2. It looks like Cruz has found his sugar daddy: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/us/politics/hedge-fund-magnaterobert-mercer-emerges-as-a-generous-backer-of-ted-cruz.html?_r=3 … (via @ddale8)
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3. Cruz plus sugar daddy is potent combination because ostensible frontrunner Jeb Bush is vulnerable for host of reasons.
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4. Bush's vulnerability: partially the name but fundamentally that he doesn't speak the language of the base (see him on Common Core).
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5. On issues like Israel/Palestine, Bush can't move too far from mainstream (i.e support 2 state solution). Cruz can easily go hard right.
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6. Walker & Rubio are still more plausible than Cruz but, like Jeb Bush, both have their vulnerabilities.
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7. Cruz's big weakness is that party establishment hates, hates, hates him. But that can be overcome by strong base (the Goldwater model).
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8. Some of Walker's nuttier statements (not sure Obama is Christian) show he's aware of Cruz threat & trying to outflank him on the right.
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@thejoeursery it just seems that Cruz is only going to push the eventual nominee too far right to be electable in the general1 reply 3 retweets 7 likes -
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10. Here's the thing about Cruz you need to understand: he's not pandering to the base, he's completely internalized the values of the base
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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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@R_Ephemeral When the Inner Party Believes the Prolefeed: The Ted Cruz Story1 reply 5 retweets 8 likes -
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14. My line on Cruz has always been: Imagine a Joseph McCarthy or Goldwater with twice their IQ points. A dangerous man.
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