[2ndDivisionVet]

What he said.

[thorvaldr]

Kennedy would be conservative compared to the current Democratic party.

[Resettozero]

Ibid.

[onyx]

Yep. He’s right.

Plus, he smarter than alll of the demonic-rats and RINOS put together.

[ConservingFreedom]

"I don’t think I’m all that conservative. And it’s interesting. Reagan never once beat his chest and said, “I’m the most conservative guy who ever lived.” Reagan said, “I’m defending common sense principles—small businesses, small towns.”

Common sense is ever less common.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Is it bad to be “all that” conservative?

[Buckeye McFrog]

They have moved so far left in the past decade that Hillary is now too conservative to be their nominee IMO.

[VanDeKoik]

I like the angle he’s going for here.

Very smart way to disarm them early and turn it back on them.

[ansel12]

In a personal letter to vice president Nixon in 1960, Reagan described JFK this way.

“I do not include Kennedy’s acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the “challenging new world” is one in which the Federal Govt. will grow bigger & do more and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans should try to “out liberal” him. In my opinion this would be fatal.”

“One last thought,— shouldn’t some one tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.”

[VRW Conspirator]

... Democrats are ideologically and geographically at the outer edges of America. They’re literally a fringe party right now.

They always have been. But their infiltration and domination of the schools and media have created a mirage.

[onedoug]

God, Duty, Honor, Country and the oath I took on entering the Army. Adherence to these things defines conservatism as I understand it.

(Damned Yankees notwithstanding.)

[Nateman]

The Fringe map Ted Cruz mentioned. RATS are the color they SHOULD be seen as: Communist Red. Republicans are blue.

[x]

Reagan never once beat his chest and said, “I’m the most conservative guy who ever lived.” Reagan said, “I’m defending common sense principles—small businesses, small towns.”

Excellent point.

[Theophilus]

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law articulated the following succinct criteria for selecting leaders:

1. He must fear God.
2. He must love the truth.
3. He must hate covetousness.

[upchuck]

Ted Cruz isn’t an extremist, no matter how many times Democrat hacks and the John McCain crowd say he is. He’s aligned with regular Americans who are tired of Washington raiding our wallets.

AMEN.

I will vote for Ted Cruz for POTUS in 2016. Take that to the bank.

[right way right]

What he said.
That constitution believing wingnut Ted Cruz kicks ass.