TAC doesn’t like Cruz much, either…

Cruz’s new grandstanding as a presidential candidate will mostly work to weaken other conservatives that have a much better chance at the nomination than he does, and his campaign makes it more likely that a relative moderate will come away with the win.

via Ted Cruz’s Latest Stunt: A Presidential Campaign | The American Conservative.

A great quote, but I’m wondering who TAC might term a “relative moderate?” Romney? Huntsman?

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Author: David Wolf

An adviser to corporations and organizations on strategy, communications, and public affairs, David Wolf has been working and living in Beijing since 1995, and now divides his time between China and California. He also serves as a policy and industry analyst focused on innovative and creative industries, a futurist, and an amateur historian.

2 thoughts on “TAC doesn’t like Cruz much, either…”

  1. Risky strategy. Mobilizing the loonies to mobilize the moderates in response still leaves the loonies mobilized…

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  2. True. I think the TAC’s wider point is that Cruz will join a fairly crowded field on the far right, and that an opportunistic moderate who can mobilize the base could win against a divided right. I don’t buy it: the only way to make that work is to be in a strong position going into the RNC AND have two guys splitting the right. Doesn’t usually happen that way, but when it does, good things can happen.

    Still, hope is not a method, so I remain skeptical.

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