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Sen. Ted Cruz is the least likely choice for 2016 presidential election (Wait'l you hear why)
The California State University, Long Beach Daily 49er ^ | May 4, 2015 | Branden Raulston

Posted on 05/04/2015 6:18:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

With over a dozen hopefuls for the republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is the least likely to pull support from the GOP because of his overly conservative politics.

A telephone poll conducted by ORC International in April that surveyed 435 republicans found only 7 percent of potential voters in favor of Cruz—sixth place on the list of republican hopefuls led by Jeb Bush with 17 percent.

Deporting immigrants, denying climate change, fighting gun-control and opposing gay marriage are issues that may all seem consistent with republican agendas, but when they are being pushed by an uncompromising, right-winger like Cruz, they become issues of division rather than unity.

If a filibuster reading of “Green Eggs and Ham” as an attempt to stop the Affordable Care Act wasn’t example enough of Cruz’s stubborn time wasting, his leadership of a charge to shut down the government over immigration last year cements it further.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) commented on Cruz’s rally for a shutdown and demonstrates the GOP’s frustration with Cruz’s antics.

“You should have an end goal in sight if you’re going to do these types of things, and I don’t see an end goal other than just irritating a lot of people,” Hatch said, according to the Boston Globe in March.

Cruz is recently better known for his denial of climate change, which coincides with his constitutionalist crusade for fewer restrictions on the energy sector including oil and coal industries, according to the Washington Post in March.

While many republicans are in favor of smaller government and reduced restrictions on the private sector, the sections of the party that Cruz needs to win over— liberal and moderate republicans— do not favor his environmental ideology.

A survey released late last year by Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies found liberal republicans to be 71 percent and moderate republicans 74 percent in favor of regulations on carbon emissions. Additionally, the two groups averaged 65 percent believing that climate change is actually happening, which Cruz holds firmly is a ploy for government control.

Cruz has little chance at being Commander in Chief of anything. His single-minded approach to many of the country’s most pressing issues has locked him out of gaining the republican nomination— much less, the approval of the people.


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; immigration; tedcruz
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To: who knows what evil?

His mommie sang The Chicken Little Lullaby to em as a baby...

“The Sky Is Falling..The Sky Is Falling
..now go to sleep”


41 posted on 05/05/2015 5:56:22 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: struggle
Love your story. Nothing better than antagonizing stupid leftists from within. I was a journalism major at a leftist university and did not have the sound judgement to keep my conservative views a secret. As a result, I was hated by my communist classmates and even my advisor ignored me for my final year. (The only good thing he ever did was to get me out of having to take a women's studies elective class taught by a feminazi, because he knew my politics would never pass her class.) With my 3.8 GPA in Journalism, I guess I wasn't as smart as the good socialists at Ohio University.
42 posted on 05/05/2015 7:01:54 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: MeshugeMikey

“why? because hes a clueless twenty nothing metrosexual

Or homosexual....

Or muzzie convert ?


43 posted on 05/05/2015 9:04:37 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

HE VERY WELL COULD be a Muzzie Convert!!


44 posted on 05/05/2015 9:09:51 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Sure looks the part.


45 posted on 05/05/2015 9:27:05 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Hes a BIG Diversity Supporter Im certain!




46 posted on 05/05/2015 9:42:03 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I have a T shirt....

” Diversity is NOT our strength

UNITY is our strength”


47 posted on 05/05/2015 9:45:21 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker
I hear that!!! I HEAR that!




48 posted on 05/05/2015 9:46:34 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I honestly think that the one reason that will make it hard for Cruz to win the nomination, which also the major reason why I support him, is his complete unwillingness to compromise on his principles.


49 posted on 05/05/2015 9:52:02 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: MeshugeMikey

A few lefties have given me a hard time over the shirt, but I return the favor : )


50 posted on 05/05/2015 9:58:42 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I may have to start looking at designing T-SHirts with a message.

The Messages would likely have to be less subtle and require less perceptual acuity than some of the images I post here I thinking..given the Brain Power of the average “liberal”......


51 posted on 05/05/2015 10:07:11 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“.given the Brain Power of the average “liberal”.

Classic misnomer.


52 posted on 05/05/2015 10:15:56 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

a more illiberal bunch..Ive never seen NOR HEARD OF!!

DO TRULY LIBERAL people want to CONTROL everything they can see ..hear...smell... taste or feel?


53 posted on 05/05/2015 10:19:37 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; INVAR; dp0622; left that other site; GregoTX; SgtHooper; Whenifhow; Loud Mime; ...
    Daily Digest Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!


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54 posted on 05/05/2015 10:23:28 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

55 posted on 05/05/2015 10:23:57 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Thomas Jefferson would hang these “liberals” and then offer up some catchy phrase to explain why he did it : )


56 posted on 05/05/2015 10:25:18 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Deporting immigrants, denying climate change, fighting gun-control and opposing gay marriage are issues that may all seem consistent with republican agendas, but when they are being pushed by an uncompromising, right-winger like Cruz, they become issues of division rather than unity

Why, becuase he means it???

57 posted on 05/05/2015 10:27:22 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Gives credence that the Nephelium are among us.


58 posted on 05/05/2015 11:01:47 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: American Constitutionalist
More Evidence:


59 posted on 05/05/2015 11:09:03 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Yes indeed, daughters of Satan


60 posted on 05/05/2015 11:10:12 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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