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Unhappy With a Moderate Jeb Bush, Conservatives Aim to Unite Behind an Alternative
NY Times ^
| March 25, 2015
| Trip Gabriel
Posted on 03/26/2015 12:54:29 PM PDT by C19fan
Fearing that Republicans will ultimately nominate an establishment presidential candidate like Jeb Bush, leaders of the nations Christian right have mounted an ambitious effort to coalesce their support behind a single social-conservative contender months before the first primary votes are cast.
In secret straw polls and exclusive meetings from Iowa to California, the leaders are weighing the relative appeal and liabilities of potential standard-bearers like Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and former Govs. Rick Perry of Texas and Mike Huckabee of Arkansas.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; potus; uniparty
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To: C19fan
As if those four names are equivalent.
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posted on
03/26/2015 1:30:23 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Support Principle: http://www.tedcruz.org)
To: nopardons
big money donors do not turn out voters...But if we and are counterparts on the true left don't stop them, big money interests will choose both candidates. And then voting becomes a joke.....again.
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posted on
03/26/2015 1:32:49 PM PDT
by
grania
To: a fool in paradise
“Who is the Christian Left getting behind?”
“Christian Left”? Are you kidding? Oxymoron. A person absolutely cannot be a true Christian and a leftist. The democrat/left platform is antithetical to Christian, Biblical principles.
If you’re referring to “small-c” christians, i.e., not Jewish, not atheist, not Muslim, who the hell knows? Last time most of ‘em, including Catholics (not “Christian”) went with Obama, and they’ll do the wrong thing again this time around.
To: C19fan
No one I know other than the NYT is talking the Huckster
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posted on
03/26/2015 1:40:28 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: C19fan
All the money in the world will not help you if nobody votes for you.
25
posted on
03/26/2015 1:46:59 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: C19fan
ted cruz
repeat after me
ted cruz
This man is the next Reagan. We need to make him president. Do not divide our vote, and we can beat Jeb. The man is TED CRUZ!!!
To: Viennacon
No lawyers in 2016!
No Ivy Leaguers in 2016!
It’s time to take a break.
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posted on
03/26/2015 2:06:16 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: Viennacon
28
posted on
03/26/2015 2:06:23 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: C19fan
29
posted on
03/26/2015 2:10:31 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
To: nascarnation
Ted Cruz:
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy[36] from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[4][6] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[37] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year, as well as Team of the Year, with his debate partner, David Panton.[37] Cruz was a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princetons highest-ranked debater at the championship.[38][39] Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.
Cruz's senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled "Clipping the Wings of Angels," draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and that the last two items in the Bill of Rights offer an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: "They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers."[
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor degree. While at Harvard Law, he was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.
Source: Wikipedia
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posted on
03/26/2015 2:10:47 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: C19fan
The NYT is trying to choose our candidate. We should not unite around a conservative just to spite them. Besides, there is more than one conservative running.
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posted on
03/26/2015 2:16:15 PM PDT
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term governors)
To: nascarnation; Viennacon; C19fan; trisham; SoConPubbie
"No (disbarred) lawyers in 2016!
No (affirmative action) Ivy Leaguers in 2016!"Fixed it for you!!
32
posted on
03/26/2015 2:17:42 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
To: dfwgator
How about the wit and wisdom of Walter Mondale?
33
posted on
03/26/2015 2:34:15 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: C19fan
NO MORE STINKING BUSHES. I am done with the stinking Bush family. Two dudes is enough for any nation.
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posted on
03/26/2015 2:35:04 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
03/26/2015 2:35:10 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: trisham
22 million people today heard Cruz blow ‘global warming’ out of the water on Rush today. GW is dead bottom of the list Americans are worried about.
Are you starting to feel positive again? After all these years?
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posted on
03/26/2015 2:43:15 PM PDT
by
txhurl
To: txhurl
37
posted on
03/26/2015 2:44:45 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: nascarnation
Walker also has Democrats in the Senate and House and
STILL is able to get his ultra conservative agenda through.
Why?
You do realize that there were 34 lawyers at the original constitutional convention, many of which, were signers of the US Constitution.
Maybe you meant left-wing lawyers?
We could just as easily make an overly broad statement that we don't want anymore Governors as POTUS given the disastrous record of many of the Governors that became POTUS.
Same lack of clarity and over-generalization.
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posted on
03/26/2015 3:00:46 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
Walker is the fallback guy for the GOPe if Jebbie stumbles.
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posted on
03/26/2015 3:04:30 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: nascarnation
No lawyers in 2016!
No Ivy Leaguers in 2016!
Why?
You do realize that over 50% of the founders that signed the constitution were lawyers, right?
Maybe you meant left-wing lawyers?
We could just as easily make an overly broad statement that we don't want anymore Governors as POTUS given the disastrous record of many of the Governors that became POTUS.
Same lack of clarity and over-generalization.
40
posted on
03/26/2015 3:12:30 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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