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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Thank You, Ted Cruz

Now that Ted Cruz has entered the presidential race, Hillary Clinton can breathe a sigh of relief. He's going to do her job for her.

People close to Clinton smiled at the sight of the first-term senator wandering alone on stage at Liberty University, implicitly threatening a civil war with the “mushy” establishment of his party that he loves to decry — while at the exact same time Clinton sat comfortably alongside heavyweights from her own party’s progressive and labor elements, who have thus far entirely declined to challenge her.  

So, not only will to be amusing to watch Cruz wax short wave radioese but it will also be tons o' fun watching him take apart the rest of the field, leaving them so bruised that by the time they get to the general to face Hillary, it will be like Mitt Romney 2012 all over again:)

1 comment:

Todd A said...

He's very likely to wreck the Republicans' chances of winning the White House.

These types of challenges do work to drag the Republican party farther right. But that's not a winning strategy. Every year, as older people die off and younger ones reach voting age, it becomes less so. The Republicans are mainly seeking the vote of angry white men, and there are proportionally less and less of them every day.

And if the Republicans think running someone named "Cruz" will suddenly get them any more significant portion of the Hispanic vote, I think they underestimate the intelligence of voters.

By the time the ultimate candidate gets to the general election, they're in an untenable position, just like Mitt Romney was. They will have had to move far to the right in order to win the primary with the crazy-right elements in their own party. They can move back to the center and alienate the hard-right types on their own base, or placate those but alienate most of the voters. There isn't any doing both.