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Why Ted Cruz Could Win in 2016
The American Conservative ^ | September 30, 2014 | Michael Tracey

Posted on 09/30/2014 7:45:10 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

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To: SoConPubbie
Also, his wife is a managing director at Goldman Sachs.

And that is a problem.

21 posted on 09/30/2014 8:13:55 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: SoConPubbie

I pray that he does win!! We need him so badly!


22 posted on 09/30/2014 8:14:01 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!l)
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To: SoConPubbie

Give him the nomination and he will be destroyed by the MSM, if they don’t succeed before hand. You can bet that the Hillary forces do not want a debate to be held between him and their candidate. They will find an excuse to avoid it, or just agree to some light questions, i.e. what newspapers do you read, why do you oppose same sex marriages, why are you against abortion, but don’t go near anything that smells of Hillary, our economy or our national security. As far as the RNC is concerned, who is next in seniority to loose?


23 posted on 09/30/2014 8:17:19 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Hillary or Warren 2016! Why? Just to have a woman for Historical Purpose?? At least pick a looker!)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Unlike the current president, he is a citizen, however.
This presidency has overturned the Constitutional provision that the President must be a citizen. That will be denied up and down, but that is the effect and we will see it played out in a future election.
24 posted on 09/30/2014 8:17:32 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Din Maker

Yeah, I’ve seen a number of arguments for a field of RINO’s running and only 1 conservative.

The theory is the Repugs will all mutually destroy each other and the conservative rises as winner above the fray.

Ain’t buying it.

Me? I see the more conservatives the better. If only Walker, Cruz, Perry, Jindal, Palin, DeMint et al were running.

Yeah Buddy!


25 posted on 09/30/2014 8:20:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

John McCain was born in Panama, George Romney was born in Mexico.


26 posted on 09/30/2014 8:21:00 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Bringbackthedraft
Give him the nomination and he will be destroyed by the MSM, if they don’t succeed before hand

I refuse to accept fear of MSM machinations as an excuse to not put up the best candidate. The MSM portrayed Mitt F*****g Romney as being a more rabid right-winger than Ted Cruz actually is. Does it really matter, in that sense, who gets the nomination? They'll all get equally horrendous treatment.

27 posted on 09/30/2014 8:21:46 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: kevkrom

All true of course. Won’t argue with any of it.

However, that won’t stop Cruz’s opponents-—especially BHO supporters-—from making hay out of it. It will be their way of getting back for our questioning BHO’s citizenship status.

And then....all of those clamoring for lax immigration enforcement will also pile in. Can see it now.


28 posted on 09/30/2014 8:22:15 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Responsibility2nd

The only hope we have of getting a Conservative nominee is that Christie and Jeb and Romney all contest strongly the primaries and hold on to the end of them. That will, for once, split the Democrat and “moderate” vote in the ostensibly Republican primaries. For several cycles the conservatives have had a plethora of candidates and could not unite behind any one of them so the minority socialists who ran singly won the Nomination. If the Lefties sort themselves out and present a single candidate, at least after New Hampshire, the Next In Line will win, surely Bush or Romney. I am betting on Bush.


29 posted on 09/30/2014 8:22:18 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: SoConPubbie

I love Cruz and hope that he runs and gets the nomination. I don’t think he’s all that great a speaker. I personally think he does better when he’s just talking vs “speaking” and he has a few mannerisms that Sat. Night Live could really run with but all that is nothing. He’s a smart, well educated and bold individual that has core values in tune with the Founders and God fearing Americans - exactly why he will be hated by the left. I don’t know what appeal he will have with the population at large. Perhaps if enough Americans are hurting badly enough by 2016, he might be given a chance to try and make a change for the better. I know we need more of a spiritual solution than a political one but Cruz looks more and more like a man for “such a time as this.” Go Ted and God speed!


30 posted on 09/30/2014 8:23:50 AM PDT by Lake Living
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

After Obama, all citizenship questions become moot. That provision of the Constitution is now effectively blacked out in the FOIA releases.


31 posted on 09/30/2014 8:24:23 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus

Why?

In a free country a person should be free to work wherever they please. Right?


32 posted on 09/30/2014 8:24:41 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: ansel12

McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, which was
technically US territory at the time.

It would have been very interesting to see what the courts would have done over George Romney had he won.


33 posted on 09/30/2014 8:28:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SoConPubbie
My concern for Ted is this. He's not a pretty boy. I know, I know..., sounds rather lame doesn't it.

Then you look at Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, whose personal lives and histories should have eliminated them from any thinking person's mind, and then it dawns on you.

Men voted them down handsomely. The female vote rescued them.

Good luck Ted. I sure hope the Left has run out of pretty boys.

OBAMA VOTE DEMOGRAPHICS 2012
OBAMA VOTE DEMOGRAPHICS 2008
OBAMA VOTE DEMOGRAPHICS 1996
OBAMA VOTE DEMOGRAPHICS 1992

34 posted on 09/30/2014 8:30:06 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Same way John McCain could!!!


35 posted on 09/30/2014 8:30:12 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well, think what you will my friend, but, it’s hard to argue with the facts.


36 posted on 09/30/2014 8:31:23 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Some on our side......don’t remember it going very far.


37 posted on 09/30/2014 8:31:54 AM PDT by ontap
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To: SoConPubbie

Cruz to Victory!


38 posted on 09/30/2014 8:34:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (When Amnesty was granted 30 years ago, they promised to close the borders and enforce the law)
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To: SoConPubbie

This leftist is worried, and worried that his fellow leftists aren’t worried. Evidently Cruz is still off the RAT political chattering-class’ radar, and he’s trying to warn them.


39 posted on 09/30/2014 8:40:49 AM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

If Jeb and Mitt run they could split the GOPE vote. I have always thought that an early Conservative wing convention could decide which conservative would face the Gope candidate so that there are not 8 or more conservatives dividing up the conservative vote like the last Presidential election.

Last time Romney only needed a third of the GOP vote to win because the conservative field had lots of candidates who wouldn’t drop out even though they had 15% of the votes.

If this is done again we get another McCain or Romney.


40 posted on 09/30/2014 8:43:02 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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