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THE TED CRUZ MAJORITY
American Spectator ^ | 2/20/14 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 02/20/2014 10:32:23 PM PST by P-Marlowe

Yet even the great Thomas Sowell and our friends at the WSJ are going after Senator Cruz, the latter labeling Cruz as “The Minority Maker” and tagging him as the leader of a “rump kamikaze caucus.” Notably, in suggesting that Senator Cruz is leading the GOP to minority status, the paper wrote:

We’re all for holding politicians accountable with votes on substantive issues, but Mr. Cruz knew he couldn’t stop a debt increase the House had already passed.

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Ronald Reagan is somewhere shaking his head. He knew a “rump kamikaze caucus” when he saw one. He described them as the “fraternal order” Republicans. And he knew that this kind of establishment politics is exactly what had made the GOP a minority — and kept it there until he came along.

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Simply put, Ted Cruz — like Ronald Reagan before him — understands what it takes to make a majority. And he’s doing it. Over the vociferous objections of the same kind of people who kept warning Republicans that if they listened to Ronald Reagan they would get clobbered. Which is exactly why Ted Cruz is being greeted as a hero.

Ted Cruz is in the process of making a new Reagan Revolution, the Cruz Majority. On second thought, maybe he does he needs a food taster when he dines with GOP leadership.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cruz; demagogicparty; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tedcruz; texas; thomassowell
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To: P-Marlowe; TWhiteBear; painter; tbw2; Ricebug; parthian shot; mrsmel; infool7; ...

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!


21 posted on 02/21/2014 6:07:25 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: txrefugee

Amen.


22 posted on 02/21/2014 6:10:46 AM PST by left that other site
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To: Aria

Perhaps one way to think about it is this.

He promised Texas he would fight for us, wherever he goes. In the SEnate, that means fighting with every tool in the box. And in the past, that meant on big issues, you could filibuster and procedurally require them to get 60 votes.

He promised he would fight, and did so very publicly.

So when the time came, what did he do?

He fought.

And yet again, he fought and lost, because not enough Republicans would stand with him. But he did exactly what he said he would do.

Now the GOP’ers like Cornball are upset because they look bad for blocking his filibuster.

But Cruz said all along, this is what he is going to do. For him to do otherwise would be for him to fail to do what he promised us he would do.

The bad consequences are something Cornyn will have to deal with for himself.

I voted for Stockman a few days ago, incidentally.....


23 posted on 02/21/2014 6:17:05 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: GeronL
American Spectator, still giving the Vichy Republican caucus ulcers!


24 posted on 02/21/2014 6:37:04 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: onyx
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25 posted on 02/21/2014 6:41:34 AM PST by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: onyx

Outstanding! Thank you!


26 posted on 02/21/2014 7:33:08 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: onyx
Great article.

I'm glad someone is taking Sowell to task, it's really disconcerting that he's joined the Cruz attack machine.

27 posted on 02/21/2014 7:36:20 AM PST by Lakeshark (Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
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To: Hostage
There is now definitive demographic proof that Romney lost because he failed to bring out the Perot bloc of blue collar voters and they number more than 6 million.

You just knocked it out of the park with that statement! I have been trying to tell that to GOPe types I know. They won't listen and make excuses,like nobody could have beaten Obama.

When I try to tell them that Obama got 8 MILLION less votes in 2012 than 2008 they talk over me to keep me from finishing my statement.

28 posted on 02/21/2014 7:37:41 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: txrefugee

The GOP leadership can’t control Cruz so they have to try to destroy him. They even have poor old Thomas Sowell in on the deal.


29 posted on 02/21/2014 8:29:38 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: COBOL2Java

lol

Ulcer Party


30 posted on 02/21/2014 8:59:29 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
This is an outstanding article!
31 posted on 02/21/2014 12:45:21 PM PST by lonevoice (We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality)
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To: Yaelle
Hmmmm. Is anyone with any sort of pulpit defending Cruz???

Michael Berry, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Vociferously!

32 posted on 02/22/2014 9:48:30 AM PST by houeto (We intend to liberate Democrats from the dreaded Job-Lock this November!)
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To: Yaelle
I have nothing but respect for Thomas Sowell

I don't any more. It's not just disagreeing with him on this issue, it's that he's part of a concentrated no-holds-barred attack to try to stop Ted Cruz's popularity.

Anyone who doesn't yet understand that we can't work with the backstabbers who voted with the democrats to defeat constitutional conservative issues is not our friend.

33 posted on 02/22/2014 9:53:42 AM PST by grania
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To: P-Marlowe
Simply put, Ted Cruz — like Ronald Reagan before him — understands what it takes to make a majority.

It's not the same country it was back then and what it takes to make a majority may not be the same thing.

Plus, the comparison's a little forced. Nixon and Bush also vetoed legislation that the Democrats passed when the Democrats were in the majority in Congress. It's what presidents do when the other party controls the Congress. Maybe Cruz is the new Nixon or the new Bush.

34 posted on 02/22/2014 10:14:37 AM PST by x
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To: x; xzins
It's not the same country it was back then and what it takes to make a majority may not be the same thing.

So should we just give up or should we capitulate?

What is your strategy?

35 posted on 02/22/2014 11:15:40 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: P-Marlowe
What is your strategy?

I don't have one yet. Just trying to say that Lord overestimates just how far Cruz's strategy will take him and overplays the Reagan analogy.

36 posted on 02/22/2014 12:49:45 PM PST by x
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To: x; xzins; Jim Robinson
I don't have one yet.

There not a lot of time left. I would suggest you find someone with a strategy and get behind him.

Right now Cruz has a strategy, which is to attack the democrats rather than capitulate to them. Everyone else seems to think its not a winning strategy, but their idea of winning means that we lose the war before the first shot is fired.

Until someone else comes along with a better strategy then Cruz, then I've got his back.

37 posted on 02/22/2014 2:25:39 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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