Ted Cruz will be president if Democrats listen to Elizabeth Warren, warns Republican

[DonViejo]

A moderate Republican's counter-intuitive take is actually just a warning to Democrats to avoid class warfare

BY ALEX PAREENE

What’s that, Daily Beast? “How Ted Cruz Can Win in 2016″? Oh, you are still around, and still doing this sort of thing? That’s great. Let’s take the bait, I guess.

Our dutiful “hot take” artist today is David Frum, the famous apostate Republican who has dedicated the last few years to building a new Republican Party that is more moderate, more rational and less dedicated to taking dead-ender stands on cultural issues. He is not, in other words, the sort of Republican Ted Cruz appeals to.

Frum has devoted more words to Cruz’s savvy than to his worldview, but he has expressed a wish for the Tea Party to form a third party and “liberate Republicans from identification with the Sarah Palins and the Ted Cruzes who have done so much harm to their hopes over the past three election cycles.” Comparing Cruz to Palin and saying he hurts the ability of Republicans to win elections would seem to make a “how Cruz can win” piece unlikely, but Frum’s argument is not aimed at Republicans. And it’s not wishful thinking. It’s a dire warning of a dystopian future!

In this terrifyingly real scenario, the U.S. tips back into recession, Republicans win huge in 2014 and Democrats respond by getting more aggressively populist on economic and financial issues. These Democrats revolt against Hillary Clinton, and Obama’s moderation, and embrace, instead, Elizabeth Warren. Warren, slightly oddly, decides to run against Clinton, and the bruising primary fight divides and weakens the party.

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/25/ted_cruz_will_be_president_if_democrats_listen_to_elizabeth_warren_warns_republican/

[Thinkingabout]

1. Ted Cruz wants to be a dictator, he has shown his skills in getting the GOP House to do

What he was suggesting, I still have trouble in believing they fell for his story, just dumb.

[bemildred]

2. Bullshit. Implausible bullshit. Massive Republican projection like always. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. Cruz will fizzle out eventually but would be a dream candidate for the GOP

I can't wait.... Cruz/Steele? Cruz/Bachmann? Sweet!

[muntrv]

4. Uh Ted was born in Canada, not part of the US or territories covered under the 14th Amendment.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. To an American parent

Hence he's a natural-born citizen, which makes him eligible for the presidency.

[Beacool]

6. The only thing I can say is that Frum is now writing fiction.

His scenario is ludicrous.

[DonViejo]

7. Science fiction at best. eom