Posted on 03/22/2016 4:17:40 PM PDT by iowamark
1. Cruz is more fanatical. Sure, Trump is a bully and bigot, but he doesn’t hew to any sharp ideological line. 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. He doesn’t believe in a constitutional divide between church and state, favors the death penalty, rejects immigration reform, demands the repeal of Obamacare, and takes a strict “originalist” view of the meaning of the Constitution.
2. Cruz is a true believer. Trump has no firm principles except making money, getting attention, and gaining power. But Cruz has spent much of his life embracing radical right economic and political views.
3. Cruz is more disciplined and strategic. Trump is all over the place, often winging it, saying whatever pops into his mind. Cruz hews to a clear script and a carefully crafted strategy. He plays the long game (as he’s shown in Iowa).
4. Cruz is a loner who’s willing to destroy government institutions to get his way. Trump has spent his career using the federal government and making friends with big shots. Not Cruz. He has repeatedly led Republicans toward fiscal cliffs. In the Fall of 2013, his opposition to Obamacare led in a significant way to the shutdown of the federal government.
Both men would be disasters for America, but Ted Cruz would be the larger disaster.
Robert Reich inadvertently nmakes the conservative case for Ted Cruz and against Trump.
They are both taller...than the Dwarf from Berkeley.
believes the 2nd amendment guarantees everyone a right to guns.
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So did the Framers of the Constitution
All four points sound very good to me!
Republican Nominee 2016!
I had to look down to read this.
He’s using the old reverse psychology trick. He WANTS Hillary to run against Cruz. He’s so obvious, like a neon flashing sign.
Hell, I have a lawn jockey taller than Robert Reich. And more useful.
Reich is known for his tall tales.
Reich, if that were true, HOW COME YOU AND YOUR FELLOW DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING SO HARD TO DEFEAT TRUMP??? This is disinformation.
This will make as much difference now as it did when it was posted 10,000 times a month ago. No one cares what idiot libs think. This guy also called Trump a fascist.
I'll need a minute to wipe the iced tea from my keyboard.
The fact that there isn’t one and Ted knows that?
They are both taller...than the Dwarf from Berkeley.
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Yep Cruz has got him by 9 inches.
Your post tends to suggest that it really was the progressives, including Dems in open primaries, who put Trump so far ahead by this point.
So why did Cruz refuse to represent Texas in “Lawrence vs. Texas”?
He left it in the hands of the county DA, who lost in front of SCOTUS. This led to all sodomy laws being vacated and made gay marriage inevitable.
What justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples exercising “[t]he liberty protected by the Constitution,” - Justice Scalia in dissent
Ted had the opportunity as the Texas Solicitor General to prevent gay marriage and declined to even try.
FEBRUARY article about the musings of a demented, depraved Democrat dwarf?
OLD news and a clear sign that the Cruz supporters will grasp for anything to make their case.
I’ve always said that Democrat leaders are MUCH SMARTER than Republican leaders, and, I guess, many Republican voters.
In this case IT IS OBVIOUS to anyone (that is able to reason) that the ONLY THING Cruz can do is force a brokered convention, where neither Trump, NOR CRUZ will even be permitted to attend - much less get the nomination.
On the bright side, at least most people here now realize this reality - about the only Cruz supporters left are operatives of the people who stand to gain with Cruz/Trump (finally) out of the way (i.e., Jeb, Romney, Linda, etc.).
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