Cruz: Washington elites won't be effective at picking GOP nominee

CNN ^ | April 7th, 2014 | Jake Tapper, Sherisse Pham

[man_in_tx]

“Love?” So, that’s what it’s called?

Why.... all this time I thought Americans were being scr#wed up the @ss by the failure of our authorities to control our borders.

[xzins]

"We need to be a nation that welcomes and celebrates legal immigrants, people who follow the rules, and come here according to the law," said Cruz in response. "Rule of law matters. And if you look at any sovereign nation, securing your border is critically important," said the freshman lawmaker. "We need to solve the problem to secure the borders and then improve and streamline legal immigration so people can come to America consistent with the rule of law," said Cruz.

Cruz is the obvious nominee for conservatives, if you ask me. He's correct on life, on immigration, on 2d amendment, on religious faith, on the economy, on government health care.

No other candidate is close.

[DaveA37]

“The GOP wants Jeb Bush or Chris Christie but even they are not ignorant enough to think these two can win.”....

Don’t bet on it! Desperate people do desperate/stupid things.

[Salvey]

Cruz does not pander, and is willing to say hard truths and take unpopular principled positions. Is there still any room in our nation for such politicians?

Future elections will no longer turn on issues in our dumbed down USA. With the shift in demographics, it's become a simple numbers game: the gimme gimme crowd will overwhelm any serious, thoughtful candidates. It's not a bad deal. In return for all the government goodies dispensed to them, all they need to do is go vote once or twice a year, intelligent public discourse be damned.

[xzins]

We need to coalesce around one candidate and not permit the divide and conquer strategy again to work against us.

Cruz is the obvious.

Palin is not even hinting that she’s running.

Paul is soft on amnesty, soft on defense.

Sessions isn’t running.

[ConservativeDude]

“We need to solve the problem to secure the borders and then improve and streamline legal immigration so people can come to America consistent with the rule of law,”

bears repetition....

[bert]

Jumping in.....

There is excellent TV on at present. AMC has a series TURN that is set in 1776 involving Colonists living on Long Island.

Some are already Americans and some cling to being colonists and some are pure loyalist, and at least one can’t decide. It is of course fiction but the characters are sharply drawn.

The British are depicted as both cruel and paternal, depending on the individual.

It would seem we now have the same divisions. Most of all the people living in New York and north east have reverted to being loyalists, colonials. The Americans live in the wide spaces of Fly over country

The show is on AMC

[MeshugeMikey]

Somebody Quarantine Jeb... Immediately

[Graewoulf]

My two part, 17 Trillion Dollar question to the “Republican” Democrat Wanna-Bees such as Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Rick Santorum, and ALL of the Republican US House and Senate leadership is as follows:

” 1.) Is it POSSIBLE for the US Republican Party to actually learn from the mistakes of the cowardly, cave-in, doormat status that they have lock-step chosen to follow;

2.) Or, will the US Republican Party continue to refuse to EVOLVE and ADAPT as they have in the past with the failed National Presidential Campaigns of Dole, McCain and Romney?”

Darwin postulated that “Survival of the Fittest” kept the gene pool alive.

Time will tell if the US Republican Party wants to survive, or continue to DIE among the unfit.

aaaaaaaAAAAAARLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo - - - - - - -

[skeeter]

The people you named do not care so much about the party - or country - as they do themselves - and personally they are doing fine.

[Graewoulf]

Surely you are not suggesting that the US Republican Party is terminally infected with the dreaded GENERAL BULL MOOSE SYNDROME ?

Say it ain’t so.

[JimRed]

They are too much concerned with whose turn it is rather than the good of the Republic.

[MeshugeMikey]

If America is willing to put up with what the Demowacks may have in sotre for us POST Obamaville....they will ALLOW another McCainBush candidate to emerge as candidate I hope were stong emough to just say no!

[Sirius Lee]

Surely you are not suggesting that the US Republican Party is terminally infected with the dreaded GENERAL BULL MOOSE SYNDROME ?

My prediction for 2016 is, if by some miracle Americans come to their senses and select Cruz or Walker, or even Paul in the primaries as the candidate, Karl "Squeals like a pig" Rove will back Hillary. And so will Jeb and Christie. They are America hating globalists and they're not about to lose to a bunch of filthy Constitutionalists having come this close to securing the NWO.

[Graewoulf]

What is good for General Bull Moose Doormat Republican is good for the Republican Party.

Americans will not “come to its senses” until there is pain to them personally.

The most likely personal pain will come to Americans when foreign entities stop buying US Treasury Bonds, which will then cause the 40 % of welfare “entitlement” expenditure funding to be reduced to zero.

At that time B. Hussein will be “forced” to Nationalize all US Oil and Gas Pipelines in order to pay for Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Aid to Dependent children; Rent and medical aid to Illegal Alien Invaders from Mexico, jet fuel for his personal Corporate Jet (Air Force One), and other “fair shot” welfare entitlement programs.