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Ted Cruz's Strategy: To Hell With Independents
Fox Nation ^ | December 15, 2014 | Eliana Johnson

Posted on 12/15/2014 10:51:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 12/15/2014 10:51:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep, send the GOPe to Hades.....


2 posted on 12/15/2014 10:53:08 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Go Ted! Cruise Missile on LOCK!
3 posted on 12/15/2014 10:53:42 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, it’s novel. I guess if you have the opinion that 1) pandering to independents hurts you with the base and other voters who might agree with or at least respect you, and 2) “independents” as typically defined are a bunch of wishy-washy know-nothings who don’t pay attention until the week before election day, then this might have a shot.


4 posted on 12/15/2014 10:53:50 AM PST by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t like how Fox is slanting this. If there’s a group Cruz tells to GTH it’s those who don’t follow the Constitution.


5 posted on 12/15/2014 10:53:53 AM PST by austinaero
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yep typical bullshit Fox slant lately.....and BTW, Cruz will get indies the way Reagan got them....BY BRINGING THEM TO HIM, not pretending to go to them.


6 posted on 12/15/2014 10:54:49 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz it or lose it!


7 posted on 12/15/2014 10:55:14 AM PST by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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To: kevkrom

“independents” need to be convinced of the superiority of conservative ideas,

not pandered to.


8 posted on 12/15/2014 10:55:16 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama won by expanding the size of his base, not by pandering to the scourge of politics, “Independents”.


9 posted on 12/15/2014 10:59:03 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Support Ted and he’ll Cruz to victory!


10 posted on 12/15/2014 10:59:09 AM PST by kitkat (STORM HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Cruz strategy is so bad that even Warren is imitating it now. Actually do what you said you would in campaign speeches, what a stupid think to do. Actually be honest with the American people. Silly fools.


11 posted on 12/15/2014 10:59:16 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why does the media assume that independents are liberals? Many moderates and independents are conservative on some or most issues and lean conservative on others. After all, conservatives outnumber liberals in this country in every state except Hawaii and the cesspool of liberals, Washington, DC. Conservatism is the dominant philosophy in America, but not in the media or federal politics.


12 posted on 12/15/2014 10:59:35 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: kitkat

Reagan won two landslide elections with conservatism and by appealing directly to the people. Cruz can do the same.


13 posted on 12/15/2014 11:01:17 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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I tend to place the “independent” voter in the low-information category.


14 posted on 12/15/2014 11:01:26 AM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: austinaero

Its Fox...the RINO channel.


15 posted on 12/15/2014 11:01:48 AM PST by gwgn02
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Eliana, as opposed to the GOPe strategy as articulate by Mitch McConnell: “To HELL with Conservatives”?


16 posted on 12/15/2014 11:02:57 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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Independents are sheep. They just want a strong leader.


17 posted on 12/15/2014 11:04:31 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If that doesn’t satisfy Freepers I don’t know what will but somehow I just know there will still be a percentage that STILL won’t be happy.


18 posted on 12/15/2014 11:04:32 AM PST by Minsc
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To: kevkrom
... this might have a shot.

Reagan thought so.

19 posted on 12/15/2014 11:05:38 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Moonman62

Reagan was a true conservative. Cruz is a political opportunist with a white silk tie. Enough said!


20 posted on 12/15/2014 11:07:29 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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