I'm so happy I don't have to vote for Cruz. I can now take the clothespin off my nose.
Perhaps this isn’t the time to say this out of respect for Cruz supporters, but I do not see him like I saw Reagan in 1976.
Reagan didn’t turn off a massive part of his party’s electorate in 1976.
Reagan came back, because the party members could easily sign on to him.
Folks need to think about this. I’m not going to state the obvious.
I think, in 1976, titled “Jimmy Carter Revealed: He’s a Rockefeller Republican”, seems the night he was elected governor of Georgia, he called up the Rockefellers asking for political patronage, then he ran as a stealth-liberal, supposedly “Evangelical” candidate.
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I was not a Christian back then, but was attending a private Baptist college. The on campus hysterical enthusiasm for Jimmy Carter as a fellow Baptist was amazing. Carter’s morality compared to the evil overlordness of Richard Nixon would make all the bad things go away, forever and ever, amen. My contempt was absolute.
Long, long ago. So much has changed.
Not the brightest communication to use your pejorative comment of neo- conservative and attack Cruz supporters too. These are not the enemy as the old media would have you think. BO, Hillary, the senile commie, and the old media are ALL enemies of ALL conservatives, new and old.
I supported Ted Cruz at one point and now I support Trump.
Either way I would have been happy.
Which means I’m happy!
I remember the 1976 election clearly - I was in the Army at the time, stationed in Oklahoma. Although I’ve always been a Christian, I have never considered myself an evangelical or fundamentalist. I found Carter’s running pretty much on his religion off-putting. What really surprised and troubled me, however, were the reports I was getting from lots of other young officers from fundmentalist and/or evangelical backgrounds about how strongly their pastors and denominations were pushing Carter as “one of us”.
I started out with Walker this cycle, though I thought well of Cruz and supported him once Walker dropped out. The more I saw of Cruz and his religious backers and (at least) fellow travelers, the less comfortable I became. The dominionism of Ted’s father is outside even the mainstream of evangelicalism or fundamentalism. The language of Beck and many of Cruz’s other supporters is troublingly apocalyptic, even unhinged. Ultimately, we’re better off not running Cruz.