Posted on 10/08/2015 5:43:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Cruz is jockeying to win Trump & Carson backers when they crash. Even if he fails, his influence will be inordinate.
After several months of political shock and awe, the contours of the coming GOP primary race are starting to come a little bit into focus. We have a Florida smackdown between Jeb! and Marco! as the establishment choices and the two frontrunners, Carson and Trump, will continue to one-up each other daily with obnoxious, indecent and mind-bogglingly ignorant statements until, it is assumed, even their yahoo followers will decide that they’ve gone too far.
Whether that’s going to actually happen I’ll leave to the political soothsayers. The rest of the field mostly seems to be mired in irrelevance although it’s always possible that someone will surprise us.
I have made the point before that if I were a betting person, I’d put a couple of bucks on Ted Cruz to be that someone for the simple reason that he’s the guy most likely to inherit the kook constituency should Trump and/or Carson finally flame out. It’s unlikely that he’d get all of them, but the validators of right wing crazy, from local Iowa conservative radio superstar Steve Deace to Rush Limbaugh to Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham all see Cruz as either the guy or an excellent second choice, and they could certainly help move voters to his column. And the reason for that is that he is a true-believing, hard-core right wing zealot who checks off every single box — from railing about “amnesty” to hiring fanatical Christian “historian” David Barton to run his Super PAC, to leading the charge against Planned Parenthood to calling President Obama “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism”. He is the real thing....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Senator Cruz is not a Washington insider but an invader.
How about Ima_Troll?
And since there's more than one -We can change their screen names and number them:
Ima_Troll-1
Ima_Troll-2
Ima_Troll-3
Exc....
a Quiet Elegant Masrerfu Smack Down indeed!
Cruz will always be my First Choice.
Cruz will always be my First Choice.
I'm sticking with Cruz, because I remain a conservative.
Senator Warren is the one to worry about if Hillary goes down. The Democrats will be so relieved and there is much love for her mostly because she is not Hillary and viewed as the progressives progressive.
Liberals are beginning to feel about Hillary as we do about Jeb!
There will be a cathartic embrace and anything she has done or says won't matter, all of Senator Sander's support goes to Senator Warren.
My gut is Senator Warren doesn't want to be vice president and the Clintons have something on her. Further the Obama big data machine will be made available to her.
The other possibility is Senator Warren genuinely doesn't want the job and if so then I doubt she'd take the VP slot.
Methinks that the uber left is uber worried.
Methinks they fear him.
Amen to that.
Do you think Cruz can be elected?
“leading the charge against Planned Parenthood to calling President Obama “the world’s leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism”. “
And he’s doing those things on the Senate floor, while Rubio can’t be bothered to show up to vote!
why is it when I think of Cruz negotiating giving and taking comes to mind, while Trump negotiating has connotations of him winning the ‘deal’.
Don’t get me wrong- both are better than Boohoo’s giving in. I guess it’s a business vs political perspective.
Absolutely. With the horrifically unlovable and possibly soon-to-be-indicted presumptive Democratic nominee, we’ve never had a better opportunity to elect a true conservative to office. I’d hate to hand this opportunity to a pro big-government populist instead.
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