Mr. Rothenbreg begins his article by recounting how Sen. Cruz told Rothenberg that he had the wrong analysis in concluding that Cruz would lose to Dewhurst.--
Here, Mr. Rothenberg persists in his error.
Of course, Democrats have Candy Crowley to help them argue.
“It wasn’t personal, of course. Ted Cruz simply loves to argue. “
In other words Ted Cruz would fit right in here at FR.
Argue?
No, “Educate”.
Not accept false premises.
It isn’t “arguing” when you’re right.
Sounds like Stu Rothenberg likes to argue against reality.
> “That has made him a favorite on the right and ***a punching bag*** to liberals and many in the national media.”
Liberals would never dare go up against Cruz unless they are in front of a ‘punching bag’ while fantasizing they are punching Ted Cruz.
He says Cruz has no self doubt...
Everyone has self doubt, the question is
what do you do with it?
Do you let it dictate you or do you
convert it into belief and action?
Patton always said “Never take counsel of your fears...”
Ted has them but doesn’t let them lead him from his
goal.
Right, Mr. Rothenburg! YOU give orders to Ted Cruz... and HE follows them.
Liberals love to argue...but the author doesn’t seem to have a problem with that.
I guess liberals aren’t used to republicans arguing back.
“But while Cruz is likely to engender passion among his supporters, he is regarded by many others in his party as unappealing and, even worse, unacceptable. To his critics, he is a self-promoting snake oil salesman, an unflattering comparison that suggests he is both untrustworthy and unscrupulous.
They find his language too inflammatory and confrontational, and many regard him as a disastrous general election nominee who would not only lose the presidential election but damage the party’s prospects down-ballot.
The kind of Republicans who supported Mitt Romney and John McCain in the past will never embrace Cruz, of course.”
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That’s because they are gonad-free wusses who just want to go with the flow.
He's only a "punching bag" for those liberals too afraid to confront him face-to-face. No liberal in the country could match Cruz' knowledge and message delivery.
CRUZ or LOSE!Well, we can't afford to spare Ted Cruz.
Both the dimwits and RINOs are scared of Cruz. Perhaps because they know that there are many like me who are tired of holding our nose and voting for whoever the media and elites give us as a candidate because they make us feel like traitors if we don’t. I think they realize that won’t work anymore. I am a Cruz supporter and I have decided that he is the only candidate I will vote for, even if I have to write his name in. When I say Cruz or lose I mean it. And if a democrat wins I no longer accept the responsibility, its the elites who failed to give me a candidate I could vote for. No more “not voting for so and so is the same as a vote for the democrat”, its not giving me a candidate I could vote for is the same as voting for a democrat.
“Ted Cruz simply loves to argue.”
So do I, but I have a hard time believing that Cruz just started arguing without any provocation. He seems to be a very even-tempered man. If you hear someone say something blatantly untrue, you can’t just sit there and listen to them drone on and on about it. This guy makes it seem like he didn’t say anything to draw Cruz into an argument.
Yeah..Cruz should be more like the dem presidential candidates..you know..rape..have children with other women while longtime wife is dying of cancer..hide his collegiate records..blame unseen youtube videos for own screw-ups..
So, according to this guy, Cruz would be just awesome.... If he didn’t push for what he believed, and compromised with the left a lot more.
But we already HAVE a Jeb.
I think you could find a lot of parallels with Reagan's run and Ted's.
They said the same things about Reagan, Ted should be proud to be the enemy of the same kinds of people.
Cruz/2016!
We don’t even speak the same language. A liberal candidate can be “an excellent debater.” The conservative “loves to argue.”