1. Me on April 8: "The main hurdle for Cruz is money. If he had a sugar daddy, he could do serious damage in the primaries."
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@abelisted@HeerJeet Jeet is on to something here. Cruz wasn't raised a mellow Bush-style establishment GOPer. His upbringing is the base. - Show replies
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11. Cruz's crackpot conspiracy-obsessed religiously fanatical father? That's the base. Cruz is a child of the base. The others aren't.
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12. A brilliant child (genius IQ) raised by a hard right father: child will have an instinctive, intuitive feel for the hard right creed.
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@HeerJeet no just an avenue to power he is a harvard boyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Cruz wants pre-New Deal gov't w/no business regulation. If it takes "base" language to whip up anger to kill gov't, he'll use it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@davidfrum If he's "completely internalized the values of the base" why hasn't he called for impeachment of Obama (or worse)?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Literally so, in a way that I hope stays creepy-bad, no matter who the politician who does it. He repeats, again literally, the -
@HeerJeet talking points of these values over and over again. A key passage of an interesting profile of the guy: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/washington-builds-bugaboo_753924.html?page=3 …
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