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CRUZ or LOSE!Posted on 03/26/2015 10:49:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s newly minted presidential campaign is the media equivalent of a juicy rib-eye that robbers use to distract a guard dog during a heist. He’ll get a ton of media attention, and he’ll get to spread his message — which may be all that Cruz is after — but Cruz almost certainly has no shot of winning the nomination, according to every indicator that predicts success in presidential primaries.
First, Cruz doesn’t have enough support from party bigwigs. To win the Republican or Democratic nomination, you need the backing of at least some of the party apparatus. At a minimum, your fellow party members shouldn’t hate you. Otherwise, you end up getting the Newt Gingrich 2012 treatment. That is, you get pounced on the moment you’re seen as a threat to win the nomination.
If we’re ever in a world where it looks like Cruz could win the nomination, you’ll very likely see such pouncing. You can read article after article about how Cruz has isolated himself in the Senate. It got so bad that he recently had to apologize to his Republican colleagues.
And the Cruz hatred doesn’t stop at the edges of the Senate cloakroom. Influential party actors dislike him, too. I can’t remember another Republican who united Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, Jennifer Rubin and Thomas Sowell in opposition....
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I bet he’d look good sipping cocoa in those.
That is why the left is pushing Jeb.
“A 2011 graduate in government”
Ok; next opinion!
CRUZ or LOSE!They were attacking Reagan as far back as Woodstock, I think. And GHW Bush and Gerald Ford hated him.
Another high school Ted Cruz political pundit. How many does this make now?
Well I guess it’s over Nate Silver’s blog says he has no chance. I just guess we’ll have to run lukewarm candidates such as, Jeb Bush and learn to like it.</s>
Thanks, you just let me know what I can purchase my nephew for his 8th birthday this weekend. :D lol
They were saying the same garbage about REAGAN.
The party DID NOT LIKE HIM.
The public LOVED HIM.
I remember his funeral and how the left was beside themselves for how long it was - over a week - and the mall was filled with millions of people.
The left will always tell you what they fear; and they will use the young skulls full of mush to try to convince you that you’re making a bad choice.
Why would I take political advise from some kid that would change parties for a date with Marie Harf!
I think you’re catching on:
The left only likes Hispanics when they join with the left.
As for a woman for President .. don’t even think about it if you’re not a DemocRAT. Repubs are not allowed to win that race; simply because they’re Repubs!
So, we are to believe the rantings and ravings of some nobody 25 year old liberal faggy kid, and drop our support for Ted Cruz because junior says so?
Yeah, right.
Buisness as usual is running a mushy candidate like Jeb Bush - Cruz is a Reaganesque conservative and will take the fight to penceled necked geeks like this writer.
Yep, the narrative is “supposed to be”
Jeb Bush losing to Hillary Clinton
What a wimp
Harry has drunk the kool-ade and is too immature to know what he is talking about.
Should read "'cause he ain't a 'homo' " .... for which you offer no evidence, He very well might be.
“The kid had the part correct about the GOP party elite pouncing if it looks like Cruz has a chance.”
That is what I fear.....not the dims.....Mr. Ted Cruz can chew up and spit out the dims. I fear the GOPe, and Jeb and Christi!
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