Posted on 06/09/2015 4:24:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
National Journal provides a look inside as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) attempts to convince key conservatives that he can unite the GOP:
[E]ight months out from the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is closer to proving it can be done. Because after walking into a Tysons Corner hotel in May, the door closing behind him, Cruz delivered something none of his competitors could—a campaign plan that has persuaded some of the most influential conservatives in America that they might defeat the GOP establishment’s candidate for the first time in a generation.
This has been the stuff of dreams and schemes among conservative leaders since George W. Bush left the White House. Convinced that Republicans nominated a “moderate” in the past two presidential elections because the conservative vote was splintered—and certain that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Mitt Romney lost in November because the GOP base didn’t turn out—this clutch of right-wing activists wants desperately to prevent a third act. In conference calls, email chains, and private meetings across the country, they have plotted to accomplish in 2016 what they could not in 2008 or 2012: uniting behind a single candidate....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
corporations and billionaires want bush and pantsuit. if they get their way again, it’s over. I would vote right to life party if that happens.
I hope Cruz can pull this thing off but we would need some to drop out and support him.
Cruz excels at uniting Normal Americans who have been vote-frauded and swindled out of their United States of America.
Amen, cripplecreek!
We must first defeat the GOPE. Cruz is the ONLY guy who can and would do that.
Otherwise, we get another uniparty candidate.
“Cruz delivered ..a campaign plan that has persuaded some of the most influential conservatives in America that they might defeat the GOP establishment’s candidate for the first time in a generation.”
Here is they way it previously works. The “GOP establishment’s candidate” is the same as the “DNC establishment’s candidate.” Liberal candidate A (GOP) or Liberal candidate B (DNC) - it makes no difference. So the “establishment” doesn’t really care which of its candidates get elected. For this reason, the “establishment” doesn’t care if the conservative vote is splintered. The “establishment” wins either way.
I believe Ted Cruz can pull this off.
Cruz is good! He gets his audience, he knows the target, he knows how to dope and aim, and he knows how to squeeze (not jerk) the trigger, and the follow through.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/ted-cruz-council-national-policy-20150605
"But as the forum got underway, it became apparent that most of the speakers hadn't prepared themselves accordingly. In fact, five of the six candidates gave some version of the standard stump speech they offer the public, attendees said, ignoring what one described as "the elephant in the room, this idea that people want to coalesce behind one candidate."
The lone exception was Cruz. "He was the only one who bought into that and tailored his entire speech to it," says the attendee, who, despite working for a rival candidate, gushed that on a scale of 1 to 10, Cruz's speech was a 14. "He was pitch-perfect. He got briefed well by his staff. He came in like a lawyer making his case, effectively saying, 'I am the only one who can unite the movement.'"
"Cruz blew everyone else out of the water," says a second attendee.."
He’s a world-class lawyer, so yeah. Why are they surprised?
He’s the reason Al Gore never became president. For that one deed alone he deserves the nomination. LOL
So everything is about those H1-Bs to your clique?
Any republican politician who rails against amnesty yet is pushing this H-1B crap while filling his campaign coffers with corporate cash is selling out American workers just the same.
Turns out Ted Cruz wants to raise the H-1B cap by 500%.
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=137
Ted needs to recant this position and get with the program, yesterday.
One thing Cruz hasn’t done is funnel millions of tax dollars to companies that shipped jobs over seas. One candidate has done this through an agency he created and Chaired, allegedly for the purpose of creating jobs. The agency has spent 975 million dollars and has lost two jobs for every one created, for a total loss of -7000 jobs.
Does that sound like a winning policy to you? Hint, this candidate bills himself as being on the side of the American Worker.
Far more important than H1B visas is getting regulation that are strangling businesses and sending jobs overseas out of the way. Ted is the man to do that.
One of the biggest detriment businesses currently have is Obamacare. Cruz is the only one vowing to repeal it.
The other biggie is the onerous EPA regulations that are so costly and unnecessary.
“Any republican politician who rails against amnesty yet is pushing this H-1B crap while filling his campaign coffers with corporate cash is selling out American workers just the same.”
I’ll concede I’m not crazy about raising the H-1B caps by 500%, but who then would you suggest we support? The guy in Wisconsin who was actually FOR a path to citizenship (amnesty) and is now talking something about the American worker (no specifics of course)?
Most of the other candidates are either for amnesty or have been for it in the recent past. So tell me, who do YOU suggest I support?
I'd support increasing the number allowed provided there were strict conditions to prove the post could not be filled with a qualified American before an H-1B visa holder could be hired, and standing for U.S. citizens and permanent residents to sue if they were denied a job filled by an H-1B visa holder, or fired from a post to be replace with an H-1B visa holder.
I’m all in for Ted Cruz!!!
Talk about immigration reform is cheap, for example, as every candidate running knows Congress is the bottleneck, not the Executive. His coming out for a five fold increase in H1-B Visas, though, speaks volumes about who he listens to on economic matters and it's no one who cares about average working people.
When the few remaining retailers and manufacturers in this country collapse because the vast majority of the population has so little to spend, everyone can give a cheer over how cheap the things they can't afford to buy are.
You hit the nail on the head.
Some companies advertise jobs overseas without ever checking with anyone in the US who could provide contractors or advertising the position in the US. US citizens don't have a chance as they never even know a position requiring their skills is open.
It seems like IT companies are most likely to go that route although I doubt they're all that far ahead of everyone else who needs skilled labor.
I'm going to take Governor Walker at his word for as long as he maintains it in hopes that other candidates will likewise adopt his position with respect to protecting the American worker. Rick Santorum has already done so. It is a noble position as opposed to the duplicitous act of railing against amnesty on one hand while grabbing corporate cash with your other hand in exchange for supporting the gross expansion of H-1B visas.
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