Ted Cruz will be president if Democrats listen to Elizabeth Warren, warns Republican
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.
Cruz, meanwhile, capitalizes on the shutdown and his general reputation for being a huge dick all the time and handily wins the nomination. Then he moves to the center, sort of!
Ted Cruz, however, could offer the vice presidency to Chris Christie — and the Democrats’ post-2014 leftward veer frightened Republican donors enough that they pressed Christie to accept. Unlike Romney in 2012, Cruz’s conservative allegiance could not be questioned, freeing him to write the vaguest platform and conduct the most issue-free campaign of any Republican since George H.W. Bush in 1988. Cruz delivered half his convention speech in Spanish and used the other half to rededicate the party to “the compassion of conservatism,” a subtle variant of an old phrase that delighted convention delegates.
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/25/ted_cruz_will_be_president_if_democrats_listen_to_elizabeth_warren_warns_republican/
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I always take political advice from Republicans... 
But to David Frum I say, bullshit! The chances are very high that, no matter whom we run in 2016, we will win. That's what the polls say. That's what the demographics say. That's what the electoral math says, and David Frum is full of shit.
He's hoping that we don't run Elizabeth Warren because he doesn't want to see a real liberal in office, but I am convinced that she can win. In fact, barring something bizarre and unforeseen, it doesn't matter who we run. We're going to win.
Ted Cruz, on the other hand, ...
-Laelth
