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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz is the true GOP dark horse: How he’s winning over the fanatical right at exactly the right
Ted Cruz is the true GOP dark horse: How hes winning over the fanatical right at exactly the right timeWhen Donald Trump's campaign collapses, as it almost certainly still will, Cruz is well positioned to fill the void
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While Donald Trump continues to inspire what he calls the silent majority (and everyone else calls the racist rump of the GOP) and the other assumed front-runners Walker, Rubio and Bush flounder and flop around, another candidate is quietly gathering support from a discrete, but powerful, GOP constituency. As Peter Montgomery of Right Wing watch pointed out earlier this week, Ted Cruz is making a huge play for the religious right. And they like what theyre seeing.
Montgomery notes that influential conservative Christian leaders have been getting progressively more anxious about the fact that theyve been asked to pony up for less-than-devout candidates like McCain and somewhat alien religious observers like Mitt Romney when they are the reliable foot-soldiers for the Republican party who deliver votes year in and year out. With this years massive field from which to choose including hardcore true-believers Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum, these religious leaders are looking closely at all the candidates, but are homing in on Cruz.
Montgomery writes:
One big sign came late last month, when news that broke that Farris and Dan Wilks had given $15 million to Keep the Promise, a pro-Cruz super PAC. Not coincidentally, David Lane told NBC News last year that, With Citizens United you can have somebody who gives $15 or $20 million into a super PAC and that changes the game. The billionaire Wilks brothers from Texas have become sugar daddies to right-wing groups generally, and to David Lanes Pastors and Pews events specifically.
A couple weeks later, Cruz stopped by the headquarters of the American Family Association. Lanes American Renewal Project operates under the AFAs umbrella, and Cruz sounded like he was reading Lanes talking points. Cruz told AFA President Tim Wildmon that mobilizing evangelical Christian voters is the key to saving America, saying, Nothing is more important in the next 18 months than that the body of Christ rise up and that Christians stand up, that pastors stand up and lead.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/08/26/ted_cruz_is_the_true_gop_dark_horse_how_hes_winning_over_the_fanatical_right_at_exactly_the_right_time/
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Ted Cruz is the true GOP dark horse: How he’s winning over the fanatical right at exactly the right (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2015
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Johonny
(20,895 posts)1. This is the news I'm hearing too
When Trump is dumped, it is Ted Cruz that is in position to move up.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)2. I've been saying this for months
Cruz is an exceptionally sharp and bright guy.
It's always curious to me how someone who is clearly so intelligent can be so wrong.
Garbage in, garbage out I guess.
ericson00
(2,707 posts)3. I think the "establishment" or at least the Koch wing, not the Bush wing
of the GOP establishment will coalesce behind Cruz when Trump takes Iowa because he's not as controversial but still popular with ultracons, and they can also convince themselves they "won the Hispanic vote" with Cruz.