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The Strategy the Left is Using to Try and Take Down Ted Cruz
Last Resistance ^ | November 26, 2015 | Rob Knowles

Posted on 11/26/2015 4:17:10 PM PST by Isara

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"And I have a message to the jackasses trying to use this line of reasoning against Cruz: Don’t try to outsmart someone who’s significantly smarter than you are–or do, and see what happens."
1 posted on 11/26/2015 4:17:11 PM PST by Isara
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To: Isara

He is by far the best available presidential candidate this cycle.

It will be sad if he does not get the nomination.


2 posted on 11/26/2015 4:22:19 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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To: lonestar67

I totally agree! He’s by far the BEST candidate and more importantly, knows who all the backstabbers are in Congress! He’s the dream candidate and I pray he’ll be our nominee!


3 posted on 11/26/2015 4:26:50 PM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: Isara
Throughout the piece, Romano uses words like "scheming," "plotting," "calculating," and "opportunism" regularly

To libtards, a smart conservative is pretentious, arrogant, and pompous.They can't stand smart opposition.

4 posted on 11/26/2015 4:30:35 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Isara

“Turn him into HILLARY CLINTON”...!

Of course The Left know consummately how vile SHE is...


5 posted on 11/26/2015 4:33:59 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Isara

Absolutely no doubt the left will lie, cheat and steal to destroy Cruz if he becomes a threat to them. There’s a reason why they haven’t yet. They will wait, and at the opportune moment they will pretend to suddenly discover that Cruz was born in Canada. Then it will be 24/7 hype with “in an astounding revelation that could destroy Cruz’ hopes for the presidency....”


6 posted on 11/26/2015 4:37:12 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: mjp

Get the popcorn ready.


7 posted on 11/26/2015 4:40:03 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Isara

I do not believe the left will attack Cruz among the rank and file voters the way the author describes. Subtle messages only work on people who are into subtlety and are willing to take the time to read all the way through articles. The method of laying out a long description to get people to think of Cruz as calculating and manipulative will not work because only people who follow the primaries would take the time to read them. Even then, the vast majority of those people will trust their own impressions of the man over what they read by left or RINO-leaning journalists.

When it comes to painting Cruz, the Dems will try to brand him as either stupid or crazy (like they did to Sarah Palin) to keep the low info voters from listening to him. While I have deep respect for Mrs Palin, her major weakness was that her folksy manner of speaking played into the narrative created by the Dems and Tina Fey in 2008 and has stuck with many voters.

But Cruz is much more like Reagan. The Dems understand that when given the opportunity to define himself and speak directly to the voters, Cruz makes a strong impression which destroys the narrative they wish to create. Voters like the reasoned tact Cruz takes, his manner of speaking, and, most importantly, they like him. These direct personal impressions override the smears and negative images created by the Dems.


8 posted on 11/26/2015 5:16:49 PM PST by Bill Russell
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To: Isara

During one of the recent debates, Ted Cruz attacked the media for its bias, inanities, and arrogance, and he was widely cheered for it.

In fact, that’s when Ted’s numbers started rising toward his current second-place position in the polls.

If the featherheads in the liberal media are foolish enough to go after Ted Cruz again, why shouldn’t he come out ahead again, and again? The media are the Bad Guys to Republicans, and pointing out their evil ways will allow Ted to present himself as a Good Guy. So bring it on, MSM.


9 posted on 11/26/2015 5:17:23 PM PST by Bluestocking
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To: I want the USA back

That will never stick. It’s a settled matter. The crackpot who brings it up will only embarrass himself.


10 posted on 11/26/2015 5:21:08 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: I want the USA back

They are desperate to destroy him. I read a hit piece about how he was a smelly roommate in college.


11 posted on 11/26/2015 5:30:46 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: I want the USA back

“...They will wait, and at the opportune moment they will pretend to suddenly discover that Cruz was born in Canada. Then it will be 24/7 hype...”

Maybe Cruz should make this an issue himself well ahead of time to diffuse this issue and show it is nothing - use this topic up as it were so it is old news.


12 posted on 11/26/2015 5:41:20 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

People who work out to maintain themselves among a busy schedule will smell less flowery than liberals lying in their beds of rosy self-deceits and fantasy. It amazes me how the libs strive so hard to put a guy down, yet while trying to crucify a patriot they show how evil they truly are. Unfortunately they write for the weak-minded in hopes of selling more Kool Aid. Or as the Islamists call The Last Ones To Be Killed.


13 posted on 11/26/2015 5:54:06 PM PST by N-R-T (Whoopi you lying be-otch)
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To: Isara

THEY’RE AFRAID OF HIM: That’s one more very good reason to VOTE FOR CRUZ!


14 posted on 11/26/2015 5:55:29 PM PST by JSDude1
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“Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, he has a brother who is a known homo sapiens,[5] and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper, before his marriage, habitually practiced celibacy.” Time Magazine, attibuted to George Smathers, but unproven.


15 posted on 11/26/2015 6:58:46 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: I want the USA back

That idiot Alan Grayson (D-FL), who’s running to replace Rubio, has already said that if Cruz becomes the nominee that he will immediately file suit challenging his citizenship.

What a fool! Wouldn’t surprise me if folks in FL voted him into the Senate. Corrupt voters like those who kept Allen West from being reelected through their voter fraud.


16 posted on 11/26/2015 7:00:40 PM PST by octex
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Maybe Cruz should make this an issue himself well ahead of time to diffuse this issue and show it is nothing - use this topic up as it were so it is old news.
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Cruz was born with dual citizenship; USA and Canada. Earlier this year he formally surrendered his Canadian citizenship. His mother passed on the USA citizenship to him when he was born. .....His citizenship is not an issue.


17 posted on 11/26/2015 7:18:45 PM PST by octex
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To: Isara

If you think Goldwater, Reagan and Bork got pelted by the left wing, you’ve seen nothing. Wait until Cruz lands the nomination.

The term will no longer be called “Borked”. It will be called a “Cruzifiction” from now on.


18 posted on 11/26/2015 7:29:49 PM PST by myheroesareDeadandRegistered
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To: Isara

Actually, Romano exposes his total lack of real knowledge about Cruz .. Romano evidently doesn’t know (or refuses to acknowledge) Cruz’s ability to remember every spoken word.

This ability is similar to a photographic memory, but Cruz remembers the words spoken. Therefore, what he did at the CNBC debate was nothing unusual or unexpected for Cruz. This was his usual ability to use the spoken words of others to his advantage.

Too bad Romano didn’t know about this skill .. because it really is a very unusual skill .. and is not something Cruz uses to jerk people around.

If anybody here communicates with Romano on a regular basis, they should inform the JERK that he’s really ignorant; exposing why he really doesn’t like Cruz.


19 posted on 11/26/2015 7:44:03 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: The Final Harvest

Cruz has auditory memory.


20 posted on 11/26/2015 9:04:10 PM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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