Ted Cruz Starts to Crack G.O.P. Establishment’s Wall of Opposition

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/us/politics/ted-cruz-starts-to-crack-gop-establishments-wall-of-opposition.html?_r=0

Ted Cruz Starts to Crack G.O.P. Establishment’s Wall of Opposition

By JONATHAN MARTINJAN. 13, 2016

NEW ORLEANS — Striding up the sidewalk of one of this city’s most affluent neighborhoods on Monday evening, S. Scott Sewell seemed an unlikely figure to be attending a fund-raiser for Senator Ted Cruz. An oil industry executive, Mr. Sewell served in President George Bush’s administration, lent a hand to George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential recount, and was twice a chairman for Mitt Romney’s Louisiana campaigns.

But if such a creature of the Republican establishment appeared an odd fit to support a candidate whose political identity was shaped challenging his party’s leadership, the candlelit, art-filled setting for Mr. Cruz’s reception was even more surprising: the elegant home of the longtime Bush loyalist Mary Matalin and her husband, James Carville, the Democratic strategist.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/06/politics/ted-cruz-immigration-2016-election/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

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McConnel and Ryan are bailing on Jeb Bush in favor of Ted Cruz.

They know their jobs are going to be in serious danger if Donald Trump is elected president.

Dominoes will fall either way.

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McConnel and Ryan are bailing on Jeb Bush in favor of Ted Cruz.

They know their jobs are going to be in serious danger if Donald Trump is elected president.

Dominoes will fall either way.

I think both RYAN and  the old fart McConnell are going to lose no matter if it is TRUMP or CRUZ. McConnell hates CRUZ and has said so. CRUZ will get rid of him faster anyone.  If CRUZ does not then he cut a deal with the RINOGOPe and all will see soon enough if that happened. TRUMP will do the same to both unless they cooperate with him BUT they cannot do that and stay in good standing with the RINOGOPe. That is why they HATE Cruz but FEAR TRUMP. Either way the PARTY of ONE is over with TRUMP and possibly with CRUZ unless they co opt CRUZ which I doubt, maybe?

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I think both RYAN and  the old fart McConnell are going to lose no matter if it is TRUMP or CRUZ. McConnell hates CRUZ and has said so. CRUZ will get rid of him faster anyone.  If CRUZ does not then he cut a deal with the RINOGOPe and all will see soon enough if that happened. TRUMP will do the same to both unless they cooperate with him BUT they cannot do that and stay in good standing with the RINOGOPe. That is why they HATE Cruz but FEAR TRUMP. Either way the PARTY of ONE is over with TRUMP and possibly with CRUZ unless they co opt CRUZ which I doubt, maybe?

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This explains the difference in the reactionary resistance to both Trump AND Cruz on the part of the progressives (which now dominate the GOP).

They hate Cruz because he is a Constitutionalist, and fear Trump because they CANNOT OWN HIM.

Its a win-win.