Posted on 03/03/2014 6:50:16 PM PST by SoConPubbie
The longest shadow in Tuesday’s primary election in Texas is being cast by a politician not even in the running, freshman U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican.
Mr. Cruz, just two years into his first major elected office, has arguably become the most loved politician among Republicans in Texas, an incubator for national conservative policies where the party dominates the statehouse and has not lost a statewide race since 1994.
A host of Republican hopefuls are trying to ride his coattails, turning campaigns into raucous affairs about how much they despise Obamacare, embrace the constitutional right to bear arms and see a need to raise alarms about illegal immigration.
Mr. Cruz has turned an already right-leaning Texas Republican Party even further to the right, analysts said.
“Cruz scared the daylights out of centre and center-right conservatives to the extent that they do not feel comfortable enough to run on their true positions and feel compelled to cater to the most conservative elements of the Texas Republican primary electorate,” said Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston.
Mr. Cruz, 43, a darling of Tea Party Republicans with their often unbending policies to shrink government, has mostly steered clear of direct campaigning in Texas but has supported a select few candidates challenging established Republicans.
Last year, Mr. Cruz led the push to deny funding to President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan, resulting in a 16-day government shutdown. The strategy left congressional Republicans further divided, with moderates in the Senate unhappy about the public backlash against the GOP.
In Texas, support has grown for Mr. Cruz since the standoff, with 43 per cent of respondents in a University of Texas-Texas Tribune poll in February having a favourable opinion of him, higher than the 33 per cent favourable rating for fellow Senator John Cornyn, a Republican.
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Well, See as who’s who’s in endorsements I’d Say Katrina Pierson and Greg Abbott are better picks anyway ;)
That is doubtless true for the Ohio Republican establishment.
But how about Ohio Republican voters?
I sure hope so....and I hope that it makes Kristina Pierson the next candidate for the House instead of that weasel Pete Sessions
The Lie, repeated.
Texas primaries tomorrow?? anyone in TX have any input on which way the wind blowing in regards to ousting Cornhole?
“Among Ohio Republicans, Ted Cruz is regarded as a vitriolic buffoon.”
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Sir, have you been drinking?
2DV those are great - got a link to the vendor?
Me too!..but my biggest concern is the weather never seems to affect the “dead” voters...
Very good !
I’ll be glad when the phone calls and junk mail cease.
They call so I tell ‘em I already voted then they ask who I voted for ?!
I tell them that’s my business, goodbye:)
Ohio “republicans” are the type that gave os McCain, Dole, and that ilk of big government fools. Talk about REAL BAFFONS
That’s cute I guess.
Let me guess? “Sexist?”
I voted for Dwayne Stovall...hoping for a run-off and the bouncing of Cornhole rino.
Ah, we know they’ll scream somehow. So why not that way.
It sounds like they need to dust off their copies of the US Constitution and maybe read a few quotes from Reagan. They seem to have lost their way.
I’m hoping the bad weather in Texas tomorrow will keep the rino/LIVs away from the polls. I sure would love to see Cornyn fall.
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