Fritz Pettyjohn "For political veterans, much of what we're starting to hear about Ted Cruz has an eerily familiar ring. Too extreme. Unelectable. Scares people. A radical, not a conservative.
"The American people will hear a lot about Cruz's extremism in the year ahead, just as they were told about Reagan’s. It may cause them to hesitate before supporting him. But over the course of the campaign they'll be able to make that determination for themselves. In fact, Ted Cruz represents the mainstream of conservative thought in this country, just as Reagan did two score years ago. Reagan's victory vindicated everything we'd been saying for twenty years. A Cruz win next year would do so again." . . .
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"There are a lot of parallels between 1980 and today. Economic malaise, war weariness, and a general sense that things are spinning out of control. Carter and Obama have both been weak commanders in chief. Back then we were worried about the Soviet Union. Today it's radical Islam. Then we had Reagan.
"Now we have Cruz."
Fritz Pettyjohn is a former Alaska State Legislator, Alaska Chairman of Reagan for President, 1979-1980, and a Co-founder of the Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force. He blogs daily at ReaganProject.com
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