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

[cajuncocoa]

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

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.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/u...ck-gop-establishments-wall-of-opposition.html

 

[hells_unicorn]

What wall of opposition?

 

[cajuncocoa]

What wall of opposition?

I think they probably mean the establishment wall of opposition. That's my guess...I wondered about that, too. Strange wording.

 

[hells_unicorn]

I think they probably mean the establishment wall of opposition. That's my guess...I wondered about that, too. Strange wording.

The establishment was opposed to Cruz? I guess they weren't thinking when they sent all of that money to his Super-PACs. Wonders never cease. (I'm being facetious, it's something I tend to do often when the MSM insults my intelligence)

 

[timosman]

The title of the article should be:

Ted Cruz establishment support cracks the wall of silence.

 

[cajuncocoa]

I never bought that he was outside of the establishment, but I know some did....some here did. And that's why I wanted to post this article. For the ones here who voted "No" in that pledge poll that was put up yesterday.

 

[CPUd]

Check out that deep red wall of opposition:

Yep:

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallp.../charts-2016-presidential-donors-millionaires

 

[hells_unicorn]

Check out that deep red wall of opposition:

Yeah, those millionaire establishment donors hate Ted Cruz so much they funded his entire freaking campaign. Man, he's had such a tough, uphill battle. (sarcasm)

 

[cajuncocoa]

How were they so successful in passing him off to the public as anti-establishment?


There are a couple more articles reporting this same story just today:
Ted Cruz Is Breaking Through the Establishment Firewall
Cruz Starts to Crack GOP Establishment's Wall of Opposition

 

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