Posted on 03/24/2015 2:15:57 AM PDT by bkopto
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” panel was was not enthusiastic about the presidential campaign launched today by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).
While Kimberly Guilfoyle was the most positive and Dana Perino tried to keep an even balance by discussing both strengths and weaknesses in the Cruz candidacy, it was Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld who had the strongest cases against Cruz launching an ultimately successful bid to win the presidency.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
...”My day was backwards yesterday and I was showering late and turned on this cluckfest while getting ready, and I am not sure who layed the bigger egg, but their was a lot of clucking going on, Juan was on the the verge of needing an exorcism, no pea soup however....”...
I didn’t see THE FIVE yesterday but am not surprised by what I am reading here While FOXNEWS is the ONLY place where we can get anything like both sides of a story, they continuously dance around the “elephant in the room,” and I get very frustrated with the resistence to discuss the obvious. Ted Cruse unveils the “elephants” in the room and they hate that.
Few people in the media really know the people and what we want.
Get make their living not talking about the elephant in the room. Gut field imus billing Peronism. Now Cruz wants to talk about it and get rid of it and everything is suddenly different
What are they going to talk about? They have nothing. Plus they’re liberal
And they’re mad at Cruz over it
Unwise
When you go state by state in the primary system for 2016...there are three obvious facts.
1. No candidate will get enough votes on the primary system to carry the convention vote in the first round...too many divisional votes and one/two-state wonders (Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie). The convention this time around will be a major negotiation point about the number two or number three guy and he handles his representatives.
2. Scott Walker has the inside straight. He’ll likely win in Iowa to some minor degree (marginal win over Cruz). SC will be a Cruz win with Walker closing in. By the end of January, Jeb Bush will be more or less out of the big picture.
3. Debate-wise, Cruz and Walker are four-star guys who will carry each debate to the ninth degree. This is where guys like Christie and Bush will falter and start to show issues/problems.
Finally, Carly Fiorina is this wild card in the whole thing. I could see her carrying three states by the convention, and probably holding the VP card. Maybe Cruz figures in as the attorney general in the end. One has to ponder about the result of having a Walker/Fiorina presidency and having Cruz around for eight years as Attorney General. Maybe Cruz’s ultimate angle is four years as AG, then gets a nod toward the Supreme Court. Remember Taft coming back later...his dream job was always at the Supreme Court. It wouldn’t surprise me if Cruz is thinking the same way.
Cruz has support from the people that is a way underestimated.
When the media figures that out they’ll be scrambling for relevancy.
I cannot abide Dana. Conservative is a stretch for her.
It’s all about the amnesty. Fox has long been on board The Cheap Labor Express.
We accidentl saw O’reilly on last night.
Naturally he has Larry the Fraud Saboto , the Va left wing pollster who was caught working for Webb in Va while impersonating a pollster on these Cable shows and the commie who run the left wing Dem rag “the Hill “ , a dem newsletter.
All three hated Cruz and used the usual Dem spin..
It really is Fox Leftists News.
Christie ????
Fox News is Bush territory. They are progressive republicans and liberaltarians.
They are also our best alternative for TV news, but the internet is a better news source.
For whatever reason, they somehow think a low poll number almost 2 years before a new president takes office is a sign of failure.
They need to check history to see how foolish is that analysis.
I bet they are getting hammered on facebook and twitter again today.I wont watch that show ever again.
Perino is a RINO shill.
“HAHAHA. Rupert Murdoch’s GOPe Can’t-Do crowd had a quorum today, railing against Cruz. Cruz is definitely over the target, with this “friendly” fire flak going off.”
I was stuned by this. Especially with Bolling. I am thinking they were given their marching orders to promote Walker.
“Fox News is Bush territory. They are progressive republicans and liberaltarians.”
I’m about to pull the plug on my cable. After keeping track of my family’s viewing for a month, I’ve determined the only thing we watch that can’t be duplicated with internet streaming or over the air broadcasting is Fox News.
At a family meeting we discussed the value we receive from Fox News versus the cost of keeping the cable. The decision was easy.
I’ve been extremely disappointed with Fox lately. It is so darn frustrating how true conservative candidates have to run against Democrats, GOP, and media.
“Why should Cruz be President? Let us count the ways...
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
[She works cleverly, though.]
That she does, right off the bat when she commented on that powerful speech by Cruz she brought up who wrote his speech. It’s an old democrap trick to indicate that the candidate doesn’t have intelligence to write their own.
If there ever comes a day when Jeb manages to give a speech even close to that, she would be orgasmic in her praises.
Agree. I was surprised by his comments but not by Gutfeld’s.
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