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Ted Cruz, Rand Paul top huge Tea Party poll; Chris Christie, Jeb Bush dead last
Washington Examiner ^ | February 11, 2014 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 02/11/2014 9:25:28 AM PST by BlueStateRightist

Conservative Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul top the biggest Tea Party presidential poll yet, while moderates New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are dumped at the bottom, undermining their hopes of being 2016 crossover candidates.

The online poll of 62,000 grassroots activists provided exclusively to Secrets finds that conservatives and Tea Party organizers stand fully behind the heroes of their movement, including outspoken surgeon Ben Carson, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014polls; 2016gopprimary; braking; elections; poll; randpaul; teaparty; teapartyrebellion; tedcruz
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To: matthew fuller

Huckabee?! This Christian sure wouldn’t vote for him, but maybe it’s just the Southern Baptist vote he’s gathering. ;)

Go, Ted!!


21 posted on 02/11/2014 10:22:38 AM PST by madison10
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To: BlueStateRightist

WE need to get to the primaries and make SURE they don’t “give” us a Christie or Bush type this time!!


22 posted on 02/11/2014 10:25:10 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: erod

Agreed. We’ve been trying to tell the National GOP party this since it was McCain V Bush in 1999.

They don’t listen and then sound betrayed when we don’t fall for their betrayal.

Want conservatives to stay home in droves? Run RINO’s.

Want us to flood the polling places? Run real candidates.


23 posted on 02/11/2014 10:32:26 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Paul and Huckaphony are Shamnesty pros.


24 posted on 02/11/2014 10:33:18 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Best news I’ve had all day!!


25 posted on 02/11/2014 10:43:00 AM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: madison10

I believe that his #6/7 showing will work to convince him to run. He is very low on my list of preferred candidates.


26 posted on 02/11/2014 10:43:32 AM PST by matthew fuller
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To: BlueStateRightist
Interesting concept. 22 candidates, matched head to head 11 times so that each one
faced each other and then working out the percentage. Or that is how I understand
the process. If so against the field Cruz and Paul did excellent.
27 posted on 02/11/2014 11:05:39 AM PST by deport
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To: BlueStateRightist

Maybe Bush can rise if he becomes even more liberal. /s/


28 posted on 02/11/2014 11:13:33 AM PST by DPMD
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To: BlueStateRightist

How Amnesty Liberal Rand Paul keeps getting support is flabbergasting. Don’t folks realize he is not a Conservative!!

We will screw up 2016 because folks have no clue what a conservative really is


29 posted on 02/11/2014 11:36:05 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (Diversity is just racism against white folks)
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To: SeminoleCounty

We will screw up 2016 because folks have no clue what a
conservative really is

***************

I think you have the concept correct in that each person or
group have a differing definition.


30 posted on 02/11/2014 11:51:28 AM PST by deport
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To: BlueStateRightist

Well at least ONE of the top two is constitutionally eligible to be president or vice president.

Well at least ONE of the top two was born in America.

Rand Paul


31 posted on 02/11/2014 11:56:04 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Dead Corpse
Want conservatives to stay home in droves? Run RINO’s.
Want us to flood the polling places? Run real
[conservative] candidates.

We've been shouting that on blogs, forums, comment sections, YouTube videos, elections, and in online polls such as these, for years now.

No, the GOP-e doesn't want to hear it, but I think we're getting through. It's why Boehner dropped the amnesty bill from consideration recently. It's also why we've heard such weird rhetoric out of the old bulls in the RINO caucus.

They're scared to death of the Republican base, which is increasingly TEApublican, but there isn't a damn thing they can do about it. We're coming for their worthless hides, and they know it. A few of them are going to wise up and get on the rebellion train.

32 posted on 02/11/2014 12:06:03 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: upsdriver
These polls are a total waste of time. They are meaningless.

I beg to differ, friend.

These polls serve to put the RINO establishment on notice as to the mindset of the base. That's very valuable, in terms of steering their thinking, and in fortifying the growing patriot rebellion.

33 posted on 02/11/2014 12:10:16 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

If we don’t get through, then this “grand experiment” is over and it will end in fire and death. For a lot of us.


34 posted on 02/11/2014 12:16:07 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

ping


35 posted on 02/11/2014 12:18:14 PM PST by lonevoice (We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Money controls the Electoral College, not voters.

It’s in the Constitution.


36 posted on 02/11/2014 12:27:05 PM PST by warchild9
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To: Dead Corpse
If we don’t get through, then this “grand experiment” is over and it will end in fire and death. For a lot of us.

It would also end in Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness for many, many more.

I take your point, though. We must get through to our political leadership and they must obey our will, or there's going to be turmoil like no one's seen in this country since 1861.

37 posted on 02/11/2014 12:31:48 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
I'd argue that this is more like 1774 that 1861, but the point is valid either way.


38 posted on 02/11/2014 1:12:38 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Dead Corpse
I'd argue that this is more like 1774 that 1861, but the point is valid either way.

I agree with that too. I've actually made the same point frequently here.

39 posted on 02/11/2014 1:19:20 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Then we are in very good company...

FReegards.


40 posted on 02/11/2014 1:29:12 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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