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The difference between Rand Paul and Ted Cruz
WorldNetDaily ^ | March 27, 2015 | Doug Wead, former Ron Paul & Bush advisor

Posted on 03/27/2015 5:12:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Exclusive: Doug Wead says 1 candidate represents the past, the other the future.

So what’s the difference between Republican presidential candidates Rand Paul and Ted Cruz?

Ted Cruz is running against Barack Obama. Rand Paul is running against Hillary Clinton. One represents the past. The other represents the future.

Both men are U.S. senators running for president in 2016. Rand Paul is from Kentucky, Ted Cruz from Texas. (Rand Paul is expected to announce his candidacy April 9.)

Both men are conservatives whose careers were launched during rise of the tea party. Both are born-again Christians. And both signed the controversial Senate letter supporting Israel. So if they have the same base of support, what’s the difference?

Rand Paul excites that base and motivates them to action. Ted Cruz has all but given up on that base and is focusing exclusively and only on born-again Christians. He is betting that he will take that vote, and only that vote, and win it all. It is a high-stakes gamble that counts on driving out of the way born-again Christians such as Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio and, yes, even Rand Paul.

Bottom line: Rand Paul can win a national election. Ted Cruz cannot....

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Kentucky; Texas; Campaign News; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; hillary; kentucky; lping; paultardnoisemachine; randpaul; randpaulnoisemachine; randsconcerntrolls; tedcruz; texas
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Did Hillary get the nomination while I was napping?
1 posted on 03/27/2015 5:12:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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"Don't be scared playa! I ain't gonna bite yo' white ass!"

2 posted on 03/27/2015 5:14:56 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO WISCONSIN BADGERS GO!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Former Ron Paul advisor (for a reason)...


3 posted on 03/27/2015 5:15:16 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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Wead is scared of Cruz, obviously. His singing praises of Jeb having fallen by the wayside, he is now trying for Rand.
4 posted on 03/27/2015 5:15:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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RAND PAUL IS “NOT” A CONSERVATIVE.

HE IS A LIBERTARIAN - JUST LIKE HIS FATHER.


5 posted on 03/27/2015 5:17:18 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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Since Ted Cruz took the same position on marijuana as Rand Paul, he will likely snarf up a fair chunk of Paul’s supporters.


6 posted on 03/27/2015 5:18:52 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Difference?

One.

Fifth place minus sixth place equals one.


7 posted on 03/27/2015 5:19:27 PM PDT by CharleysPride (non chiedere cio che non si puo prendere -- Charlie Daniels)
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He already is, although I don’t think marijuana is the big reason:

Ted Cruz Reportedly Winning Over Some Rand Paul Supporters in Iowa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3271921/posts

Ted Cruz Recruits Some Rand Paul Supporters in Iowa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3271518/posts


8 posted on 03/27/2015 5:21:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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"Under Paul’s original [2012 budget] proposal, defense spending would have dropped from $553 billion in the 2011 fiscal year to $542 billion in 2016. War funding would have plummeted from $159 billion to zero. He called it the “draw-down and restructuring of the Department of Defense.”

Paul's 2011 recommendations.

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9 posted on 03/27/2015 5:24:31 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: Ken H

So that is your spam Cruz post?


10 posted on 03/27/2015 5:26:00 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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Hillary has the nomination unless Val has more to dump. (She probably does)


11 posted on 03/27/2015 5:26:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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“Ted Cruz has all but given up on that base and is focusing exclusively and only on born-again Christians.”

Obviously, this dude has never heard TC speak.


12 posted on 03/27/2015 5:28:21 PM PDT by TexasGator
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No, nor has he been following the Cruz campaign.


13 posted on 03/27/2015 5:31:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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Rand Paul excites that base and motivates them to action. Ted Cruz has all but given up on that base and is focusing exclusively and only on born-again Christians. 


What is this guy smoking? So deluded!


14 posted on 03/27/2015 5:32:14 PM PDT by RginTN
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Loooong time before anyone gets a nomination...

But how about this:

Ted Cruz is figuring the US to be pretty similar to what it was in the Reagan era. Rand Paul is figuring that it has become something completely different.


15 posted on 03/27/2015 5:33:15 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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Cruz wins the Reagan crowd with his strong on national defense, and America strong position which, as we can see, is going to be all important, very soon, and our current weakness is placing us in the position of losing ground globally, while our enemies are building and expanding.

Things are getting scary not just in the mess in the Middle East, but also in Europe and Asia, even in Latin America.


16 posted on 03/27/2015 5:34:32 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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“I actually think this is a great embodiment of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called ‘the laboratories of democracy,’” Cruz said. “If the citizens of Colorado decide they want to go down that road, that’s their prerogative. I personally don’t agree with it, but that’s their right.”

--Ted Cruz at CPAC

17 posted on 03/27/2015 5:35:52 PM PDT by Ken H
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Ted Cruz has all but given up on that base


He’s speaking of the tea party here, and he’s flat out lying. I was tea party before there was a tea party and I’m for Cruz. Same for many associates of the same mindset. I have never considered myself part of the Christian right, but it does not bother me that he’s appealing to them too.
I think it does bother the journ-o-lists.

Ted Cruz has not given up on anyone who wants to honor our Constitution.


18 posted on 03/27/2015 5:36:07 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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Your last line is a keeper.


19 posted on 03/27/2015 5:38:13 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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So I asked you if you are going to spam all the Cruz threads with that, you sure post it a lot so far.


20 posted on 03/27/2015 5:41:09 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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