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What About Ted Cruz?
The New York Times ^ | February 9, 2016 | Thomas B. Edsall

Posted on 02/09/2016 11:29:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: jpsb

Are you one of the few people who voted for David Dewhurst?


61 posted on 02/10/2016 1:26:43 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: nopardons

Is this some kind of radical new therapy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pKymngWgJw


62 posted on 02/10/2016 1:28:46 AM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Slyfox

The act of impugning.


63 posted on 02/10/2016 1:29:02 AM PST by NathanR
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To: Yosemitest

The resemblance to Ted is striking...

64 posted on 02/10/2016 1:37:38 AM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Looks like Trump outspent Cruz more than 2 to 1.


65 posted on 02/10/2016 1:37:58 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I saw a graphic that showed Trump 2nd from last in spending, just highet than Carson, Jebbery was highest at almost $1200 per vote.


66 posted on 02/10/2016 1:40:04 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (You don't have to like Trump, his enemies certainly don't.)
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To: mosesdapoet

bttt


67 posted on 02/10/2016 1:41:51 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: nopardons

Here’s the third headline right now:

“Chelsea Clinton says she left the pro-life Baptist church at age six because they talked about abortion in Sunday”

It’s Hillary pulling out stops. And she’ll always go back to abortion. That’s her base. Wha are they?

Who promotes and votes fir abortio?


68 posted on 02/10/2016 1:53:57 AM PST by stanne
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re giving Cruz less than one in three odds of winning if nominated. I strongly disagree. Cruz has excellent odds if nominated - comparable to Trump and much better than Jeb.


69 posted on 02/10/2016 1:56:12 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
These two quotations appearing below strip away the author's and the uni-party's objections to Ted Cruz and why they find Donald Trump more to their liking. They know Donald Trump will cut deals with the left and Ted Cruz will not:

He advocates losing strategies purely to further his own career at the expense of the party.

if Cruz were nominated, party leaders would “sit down and try to help Cruz run a better campaign, but he may not listen.” In contrast, “You can coach Donald,” Black said. “If he got nominated, he’d be scared to death. That’s the point he would call people in the party and say, ‘I just want to talk to you.’


70 posted on 02/10/2016 1:56:27 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nopardons
Donald Trump can't win the general election.


71 posted on 02/10/2016 1:57:17 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Well stated.

By the way, the problem with focusing on job creation is that true job creation is a side-effect of economic growth. (If you just wanted to create jobs, you could pay people to move piles of rocks around or engage in other useless activity; that could give you full employment, but the country would fall into poverty and depression.)

If we take Trump at face value and presume that he isn’t just trolling us, his big-government centralized-decision economic policies would be a big drag on the economy. He’s not a free-marketeer.

As for Bernie, he’s clearly a Marxist in that he analyzes everything through the prism of class conflict. We know where that always leads (it doesn’t matter whether he’s described as a democratic socialist, or a socialist democrat, or a communist, or just a one-note left-wing lightweight).


72 posted on 02/10/2016 1:59:16 AM PST by Persephone Kore
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To: mosesdapoet

Limbaugh and Levin will be pulling away the curtain at the right time.


73 posted on 02/10/2016 2:03:37 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: nathanbedford

You’re right about that. Trump’s unfavorable rating is in the high 50’s now. By November it will probably be in the 70’s, maybe even in the 80’s. That’s not a winner.


74 posted on 02/10/2016 2:04:45 AM PST by FreedomForce ( Cruz 2016 --------- I've come to my senses. Trump is no longer even my second choice.)
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To: nopardons

Salam Aka Lakum. Praise be to your Prophet Trump...


75 posted on 02/10/2016 2:07:32 AM PST by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: Slyfox

No I voted for Cruz, however I have buyers remorse so I will not be doing that again.


76 posted on 02/10/2016 2:08:36 AM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: Slyfox

What does my vote in the Texas primary of 2012 have to do with “a fact is something that is objectively provable”?


77 posted on 02/10/2016 2:10:42 AM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: maddog55

Salam a hokum seems more appropriate.


78 posted on 02/10/2016 2:12:53 AM PST by FreedomForce ( Cruz 2016 --------- I've come to my senses. Trump is no longer even my second choice.)
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To: Slyfox

They don’t permit the historical context of the Constitution. One of my major pet peeves because in EVERY literature class and Eng Comp 102 when learning to write papers on classic literature, HISTORICAL CONTEXT is a must.

I do have to admit, also, that when my spidey brain whips into a frenzy and I post here, only i understand what I mean. I have an issue assuming the others can fill in the blanks. The foundation must be layed otherwise the listener will fill in the blanks with their own reality and pipe dreams. Which is why it is easy to be swayed when the details are left out. People will interpret “make America great again” to mean what they want not necessarily what the speaker wants or how that change will be implemented.

The historical context of the Constitution is what I want and I also want to know the original intent of the Bible.


79 posted on 02/10/2016 2:19:06 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz came in a respectable 3rd. Kasich nlew his wad in New Hampshire. I don’t think he ever left to go campaign in another state.


80 posted on 02/10/2016 2:19:44 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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