Posted on 01/20/2016 8:18:35 PM PST by EternalHope
Good job.
You've repeated that line three times in this thread, while adding nothing of any value whatsoever. No offense, guy, but you're kind of an a**hole.
And none of your insults makes Trump any less of a showman.
You totally get it!
The big three is the key to a better America.
Trump has the balls to do and say what too many have cowered in fear over.
Because he may not be the most politically pure, he will get more people to commit to the big three.
I will gladly trade off something like ethanol to:
BUILD THE WALL
STOP ISLAMOFASCISTS
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Well said. I would just add that Trump is empowering the working middle class to take back the country and defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
His message is nationalistic.
The enemies in both parties are the opposite. Obama/Hillary/Bernie are trying as hard as they can to destroy not only America but Western/Judaeo-Christian/Capitalist Civilization.
America is the last hope for freedom and liberty, as Europe is surrendering to globalism/socialism as fast as possible.
Trump has awakened a very powerful force of American nationalism. I am getting old-ish (62) but anticipate being part of that force . . . whether Trump wins or loses . . . for the rest of my days.
I wonder, if Trump is a “progressive Democrat”, what are Jeb, Christy, Kasich and many of the rest, Marxists??? LOL
I just realized, Cruz and Trump are the only two Republicans running that have vigorously pledged to protect our Second Amendment Rights. I could be mistaken, but I don’t remember any of the others bringing it up.
All I can say is, Best Election Season EVER.
I agree with your statement. I support Trump first and I will gladly vote for Cruz if he is the nominee. After that I do not know.
Sarcasm is best when people think you are serious.
Im usually a little better at picking it out...I apologize
Cruz is a Canadian.....
? This makes you look silly ...What was a Canadian doing arguing cases before the Supreme Court?
Most Cruzers say they won’t vote if their guy doesn’t win.
His idea of running it better means exactly what you want.Cutting the dead weight.Its why the establishment hates him so much.They are scared of him whereas the rest not so much.
There’s no law against Canadians arguing cases before the Supreme Court.
I too like a lot of what Trump says. He has good positions on immigration and keeping the country safe, no doubt. But I’m sticking with Cruz. Is he perfect? By no means. Reagan himself wasn’t perfect but I think Ted would do a lot of good for the country. I guess you could make the same argument for Trump.
For me the difference is that Ted has a record. One that isn’t perfect as I’ve said, but one grounded in conservative values. At times he’s strayed from those values and god knows those mistakes have been well publicized.
But there is no similar record for Trump. We have his words, recent and old, and those have been documented here. We have his actions, by way of contributions and business practices, and those too have been documented as well. Trump claims he’s changed his mind on several of those views and disavowed them completely. I sincerely hope that’s true.
But of us fear that isn’t the case. Many of us fear that he will say or do whatever it takes for votes. Many of us fear that he lacks a conservative core.
No one hopes more than Ted Cruz supporters that those fears prove unfounded. No one hopes more than we do that if Trump wins the nomination and perhaps the general that he will be everything his freeper defenders claim he is.
Maybe, but that’s not what I hear from him. I don’t hear him talking repeatedly about slashing spending. I hear the Wall, making better trade deals, and making America great. Slashing spending? Not so much.
That’s the way I read him.We all don’t have to think the same way/ Time will tell.
Here is Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz’s bio. Not exactly the bastion of conservatism that the pundits would have us believe.
Clerkships
Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995[45][47] and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996.[3] Cruz was the first Hispanic to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.[48]
Private practice
After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998.[49] While with the firm, Cruz worked on matters relating to the National Rifle Association, and helped prepare testimony for the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.[50] Cruz also served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner’s lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.[51]
Bush administration
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.[49]
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devising strategy, and drafting pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, in the case Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two wins for the Bush team.[45][52] Cruz recruited future Chief Justice John Roberts and noted attorney Mike Carvin to the Bush legal team.[50]
After President Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department[3][52] and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.[3][41][52]
Texas Solicitor General
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,[47][53] Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008.[29][45] The office had been established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a “leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction.” As Solicitor General, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four.[50]
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.[41][47][54] Cruz’s record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.[55] Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: “We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights.”[55]
In 2003, while Cruz was Texas Solicitor General, the Texas Attorney General’s office declined to defend Texas’ sodomy law in Lawrence v. Texas, where the U.S. Supreme Court decided that state laws banning homosexual sex as illegal sodomy were unconstitutional.[56]
In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.[54][57] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[54][58]
In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5–4 in Van Orden v. Perry.[41][45][54]
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow,[41][45] in which he wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that the plaintiff did not have standing to file suit on behalf of his daughter.[59] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5–4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.[45][60]
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt to re-open the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row.[41][45][47][54] With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate.[50][61] They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention.[62] Texas won the case in a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.[50][61]
Cruz has been named by American Lawyer magazine as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America,[53][63] by The National Law Journal as one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,[64][65] and by Texas Lawyer as one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.[66][67]
Private practice
After leaving the Solicitor General position in 2008, Cruz worked in a private law firm in Houston, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, often representing corporate clients, until he was sworn in as U.S. Senator from Texas in 2013.[22][45][68] At Morgan Lewis, he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.[68] In 2009 and 2010, he formed and then abandoned a bid for state attorney general when the incumbent Attorney General Greg Abbott, who hired Cruz as Solicitor General, decided to run for re-election.[19]
While at Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius, Cruz represented Pfizer in a lawsuit brought by a group of public hospitals and community health centers who accused the drug manufacturer of overcharging. The Supreme Court eventually threw the case out.[69] He represented Chinese company Shandong Linglong Rubber Company in an appeal after the company was found guilty and ordered to pay $26 million to a Florida businessman for marketing versions of tires that were based on blueprints stolen by a former employee of the Florida businessman. The appeals court denied the appeal and affirmed the jury’s award.[70] Cruz represented drug manufacturer B. Braun Medical Inc. in an appeal after the company was found guilty of wrongfully discharging a former employee for refusing to participate in selling practices that were often considered illegal. The appeals court rejected Cruz’s argument and affirmed the $880,000 award.[71] Cruz represented Toyota in an appeal to stop a judge from investigating the company after a former Toyota in-house lawyer accused Toyota of unlawfully withholding documents in a product liability case involving a teenage quadriplegic.[72] Cruz unsuccessfully argued that Toyota could not be investigated because the judge’s jurisdiction expired thirty days after the case was dismissed following an out-of-court settlement.[73]
>> I think Cruz is much more likely to cut the budget.>>
You may be right, and that is the traditional conservative core idea.
But Trump is more likely to ignite a political tidal wave that will drastically change the tax code, for example, bringing back corporations especially manufacturers.
That is just one example.
Honestly, I don’t think immediately cutting the budget is the most important thing. We need to strengthen the military, because Islam, Russia, Iran and especially China are coming on strong. We also need to BUILD the wall . . . along with other infrastructure . . . and we need a significant federal effort to remove illegals.
No wall can be successful alone, without an aggressive deportation program.
We need to take back the country, and then can look at cutting or at least freezing welfare-type costs and regaining control of the currency spigot from FED/globalists.
But FIRST: TAKE THE COUNTRY BACK.
Ted has a record alright, a record of defending crony capitalists who do not think they should have to pay the little guy they cheated.
Ted was also a domestic policy adviser for the George W. Bush campaign on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform and he was rewarded by President Bush, serving as an associate deputy attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department and as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission before he was further awarded a cushy government position back in Texas that would set Cruz up for his future bid for the US Senate and eventual bid for the presidency.
Ted Cruz is 45 yrs old and he has spent less than 5 yrs in the private sector, and none of his years after college did he ever run a business and yet we are to believe he is qualified to run our nation? Give me a break, I wasn’t born yesterday & Cruz is NOT qualified to be president, regardless of his ‘natural born’ Canadian citizenship problem. His real problem is that he has NO experience. Ummm, seems to me that Cruz has more in common with Obama when it comes to actually looking at Cruz’s REAL record.
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