Will GOP establishment even allow Cruz to run?

OneNewsNow ^ | October 2, 2014 | Chad Groening

[2ndDivisionVet]

Despite his showing in polls of conservatives, it's not a done deal the Republican establishment is going to allow Ted Cruz the opportunity to mount a serious challenge in 2016 – if he chooses to run for the presidency.

For the second straight year, the first-term senator from Texas won the presidential straw poll at the Values Voter Summit sponsored over the weekend by FRC Action, the legislative arm of Family Research Council. Cruz garnered 25 percent of the vote this year, with Dr. Ben Carson finishing second with almost 20 percent. Last year Cruz garnered 42 percent.

Connie Mackey, president of FRC Action, says while Cruz is very popular among conservatives, she doubts he can get the Republican nomination.

"Given the history of the Republican Party, it would seem insurmountable that the Republican Party would allow someone like Ted Cruz to move forward," she tells OneNewsNow. "And by 'allowing,' that means the corporate dollars and those people who control an awful lot merely by their large donations and fundraising abilities."(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'm all set to raise at least one million dollars and wear out some shoe leather.

[Jean2]

The Establishment is too stupid to live. Film at eleven.

[House Atreides]

“...Although for different reasons, political analyst Dr. Charles Dunn recently offered his advice that Cruz sit out the 2016 presidential sweepstakes and use the time to build his political base for a possible run in the future....”
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Folks should be aware that the people in this article expressing reservations about Ted Cruz are almost certainly allies of the duplicitous “conservative” poseur Mike Huckabee. And they appear to be doing some early running interference for Huckabee who will be running in 2016.

We need to snuff out the possibilities of the likes of Huckabee whose only function in 2016 will be to help fragment the conservative primary vote.

We are going to see more and more of this stuff as Ted Cruz continues to gain traction.

[rrrod]

100% agree.....conservatives need to keep a close eye on the huckster

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Only 20 million Evangelicals vote. There are 100 million Evangelicals in the US, including quite a few in Ohio, Florida, and Virginia.

We don't need to court the Mexicans, we don't need the moderates. All we need is a candidate that Evangelicals will vote for.

Who better than Cruz?

[csivils]

The “establishment” hit Cruz with everything they had during the Texas primary battle. That was long before it was in style to be a Cruz defender here on FR. In a battle between Ted and the GOPe, it is not Ted who should be afraid. As far as funds, tell me where to send the check. I’m sure others will do the same.

[2ndDivisionVet]

BINGO.

[Maceman]

I can't believe that any actual conservative will consider Mike (don't end common core, mend it) Huckabee to be anything other than a RINO right up there with Christie, Romney and Bush.

True conservatives really need to make clear to the GOPe that if it does do anything to make Cruz's run impossible, the base will boycott it's RINO candidates and stay home or vote third party.

And any idiot RINO enablers (including Ann Coulter and too many Freepers) who call us "quitters" for staying home, need to be put on notice that if the Democrats take the Senate, the fault will be entirely that of GOPe.

This is war now, and a vote for a RINO is a vote for the enemy Uniparty.

The GOPs better learn damn quick to take us conservatives seriously.

But even now the Republican leadership is lowering expectations about what they'll do if they take the Senate in 2014.

And then there’s John McCain saying what will happen if the Republicans win the Senate: “I will work very hard to go back to 60 votes,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who boldly predicts a Republican Senate would process Obama’s nominees “more rapidly than [Democrats] do today.”

And as for the House: John Boehner: ‘Very Few’ Republicans Will Oppose Me

So tell me again how much better off we'll be voting for the RINOs.

[ansel12]

In 2008 we watched as prominent republicans switched to Obama to stop Palin from what would have have become the presidency.

In 2010 we watched them go against GOP primary winners to stop Palin and conservatives.

We just went through the Mississippi situation and saw them in 2012, they would rather lose or back non republicans to defeat conservatism.

[almcbean]

I didn’t know he needed their permission.

[huckfillary]

Exactly...isn’t it his decision?

[BlueStateRightist]

Cruz will have abundant and unprecedented grassroots financial support.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Especially if it looks like Gov. Sarah Palin might play a role in his administration.

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

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

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

[onedoug]

I’ll vote for him anyway.

Screw the GOPe and the rest of their islamist facilitators.

[Finny]

This is war now, and a vote for a RINO is a vote for the enemy Uniparty.

I was amused by the author's reference to voters' concern for "who will carry the Republican banner in the 2016 election campaign."

So, the banner depends on the candidate? Since when? The BANNER is what's bastardized so badly that Romney, a functional Democrat amoral statist if there ever was one, is foisted off as a guy to carry it!

I don't care WHO carries the banner -- I care WHAT the banner will achieve if it wins. It has, by virtue of my and others' voting "pragmatically" (that is, in fear) over the decades, become indistinguishable from the Democrat banner in essential premise of more and bigger government everywhere from health care to funding abortions and forced acceptance of open homosexuality in all corners of life.

The Republican BANNER should be: "Let Americans make their own decisions civilly and independent of government on those issues." Get Federal government OUT -- overturn Roe v Wade, and allow states to outlaw abortion, as most did before government involved itself. Get overbearing government OUT of the schools so parents and local communities run the show in the interests of their own children, and prevent them from being brainwashed by loopy teachers who can't be fired. Look at every ailment, social and fiscal, and you find excess government IS THE PROBLEM.

Government produces an amoral, immoral people with its false charity and forced "morality" that prohibits Christian prayer in schools and forces the military to accommodate open homosexuals.

There is really only one way to beat the Republican party, to prevent it from forcing conservatives to vote for the very things they want to stop.

That's to abandon the Republican party for the 2016 presidential race and run a LIMITED GOVERNMENT Christian conservative on an independent ticket. Limited government is what needs to win -- Republican victory alone, without reference to what it WINS, is clearly not enough.

[going hot]

Large role

[sport]

I very seriously doubt that the Establishment Republicans will allow him to run. If he tries look for them to do something like they did to Herman Cain.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He has to have a Herman Cain type problem for them to do a “Herman Cain” on him, nicht wahr?

[Nuc 1.1]

Thousands.