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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSalon: "Ted Cruz’s laughable plan to rebrand himself as a moderate"
link; excerpt:a new AP report suggests that Cruz is attempting to rebrand himself in the wake of the latest attacks. His hope is to appeal to the supporters of people like Trump and Carson by emphasizing his experience and, Im not joking, his moderation....You almost have to applaud Cruzs chutzpah here. This guy has made a career of extremism. His strategy in the Senate, from the very beginning, has been to obstruct and to use his platform to appeal to the wingnut base of the Republican Party showing little to no interest in advancing a credible legislative agenda. And hes mouthed as many inflammatory idiocies as anyone currently running for president.... Here are just a few examples:1.Look, we saw in Britain, Neville Chamberlain, who told the British people, Accept the Nazis. Yes, theyll dominate the continent of Europe, but thats not our problem. Lets appease them. Why? Because it cant be done. We cant possibly stand against them.
2. I think President Obama is the most radical president this nations ever seen And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.
3. You know, back in the 70s I remember the 70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. The problem with climate change is theres never been a day in the history of the world in which the climate is not changing.
4. The Obama economy is a disaster, Obamacare is a train wreck, and the Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind the whole world is on fire.
5. Net neutrality is Obamacare for the internet.
6. Its not our job to be social workers in Iraq and put them all on expanded Medicaid.
7. I thought it was the job of a military chaplain to be insensitive to atheists.
8. You look at our constitution, you look at our Bill of Rights, this is an administration [Obama] that seems bound and determined to violate every single one of our Bill of Rights I dont know that theyve yet violated the Third Amendment, but I expect them to start quartering soldiers in peoples homes soon.
9. In my life, I have never once seen an Hispanic panhandler. In our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
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Salon: "Ted Cruz’s laughable plan to rebrand himself as a moderate" (Original Post)
Attorney in Texas
Nov 2015
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spanone
(135,873 posts)1. don't laugh. the media will accommodate him. they will say he had an epiphany.
they'll forgive and forget all those quotes that he actually said and believed in 100%
they are a forgiving bunch.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. And then there was Dr. Seuss.