Go, Cruz, GO!!
IIRC he used the word “corrupt,” to describe defeated, self-serving members voting for bills that their new bosses on K Street have lobbied for.
Cruz will continue to turn up the heat on a thoroughly corrupt government which is unfit for a free people.
Even the most dimwitted moderate independent voters have figured out the left path is destruction.
To hell with the independents
NRO is assuming all Independents are Leftists/Moderates.
The vitriol being spewed against Cruz by other GOP Senators is repulsive.
Their main gripe is that he made them work a little over the weekend, missing the Army Navy football game and entertaining their families.
And all over the unconstitutional actions of our President regarding Immigration. They all bitched and groaned about it when it was happening, but, God forgive, to ask them to work a weekend is beyond the pale.
Maybe Cruz is a little too brash for his own good, but someone has to put the pressure on McConnell or it will just be business as usual next year.
Obviously not making friends in the Senate, but unclear if it is working among the public. Lots of people don’t like him. Not a good place for a Presidential candidate to be.
...Sooo , “Hes looking at the race very seriously”...WE are very seriously looking at his race as well !!! Apparently Rafael{Ted}Cruz and Obama have several things in common.
He is both multi racial and foreign born[Canada}whose mother was white and whose father is a Cuban that fought with Castro in the Communist Revolution.
Rafael{Ted}Cruz has a disdain for the CIA and probably the rest of our nations special agencies as well.
The United States of America has a very stringent policy on who we allow to obtain a Top Secret{Cosmic} Clearance and that being said makes me wonder if this Senator from Texas could cut the muster , and NO , I don’t need a bunch of elected officials in black robes to interpret the 2nd Amendment for me , much less tell me the definition of “Native Born”.
He would sure provide a breath of fresh air in the current field.
Much of conservatism is rooted in plain old common sense.
Those principles stated clearly will automatically attract people from the mushy middle.
Once they start to hear the message coming directly from Cruz (rather than being filtered, distorted, lied about, and corrupted by the MSM/DNC/RNC propaganda machine), they will begin to wake up.
People are not happy about where this country is going.
Once they realize that they are being offered a true alternative to the status quo, Cruz won’t have to go looking for them. They will find him.
It could word, depending on who is opponent is. He would need someone like Hillary who would not necessarily energize her own base and possibly result in a lower than normal turnout.
That was how Reagan did it. He locked down the based, and then reached towards the center a bit near the end (i.e., promising to “put a woman” on the Supreme Court - hurt the country with that, but there are other options).
Bush-41 did that in 1988 with “Read my Lips...”
Bush-43 did the same when he talked about “a new tone”
Bush-Jeb will try realize he needs to talk that way soon enough.
Bush-41 lost that credibility when he raised taxes, the base was gone, and we got 8 years of Clinton. Dole, McCain, and Romney never had that credibility and their results showed reflected that.
Here’s the thing about the “base”.
The Democrat base is 75% of their party. What is referred to here as the Republican “base” is no more than 30% of their party, if that.
What this means is that the Democrat base is an engine to win elections, under certain circumstances (Obama, Warren, etc).
It also means that the Republican base cannot win elections, but only (by sitting out) can lose them. Now, I believe the conservative element within the GOP can grow into a national majority coalition, BUT NOT AS PART OF THE GOP.
That’s because the interests of the national GOP, what we call here the GOPe, are irreconcilably opposed to the interests of our people.
It will be very hard to beat RINOs in the primary.
Thanks to that perfidious snake, John Boner, the amount of contributions that corporations and private individuals can give to candidates has been VASTLY inflated. MOST big corporations are NOT conservative. Social issues mean nothing to them. Even their perspective of fiscal issues is not positive for America. And a large number of the uber-rich also fall into that category. Additionally, surveys have indicated large corporate contributors vastly prefer to contribute to incumbents as they represent a better opportunity to win elections and a more prudent investment for political patronage.
The net effect of this is bad for conservative challengers. And it dilutes the influence of the majority of the conservative base.
If Cruz pulls this off and gets elected President his campaign will go down in history as the first time anyone actually tried:
THE FREE REPUBLIC STRATEGY
I second the motion: Go Ted Go.
This writer is mixing terms. He is getting “independent” and “base” mixed up. I am an independent and a solid member of the conservative base. So to hell with me for being an independent but Cruz is going to rely on me as a member of the conservative base? Make sense? Why does this writer think independents are not conservatives? Independents used to be made up if people who couldn’t make up their mind, now the independent ranks are filled with disgruntled republicans, solid conservatives who will not contribute or identify with the GOPe’s left-leaning policies. Independents are a critical part of the conservative base and this writer is totally blind to that fact.
As a “registered independent” I can’t wait to go on full Cruz control...
Eliana was quite obviously too young to experience President Reagan. He was not 'conventional' but he most certainly was wise. Conservatism is an idea, a vision, a philosophy that is attractive all by itself to a multitude of people. You don't need 'tack' and pander to groups or interests, whether in the primary or the general. The message is always the same. You passionately and effectively articulate its great principles and the people come to you. I think Senator Cruz gets this very well. His philosophical fusion is the same as President Reagan's.
Conservatism's political power derived from its ideas, not the other way around.
The NRO is the DC K srteet newsletter now.
This is the dC elite taljing point on Cruz.
He can the general ekection but a American hating Kenyan Marxist did some how ? Granted the Chicago voter fraud sysyem going nation wide helped !
As usual ,they push some crap cooked by the traitors Rove and Lobbyists to set up this sorry scare tactic to peddke that awful fool,and traitor Jeb.
Romney won the independent vote. How did that work for him?
Zero won twice by turning out his moonbat base.
Eliana is retarded.
Independents love Ted Cruz. He embodies the whole notion of being an Independent.
In 2012 Independents made up 24% of registered voters. Now it’s catapulted to 42%. Why is that?
Voters have left both republican and democrat parties in droves. Those that have left have registered as Independents.
Ted Cruz will take 2/3’s of Independents in 2016 and win by a landslide.