Ted Cruz Ping! If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 07/30/2015 7:46:25 AM PDT by conservativejoy
EVERYONE has been talking about Donald Trump lately. It seems that almost the entirety of election coverage has either been about the latest thing that Donald Trump said, or the media asking other candidates to react to the latest thing that Donald Trump said.
But here’s the thing: regardless of how loudly or boldly Donald Trump is advocating for certain conservative issues, he would make a horrible president. Just the fact that he is such an egotistical hothead makes him a bad pick, but when you look at what the Democrats, particularly President Obama and those in his administration (oftentimes in collusion with Republican leadership in Congress) have done to Constitutional separation of powers, Donald Trump is probably the LAST person we need in the White House. He likes to throw his weight around, he insists on getting his way…kind of like Barack Obama does when Congress opposes him on certain issues. Trump doesn’t seem like the kind of person who will act within the law to get things done – if he wants something done, he’ll get it done, and if he has the power of the Presidency behind him, well, the law be damned. President Obama set the precedent, and we can’t afford to allow that to continue.
The Republican field is comprised of somewhere around one hundred and twenty-seven candidates. It’s crowded on that stage, but the only real draw for Donald Trump that separates him from the rest of the pack is that he yells loudly and has obnoxious hair. The press is only obsessed with him because they know that, eventually, he’s going to put his foot in his mouth. They watch him and talk about him constantly and ask other candidates for their opinion on his remarks for one and only one reason: they know that the Trump train will wreck, and they want to get it on film when it happens.
And then there’s this: Video at Link
Here’s the thing: Ted Cruz has been consistently fighting for conservatism for years. He hasn’t waffled back and forth, he hasn’t been donating to the Clinton slush fund. He is an eloquent defender of small-government conservatism, unafraid to engage progressives on their own turf – even the progressives in the Republican Party. A lot of people like Trump because he’s loud, but one of the problems with politics in America today is that it’s already too much of a shouting match. There is no need to take the worst aspects of our political system and kick it up a notch, not when we can bring some logic and maturity to fight the Left’s constant campaign against these things.
Simply by engaging with these Code Pink wackos for a few minutes, Ted Cruz laid out a logical, factual, respectful argument, and let the the other side’s illogic speak for itself. Put Donald Trump in that same situation, and all you would get is a shouting match.
Ted Cruz is a man who understands history. He understands the law. He has the ability to engage in a clear-headed debate even with the rabid left-wing wackos of Code Pink.
And, on top of that, he can actually be presidential. This is something that has been missing from the Office of the President under Presidents Obama and Clinton, and it is something that would be sorely lacking should Donald Trump win the presidency.
So to all of the conservatives out there who are jumping on the Trump Train: I get it. It feels great to see someone loudly shouting in support of conservative political positions…but do you know where Donald Trump stands on all of the important issues facing our nation these days? Do you really want a president who will, in all likelihood, continue President Obama’s trend of violating Separation of Powers when he doesn’t get his way…or would you prefer to have a true conservative in office.
I don’t do the ratings. I just know that Cruz is rated 100%.
Ted Cruz Ping! I’m on my fourth Trump book. I greatly admire what he has accomplished. I agree he needs to be leading, but I also think he needs Cruz to set the Policy agenda on a firm Conservative foundation. Together they would be an outstanding force for good.
You're welcome. Things are often not as they seem in Washington D.C. Entirely too much double talk. Cruz is one of the good guys, but he too has a few warts.
I saw that clip. It was great. I know the pundits are sweating and wringing their hands. :)
Donald Trump a bad precedent? As opposed to electing a possibly illegal alien from Indonesia, of dubious character, ill educated who was known to use drugs (and may still be doing so) about whom we really know nothing, not even his real name? Donald Trump loves THIS country and we know everything there is to know about him. I love the idea of a President Cruz too, but I am not sure that our brash loudmouth Donald Trump, with all of his outspokenness and his outsize ego, is not the very one who God has raised up to overcome these evil and very strange times to put us back on the right path. I could be wrong of course, but I suspect that Donald Trump is indeed the right man to blast through the fog and confusion of this peculiar and evil day so that in due time men like Ted Cruz can step in.
That is Alphonso Bedoya not Pedro
I’ve been there, lol. Lets hope one of these liberal gaffes stick to the Donald, the man is wearing teflon right now, nothing is sticking because he’s a good blow hard against the establishment and the Dems.
Humble...I did not mean for post 47 to be this large....sorry....
Polls at this time mean very little.....
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Yeah, and if they showed your guy in the lead, you’d be singing their praises...right?
How does it feel to have the same end game as the Liberal media and the GOPe in your desire to see Trump fail?
Finding any all Trump threads to drop your little stink bombs must be keeping you busy.
Actually, I’ve been in the polling business off and on since the 80s, and written about them for many years....and I’ve always said this.
Rush has quoted my work on polls.......
Get over your Trump fan boi love crush....I’m talking about the ideas that polls are what they are, which is almost irrelevant at this stage of a Presidential debate. You’ve bitten off WAAAAAY more than you can chew with me on this particular topic.
You’ve bitten off WAAAAAY more than you can chew with me on this particular topic.
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Not even close Eddy. Don’t you have a book or article of yours to pimp somewhere?
I agree. I am strongly hoping for a Trump/Cruz ticket.
It happens.
ditto.... Cruz MUST get the nomination as far as I’m concerned. My money is going to his campaign.
Trump is too morally liberal....
Well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it is probably sound strategy to skip Florida, it being winner take all with 2 candidates being from that state. It is pretty hilarious that Trump hasn’t been to the state and is leading outside the margin of error.
There are a lot of northeastern retirees down in South Florida and Trump will do exceptionally well there.
“I love Cruz, but if he cannot get above 4-6 percent soon, I don’t think he will be the nominee.”
Do you trust the poll results?
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