Ted Cruz Has Earned a Second Look From Us All

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RedState: Ted Cruz Has Earned a Second Look From Us All

By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | August 3rd, 2015 at 12:00 PM

 

I like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% a lot as a Senator, but I have never been a huge fan of his candidacy for President – at least until now. Generally speaking, I prefer governors to Senators, and I have an especial wariness for first term Senators. Additionally, I have questions about Cruz’s ability as a coalition builder and I know that he is a polarizing figure, even within the conservative movement.

 

However, episode three billion in the GOP Failure Theater tour, this time featuring Planned Parenthood failure theater, has pushed me into the camp that makes me want, more than anything, to see a Presidential candidate who is willing to fight and show the cowering squishes who run this party how it is done.

 

If the polls are to be believed, there are quite a lot of people who feel this way, given that it is the stated raison d’etre of the Donald Trump campaign.

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(As I have mentioned many times) The Problem With Donald Trump is....its Donald Trump! Not so much the message but the messenger.

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(As I have mentioned many times) The Problem With Donald Trump is....its Donald Trump! Not so much the message but the messenger.

Well Cruz get a second look or not -- lets see if you will answer or Filibuster

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The Fallacy that is Donald Trump Why are GOP voters fawning over him?

By: slheis (Diary) | August 2nd, 2015 at 09:09 PM

 

In a scene from the movie “The American President”

“People want leadership, Mr. President”, says Rothschild “and in the absence of genuine leadership they’ll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They’re so thirsty for it they’ll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there’s no water, they’ll drink the sand.”

Those supporting Trump will be nothing less than disappointed when his past stance on issues and support of Democratic policies comes to light. Below is a sampling:

 

§ Abortion: Recently Trump stated “I’m pro-life and I have been pro-life”, however in 1999 he commented on Fox News that he was totally “pro-choice” and the decision to have an abortion should be left to women and their doctors.

§ http://www.redstate.com/diary/slheis/2015/08/02/falicy-donald-trump/

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(As I have mentioned many times) The Problem With Donald Trump is....its Donald Trump! Not so much the message but the messenger.

Well Cruz get a second look or not -- lets see if you will answer or Filibuster

 

 

 

If my choice is Ted Cruz or DT, I'm with Cruz. The technical term for this is No Brainer.

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How Ted Cruz Has Wooed Some of the GOP’s Top Donors

 

He’s been in the race for only two months, but Jeb Bush has already spent more than $275,000 on private air travel. Nearly $350,000 has gone to FP1 Strategies, the firm that houses Bush’s campaign manager, Danny Diaz, and another consultant, and which is performing other services for the former Florida governor. While most presidential candidates and their staffers spend years on the campaign trail living out of suitcases in two-star hotels, the Bush team on one occasion shelled out for a stay at the Mandarin Oriental in Miami.

 

Bush is by no means alone. Even Rick Perry’s struggling campaign, which has stopped paying its staffers, found the money in June to spend nearly $60,000 on private air travel. Perry’s campaign manager, Jeff Miller, says the charter jet flew military veterans supporting the governor, including Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, on an introductory campaign swing through Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Miller’s consulting firm, Abstract Communications, has also netted $391,000, more than half of all the money spent by the campaign, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. Miller says that money was for consulting services and for video production, fundraising, and Web development, among other services.

Then there’s Ted Cruz, who has told would-be donors that this is precisely the sort of wasteful spending he will not indulge in. He has promised, says a source, not to “run a traditional campaign with a bunch of D.C. consultants who are fleecing donors out of their money.” It’s a key part of Cruz’s pitch to top-dollar donors, a handful of whom have committed millions of dollars to a cluster of super PACs supporting the Texas senator’s campaign, making him an unexpectedly potent force in the Republican primary.

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422667/how-ted-cruz-wooed-top-GOP-donors