It's time for a Ted Cruz thread.

Ladewig said:
According to the Wikipedia article you cited, Michelle Bachman thinks this guy is insightful. How big a nut do you have to be for Bachman to respect you?

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Big. Bachmann and Cruz are the same sort of fundy, so it's not in the least surprising she'd be supporting him.

In the nitpicking department, one "L" in Michele and two "N's" in Bachmann.
 
Ted Cruz is speaking at AIPAC. He has been complaining about Obama, H. Clinton and Trump. His voice sounds quite nasal, how I sound when I have a cold or allergy attack.
 
Senex said:
Out of curiosity, does anyone reading this support Ted Cruz for president?
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Ted Cruz would be, by far, the most radical right wing president in any living person's lifetime. If I had to choose between him and Trump, it would be an easy choice.
 
For someone who claims to be so devoted to the US Constitution,Cruz seems unfamiliar with a lot of constitutional rights.........
 
dudalb said:
For someone who claims to be so devoted to the US Constitution,Cruz seems unfamiliar with a lot of constitutional rights.........
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dudalb said:
And he has a weird way of Defending "Religious Liberty".
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Both extremely common among right-wing Christians. I too would vote for Trump in a heartbeat in a race between him and Cruz. Fortunately, that's not going to happen.
 
Trebuchet said:
Both extremely common among right-wing Christians. I too would vote for Trump in a heartbeat in a race between him and Cruz. Fortunately, that's not going to happen.
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Oh it might come to Trump and Cruz running against each other in the general election,since I think the chances of the GOP splitting in two are pretty good. But they will also be running against Hilary, so we are all right....
 
dudalb said:
And he has a weird way of Defending "Religious Liberty".
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Well as everyone knows, religious liberty really only applies to Christianity (and only certain sects at that) and maybe Judaism at a pinch. Anything else isn't a religion, it's an abomination ;)
 
dudalb said:
Mitt Romney announcing he would vote for Cruz on Friday was a fascinating spectacle.
I have never seen anyone announce he would vote for somebody with such obvious disdain and dislike for the candidate for whom he was voting.And Romney made clear he was not endorsing Cruz, he just thought that Cruz was the best chance of blocking Trump from the nomination, (the term used was Strategic Voting) createing a constested convention with the chance of a better compromise candidate emerging from the fracas.
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And this is why I've decided that I'm happy Trump is winning. I fully support Trump to win the Republican nomination. The fact that, out of desperation perhaps, people like Romney, Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush are now endorsing Cruz shows that he would be the more dangerous candidate in the general election for the simple reason that he could probably keep most of the Republican base "inside the tent" even if he isn't their preferred candidate. Trump on the other hand has become so toxic with his attacks on other Republicans, that it seems unlikely that it can all just be smoothed over so that they support him in the general election. Trump could potentially bring some new people in from the roughly half of the people who don't usually vote, but I doubt it will be in large enough numbers to replace the portion of the Republican base he has completely alienated. Cruz has annoyed some of his fellow Republicans in the past, but I don't think he has gone quite so far with the crude insults and just completely trashing other Republicans with personal insults as Trump has.

Ladewig said:
According to the Wikipedia article you cited, Michelle Bachman thinks this guy is insightful. How big a nut do you have to be for Bachman to respect you?

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And this is related to what I wrote above, but apparently Gaffney isn't the only lunatic on Cruz's team, there's also Gen. Boykin:

The fact that Republican elites like Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, and Lindsey Graham are all lining up behind a candidate who wants to harass Muslim Americans on the basis of their religion, and whose advisers are a murderer's row of the worst anti-Muslim bigots in America, tells us something about exactly why Donald Trump has become so anathema to establishment conservatives.

Their endorsements clarify that the Republican #NeverTrump movement has basically nothing to do with sincere concern about Trump's racism. If it did, that would also rule Cruz out of contention. The fact that Cruz is somehow acceptable suggests that the real root of the anti-Trump loathing is something else: perhaps a fear that Trump's style is too dictatorial, or concern over his past comments on abortion, health care, and wealth taxation or over his current apostasies on trade and entitlement reform.
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And don't discount the simple fact of the crude insults Trump likes to fling. I think that probably has at least as much to do with it as his past heresies; those can be forgiven. But not straight up trashing your fellow Republicans.
 
Puppycow said:
And this is why I've decided that I'm happy Trump is winning. I fully support Trump to win the Republican nomination. The fact that, out of desperation perhaps, people like Romney, Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush are now endorsing Cruz shows that he would be the more dangerous candidate in the general election for the simple reason that he could probably keep most of the Republican base "inside the tent" even if he isn't their preferred candidate. Trump on the other hand has become so toxic with his attacks on other Republicans, that it seems unlikely that it can all just be smoothed over so that they support him in the general election. Trump could potentially bring some new people in from the roughly half of the people who don't usually vote, but I doubt it will be in large enough numbers to replace the portion of the Republican base he has completely alienated. Cruz has annoyed some of his fellow Republicans in the past, but I don't think he has gone quite so far with the crude insults and just completely trashing other Republicans with personal insults as Trump has.



And this is related to what I wrote above, but apparently Gaffney isn't the only lunatic on Cruz's team, there's also Gen. Boykin:



And don't discount the simple fact of the crude insults Trump likes to fling. I think that probably has at least as much to do with it as his past heresies; those can be forgiven. But not straight up trashing your fellow Republicans.
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Cruz has compared Republicans who are not totally delusional/stupid and thus understand that repealing/defunding Obamacare while Obama is President is an impossible to achieve goal to Nazi appeasers.
 
Tony Stark said:
Cruz has compared Republicans who are not totally delusional/stupid and thus understand that repealing/defunding Obamacare while Obama is President is an impossible to achieve goal to Nazi appeasers.
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Sure, like I said, Cruz has been a thorn in the side of fellow Republicans, but the fact that people like Romney, Bush and Graham are rallying around him now shows that he would still be more acceptable to them than Trump. Thus, he can at least keep the base intact. He may not be very appealing to swing voters, but you have to keep the base intact first and foremost.

Those kinds of attacks are not as personal because people understand it's just hyperbole. Besides, it's still an attack mainly on Obamacare, unlike Trump's going after the Iraq War, which was after all, mainly spearheaded by a Republican administration. Or personal insults like "Little Marco" or "Lying Ted".
 
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