Posted on 12/16/2014 2:42:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sorry, senator -- it's not happening.
To the surprise of approximately nobody, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is proceeding full steam ahead with plans to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. The Tea Party icon has already settled on a location for his campaign headquarters (Houston), made the requisite appeals to GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, and decided on a campaign strategy. That strategy, National Review’s Eliana Johnson reports, centers on energizing the GOP base, not wooing moderates and independents to the Republican fold. Of course, the hard demographic truth is that a Republican can’t win the presidency by relying on the party’s older, white base alone, so the senator also aims to win over Jewish, Latino, and Millennial voters, Johnson reveals.
The notion that the Republicans are on the cusp of scoring big gains among Jewish voters is an old one, and while it never pans out, it reliably reappears every presidential cycle. But before we get into that, let’s dispense with Cruz’s fantastical idea that, in the event he were to capture the GOP nod, he’d bring large numbers of Latinos and Millennials into the GOP camp. According to Johnson, Cruz and his advisers believe that his brand of “populist and pugnacious conservatism” will attract traditionally Democratic voter groups, including Latinos and young people. This is delusional.
To be sure, Cruz’s internal figures reportedly show that he captured 40 percent of the Latino vote in his 2012 Senate race, but he still lost Latinos to an opponent whom he defeated by 16 points overall. (It’s also worth noting that Texas Latinos skew more Republican than Latinos nationally.) Moreover, Cruz hasn’t done himself any favors among Latinos with his strident opposition to President Obama’s executive action on immigration; 89 percent of Latinos....
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Then naturally the Jews most familiar with the Talmud would be the most liberal, right? And Jews with no religious education would be as conservative as other white Americans, right?
I can just hear the glasses of Chardonnay tinkling as they all chat and agree with each other.
There's a few here on FR that are ready to start sowing the seeds of dissent about Cruz too. They seem to think he can step totally outside the real world of politics to remain "pure". Here's to squashing their suicidal tendencies and efforts to insure we get to keep on whining about not having a worthy candidate. Some of them have been taken hostage by the Left and have developed Stockholm Syndrome.
Keep on keeping on...
Note the back-handed admission that Christian claims to a “higher standard” than Judaism are simply dishonest rhetoric.
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Salon.com = Republicans in Name Only?
In what bizarre, twisted universe?
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