Cruz appeals to several factions within GOP on Iowa trip

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Ted Cruz spoke to a Christian home-schooling conference Tuesday in Des Moines, where he told of his role in defending a Ten Commandments display at the Texas Capitol. The Texas senator has been to Iowa four times in the last eight months.

[font color=green]And he has only been to South Texas once since he became a Senator![/font]

MASON CITY, Iowa — By now, Sen. Ted Cruz’s tea party credentials are unassailable. But as he mulls a presidential run, he’s reaching out to other key parts of the Republican base, including Christian conservatives who dominate the Iowa GOP caucuses every four years.

With enduring friction between grass-roots activists and the “establishment” that Cruz so often denounces, a candidate who can appeal across several factions would have an edge. That was a subtext for his latest visit, with a side trip last week to a corner of Iowa where no Texas politician pops up by accident.

After an introduction that mentioned Obamacare protests at the U.S. Capitol, Cruz drew an allusion to a biblical battle.

“I was just waiting for you to say they circled it seven times and then they blew their trumpets,” he quipped. “I look forward to being there next time when the walls of Jericho come to the ground.”

More at http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20140322-cruz-appeals-to-several-factions-within-gop.ece .

Cross-posted in the Politics 2014 forum.

[hobbit709]

1. Those factions are:

1. The nutjobs
2. The even crazier nutjobs
3. the nutjobs that are so far around the bend that they meet themselves coming.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Cruz And Some Alternate-Reality: Every Now And Again I Wonder

Every time I read about Ted Cruz's latest far-right antics, I can't help but wonder if there's some other quantum universe where the Lone Star State's electorate had a (probably temporary) bout of sanity and elected Paul Sadler to be a US senator from Texas.

I suspect that that alternate-universe senator is attending to the business of the people of Texas, not neglecting his constituents for his latest ego trip.

[Sailing]

3. I guess he has...

alienated his fellow senators so much, that now all he can do is travel around the country and barf all over it, instead of working for his constituency.

[justhanginon]

4. Do these SOBs ever work at doing what they are being

so richly rewarded with taxpayers money for. On the other hand perhaps I should be grateful that they spend so little time legislatin'.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. I Thought That Kay Bailey, Ted's predecessor

I thought that Kay Bailey Hutchison, Ted Cruz's conservative predecessor, at least occasionally went through the motions of serving her constituents. Mind you, that didn't stop me from voting for her Democratic opponents, but she OCCASIONALLY did.

I personally think that so many Texans voted for Cruz is that they (wrongly) assumed that Tedito would provide the same levels of constituent service.

They guessed wrong--Kay Bailey's style of Republicanism is as dead as Nelson Rockefeller's.

To put it crudely, that was then, this is now.