Posted on 03/24/2015 8:22:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Monday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz taught the Republican Party a lesson it desperately needs to learn. Mr. Cruz taught the GOP something about winning.
The Republican Party, at least at the national level, is pretty pathetic. The Republicans have lost four of the last six presidential elections. Republicans have actually lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. Even the two races that George W. Bush won were close. The 2000 election was not decided until weeks after Election Day and even in 2004, Democrat John Kerry kept it close enough that he did not concede until the next day.
Ted Cruz broke the rules with his announcement. A Republican candidate is supposed to play the game. He is supposed to be not interested. Then there are leaks from family and friends encouraging him to run. Then the candidate finally sets up an exploratory committee. Finally, he does what everyone knew he was going to do months ago. He runs.
Ted Cruz broke the model. He didn’t bother with an exploratory committee. He just ran. He went to Liberty University, the last place a Republican moderate would think about going. He made a speech that fit Ronald Reagan’s vision of a banner of bold colors, not pale pastels. He spoke for 45 minutes without a teleprompter.
By breaking the rules, Ted Cruz is showing the GOP something else.
He is the only candidate who can beat a Democrat in 2016....
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The map shows CA a shell of itself but little VT all liberal everywhere. Not much conservatism any more in Red Hampshire either.
The Denver area seems the most isolated of all places with its conservatives neighbors in all directions. Whatever happened to Patricia Schroeder, the face of Denver?
I had a chat in 2014 with a tour bus driver in Boston, a woman. No one is any more conservative and patriotic than she, and she lamented how the MA liberals dominate her state. They always will dominate, I believe, in MA. She was super-informed too, unlike most Americans.
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