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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 06/10/2015 6:41:49 AM PDT by GIdget2004
He’s stuck in the middle of the pack in Iowa, lags in polls, and much of the GOP donor class views him with disdain.
But Ted Cruz is embracing a novel strategy for winning the nomination: He’s lowering expectations in the early states while investing in later-voting states that hardly see a candidate before March.
In the past week or so alone, the Texas senator has taken his presidential campaign to Michigan and Massachusetts, staffed up in New Jersey and Tennessee, and skipped an Iowa cattle call to stump in North Carolina — all states expected to vote in March, with the exception of New Jersey, which has a primary slated for June 2016.
It’s a risky bet that defies the usual wisdom — and historical precedent — that a candidate must achieve an early-state victory to stay in the game. But Cruz’s team is bracing for a long fight based on picking up delegates — a battle they plan to stretch all the way to the convention, where, the theory goes, he’ll be the last conservative standing — though a contested convention hasn’t happened in nearly 40 years.
“Our strategy is taking it to the convention, which is why you’ve seen us announcing chairmen in California and New Jersey, as well as Iowa and New Hampshire,” said Mark Campbell, Cruz’s political director. “There are 2,470 [delegates] total, and you need 1,236 of them to win. None of these can be accumulated at any one time, which is why it’s a marathon more than a sprint. So we are methodically going state by state, focusing on grass roots and party activists.”
Campbell said they expect Cruz to place “in the top three” in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
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That’s it! I am not support Cruz then ;-)
You and I can't do it with each other, no one can, not on Everything.
We all want Ted Cruz to become President, but if he does, he will make a decision , on something, ANYTHING that we are not 100% in agreement with, but we will need to press forward. Because of the Big Picture.
That is what the Democrats do, and in the "Spirit of Bi-Partisanship" I think we should copy that ;)
The back end of the horse would be more accurate.
People that hauled their asses into a booth for romney when they disagreed (supposedly) with about everything about him can march their asses into a booth and vote for Cruz, a man with a mere couple points of contention.
It’s that simple. If they won’t, they are the liberals I say they are and that will have proved it.
It’s that simple. If they won’t, they are the liberals I say they are and that will have proved it.
Excellent Summation There Norm!
If you find a politician you agree with 100% of the time, one of you is lying.
Quite!
And I use it fairly regularly with the “TEDCRUZJUSTLOSTMYVOTE!” nonsense so popular with the cool kids on FR these days. But not NEARLY as often as you’ll be seeing it posted as the election nears and the excuses grow.
Feel free to join me in doing so. The simple truth often works wonders to stop people from devolving into sheep when the Yosemite Sam on a Dragon pix start flying.
You are right...I know people on here have an agenda...they fear Cruz.
Just look at the states he is in...why and how can he extend the map?
Walker flip flopped on competing in Florida because of the money. Cruz has a GREAT online game.
They have to tell us he can’t win in order to deflate vote turnout for Cruz.
Like Goldman Sachs?
Do you have a suggestion for which banker shill I should support?
Conservatives need to nut up and face the fact that our trade problems are rooted right here in America. We’re simply uncompetitive due to over regulation, over taxation, over unionization, and a generation too good to get their hands dirty.
I think Ted Cruz will lead us a good bit of the way out of the rat’s nest of over regulation and taxation. The people themselves have to break the illusion that every child should be a white collar worker.
Ted Cruz Ping! I’ll be the first one to admit his TPP crap pissed me off. But he is the only person worth voting for to begin with and he is solid on the vast majority of issues that matter most. If we have any chance at all, it’s name is Ted Cruz.
I don’t like it but Obama won’t be president for much longer (it just seems that way)
As much as I like Ted Cruz, I will be the first to admit that he isn't perfect. One of his imperfections is that he is a solidly ideological free trader. Thus, his flawed positions on H1B visas and presidential trade authority.
Those are two things which congress will have to check and balance him on. Some of the lefties in congress will actually unite with conservatives to do so. What is more, Cruz actually has the temperament to listen to congress rather than simply ignore it.
Those two minor flaws are, compared to the flaws in any other candidate, well, minor.
I (puts on Fox Mulder hat) want to believe...that he intends to use the power in it to undo Obama’s damage. I want to. A truly dangerous game. But it’s probably too much to hope for.
I worked for a major bank for twenty-five years.
I guess I am a bad person.
Cruz lost my vote.
ObamaTrade was the bridge too far for me.
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