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enhanced_deficit
09-09-2018, 04:48 PM
Disgraced puppet of moderate neocons, who had been branded as 'lying Ted' by MAGA, could be on his way out?

Trump adviser says Cruz could lose Senate race

By John Bowden - 09/08/18


An adviser to President Trump reportedly told GOP donors on Saturday that it was a possibility that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) could lose his Senate race to Democratic challenger Rep. Beto O'Rourke (Texas), citing likability.

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney told Republicans at a closed-door meeting that it was a "possibility" that Cruz could lose his Senate race while Republicans such as Florida Gov. Rick Scott could win, The New York Times reports.

“There’s a very real possibility we will win a race for Senate in Florida and lose a race in Texas for Senate, OK?” Mulvaney said, according to audio obtained by the Times.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/405719-trump-adviser-says-its-possible-cruz-could-lose-senate-race

Bern
09-09-2018, 05:46 PM
Um, yeah. Ted is a weasel.

Locally, I can tell you that up until about two weeks ago, the only political signs in anyones yards in my very GOP neighborhood/town were for Beto. And while yard signs don't always mean anything (see Ron Paul circa 2008), the dearth of Ted Cruz signs speaks volumes.

RonZeplin
09-09-2018, 05:53 PM
David Hogg + President Trump = Senator Beto O'Rourke


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ym3G1w0hM

spudea
09-09-2018, 06:09 PM
Nah not a chance, same shit was said about turning Texas blue in 2016.. He hasn't been Lyin Ted since the inauguration. Now its Lion Ted MAGA.

thoughtomator
09-09-2018, 06:32 PM
Not a prayer in hell. Mulvaney is a swamp weasel.

But Cruz should definitely face a primary challenger next time around. Major fail for the Texas GOP not to provide a better candidate than this one.

eleganz
09-09-2018, 06:41 PM
Not a prayer in hell. Mulvaney is a swamp weasel.

But Cruz should definitely face a primary challenger next time around. Major fail for the Texas GOP not to provide a better candidate than this one.

Cruz is ok, he votes with Rand on average more than the rest of the senate. I'm not picky and running against Rand gave me a horrible impression of him but campaigns are war. On the bigger picture, it could be much much worse.

Mulvaney is considered an ally of the liberty movement.

Whats up with all of the zero sum game'ers here? You opposed to building coalitions? Ron loved coalition building, finding common ground with anybody he could.

nikcers
09-09-2018, 06:55 PM
I think he is just trolling Cruz's supporters so they show up to vote. I don't think that he is that unpopular with all the money he spent in 2016 he should be able to win his re-election.

Zippyjuan
09-09-2018, 06:59 PM
1035575198169411584

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/08/27/ted-cruz-beto-orourke-emerson-college-poll/1117201002/


New poll finds Sen. Ted Cruz in statistical tie with Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke

Aug. 27, 2018

Republican incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz is in a statistical dead heat with Rep. Beto O'Rourke in Texas, according to an Emerson College e-poll published Wednesday.

The e-poll, which was conducted from Aug. 22-25 with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent, found Cruz with 38 percent of the vote, O'Rourke with 37 percent and 21 percent of respondents undecided.

According to the poll, the biggest challenge for Cruz in his path to a second term in the U.S. Senate is among independent voters. Cruz had a 57 percent unfavorable and only 25 percent favorable rating within that group, the poll found.

thoughtomator
09-09-2018, 06:59 PM
Mulvaney is considered an ally of the liberty movement.


By whom? He's a Cantor/Romney pet, exactly the kind of person a liberty movement would want to primary back when he held office.

Also... what liberty movement? It died with Ron's failure to support his son's campaign. The only thing that can remotely be called a liberty movement anymore that is actually alive in the real world... is Trumpism: Trump as Moses, issuing the demand to the Deep State Pharohs, "let my people go".

nikcers
09-09-2018, 07:11 PM
By whom? He's a Cantor/Romney pet, exactly the kind of person a liberty movement would want to primary back when he held office.

Also... what liberty movement? It died with Ron's failure to support his son's campaign. The only thing that can remotely be called a liberty movement anymore that is actually alive in the real world... is Trumpism: Trump as Moses, issuing the demand to the Deep State Pharohs, "let my people go".
That's why you are posting this on donaldtrumpforums.com

Grandmastersexsay
09-09-2018, 07:26 PM
Everyone who thinks Lyin Ted is ok, forgets Ron Paul endorsing him only for Cruz to stab him in the back. Also Cruz's wife works for Goldman Sacks.

eleganz
09-09-2018, 07:36 PM
Extra Extra!! Your purity only works on RPF.

D.C. is full of deal making one day and backstabbing the next. If you go there with only the mindset of all or nothing, you will leave with nothing.

If I look at congress as a whole and then consider Cruz/Mulvaney and how often they work with liberty officials in contrast to the rest of congress, yea its acceptable.

Ron Paul was principled, but he found common ground with people and worked with them.

euphemia
09-09-2018, 07:43 PM
Cruz did not vote to defund Planned Parentood. It will turn out to be one of the worst votes of his career. If he unchallenged now, he won’t be next time, and he will be held to account for this.

RonZeplin
09-09-2018, 07:45 PM
Carly Fiorina falls off the stage, lyin' Ted ignores it as Republicans block the camera with Ted Cruz 2016 signs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezJpN_CaDhE

r3volution 3.0
09-09-2018, 07:55 PM
The GOP has a better chance of losing Texas this year than for many years, but I'd say Cruz is still extremely likely to win.

For the mid-terms in general, there won't be much movement in the Senate one way or the other; the action will be in the House.

specsaregood
09-09-2018, 08:01 PM
I think he is just trolling Cruz's supporters so they show up to vote. I don't think that he is that unpopular with all the money he spent in 2016 he should be able to win his re-election.

The problem is that Rafael is a gaping asshole and just about everybody has figured it out. From what I've read, people actually like his opponent as a person --whether that is his real persona or not. Since politics is more about showmanship and sales than actual ideology, this presents a big problem for Cruz.

eleganz
09-09-2018, 08:16 PM
The GOP has a better chance of losing Texas this year than for many years, but I'd say Cruz is still extremely likely to win.

For the mid-terms in general, there won't be much movement in the Senate one way or the other; the action will be in the House.

I agree, Beto does not represent Texan values in any way but he has been able to divert so much attention and money toward Texas, its going to take that much help away from the crucial house races. Its brilliant to be honest, even if it was dumb luck.

Aratus
09-10-2018, 03:56 AM
The GOP has a better chance of losing Texas this year than for many years, but I'd say Cruz is still extremely likely to win.

For the mid-terms in general, there won't be much movement in the Senate one way or the other; the action will be in the House.

Agreed. The tussle over House seats translates into the sly,
shady deals that Democrats cut in order to get a leverage
over what they just might do in terms of going after DJT.
Perhaps everyone is TRUMP Derangement Syndrome. His
followers are a cult, his opponents obsess on him, and the
people who aren't in either camp are being driven up the wall.

Bern
09-10-2018, 05:54 AM
I agree, Beto does not represent Texan values in any way ...

Haven't you heard? He's a triple meat Whataburger (https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/cruz-orourke-whataburger-liberal/). That's pretty Texan.

William Tell
09-10-2018, 09:38 AM
Um, yeah. Ted is a weasel.

Locally, I can tell you that up until about two weeks ago, the only political signs in anyones yards in my very GOP neighborhood/town were for Beto. And while yard signs don't always mean anything (see Ron Paul circa 2008), the dearth of Ted Cruz signs speaks volumes.There have been articles about the signs in the media. The Cruz campaign says it's intentional that they have spent their money on other things because they don't think they help much. I'm sure they miscalculated though, completely dumb move. It does give Beto the perception of momentum, makes Cruz seem to not be taking the race serious. If they'd just tossed 50K into signs and distributed them in each county both the media, us, and Texas wouldn't be talking about how Cruz might lose because signs. Perception is reality.

Bern
09-10-2018, 09:50 AM
I haven't been paying a lot of attention the news about the Cruz (or Beto) campaigns - mostly just reading social media chatter. I definitely didn't see any reports about the dearth of Cruz signs being a deliberate campaign strategy.

https://i.imgflip.com/3y4a3.gif

William Tell
09-10-2018, 09:55 AM
Here it is. Lol, stupid campaign team. https://www.texastribune.org/2018/08/29/beto-orourke-ted-cruz-yard-signs/

dannno
09-10-2018, 09:56 AM
Haven't you heard? He's a triple meat Whataburger (https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/cruz-orourke-whataburger-liberal/). That's pretty Texan.

This looks good right here, I don't care who you are.. needs another patty and another cheese slice tho

https://wbimageserver.whataburger.com//food/540x420.jpg

William Tell
09-10-2018, 10:09 AM
Haven't you heard? He's a triple meat Whataburger (https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/cruz-orourke-whataburger-liberal/). That's pretty Texan.

Lol, that reminds me of when Sid Miller attacked his primary opponent for standing in front of a Nutella sign. What is with the good food smears?

Anti Globalist
09-10-2018, 04:28 PM
Doubt he's going to lose. He'll beat his democrat opponent in a landslide. Texas won't become a blue state anytime soon.

r3volution 3.0
09-10-2018, 08:16 PM
Agreed. The tussle over House seats translates into the sly,
shady deals that Democrats cut in order to get a leverage
over what they just might do in terms of going after DJT.
Perhaps everyone is TRUMP Derangement Syndrome. His
followers are a cult, his opponents obsess on him, and the
people who aren't in either camp are being driven up the wall.

Impeaching Retard will only make a martyr of him (which is to say that Dems, being idiots, may well impeach him if given the chance).

It would be much better if he simply lost an election; that is really the only way to influence the Trumpenproletariat.

Swordsmyth
09-10-2018, 08:18 PM
Impeaching Retard will only make a martyr of him (which is to say that Dems, being idiots, may well impeach him if given the chance).

It would be much better if he simply lost an election; that is really the only way to influence the Trumpenproletariat.

Neither one will happen.

r3volution 3.0
09-10-2018, 08:34 PM
Neither one will happen.

He very likely won't get impeached.

If the Dems win the House, some cooler heads will likely prevail.

But he will very likely lose his re-election effort, especially if there's a recession in the next year or so, which there probably will be.

Then he will be unable to claim credit for the astounding resiliency of the market economy in spite if his/Obama's socialistic policies.

Swordsmyth
09-10-2018, 08:36 PM
He very likely won't get impeached.

If the Dems win the House, some cooler heads will likely prevail.

He will very likely lose his re-election effort, especially if there's a recession in the next year or so, which they're probably will be.
While neither will happen the first is more likely than the second.

r3volution 3.0
09-10-2018, 08:39 PM
While neither will happen the first is more likely than the second.

Impeachment?

No, not at all, haha, you need to stop reading Breitbart's attempts at written English.

enhanced_deficit
09-10-2018, 11:49 PM
He hasn't been Lyin Ted since the inauguration. Now its Lion Ted MAGA.

You have branding talent :)

Hope you won't argue that SWAMP hasn't been SWAMP since inauguration and has become SWAG.

'Lion Ted' had called MAGA a 'sniveling coward' and still hasn't apologized and not taken back those words. That is okay?

spudea
09-11-2018, 06:06 AM
'Lion Ted' had called MAGA a 'sniveling coward' and still hasn't apologized and not taken back those words. That is okay?

How do you know he hasn't apologized? He doesn't have to publicly just to fuel your drama fix. Trump and Cruz have obviously moved on.

Bern
09-11-2018, 06:26 AM
Trump disparaged Cruz's wife publicly. In bygone eras, that would be grounds for a duel.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaVEGgsvM7o

Trump also slandered Cruz's father with assertions that he helped murder JFK.

What is the most Texan Tough response to such affrontery? Not this...

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/57f6bce157540c8c728b4693-872/cugrvynueaehwt8.jpg

https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-meme-phone-bank-trump-2016-10


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0POmdK18WU

enhanced_deficit
09-12-2018, 12:03 PM
How do you know he hasn't apologized?


Have to concede I do not know that.
Just like I do not know if privately Clintons and MAGA have also apologized to each other and became friends again.




Trump disparaged Cruz's wife publicly. In bygone eras, that would be grounds for a duel.
...

Will take your word for it. But generally speaking just because he was accused by media disparaging does not mean he actually did that. He can use rough langauge against men now and then but he's more of a gentleman when it coms to ladies.

Bern
09-12-2018, 05:03 PM
... just because he was accused by media disparaging does not mean he actually did that. ...

Come on man. Did you not watch that classic scene from Highlander that I posted? You can't argue with that. It's a lose-lose proposition! :p

Well, any Texan worth his salt understands this schoolyard jab:

712850174838771712

https://people.com/celebrity/donald-trump-posts-unflattering-photo-of-heidi-cruz/

enhanced_deficit
09-13-2018, 02:07 PM
Come on man. Did you not watch that classic scene from Highlander that I posted? You can't argue with that. It's a lose-lose proposition! :p

Well, any Texan worth his salt understands this schoolyard jab:

712850174838771712

https://people.com/celebrity/donald-trump-posts-unflattering-photo-of-heidi-cruz/


Had quickly sampled and watched again.

Ok I stand corrected, he did do that.



In other news, from Drudge:

https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.lBu04dhF-Q8QgpqqGf-YpgHaEW&w=300&h=176&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7

Fans turn on Willie Nelson for backing Cruz opponent... (https://abc13.com/4227747/)

enhanced_deficit
09-15-2018, 02:04 PM
More troubling developments.. recent Drudge headlines suggest AIPAC/neocons/War Crimes lobbies favored puppet's seat could be in trouble:





https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.0tovhJQXE_ZkjYZMV8TKmgHaD-&w=300&h=161&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7

CRUZ SWEAT... (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/15/ted-cruz-says-his-texas-senate-race-is-competitive-because-far-left-has-lost-their-minds.html)







Related


Ted Cruz wants US troops to invade Syria (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?425907-Will-Kerry-McCain-Rafael-Ted-Cruz-succeed-in-selling-Syria-military-intervention&)

Video: Glenn Beck and Ted Cruz's Christian Zionist Ally Praying for more War in the name of Jesus (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?426011-Video-CUFI-s-Pastor-John-Hagee-Praying-for-more-War-in-the-name-of-Jesus&)

Ted Cruz Says Obama Should Threaten Iran (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?443635-Ted-Cruz-Says-Obama-Should-Threaten-Iran&)

ALERT: Ted Cruz is owned by Goldman Sachs (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?488478-ALERT-Ted-Cruz-is-owned-by-Goldman-Sachs&)

Rafael Ted Cruz's statement “Those who hate Israel hate America” will affect his career? (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?459655-Rafael-Ted-Cruz-s-statement-“Those-who-hate-Israel-hate-America”-will-affect-his-career&)

Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not fully funding NSA spying during shutdown (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?429390-Ted-Cruz-attacks-Obama-for-not-fully-funding-NSA-spying-during-shutdown&)


Ted Cruz finally comes out as neo-conservative on foreign policy (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?427491-Ted-Cruz-finally-comes-out-as-neo-conservative-on-foreign-policy&)


In series of Tweets this afternoon, it appears that Sen. Cruz has decided to clear away any doubts and announce that he follows the neo-conservative foreign policy model. Probably due to pressure to take sides with this Syria thing going down. Or maybe Krauthammer or Kristol got his Twitter password and took over...

Anyway, a little disappointing, but not a huge surprise.



Update: Apparently these were from a speech today on foreign policy.

These are the tweets I saw with a quick glance. They seemed to conform to PNAC standards.



Cold war? Check.



Global Hegemony? Check.



Russia? Check.



Aggressive foreign policy? Check.



Iran? Check.



Israel? Check.

enhanced_deficit
09-15-2018, 02:45 PM
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2e_9sahyU4/VxRffvOQjMI/AAAAAAAABUE/JB4R71htsF0xiyjG6FWgKTl9K0dSY6V4ACLcB/s1600/TED-CRUZ-AND-HIS-ONER-SIDED-TRADE-DEALS.jpg

Zippyjuan
09-15-2018, 02:48 PM
What's up with the Ted Cruz obsession lately?

enhanced_deficit
09-15-2018, 02:53 PM
Zippy, are you suggesting regular programming shoud revret back to previously scheduled "Trump obsession"?

You know that Lyin Ted is a puppet of AIPAC wing of neocons wars lobbies and that exposure is coming out ahead of election as his opponent has reportedly raised $10 Million more money?

Swordsmyth
09-15-2018, 08:49 PM
What's up with the Ted Cruz obsession lately?
Why does it bother you?

eleganz
09-15-2018, 09:19 PM
Zippy, are you suggesting regular programming shoud revret back to previously scheduled "Trump obsession"?

You know that Lyin Ted is a puppet of AIPAC wing of neocons wars lobbies and that exposure is coming out ahead of election as his opponent has reportedly raised $10 Million more money?

Despite my very low impression of Cruz. If I had to choose it would be easy. I rather have someone like Cruz that votes majority of the time with Rand over BETO, who is an unabashed socialist.

I predict Cruz will win in the end but he isn't going to skate to the finish line, he's gonna have to work for it.

In other news, I think its pretty normal that Zip is triggered by any topic that isn't bashing Trump.

Swordsmyth
09-15-2018, 09:44 PM
Despite my very low impression of Cruz. If I had to choose it would be easy. I rather have someone like Cruz that votes majority of the time with Rand over BETO, who is an unabashed socialist.

I predict Cruz will win in the end but he isn't going to skate to the finish line, he's gonna have to work for it.

In other news, I think its pretty normal that Zip is triggered by any topic that isn't bashing Trump.
^^^THIS^^^

Cruz is like Trump, give me someone better to support in the primary and I will, until then he is better than most.

Zippyjuan
09-15-2018, 10:25 PM
Impeachment?

No, not at all, haha, you need to stop reading Breitbart's attempts at written English.

If they get a majority in the House they can call for hearings to charge him with Impeachment but to actually do it would require 2/3rds of the Senate which won't happen unless a bunch of Republicans agree to go along. It would tie up the government for a while if they did try though. That is what happened with Clinton.

enhanced_deficit
09-16-2018, 10:19 AM
Mitch McConnell is the latest top Republican to say Ted Cruz faces a fight in red Texas



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Sen. Ted Cruz faces a "competitive race" in red Texas.
He is the latest Republican, including Texan and No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn, to acknowledge that Cruz faces a threat from Rep. Beto O'Rourke.
McConnell also identifies nine Senate races he's watching in this year's midterm elections: Arizona, Nevada, Tennessee, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, West Virginia and Florida.




https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/11/mitch-mcconnell-ted-cruz-in-tough-senate-race-against-beto-orourke.html


Despite some wild conpiracy theories, there is no proof that Israeli lobbyist funded GOP-Jarvanka wing secretly could be helping liberal socialist Dem candidate to win in Florida governor race as it allegedly did to get conservative GOP Senate candidate defeated in Alabama few months back.






Despite my very low impression of Cruz. If I had to choose it would be easy. I rather have someone like Cruz that votes majority of the time with Rand over BETO, who is an unabashed socialist.

I predict Cruz will win in the end but he isn't going to skate to the finish line, he's gonna have to work for it.


As long as Israel lobby AIPAC/Goldman Scahs with deep pockets keep supporting 'Lyin Ted', he's probably still likely to win narrowly. Although won't be too surprised if he lost given growing bad taste lately for neocons costly/deadly interventionist wars and global socialism projects that have cost taxpyers over $5-6 Trillion already since Iraqi/Syria/Libya/Afghan freedoms start. Many voters lately seem to prefer domestic socialism/protectinism over spending $Trillion for bombs factories and bridges from Israel to Baghdad.

Swordsmyth
09-17-2018, 04:31 PM
The O'Rourke campaign website touts his support for a number of new gun-control laws (https://betofortexas.com/issue/gun-safety/). On the site, he advocates a new national universal background check law, opposes national gun-carry reciprocity, and calls for additional funding for government research on gun violence. He also explains his support for banning certain semiautomatic rifles and so-called high-capacity ammunition magazines.
O'Rourke spoke at length about his support for the ban at an event in February (https://www.facebook.com/betoorourke/videos/what-will-you-do-about-gun-violence/1564352373614467/).
"This is as politically charged as it comes in Texas, and this is how I hope you know that I have the courage of my convictions because I'm willing to do this," he said. "I cosponsored the assault-weapons ban. Now, I understand there are many Texans who own these AR-15s, and some of them are very good friends of mine that I've been out shooting with. And they say, ‘Beto, why are you going to prevent me from buying a gun? I haven't hurt anybody. I haven't shot anybody. I keep this gun in a gun locker. I teach my kids gun safety. How could you do this because there's some crazy, evil person in Florida or Sutherland Springs or Las Vegas or pick the next city it's gonna to happen in?' I say, ‘You know what? You're right. We have the Second Amendment, and it's incredibly important, but the Second Amendment is not unlimited. You cannot carry a bazooka down the street. You cannot drive your tank down the street because we have a Second Amendment. There's gonna have to be some rational limit to our ability that keeps more people in our communities safe and alive.'"
Sen. Cruz opposes such a ban as well as a universal background check law but is a vocal supporter of national reciprocity. The Cruz campaign did not respond to a request for comment but he has received an A+ rating from the NRA while O'Rourke has received an F rating. Cruz has said O'Rourke's views are out of line with what most Texas voters believe.

More at: https://freebeacon.com/politics/beto-orourke-continues-attack-nra-pushes-gun-control/

enhanced_deficit
09-17-2018, 11:11 PM
"This is as politically charged as it comes in Texas, and this is how I hope you know that I have the courage of my convictions because I'm willing to do this," he said.

To an extent, same can be said about MAGA.



Courage (hold the conviction part though):


https://i.redd.it/5gzk1ak057j01.jpg

https://memestatic.fjcdn.com/pictures/Trump+on+gun+control_fc7229_6526507.png

Swordsmyth
09-17-2018, 11:56 PM
Former President George W. Bush (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/george-w-bush) is headlining fundraisers for GOP candidates facing tough challenges ahead of the midterm elections. He won’t, however, be appearing on behalf (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/09/12/former-president-george-w-bush-hosts-fundraisers-vulnerable-republicans-including-two-texas) of Ted Cruz (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/ted-cruz), the Republican senator from his home state of Texas, The Dallas Morning News reported.
A spokesman for Bush told the newspaper that the other campaign appearances “work with our schedule.”
But it’s no secret Bush is not a big fan of Cruz, who served as domestic policy adviser for Bush’s 2000 presidential race and in his November’s elections faces a tough battle against Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke.
Bush said of Cruz at a GOP fundraising event in late 2015 (https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/jeb-bush-george-bush-donors-ted-cruz-214933): (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2015/10/20/george-w-bush-slams-ted-cruz-in-meeting-with-republican-donors) “I just don’t like the guy,” several donors at the gathering told Politico. Cruz was running at the time against Bush’s brother, Jeb Bush, for the GOP presidential nomination.
“The tenor of what he said about the other candidates was really pretty pleasant,” one witness told Politico. “Until he got to Cruz.”

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/george-bush-stumping-gop-candidates-050759030.html

Swordsmyth
09-20-2018, 12:36 AM
On Wednesday, a new poll (https://www.khou.com/article/news/politics/beto-orourke-leads-ted-cruz-by-three-points-in-us-senate-race-new-poll-finds/285-596140704) showed Democratic challenger Congressman Beto O'Rourke leading Republican Senator Ted Cruz by three points in their heated race for U.S. Senate.However, on Tuesday, another poll (https://www.khou.com/article/news/ted-cruz-has-9-point-lead-over-beto-orourke-new-poll-says/285-595854420) showed Cruz leading by nine points.

More at: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/why-are-poll-results-so-different-for-cruzorourke-race/285-596351783

shakey1
09-20-2018, 07:47 AM
Despite my very low impression of Cruz. If I had to choose it would be easy. I rather have someone like Cruz that votes majority of the time with Rand over BETO, who is an unabashed socialist.

I predict Cruz will win in the end but he isn't going to skate to the finish line, he's gonna have to work for it.

In other news, I think its pretty normal that Zip is triggered by any topic that isn't bashing Trump.

Yeah, heez-a-sleeze... but this^^^

Geez... is this the best the R's got?

Swordsmyth
09-20-2018, 04:20 PM
Yeah, heez-a-sleeze... but this^^^

Geez... is this the best the R's got?

He's better than most:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/freedom-index

Sen. Ted Cruz (https://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=828&nameid=C001098) - 78%



I prefer people who are 80% or better but he actually comes close.

Bern
09-21-2018, 06:04 AM
He's better than most: ...Sen. Ted Cruz - 78%
...

I checked your link and clicked further for the details on Cruz.


Score Breakdown:
63% (115th Congress: 2017-2018); 76% (114th Congress: 2015-2016); 89% (113th Congress: 2013-2014)

He's gotten worse and worse each successive session. That resonates with my impression (my loose memory of his voting record on key issues) of his performance. Seems like it's becoming more frequent when I look at the votes on a key issue and see that Ted is on the wrong side (IMO) of the issue.

I also disagree with TNA's opinion of Ajit Pai and net neutrality. If they scored Ted's vote on that the way I personally score it, his score would be even lower for 2017-2018. I didn't scrutinize every vote listed to see where else we might disagree.

Swordsmyth
09-21-2018, 04:33 PM
I checked your link and clicked further for the details on Cruz.



He's gotten worse and worse each successive session. That resonates with my impression (my loose memory of his voting record on key issues) of his performance. Seems like it's becoming more frequent when I look at the votes on a key issue and see that Ted is on the wrong side (IMO) of the issue.

I also disagree with TNA's opinion of Ajit Pai and net neutrality. If they scored Ted's vote on that the way I personally score it, his score would be even lower for 2017-2018. I didn't scrutinize every vote listed to see where else we might disagree.

You are right about his decline but he is still better than Beto will be and we really don't want the Dems to have a Senate majority.

RonZeplin
09-21-2018, 05:16 PM
No Beto than O'Rourke = Lyin Ted

enhanced_deficit
10-13-2018, 02:36 PM
Widely respected 'lyin Ted' is still ahead in polls according to latest. GOP-Jarvanak wing has dispatched MAGA junior to help pro-war zionist lobbies poodle apparently.
Beto ( who refused to get Obama endorsement) apparently has raised 3 times more money than LT.


Related

(Pending confirmation if fakenews or non-fakenews. No comment from GOP-JV wing yet)


A top Trump aide asked an Israeli company for help to take Ted Cruz out of the 2016 election

By David Gilbert Oct 9, 2018

A top Trump campaign aide asked an Israeli private intelligence firm — with links to the IDF, Cambridge Analytica and a Russian billionaire — to devise a “social media manipulation” strategy to hurt Trump’s political rivals during the primaries and the election, according to a New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/politics/rick-gates-psy-group-trump.html) report.
Rick Gates, then Trump’s deputy campaign manager, reportedly contacted Psy-Group in 2016, seeking fake online personas to help sway some 5,000 delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention by attacking Ted Cruz — Trump’s main opponent for the Republican nomination.
A second proposal outlined how Trump’s team could use opposition research and “complementary intelligence activities” about Hillary Clinton and people close to her to win the election.
The secret proposals were codenamed “Project Rome,” with those involved also given codenames — Trump was “Lion”, Clinton was “Forest”, and Cruz was “Bear.”
There is no direct evidence that Gates or anyone within the Trump campaign acted on the Israeli company’s proposals.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9xy5/rick-gates-trump-campaign-2016-psy-group-ted-cruz

Swordsmyth
10-30-2018, 10:27 PM
Leftists on social media lost their minds Monday after The New York Times released an exposé (https://www.dailywire.com/news/37728/beto-orourke-had-problematic-history-barrio-hank-berrien), detailing Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) Democratic challenger, Beto O'Rourke's, early career in real estate development, and revealing for the first time this campaign that O'Rourke isn't a blue collar hero but rather the son-in-law of a billionaire.
The NYT reports that O'Rourke's father-in-law proposed gentrifying a neighborhood in El Paso by force, bulldozing public housing to make way for restaurants, a shopping district, and an art walk. Beto, the Times claims, served as the "pretty face" for the plan while also serving in city government, and often tangled with low-income El Paso residents protesting the plan.

“What might not have been entirely clear to everyone at the meeting was that the plan’s success was largely dependent on the city’s ability to convince property owners in the most blighted areas to turn over their holdings to the private trust. In the case of recalcitrant owners, eminent domain would be used," the Times reported.
Beto, who was an El Paso councilman at the time his father-in-law was looking to make the big changes, eventually abstained from voting on the matter, but not until after it was pointed out that publicly defending the development was, for Beto, a conflict of interest.
The New York Times is, by no means, a right-leaning publication, and is likely pulling — perhaps quietly — for Beto O'Rourke to unseat Ted Cruz. But leftists lashed out immediately, regardless, accusing the paper of trying to tank Beto's upstart campaign just days before Election Day.

Looks like the NY Times is now supporting Ted Cruz by printing this article the week before the election. Seriously, this is right up there with the timing of the erroneous "There's nothing to this Trump and Russia" story. It seems it may be time to cancel my subscription again.
— Carol Livingston (@clivingsbkk) October 29, 2018 (https://twitter.com/clivingsbkk/status/1056939566173696000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Clearly @nytimes (https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) got the memo that #Beto (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Beto?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) is a threat to #TedCruz (https://twitter.com/hashtag/TedCruz?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) so they’re all in to stop him. Not this time we are on to you #VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare (https://twitter.com/hashtag/VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
— Maxine Baptiste (@brownsugar7878) October 29, 2018 (https://twitter.com/brownsugar7878/status/1056914382465130497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
The NYT thinks it’s 1998 and that people like Beto and Gillum aren’t running against actual Nazis
— Jake Honig (@jakehonig) October 29, 2018 (https://twitter.com/jakehonig/status/1056917492357103621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Some Twitter users even compared The New York Times's "hit job" on Beto to a piece the paper published on a suddenly re-opened investigation into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, a development that happened just days before the 2016 Presidential election, through no fault of The New York Times.

More at: https://www.dailywire.com/news/37777/yikes-leftists-lose-their-minds-bash-new-york-emily-zanotti

acptulsa
10-30-2018, 10:42 PM
The NYT reports that O'Rourke's father-in-law proposed gentrifying a neighborhood in El Paso by force, bulldozing public housing to make way for restaurants, a shopping district, and an art walk. Beto, the Times claims, served as the "pretty face" for the plan while also serving in city government, and often tangled with low-income El Paso residents protesting the plan.


In other words, he's Jared Kushner.

WarmPotato
10-30-2018, 11:19 PM
If Ted loses, its too late, and we've lost our borders.

enhanced_deficit
10-30-2018, 11:23 PM
The NYT reports that O'Rourke's father-in-law proposed gentrifying a neighborhood in El Paso by force, bulldozing public housing to make way for restaurants, a shopping district, and an art walk. Beto, the Times claims, served as the "pretty face" for the plan while also serving in city government, and often tangled with low-income El Paso residents protesting the plan.


In other words, he's Jared Kushner.


Ouch LOL

But have to +rep.

nbhadja
10-31-2018, 08:06 AM
If Ted loses, its too late, and we've lost our borders.

Ted is a lock to win by double digits. Stop listening to fake news and fake polls.

enhanced_deficit
11-03-2018, 06:33 PM
Billboard with Trump's anti-Cruz Trump tweet to go up during Texas rally


https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT24vLIyMfE6MaOMKItWvgnqpCvW08ue XM0CPM1GVZXPzTJg_cd

enhanced_deficit
11-06-2018, 07:44 PM
Is this an early sign that neocons poodle could really lose?



TEX SEN
BETO 50.52% CRUZ 48.88%

https://www.drudgereport.com/i/logo9.gif

acptulsa
11-06-2018, 08:25 PM
I can't really claim. That I'm surprised he's floundering I can't honestly say. I give a shit either he's insulted our intelligence. Long enough it's time Texans. Finally got sick of him.

enhanced_deficit
11-06-2018, 09:25 PM
Some good news for GOP-Jarvanka Democrats , two of neocon lobbies trusyed tools in Senate, 'Lyin Ted' (R) in TX and Bob Menendez (D) in PA are ahead now.

#winning ?

Anti Globalist
11-06-2018, 09:36 PM
Looks the the Zodiac Killer has claimed another victim.

eleganz
11-06-2018, 10:11 PM
OP got way too excited that a socialist would become the senator for Texas. I guess thats what TDS does.

Aratus
11-06-2018, 11:06 PM
Ted Cruz came DAMN close to loosing. He had to crawl towards his old nemesis, DJT and plead.

eleganz
11-06-2018, 11:30 PM
Ted Cruz came DAMN close to loosing. He had to crawl towards his old nemesis, DJT and plead.

Honestly, that is the simpleton's way of looking at it.

BETO raised $80M+, Cruz didn't freak out, he continued the campaign, raising money, getting out the vote and won. $80M can buy a lot but apparently it can't buy a democrat a senate seat in Texas.

enhanced_deficit
11-06-2018, 11:37 PM
Honestly, that is the simpleton's way of looking at it.

BETO raised $80M+, Cruz didn't freak out, he continued the campaign, raising money, getting out the vote and won. $80M can buy a lot but apparently it can't buy a democrat a senate seat in Texas.

Beto is weak and probably not very smart.

You run Trump on a Democratic ticket there, guaranteed that he'll beat 'lying Ted' in Texas. 'Lyin Ted' is a BSer, he didn't get the right match.

Aratus
11-06-2018, 11:39 PM
Billboard with Trump's anti-Cruz Trump tweet to go up during Texas rally


https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT24vLIyMfE6MaOMKItWvgnqpCvW08ue XM0CPM1GVZXPzTJg_cd


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