Posted on 03/11/2014 7:11:13 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Yes, I’m aware of Rand’s bio, and I think it’s great. There far too many lawyers in Congress. Senators have not generally made Presidents, much less good ones. I don’t think Rand can be the nominee because of his gay marriage comment (which I thought was hilarious), the Southern Avenger (which I don’t hold against either of them), and his desire to reign in the Fed. That last one means that he probably is barred from winning. It would be awesome for somebody else to win, then sick Rand on the Fed. Somebody needs to turn over a few tables there.
I like Cruz a lot. He is probably the most eloquent presenter of conservatism not named Rush Limbaugh. He would slaughter any possible Demo opponent in a debate. He is still something of a political newcomer on the national scene, has no executive experience, and has possible eligibility issues that the press will harp on non-stop.
Our best bet will be from the crop of governors, not including Bruce Springsteen’s BFF.
Under the fearless leadership of President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney as well as our brave military, Iraq was vanquished in short order. And indeed "we fought them over there so we don't have to fight them here" was a winning strategy. Regardless of some of the shortcomings of the Bush/Cheney team, America was kept safe under their watch.
The fiasco of Iraq started under the obama regime and it goes without saying that the terrorism held in check by President Bush and his administration flourished once hussein bama and his corrupt pro-muzzie cronies took office.
Cat-fight, ‘Meow’
What do you have against Cruz?
RE :”What do you have against Cruz?”
Meow,,,,
The attack on Iraq would be justified if we had surplus money in the treasury. We are a bankrupt outfit by any generally accepted standard of accounting. To borrow money from China which we can not pay back and leave it on the heads of our younger generations is immoral, stupid and moronic. Trying to convert Muslim nations to democracy is a fool’s paradise.
Typically neocon article. Now their strategy, apparently, is to try to split the Tea Party. Cruz and Paul aren’t that far apart on foreign policy. They’re both advocates of a national-interest based foreign policy. There are some degrees of difference on where you draw the line over involvement, but not much difference even on that.
You think he’s a cat?
I see you denigrate Cruz on many threads, there must be more to it than that.
Our GIs will be thrilled to know that you want them to fight our battles inside the cities of countries that we aren’t war with, without near support, and in small teams of 10 and 20 men.
They’ll really respect you for thinking of their survival.
But obama ruthlessly and illegally seized power and then did a cut and run operation undoing the longterm Iraq strategy.
Oh you do do you?
Meow, catfight.
I got butter on my popcorn.
The GOP-e and many libertarians share this belief and that's why's so many are falling out of favor with the conservative-right base, IMO.
Our GI team of just a dozen men did just great in killing the head serpent hiding in Abotabad, Pakistan. Very quick,
deadly effective and very cost effective.
All it took was 10 years of searching killing and hunting and defeating nations and establishing bases and staging areas and keeping Pakistan scared.
It was just like the movies, put on some face paint and dozen man teams can carry all the international weight of our military needs, and travel the world taking out Saddam Husseins and dictators and their command staffs, and their naval forces, and nuclear assets, and armies.
War is over, we have commando teams, we should have sent in a team to keep Iran from going nuke, maybe we can use them to prevent Chinese military expansion.
Well we all knew Rand and Ted would have to square off at some point.. They both want to be President and there is only one vacancy.
China is killing us economically. We import much more than export to them. Then we borrow more from them to protect oil supplies to them through the straits of Hormuz. They are our new masters because of money, not weapons. But financially not very astute people will not understand this.
Well, they can form the ticket together.
Ron Paul is especially untrustworthy on Israel and I've yet to hear anything from Rand that makes me feel he doesn't fall from the same tree.
The audience seemed very interested in legalizing drugs, which the Paul’s favor or rather having no war on drugs or even treating drugs as alcohol, which definitely pleased the CPAC attendees.
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