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Cruz: GOP can empower grassroots by ditching consultants, ‘Soviet-style campaigns’
The Washington Times ^
| May 31, 2014
| Seth McLaughlin
Posted on 05/31/2014 7:27:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: Defiant
He wouldnt have been governor if he hadnt backed 187.
And since Lungren was too craven to back it, he lost.
And when Gray Davis illegally canned it, we recalled him.
They havent learned. And its probably too late.
Next up, Los Angeles as Mexican thug show.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
RINOs will never allow that.
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posted on
05/31/2014 8:52:57 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: Regulator
Cruz shows me good political instincts and practical horse sense by working from inside the GOP. Unlike 3rd party pushers, Cruz has much more sense of reality.
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posted on
05/31/2014 9:07:17 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(Harry Reid will not allow debate on any good bills passed by House. GOP needs 51 senators in 2014!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A local talk show host was a GOP advisor and he totally approved of Chris Christie’s actions during the campaign including him not campaigning for Cuccinelli! These advisors don’t operate like a Conservative.
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posted on
05/31/2014 9:17:51 PM PDT
by
RginTN
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Excellent point by Senator Cruz.
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posted on
05/31/2014 9:18:06 PM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I came from Mississippi. Me, my wife, and kids will make for 6 more Conservatives. I balance 2 Feminists, 3 Homosexuals, and an Environmentalist.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
GOP election consultants are in it to maximize their own earnings. They have no core convictions, no principles, no loyalties. They could as easily be working for the other side. They are out of touch with the base of the party, and frankly, they do not know how to win.
The democrats win presidential elections by first locking up their base, and getting them committed to the candidate and excited about the campaign. They start from the far left during the primaries, and then pretend to be more "moderate" during the general.
They republicans start from the far left, and push the most leftist candidate they can get away with. They then try to sell this candidate to their base. When the base fails to get excited about the candidate and the campaign, the GOPe apparatchiks blackmail, guilt-trip and bully the base.
During the general election, the GOP is still trying to convince the base that the candidate is really for them, when they should be completely committed to reaching out to the wider audience, with the energy and cooperation of the base. In the end, they do not get enough of the base, and enough of the wider audience. A very poor strategy IMO.
Funny thing was in the last presidential election, the GOP was trying to "punish" certain sections of the base that did not fall in line with them. That is what amounts to great GOP strategy!
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posted on
05/31/2014 10:48:49 PM PDT
by
Moorings
To: onyx; killermosquito; tpmintx; TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig; Caipirabob; Clump; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
05/31/2014 11:08:31 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: Defiant
The courts shot it down,
Sorry, I am more cynical than you about that. Wilson allowed a low level federal district judge, Mariana Pfaelzer, to sit on the case for nearly four years instead of appealing it directly to get it out of her court. That basically ran out his term. Then his RAT successor Gray Davis killed it by refusing to fight it in court just like Schwarzenegger and then Attorney General Moonbeam refused to defend Prop 8 and killed it too.
My take is that Wilson was embarrassed by the initiative but had to support it to get re-elected in 1994. Once elected he wanted nothing to do with it.
This is similar to Jan Brewer of Arizona who supported SB1070 only because she knew she could not get the Republican nomination after replacing Butch Napolitano as Governor midterm. Once elected she turned out to be turncoat RINO who forced through the Obamacare medicaid expansion that will cost the AZ taxpayers billions with the votes of the RATS and a few turncoat Republicans.
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posted on
05/31/2014 11:15:51 PM PDT
by
fifedom
To: fifedom; Defiant
My take is that Wilson was embarrassed by the initiative but had to support it to get re-elected in 1994. Once elected he wanted nothing to do with it.
This is similar to Jan Brewer of Arizona who supported SB1070 only because she knew she could not get the Republican nomination after replacing Butch Napolitano as Governor midterm. Once elected she turned out to be turncoat RINO who forced through the Obamacare medicaid expansion that will cost the AZ taxpayers billions with the votes of the RATS and a few turncoat Republicans.
Yup, much more accurate take on Pete Wilson than the one that Defiant provided.
Pete Wilson is another one of those Chamber of Commerce Traitors, basically greedy republican that doesn't care about anything else.
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posted on
05/31/2014 11:31:56 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: Free Vulcan
” Being from Iowa and involved heavily in the political scene, I deal with these asshats and their minions all the time, especially during Presidential years. Generally clueless about winning campaigns, really good at spending a bunch of money down a hole. They dont care, if they lose they go on to some other job. If we lose here, we have to live with it.”
Ditto in Nevada. Good ole boys unwilling to pull the trigger and actually fight.
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posted on
06/01/2014 12:09:32 AM PDT
by
DaxtonBrown
(http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
To: Defiant
PRAY for him daily, several times, if you possibly can.
God bless and keep you.
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posted on
06/01/2014 7:55:46 AM PDT
by
onyx
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To: entropy12
Exactly. Cruz is brilliant, fearless, genuine AND he operates in the real world. Bob
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posted on
06/01/2014 11:50:53 AM PDT
by
alstewartfan
(She wanders down the hallway in her long black dress Lingers by the fireplace like a faint caress Al)
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