CRUZ or lose.
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....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
The bed wetting RINOs are going full speed ahead to rake down someone they claim doesn’t stand a chance...
Given all the hit Pieces over the last two weeks and Jeb jumping in it doesn’t take a genious to figure out where all this is coming from.
Must be all the vipers from Willard inc. are working for DaBush Cabal.
FUJB!
Well, here’s my advice to Cruz: RUN for President in 2016
It should be easy enough even for low info undecided voters to figure out.
If Ted is so delusional, then he isn’t a threat, and lib rags like Salon wouldn’t be wasting so much ink on him.
So, he must be a threat, and not delusional.
I stopped reading at “Salon.com”.
"Of course I serve Obama. Who doesn't?"
So tell me again why the GOP would be taking strategy advise from the salon...
And while we’re at it, why do Jewish voters like the Democrats?
Is it the high taxes?
Is it their tendency to make the streets less safe?
Is the support of Islamism?
Is it the complete rejection of Israel?
Or is it that they have forgotten the last time someone wanted to take away their guns “for their own safety”?
“The author...”
Is that a guy, or just not sure ?
Just looking at his picture you can tell the guy is a wacko.
“Or is it that they have forgotten the last time someone wanted to take away their guns “for their own safety”?”
Ding ding ding ding!!! We have a winner!
Of late it seems every time I am presented with a picture of a “journalist” it is always someone young and either a homely feminist or an effeminate wimp. Are there any non-caricatures left in journalism?
Of course you can't - you need to be a moderate- like those winning moderate GOP candidates Dole, McCain, and Romney
And Gerald Ford, Alf Landon, Tom Dewey...
Ok I give up is it a boy or is it a girl?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/attachments.readmedia.com/files/37746/medium/lbrinker.jpg
Wow, Ted Cruz is causing the fearful Ruling Elite to have so many “accidents” needing diaper changes, they may be running out of diapers. I hope they’re not using anything to prevent diaper rash.
I’m Jewish and I will be honored to vote for Cruz.
I can’t even wait to volunteer for him when that time comes as well.
So there.
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