Posted on 03/23/2015 5:09:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He sure does, says Team Cruz.
But the key to victory, Cruz advisers believe, is to be the second choice of enough voters in the partys libertarian and social conservative wings to cobble together a coalition to defeat the chosen candidate of the Republican establishment
To them, the Republican primaries are a series of single-elimination brackets where the four GOP leaders who best represent the partys libertarian, establishment, social conservative and tea party wings will survive as the field winnows. Cruz will vie for the support of the tea party electorate, his advisers say, but will fare well enough with social conservative and libertarian voters to assemble a powerful coalition.
Red States Dan McLaughlin elaborates:
Dan McLaughlin
@baseballcrank
Cruz path: 1) Walker stumbles 2) Jindal, Perry don't get
traction 3) liquidate Carson, Huck, Santorum early 4) out-purist Rubio 5) 1-1 w/Jeb
8:17 AM - 23 Mar 2015
Its a war of attrition and Cruz is well equipped for a war like that in theory. A chunk of the party sees him as the True Conservative in the race and will likely hang with him for months after voting begins. He and Rubio are often compared to each other but theyre in opposite positions to start: Cruz has an obvious niche on the right to fill, which makes him a contender in Iowa and South Carolina, whereas Rubio somehow has to cobble together votes across the spectrum while leapfrogging Scott Walker as the candidate who can best unite the party....
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No, my explanation shows that his citizenship was conferred on him at birth by his mother, therefore, he is a natural born citizen.
Look up the history of this as it relates to our current president.
It will help to have a strong showing in Iowa. My fear is that Mike Huckabee runs. The Huckster will draw a lot of votes away from Sen. Cruz. This is a problem.
Does he have a path?
Well of course he does. But the path will require:
(1) defeating a media disinformation campaign the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Sarah Palin.
(2) successfully navigating the minefield placed by the gop faction of the uniparty to defeat upstart challengers.
(3) at the same time triangulating to slow down the current holder of the office who is hell bent on destroying what he can before his successor takes office.
(4) managing to keep the lights on and bills paid to run a viable campaign notwithstanding the fact the crony capitalists will be spending money like no tomorrow to elect their precious.
He has a chance. Depends on how much the campaign takes off with those who aren’t amongst the already converted. Also depends on God to be frank. So beat the rush: pray now.
Are you sure this map is correct? Just one county in Kansas went for Mitt?
Cruz is my top choice among likely candidates, as I've posted many times, but he doesn't speak nearly as well as Reagan. Yet. McCain, Romney, and the next Bush in line don't need to be good at delivering a speech, but a true conservative has to be at least nearly as good as the Great Communicator. I hope to see Cruz work on that area, since it's probably a key factor in campaign success for a non-establishment candidate.
What I see in that map are a whole bunch of blue states chock full of moderate Republicans who don't post on Free Republic, but who do vote in primaries.
Purple and green; Gingrich and Santorum. Cruz needs all that combined and he'll still have less than half the delegates Romney earned.
The reality of the situation is he is going to have to sell the Cruz brand to a whole lot of orange squares that said no to Gingrich, no to Santorum and yes to Mitt Romney.
A lot of that orange had no choice in the matter since the primary had already been decided by the time they had a chance to vote.
I am thinking about trying to raise money for Cruz also if I can get a good listing of the rules on doing that. I wouldn’t want to wander into a Buddhist temple or anything with my hand outstretched...
Like I said, it's a lack of a GOOD conservative candidate. The last time we had a GOOD conservative candidate was Reagan. The map would have looked the same in the prior election to 1980, but Reagan, being a GOOD conservative candidate won the hearts and minds of the squishy GOP voters with his ability to communicate, and then the country.
Cruz has the capacity to do the same.
My second donation - first to his presidential campaign - goes out today.
We have a chance to make a difference - time to get off the pot and put our money where our mouths are or turn off our computers and shut the hell up.
The only trap is in your mind - there have been conversations and opinions galore, but the legalities are long settled. Even Glenn Beck addressed this yesterday and the Heritage Foundation and several other high-power legal/constitutional orgs have spelled it out clearly....Cruz is Constitutionally, a Natural Born Citizen and eligible to be President.
He's also a very smart lawyer and knows he is eligible - if they attack him, he will trash them...
...and maybe shut up the idjits that keep bringing it up....
The “trap” is that they are going to beat Cruz in court? That will work out about as well as Crowley thinking she would out debate the senator in an interview.
Ted Cruz is a good candidate. The only problem is he will face this merciless smearing. But he seems on the right track. He was on Sean Hannity for an hour last night. Very impressive. If he just uses Reagan’s strategy he may be OK and hopefully the money will come. Cruz is my numero uno candidate.
At the risk of getting flamed I absolutely am not high on Walker. He’s not the guy that will restore the Constitutional Republic.
Mark Levin was right when he said on his show last night we need a leader in this country. The only two people with the force of personality to do that at this point IMO are Cruz and Trump. Same ole same ole ain’t gonna get it this time around.
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