WSJ Wrong on Cruz Again

Conservative Review ^ | November 22nd, 2015 | Jeffrey Lord

[Isara]

FYI

[Slyfox]

They wonder what, exactly, Mr. Cruz has accomplished.

The WSJ needs to hire some competent fact-checkers.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

WSJ’s editorial page has become an embarrassment.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Blaming Cruz for the failure of Republicans to reign in Obama is like blaming the one lit candle because the world is still dark.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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2015-11-05 : Free Republic's Patton@Bastogne's Bold Political Predictions


(1) Yeb Bush will make a good political campaign decision "intelligently" REFUSE to exit the 2016 GOP Presidential Race until he is DEFEATED in the 2016 March 15 Florida Primary. Yeb Bush's political "ace in the hole" is the hopelessly corrupt Florida Republican Party ... the ones who redistricted the great Allen West out-of-office.


(2) Meanwhile ... Dr. Ben Carson will be polling "single digits" by Christmas 2015 ... at which point he'll endorse (suprise, surprise) Yeb Bush ...


(3) Marco "Amnesty" Rubio (lavishly funded by Yeb Bush's former donors) ... will place FOURTH in Iowa (abandoned by the Tea Party Evangelical Christians for being a greedy bad-faced liar) and FOURTH in the Florida Primary (in a "blood-sport" death-match with Yeb Bush)


4) Ted Cruz SHOCKS the "Washington Establishment Cartel" with a three-percent Florida victory over Donald Trump ...


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On November 5, 2015 ... it was revealed that Dr. Ben Carson supports Transgendered Bathrooms (political suicide for his Evangelical Christian base) ...

... and Dr. Ben Carson has "lied" about the names of guys he supposedly beat-up in high school

... which, when combined with the "ridiculous" Pyramid Theory statements, is beginning to make Herman Cain (2012) and John Edwards (2008) look like Einstein and Gen. George Patton Jr.


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"Anything" can happen in a "New York Minute" in American politics.

Just ask Machiavelli, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, Bobby Kennedy, Vince Foster, Gary Hart, Buddy Holly, U.S. Senators Hale Boggs, Ted Stevens, and Paul Wellstone, Herman Cain ...

and Napoleon at Waterloo (who was winning the battle, and Wellington admitting DEFEAT, as late as 5:00 PM in the afternoon).


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Ninety-eight (98) GOP Convention delegates are at stake in Florida's "mas mucho rigged" state Presidential Primary (Winner take All).

That makes it more convenient for Yeb's GOPe Chamber of Commerce Political Whores (aka the Florida Republican Party) to hand Yeb 98 convention delegates on a silver platter.

Yeb Bush has absolutely NOTHING to lose by staying in the presidential race (anything can happen).

Is it a longshot ? Absolutely.

Has Karl Rove already planned for this scenario ? Absolutely.

Will Dr. Ben Carson endorse Yeb Bush when the good doctor is "finished" ? Absolutely.

As a romantic interest once told me ... "It's All About the Money" ... perfectly applicable to Yeb Bush, Ben Carson, and Karl Rove.

[Calpublican]

McConnell has close ties at WSJ. He hates Cruz. They hate Cruz.

How can he win Senate votes against McConnell.

[Reno89519]

Cruz is a martyr and has in the end lost every battle. He’s proven a hypocrite on TPP and Iran, now finally flipped on H1B but still refuses to openly address amnesty. He’s been a loser from day one. He is also not very well liked and has only a small core of supporters, plus the big money donors that own him. Last I saw he was trailing in his home state of Texas. Not a promising record. That WSJ points this out is not unexpected. What is a bit is that people still want to defend him when he has nothing to show for his efforts and some of his positions are so offensive as to be disqualifying. I am embarrassed that I initially supported him and donated several hundred dollars to his campaign.

[Patton@Bastogne]

[Safetgiver]

I am embarrassed that I initially supported him and donated several hundred dollars to his campaign....I’ll bet you did.

[nathanbedford]

Ping

[Duchess47]

Just a note on your graphic. In the top center obviously photoshopped Cruz/Reagan at least try for accuracy - Reagan was 6’1”, Ted Cruz is 5’8”.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Engineering Drawing Not to Scale ... does that work for you ?

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[Duchess47]

Not to scale works for me.

[arthurus]

Some caveats:

H1-B expansion. Cruz supports it.

The Trade Bill. Cruz voted for it, apparently enthusiastically.

The Iran deal. Cruz voted to give Hussein essentially plenary power to negotiate it and to ratify it.

[arthurus]

Trump can win all the primaries in all the normally Republican voting states and still come up zero at the convention if has has not won outright majorities, that is 50%+, in eight of them. If bush wins majorities in 8 states that normally vote Democrat in the elections and are characterized by their gope Republicans but does not get a single vote in any other primary then Bush will be the Nominee by the present rules as promulgated and binding by the RNC. If neither candidate gets the eight majorities then the RNC will change the rules again to hand it to Bush or the Convention will be open, which just means that the superdelegates which are controlled by the RNC will give the nomination to Bush in combination with the ousting of portions or all of the delegations from states that are represented by non Bush delegates. This is not an Election and the nominating organization can make whatever rules it deems appropriate.

It is possible that Jeb will turn out to be too embarrassing a candidate for the Bush family and Jeb will be induced to drop out in which case Rubio will probably become the RNC candidate and nominee. Even someone like Kasich is not completely out of the picture as Rubio may be making himself obnoxious to the Bushes and thereby to the RNC. Rubio's job was to collect conservative base votes- and not steal gope votes from Bush- and then bow out handing his delegates over to Bush.

[arthurus]

Trump can win all the primaries in all the normally Republican voting states and still come up zero at the convention if has has not won outright majorities, that is 50%+, in eight of them. If bush wins majorities in 8 states that normally vote Democrat in the elections and are characterized by their gope Republicans but does not get a single vote in any other primary then Bush will be the Nominee by the present rules as promulgated and binding by the RNC. If neither candidate gets the eight majorities then the RNC will change the rules again to hand it to Bush or the Convention will be open, which just means that the superdelegates which are controlled by the RNC will give the nomination to Bush in combination with the ousting of portions or all of the delegations from states that are represented by non Bush delegates. This is not an Election and the nominating organization can make whatever rules it deems appropriate.

It is possible that Jeb will turn out to be too embarrassing a candidate for the Bush family and Jeb will be induced to drop out in which case Rubio is supposed to become the RNC candidate and nominee. Even someone like Kasich is not completely out of the picture as Rubio may be making himself obnoxious to the Bushes and thereby to the RNC. Rubio's job was to collect conservative base votes- and not steal gope votes from Bush- and then bow out handing his delegates over to Bush. Rubio has deviated from the script and that may not be acceptable to the RNC.

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[Reagan] He had not the slightest hesitation in vetoing a bill when he knew his veto was certain to be overridden, because it drew a contrast with his opponents.

Because voters can rally around a president who's veto is overridden.

A senator whose bills are always getting defeated or vetoed is more likely to be seen as wasting people's time.

Presidents have a residual monarchical appeal with people that 1 out of 100 senators or 1 out of 435 congressmen doesn't.

[American Constitutionalist]

But yet ?

You and other Trump supporters condemn Ted Cruz for some supposed phantom H-1B legislation that hasn’t even been passed in Congress while at the same time give Donald Trump a pass for the fact that his own companies have sought 1,000 H-1B workers.

Talk about blatant hypocrisy.

[Duchess47]

Could be that Donald Trump isn’t a Senator and has no control of H-1B. Oh, and that part of his H-1B workers over the past many years and many companies have been things like foreign models.

[American Constitutionalist]

Some truth, Donald Trump’s own companies have sought 1,000 H-1B workers.

Donald Trump supports growing more government socialism in a new goverment welfare program to help collage students with their tuition, same thing Rand Paul advocated and rightfully condemn here on FR.

Government welfare programs do not create jobs.