Anonymous
Post 01/13/2016 13:56     Subject: Ted Cruz
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No GOP Senator has endorsed Cruz. That is telling.


Has any GOP senator endorsed anyone for president? Other than McCain's love affair with Lindsey Graham?


Yes. I believe Hatch, Cochrane, Heller and Collins have endorsed Jeb. Hutchison, Gardner, Risch, Daines and Inhofe have endorsed Rubio. Boozman and Rounds have endorsed Huckabee. Portman has endorsed Kasich. McConnell has endorsed Paul. Alas, Carson can count on Mickey Rourke and Kelsey Grammar.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2016 13:41     Subject: Ted Cruz
Anonymous wrote:No GOP Senator has endorsed Cruz. That is telling.


Has any GOP senator endorsed anyone for president? Other than McCain's love affair with Lindsey Graham?
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2016 13:28     Subject: Re:Ted Cruz
Anonymous wrote:
A leading Republican pollster privately told Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team Sen. Ted Cruz would be the biggest drag on House Republicans should he win his party’s nomination. ... More than a dozen House Republicans have endorsed Cruz, most notably Iowa conservative Rep. Steve King. None of Cruz’s Senate GOP colleagues have endorsed him.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/gop-pollster-tells-leadership-cruz-is-bad-for-them-217653
Although Politico didn’t mention whether Sackett thought Cruz could negatively impact the party’s chances at holding the Senate, one doesn’t need a paid pollster to know that the upper chamber—and perhaps everyone in Congress outside of his weird Tortilla Coast Caucus—overwhelmingly hates Ted Cruz.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/ted-cruz-congress-gop


Not very much intellectual heft or real power in the Tortilla Coast Caucus: Steve King, Gohmert, Labrador, Mo Brooks, Amash, Huelskamp, etc. More akin to the Land of Misfit Toys Caucus. And what self-respecting Cuban-Canuck-Texan would subject themselves to this abomination of crappy Tex-Mex fare?
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2016 13:16     Subject: Ted Cruz
No GOP Senator has endorsed Cruz. That is telling.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2016 13:11     Subject: Re:Ted Cruz
A leading Republican pollster privately told Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team Sen. Ted Cruz would be the biggest drag on House Republicans should he win his party’s nomination. ... More than a dozen House Republicans have endorsed Cruz, most notably Iowa conservative Rep. Steve King. None of Cruz’s Senate GOP colleagues have endorsed him.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/gop-pollster-tells-leadership-cruz-is-bad-for-them-217653
Although Politico didn’t mention whether Sackett thought Cruz could negatively impact the party’s chances at holding the Senate, one doesn’t need a paid pollster to know that the upper chamber—and perhaps everyone in Congress outside of his weird Tortilla Coast Caucus—overwhelmingly hates Ted Cruz.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/ted-cruz-congress-gop
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2016 09:51     Subject: Ted Cruz
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm laughing at how other Republicans dislike Cruz so much that they're actually supporting this not-a-natural-citizen thing. From what I've read, no one who ever worked with Cruz likes him.

Yeah, that's the reason. Because they dislike Cruz so much.

I hear your sarcasm, but I don't understand your point. Why do you think so many Republicans are refusing to back Cruz on his claim of natural-born citizenship? Why are so many Republicans openly questioning whether he is even eligible to serve as President?

I suspect many Republican simply can't stand the guy because he's a conniving jerk. I suppose some Republicans are refusing to support Cruz because they prefer one of the other Republican candidates, but their support of other Republican candidates may well be because they think Cruz is a conniving jerk.

We're a long way from Reagan's rule of "Speak no ill of another Republican," aren't we?
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2016 08:51     Subject: Ted Cruz
Anonymous wrote:I'm laughing at how other Republicans dislike Cruz so much that they're actually supporting this not-a-natural-citizen thing. From what I've read, no one who ever worked with Cruz likes him.


Yeah, that's the reason. Because they dislike Cruz so much.
Anonymous
Post 01/13/2016 08:47     Subject: Ted Cruz
I'm laughing at how other Republicans dislike Cruz so much that they're actually supporting this not-a-natural-citizen thing. From what I've read, no one who ever worked with Cruz likes him.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2016 17:10     Subject: Ted Cruz
Anonymous wrote:And yet Cruz is the darling of evangelicals. What does that say about these "Christian virtues," particularly respect and tolerance, which Brooks notably omitted.


I thought Trump was leading among evangelicals? Because "not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba"?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2016 17:05     Subject: Ted Cruz
And yet Cruz is the darling of evangelicals. What does that say about these "Christian virtues," particularly respect and tolerance, which Brooks notably omitted.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2016 16:22     Subject: Re:Ted Cruz
Republican David Brooks writing about Ted Cruz's claim to be the "Christian values" candidate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/the-brutalism-of-ted-cruz.html

Cruz is a stranger to most of what would generally be considered the Christian virtues: humility, mercy, compassion and grace. ... There is not a hint of compassion, gentleness and mercy. Instead, his speeches are marked by a long list of enemies, and vows to crush, shred, destroy, bomb them. ...

The Obama administration has done things people like me strongly disagree with. But America is in better economic shape than any other major nation on earth. Crime is down. Abortion rates are down. Fourteen million new jobs have been created in five years. Obama has championed a liberal agenda, but he hasn’t made the country unrecognizable.

Evangelicals and other conservatives ... have won elections as happy and hopeful warriors. Ted Cruz’s brutal, fear-driven, apocalypse-based approach is the antithesis of that.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2016 12:42     Subject: Ted Cruz
NP. Enough with the bickering over NH. Here are three well-known pundits who all consider it a toss-up state in 2016. http://www.270towin.com/2016-election-forecast-predictions/
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2016 12:30     Subject: Ted Cruz
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't like Ted Cruz. Or Donald Trump. Or most republicans for that matter. But I find this thread offensive. Why are we picking on some random individual? Grow up.


She's not some random individual. She is working for a Presidential campaign at its state HQ. She's wearing a t-shirt with an image of the Confederate battle flag, in NH, in 2016, and nobody from the campaign thought that there we an issue. Fox News is icing on the cake. It's all fair game. This is a political cartoon come to life.


She is. Jeff is known to delete threads for this. When a random liberal's fee-fees are offended LOL

I've lived in NH long enough to know one thing for sure. It's a blue state inhabited by idiots who can't afford the neighboring Mass or Maine. For reasons obvious to anybody with half a brain.


New Hampshire is a red state.


New Hampshire has not voted for a Republican in a presidential election since 2000. It has a Democratic governor, and its Senators and members of Congress are split equally between Republicans and Democrats. Verdict: deep bluish purple.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2016 12:03     Subject: Ted Cruz
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't like Ted Cruz. Or Donald Trump. Or most republicans for that matter. But I find this thread offensive. Why are we picking on some random individual? Grow up.


She's not some random individual. She is working for a Presidential campaign at its state HQ. She's wearing a t-shirt with an image of the Confederate battle flag, in NH, in 2016, and nobody from the campaign thought that there we an issue. Fox News is icing on the cake. It's all fair game. This is a political cartoon come to life.


She is. Jeff is known to delete threads for this. When a random liberal's fee-fees are offended LOL

I've lived in NH long enough to know one thing for sure. It's a blue state inhabited by idiots who can't afford the neighboring Mass or Maine. For reasons obvious to anybody with half a brain.


New Hampshire is a red state.


You wish. It may have been a whore of a state years ago, but with the influx of folks from Mass it's solid blue.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2016 11:51     Subject: Ted Cruz
NH is generally considered a swing state which trends slightly Dem but has been seeing an influx of more conservative Republicans from the adjacent areas closer to Boston. Democratic governor elected to fourth term and GOP controlled legislature. Voters are quite moderate overall.