Posted on 01/23/2016 12:51:49 PM PST by Isara
Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz says he hates the conventional wisdom that the only way for a conservative to win a general election is to run as a "Democrat-lite."
"How do we win?" Cruz asked voters at an Exeter, N.H., rally earlier this week, according to the Associated Press.
"Washington consultants always say 'the way you win is you run to the middle.' You run to the mushy middle, you blur the distinctions," he added. "Every time we do that, we lose."
The Texas senator said he prefers his approach, which he characterized as "telling the truth with a smile."
"That's how we win - with a clear contrast," he said.
Cruz pointed to the failed candidacies of Bob Dole, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mitt Romney, who were all perceived to be moderates in the party, to support his position.
"What they did didn't work," he said. "We've got to do something different."
You're right, but the voting hasn't started and we will have to see where we're at after 2-3 months. Right now it looks like Trump is destroying everyone and a whole bunch of folks are jumping on his bandwagon. He even seems so confident he's letting out that he will be happy to reach across the aisle and work with the Rats to get things done.
I'm still hopeful that a majority of Pub voters will want a Pro-life, pro 2nd Amendment, pro family, small govt, conservative. Trump is a blow it all up candidate who is a johnny come lately to conservatism, if he really is one. I get the appeal of blow it all up, but what if the guying blowing it all up is a liberal who wants to replace everything with something worse.
Trump support will waver when conservatives find out he is a GOPe candidate.
whatever YOU define as “conservative” is obviously a very small minority...... about 10% of republicans which is about 3% of the country......
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Well, whatever Ted does is what we get.
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calisurfer is clearly a troll.
There is no issue WRT Cruz’ citizenship, and only someone bent on destroying this election would assert that there is.
been scuttled by its fans' skipper
Conservatives don’t support government subsidies. It’s completely immoral and socialist to steal one person’s money to redistribute it to someone else who you think “needs” it more.
OK, it appears the 15% threshold is only done on the Democrat side.
There is no issue WRT Cruz’ citizenship, and only someone bent on destroying this election would assert that there is.
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There is definitely an issue with Cruz’ citizenship. That’s your problem if you don’t think there is.
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