I consider that to be one of his best qualities. I wouldn't give a plugged fracking nickel for EITHER of my two RINO Senators.
They talk the best conservative game every 6 years and they come home and lie their ass off and then go back to DC and feather their beds some more and do exactly opposite of what they promised to get there.
I still support Cruz.
Reasons 1 - 5 are why I like Cruz.
I think you were a huge disaster when you were in power and that you have absolutely no room to talk.
When Robert Reichhhhhh calls someone an ideologue, I can be pretty certain I’ve found a principled Constitutionalist.
Wow, a pretty astute observation from a left wing nut. Shocked,
I think you will find few on Free Republic, that do not agree that Cruz would be the biggest disaster for liberals, socialists, fascists, and statists in US history.
IF he can herd, drive, or intimidate McConnell and Ryan...or more likely, Schumer and Ryan to approve, fund or defund, do or undo, what Cruz wants.
I support Cruz for his positions. Cruz is a Cubo-Canuck Jefferson.
I would support Trump for what he could do if elected. He is a bonebreaker.
We should hit the beach with the first man to hit the beach....but the beach needs hit.
If Cruz needs to Cromwell DC, then we should shave our heads.
If Trump needs his coat held while he schlonges McConnel/Ryan....then let us hold his coat.
Either man will be the best President since Reagan, and then Ike before that, and Coolidge before that.
But that’s just my opinion and I don’t feel strongly about it. :-)
Ted Cruz sounds like a constitutional conservative BUT he got a loan from banks that got a bailout, and the fact that there are no banks left that are not tied to global corporate banks because of the bailout well that just a phony excuse he is a very bad man, a nasty man, a maniac, a liar, a deceiver and not nice that’s all he is not nice, he was nice two weeks ago but he is not nice now since we just learned now, it just came out, he tried to bury it deep in plain site, he got a loan from a bailout bank, hey it was a big loan too, yeah he was a nice guy until he went up in the Polls he probably bought those Polls with all that money he borrowed from the bailed out banks, he wouldn’t use his own money he is a bad man.
Enough people of his state elected him based on their desire for him to represent them in Washington on federal matters effecting their way of life.
Now when it comes to making ignorant arguments dismissive to other's views I'm not so sure the "everyone hates Cruz" bunch is saying more about themselves thru these editorials than about Ted Cruz the elected representative senator?
Cruz gets the Reich endorsement, woohoo!
I never heard Cruz advocate a state religion. Has Robert Reich?
Best evidence there is Trump's scorched earth approach to burying his opponents early in the primary like a Panzer Tank.
He could have lost Iowa barely to Cruz, and then ran the tables elsewhere, and kept Cruz as an ally. That scenario is now dead in the water., and 10,000,000 conservatives won't forget.it.
He'll regret it later.
I think 1. That my opinion of Robert Reich isn’t speakable in polite company. 2. that the democrats would definitely rather face Cruz over Trump. Cruz would give them a landslide.
Now that is an endorsement!
At least the liberals realize who the real conservative is.
Robert Reich definition of “fanatical”:
1. Believes satellite data over “adjusted figures” on “climate change”
2. Holds the same position on marriage as Obama did until 2012.
3. Sides with the large majority of ordinary Americans that the IRS is corrupt, out of control and should be abolished.
4. Agrees with 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices on the individual right to own guns, in fact, he made the argument right to their faces, and they bought it.
5. Believes that the Constitution does not allow the government to encroach upon freedom to practice one’s religion.
6. Stands for U.S. interests in foreign policy.
7. Is against immigration amnesty
8. Sides with the majority on Obamacare
9. Takes the same opinion of the meaning of the Constitution as the men who wrote it.
Robert Reich’s definition of “fanatical”.
I’m 5’5”, so I can say this: Reich, you little s&*t, shut up and play with your toys.
Yeah, Cruz would be my first choice since he stopped the games with amnesty and has come out fully against it.
But Trump is better than I could have hoped for at the start of the campaign, so I’ll be happy if that’s who we get.
“Trump is no slouch but he has not given any indication of a sharp mind. Cruz is razEr-sharp”
1. Trump hasn’t given indication of a sharp mind? OMG! How could anyone look at his successes and think he’s a dolt?
2. “RazEr sharp”? Maybe Reich means “razOr sharp”? If he does mean “razEr”, that’s true. A razEr is “an ass-kicking machine. Literally. A razEr is a lean mean killing machine.” I like it! Thank you Robert Reissssshhh!
Robert Reich: “Cruz is a fierce ideologue: He denies the existence of man-made climate change, rejects same-sex marriage, wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, believes the 2nd amendment guarantees everyone a right to guns, doesn’t believe in a constitutional divide between church and state, favors the death penalty, opposes international agreements, embraces a confrontational foreign policy, rejects immigration reform, demands the repeal of ‘every blessed word of Obamacare,’ and takes a strict ‘originalist’ view of the meaning of the Constitution.”
Sounds good. I’m onboard.
Who cares what the malignant dwarf has to say about anything?