Posted on 04/22/2016 3:43:54 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration
To win, he’s asking the mainstream Republican Party to rally to his cause. “Join me now on this journey of less talk and more actions, and real solutions,” Cruz said in Pennsylvania, where he’s almost certain to got smashed again next week.
Indeed. I have not heard Cruz talk about issues. He is obsessed with bashing Trump and stealing delegates where the people do not actually vote on them. I saw a CNN "behind the scenes" look at the filming of a Cruz commercial, and all I saw there was a man crafting an image of himself as a strict evangelical Christian, whose mother prays for him for hours every day. It looked to me more like image manipulation by a man who believes none of what he says, but has picked out a few characteristics that he deems are "true conservative" and is hyping them to emotionally driven people who are, frankly, not all that bright.
Once you get beyond the image crafting, who or what is Cruz? If you want less talk and more action, you already have that candidate in Trump, who has been a man of action for decades. Versus Cruz, who has argued a handful of court cases and shut down the government to make political theater when real people's jobs were being impacted?
Well, I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that Cruz making such a statement is the ultimate in irony.
This is the same person who said it was okay for a transgender to compete in his beauty pageant.
I know exactly that this is a conservative forum, and no one is defending the transgender perversion.
It is an issue of priorities
Neither Trump nor Cruz is running for minister, they are running to be President of the United States.
I expect a retaking of both houses of Congress by the Democrats and a Democrat President after November with the attendant appointment of another Communist USSC Justice and the rapid elimination of the Constitution from all influence in the Nation.
Once the collectivization is complete I expect either a rapid societal and national collapse and total loss of position in the world or a frantic rebuilding of the military for a round of classic imperial expansion that will last only until the great resources of the nation are expended. The collectivist and regimented society we will be will not produce sufficient new assets to maintain the military for long and, barring the draining of Europe the Empire will not last out the century.
The Soviet Empire existed and grew based on the tremendous assets seized at the end of WWII from the previously highly productive Eastern European economies and from Germany. When those ran out so did the life blood of the Empire. Reagan hastened the end by forcing the Soviets to waste their remaining resources and probably prevented a final spasm of violent confrontation.
A Reagan only happens once in a century or even a millennium and we had double or triple of our allotment in the 80s with Reagan, Thatcher, and maybe JPII. We will get another only if God thinks there is anything of value left in America.
I am sure Reagan had many homosexual friends from his Hollywood days.
The political reality is that it’s a violation of security and privacy. That also makes it wrong.
Cruz has said repeatedly that he is for states’ rights, especially as regards gay marriage. 19 states allow transgendered people to pick their bathroom. Does Cruz support those states’ rights or only states’ rights he personally agrees with? IOW, does the consistent conservative have a consistent ethos or not?
I have to believe that if he supports gay marriage states rights, he must support transgendered bathroom states rights. Yet, he is using this as a club to pound Trump with.
If we had an actual press in this country, somebody would ask Cruz this question. But they won’t, ‘cause right now he is sticking it to the guy they hate even worse. If Cruz makes it to the general, expect them to use his own positions against him, over and over again.
I don’t hate Cruz, but I hate that the press is letting him get away with these issues while nailing Trump to the wall for every syllable he utters.
Last night Trump partially walked back his earlier statement and said it’s a states rights issue. Cruz has also said that on these social issues, specifically gay marriage, he supports states’ rights. 19 states have laws allowing trangendered people to choose their bathroom.
Your position is to focus on rearranging the deck chairs on the sinking Titanic. Saving the country comes first.
Actually, look at this as a chess game. Trump is about fixing the damage Cultural Marxism has done to our country. Look at his list of conservative Judges he said he would nominate, look at his promise to protect Christians religious freedom look at his promise to make education local, look at his dislike of media.
Those are the real world foundations where the Cultural Marxists have worked their moral destruction into our culture over decades. This potty police issue is nothing more than deack chairs on the Titanic and it will not be fixed by the Globalists.
If Trump is able to do as hes promised we can begin healing our sick culture.
Cruz does this all the time - his analysis bearing no resemblance to truth. He’s a kamikaze.sad for him no one even cares what he says, unless he’s talking Trump.
Yep - and his supporters hailed his “great speech’ to a few folks as he got trounced in NY - words is words is words and he’s got lots of good sounding words.
Exactly.
I’m amused by how some people are making such a big issue out of this. I suspect for a long time, passable cross dressers have been using women’s bathrooms. Those cross dressers who haven’t quite mastered the craft and still look like men generally don’t come out in public. In short, there is no need for new laws.
William Jennings Bryan in his famous “Cross of Gold” speech said:
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold”
Now, what do we have?
“We shall not pollute our public bathrooms with cross dressers.”
This is the kind of wedge social issue that is substantively meaningless, but is used to tar conservatives stupid enough to make a big deal of it as intolerant.
Don’t play the game.
Such a concept as "transgendered""woman" may well have been beyond the imagination much less the comprehension of St. Paul, but was well within the imagination and knowledge of Him Who used St. Paul as His scribe.
Pastor, it is indeed true that a candidate may be wrong in some places but right in others. Nonetheless, each of us is responsible for weighing the pertinent factors before casting a morally informed vote.
Note also the recent deviation as to Trump wanting to change the GOP platform to accommodate abortion based on what is euphemistically called "the health of the mother." This phrase has a verrrrry disreputable history in abortion law. BEFORE Roe vs. Wade or anything like it was handed down, in my home state of Connecticut which had a somewhat dominant and still religiously conservative Catholic majority, those lusting to allow the murder of babies used this phrase relentlessly.
It became a loophole through which the disciples of Margaret Sanger could bring about tractor trailer loads of dead babies, each and every killing "legal under the loophole. The language was promoted by the "World Health Organization," a gang of the usual UN suspects, which invented a new "doctors' oath" to replace the traditional Hippocratic Oath by which physicians had sworn not to perform, counsel or facilitate abortions or become sexually involved with patients. The WHO "oath" is modernly silent on such matters. No sense letting morality get in the way of amoral utilitarianism. It turns doctors into mere technicians rather than professionals and healers.
By about 65 years ago, by the adoption of the World Health Organization "doctors' oath, the doctors of allegedly Judaeo-Christian Western Civilization eagerly dove below the moral standards of an admittedly moral ancient pagan Hippocrates.
Charitably speaking, perhaps Trump is merely ignorant. He has obviously not a passing acquaintance with either the pro-life movement or other aspects of social conservatism. He does not know the words. He does not know the music. He does not hold the principles. He does not even care to spend a little time to learn how to competently address these issues to social conservatives. Will he improve if or when he is sworn in as POTUS or can we look forward to a series of "whoopsies" not only on policy but as appointments to the SCOTUS and other federal courts in the mold of John Paul Stevens, David Souter, William Brennan, Herod Blackmun, "Republican appointments one and all?
You and I are in disagreement on this POTUS nomination but my respect for you will ever be undiminished.
May God continue to bless you and yours!
And two days after Trump gets there, Cruz will come mindlessly limping along after. And then claim he was the first to change his mind....
I know that Trump said basically that he was talking about states’ rights, and that’s what the North Carolina trouble was all about. His original comments were a gobbledy gook of words that might well have meant that, so that he was talking about states’ rights might actually be the case.
Since Cruz also comes down on states’ rights on this and other sexuality issues, it is again a bit of a wash in terms of those two candidates.
For me, though, those are inadequate answers. I don’t think my state government has any more authority to shove that down my throat than does my federal government.
I am NOT a states’ rights conservative. I am not a federal power conservative. I am an advocate of ‘first branch conservatism’.
The first branch of government is “We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union.’
The first branch is the people. The second the states. Then there’s congress, executive, and judicial.
The huge tryranny of our age has been when the 5th branch of government over-ruled the iniative/issue votes of the people of the various states.
The doctrine of federal supremacy is tyranny.
Back to transgender bathrooms. They are wrong for America because they are an invasion of privacy and a gross violation of security. Any support for such a thing is wrong because of dire consequences.
Also, they are a violation of nature and of nature’s God. Acts 15 extends all the sexual immorality issues of the Old Testament into the New TEstament era. Not only does that include transsexualism, but it is specifically called an abomination in the eyes of God.
No real Christian can support this and continue to have God’s blessing in his or her life.
see #36. My position has nothing to do with ships at all.
Spot on analysis of the douchebag Lying Ted’s campaign from someone honest in Texas.
I think Trump is the only one actually able to make the necessary changes but I also don’t think he would once he is in a position to do so. When you need a Napoleon and install a righteous Napoleon he will probably turn out to be the standard Napoleon.
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