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THOMAS TASCHINGER: Ted Cruz is wrong; far-right candidate will
doom GOP  Thomas Taschinge, Beaumont Enterprise Updated 1:35 pm,
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Freshman Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and some other Republicans think
they know why the GOP didn't win the last two presidential
elections: They weren't conservative enough.  "If you look at
the last 40 years, a constant pattern emerges," Cruz told ABC.
"Anytime Republicans nominate a candidate for president who runs
as a strong conservative, we win. And when we nominate a
moderate who doesn't run as a conservative, we lose."  It's not
a new thought, but it's dead wrong on several different levels.
First of all you have to pretty far in right field to think John
McCain and Mitt Romney aren't conservatives. They are, by any
rational definition of the term.  Granted, they aren't the most
hardline conservatives eve