Posted on 11/19/2015 5:18:26 PM PST by VinL
After the Paris terror attacks, do voters want a candidate who opposed the NSA and U.S. action in Syria? The Paris attacks have put a lot of things into focus. Including a new focus on a particular trait of a particular up-and-coming presidential candidate: Ted Cruz.
The Texas senator has been the stealth contender. He has quietly built his donor base and erected an early-state infrastructure. He has identified his main opponents and deployed strategies to poach voters from each. He flatters Donald Trump and Ben Carson, waiting to scoop up support if they fade. He lambastes Marco Rubio, presenting himself as a purer pick for the conservative base.
But more notable at the moment is Mr. Cruz’s calculated effort to peel off Rand Paul voters by pitching himself as Paul-lite on foreign policy. The strategy isn’t surprising to anyone who has watched Mr. Cruz’s career. A dictionary definition of “opportunistic†is to “exploit chances offered by immediate circumstances without reference to a general plan or moral principle.†And that helps explain why Mr. Cruz is both so loved and so disliked.
The senator’s supporters adore him because they see him in those moments when he has positioned himself as the hero. To them he is the stalwart forcing a government shutdown over ObamaCare. He’s the brave soul calling to filibuster in defense of gun rights. He’s the one keeping the Senate in lame-duck session to protest Mr. Obama’s unlawful immigration orders.
Mr. Cruz’s detractors see a man who engineers moments to aggrandize himself at the expensive of fellow conservatives. And they see the consequences. They wonder what, exactly, Mr. Cruz has accomplished.
ObamaCare is still on the books. It took the GOP a year to recover its approval ratings after the shutdown....
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Where is that awesome pic of the “not this sh*t again” guy? Reno89519 hits every Cruz thread with the same old sh*t! There is a reason Trump mentions Cruz as a possible VP, you try to neutralize a threat and if trump didn’t see Cruz as a threat...........
The WSJ does not like Cruz and Trump. Expect to see more hit pieces like this in the future on both candidates.
Hey Trump supporters ?
We give our deepest condolences for your lose of trusting in Donald Trump on the immigration issue.
What you say ?
You haven’t heard ?
Surprise ! Surprise !
Well, well, well....
Donald Trump does after all have a backdoor amnesty plan in the works.
But of course with my great gratitude and thanks for one of the Trump supporters that corrected me on “ backdoor amnesty “ its not backdoor amnesty...
Right you are !
It’s : REVOLVINGDOOR AMNESTY .... SAME THING AS : BACKDOOR AMNESTY but painted in a different light.
We told you so guys, Trump fans, that Donald Trump can’t be trusted.
We told you that he was setting you guys up and pulling ya’aall’s chains, .....
A sucker is born every minute.
Hey guys we feel your pain, it was a YUUGE LOSE.
There still is another candidate who can be trusted and who is consistent.... That would be Ted Cruz.
Must really really suck to find out that Donald Trump has been unfaithful to you guys ( after all ? He has the pathological behaviour that of a drunken whore ).
We feel your pain for losing your thunder and number one issue : IMMIGRATION TRUMP’S WAY....
Nobody distorts like the WSJ.
“Like”!
Still on your anti-Cruz jihad, I see.
We feel your pain for losing your thunder and number one issue : IMMIGRATION TRUMP’S WAY....
Ohhh ring a ling ding ding ripnbang your speech betrays you !
So you admit that Donald Trump does have REVOLVINGDOOR backdoor amnesty plan ?
You guys have trown off any subtleties and pretense.
Your masks are coming off like your gloves are.. Of course, that’s the TRUMP’s way.
Had a TRUMP supporter tell me last night that Trump supporters don’t go on other threads and get nasty.
Ah, the way you twist words....which campaign are you with, Bernie’s or Hill’s?
You know when the other side is losing the war when they have to send in Kamamikazi Trumpanzees raids.. Desperation...
Get real, long time Freeper here since 2004....
What is it that Trump fans love to say ?
Ohh yeah, when Trump gets pushed, or gets hit, he is going to push back and hit back..
What is good for the goose is good for the gander...
When Cruz fans get pushed ?
We are going to push back just as hard and scorn your own words, and Trump’s words.
We are going to expose Trump’s lies, scams, tricks, and so too Trump’s supporters lies, propaganda.
We are going to weed out the Trump supporters propaganda where ever it may be.
Get real, long time Freeper here since 2004....
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Congratulations....but you still didn’t answer which campaign your with.
Hey Vinny ?
The next thing you know the Trumpbots will accuse us of is drinking the US Constitution koolaid...
No wait, isn’t the US Constitution something that we should actually defend, protect, preserve ?
LOL....seems someone, you, think people reading here HAVE to read your ramblings. Trust me, when I see a post by you, I just scroll on by. Have fun
Still can’t figure it out yet ?
All righty then, I keep you on hold and let the other *** TED CRUZ *** supporters help you figure it out then.
And I have absolutely zero respect for you scumbag election season trolls so I really couldn’t care less what you think.
Flush
NO MORE BULLSHIT!
After the shutdown, the GOP won NINE Senate seats, and more House seats than at any time since 1928.
The shutdown was a fabulous victory. Anyone who repeats the lie that it was a defeat is beyond hope.
LOL- Right you are, AC-
Catch you tomorrow, my friend.
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