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Adrahil

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4. He won't be able to draw the big GOP money.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:01 PM

Mar 2015

Cruz is hoping for an Evangelical/Teahadist upswell. He will get enough money to linger for a quite a while, but not enough to really be a contender, IMO. To compete in the GOP primaries, you really need to draw the big corporate money, and he just can;t do that, IMO. He's the new Rick Santorum.

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Let�s Be Serious About Ted Cruz From The Start: He�s Too Extreme And Too Disliked To Win [View all] n2doc Mar 2015 OP

I almost hope he wins the GOP nomination Sheepshank Mar 2015 #1

"Learn"??? Cruz??? n2doc Mar 2015 #2

true...true. WTF was I thinking? n/t Sheepshank Mar 2015 #3

He won't be able to draw the big GOP money. Adrahil Mar 2015 #4

Yep, and Koch Bros already have Scott Walker emulatorloo Mar 2015 #7

Yup... Walker is perfectly willing to stooge for the monied interests.... Adrahil Mar 2015 #8

he's supposedly a smart guy... dhill926 Mar 2015 #5

His main purpose is to bring out the base and get them excited...and then bow out to Jeb Wella Mar 2015 #6

Dismissive articles like these sound a lot like those that dismissed Reagan. And Reagan wasnt as stevenleser Mar 2015 #9

I don't think so, based on the reasons given n2doc Mar 2015 #11

Remember when the guy who lied us into war was running against a multiple Purple Heart winner? Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #10

The guy who lied was an incumbent n2doc Mar 2015 #12

I didn't thing Bush had a chance of winning in 2000 herding cats Mar 2015 #13

He is a plant. mstinamotorcity2 Mar 2015 #14

The Republicans said the same thing about Obama in 2008 forthemiddle Mar 2015 #15

No. Equating Obama with Cruz is insane n2doc Mar 2015 #16

I specifically said not their ideology forthemiddle Mar 2015 #17

I heard Delphinus Mar 2015 #18