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....
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Does anyone have info on what terrorism has been stopped from NSA info?
I think Rubio might be right on this. Stopped clocks are that way twice a day.
LOL, right on, I think the “Constitutionalist” needs his meds adjusted. Quite a bizarre rant.
Of course the Trump supporters choose to ignore that Trump wants to have a revolving door amnesty.
Make them legal after they come back into the US again.
The low information Trump supporters can’t seem to grasp truth .
(Trump wants to) “make them legal after they come back into the US again.”
LOL, REALLY? Are you ACTUALLY saying Trump, who is 100% in favor of “Kate’s Law” is advocating citizenship for illegals if they are deported and then AGAIN re enter illegally?
Or is yours simply another distortion and the work of a desperate deluded man? You know you post like a liberal.
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