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I'm one registered Republican that misses James Carville, the Ragin' Cajun. I remember his Clinton years, CNN's Crossfire and the 2000 election when he was in the media a lot. I don't agree with a lot of what he has to say, but he made his point and was entertaining to watch.
So how does he feel about Senator Ted Cruz? Well, Carville's a Democrat, so he must revile him, right? Maybe he shares Bill Richardson's opinion. Richardson, another Clintonite, said he wouldn't define Cruz as Hispanic. No, really ...
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Actually, Carville said this about Cruz on ABC's This Week Sunday with George Stephanopoulos:
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I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years. I further think that he’s going to run for president and he is going to create something. I’m not sitting here saying he’s going to win, and I think Senator DeMint is right. I’ve listened to excerpts of his speech in South Carolina. He touches every button, and this guy has no fear. He just keeps plowing ahead. And he is going to be something to watch.
And a lot of Republicans feel this way, George, and you hear this a lot: "If we only got someone who was articulate and was for what we were for, we would win elections. And we get these John McCains and these Mitt Romneys and these squishy guys that can’t do anything." Well, there’s one thing this guy is not - he ain’t squishy, not in the least.
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Carville's thoughts on Ted Cruz running for President and possibly facing Marco Rubio and Paul Rand:
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Ted Cruz is going to eat their lunch. That guy, I’m telling you, he will out debate. I am just saying, he is a talent. I’m not rooting. I’m really sincere here. We watch him, he does things, I mean when he started talking about William Travis in South Carolina and the Alamo, this is a guy, and you go, "This guy is something." Now I don’t agree with him. I think he’s out there. But I’m telling you, he’s more talented than all of these other guys.
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Now it wasn't all praise for Cruz, because if you follow Carville, he'll throw a word or sentence in his comments which the Democrats will then use as their attack. In this case, the phrase is "I think he's out there." So if Cruz does run in 2016, the attack against him will be that he's 'out there' on every policy that matters to voters.
What do you think, PO?
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