much for health care with a shortage of doctors.
Cruz can win if he sticks to his conservative principles and runs on mainstream ideas. Freedom and liberty even appeals to some liberals. Quite frankly, I would try to speak at every labor union and NAACP type group. Not to pander, but to further your conservative message. Reagan Democrats still exist.Cruz should already have the right wingers in his pocket.
During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[26] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[24]
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy[33] from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[6][5] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[34] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[34] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[35][36] Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[35]
Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,” draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”[31][37]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
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