Posted on 09/16/2015 7:10:46 AM PDT by VinL
What we're seeing here is just part of a very coordinated campaign to take out Trump. "Hey conservatives! Look over here!"
Politico is in no way a conservative source.
Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review.
I disagree. "They" no longer believe "dry and wonkish" can deliver.
Sure, there are plenty of voters who don't have the sense to pour piss out of a boot, but their existence is used as little more than a cliche to avoid the great mass of intelligent, insightful, concerned people who lack the "insider view" to make critical evaluation of the esoterica of government.
My friend, imo, the correct reply to the unthinking Cruz trolls is:
As to fast track, Cruz was always for it, and though ultimately he did cast a no vote, he did so only because he knew it would pass.
The effect of his vote is that now if he -or Trump- is elected President, that person will now have a steam line mechanism to pass their trade bills through Congress.
He was never going to vote for TPP or any Democrat trade bill-— why would he, when he wants to negotiate it himself?
I’m wondering if perhaps Trump is there to be bombastic and take the incoming fire, allowing Cruz to position himself correctly, and then Trump bails out, and tosses his support to Cruz? I hope so anyway!
I believe Trump and Cruz are in cahoots. This article also touched on another theory of mine that Trump is by design taking all the incoming flak from the media after watching election after election good candidates get picked off by the Democrat loving media. This is allowing the candidates to campaign without an excess of the gotcha questions
He voted for TPA authority for Obama. On trade, I prefer Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump.
Trump was a Hilary supporter. Are you?
Immigration is the defining issue of our time. If you don't get that right, everything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Trump is right on immigration, right on trade, and the only real leader of any of the candidates Rep or Dem. We need a leader who loves America.
Cruz is the most intelligent and articulate of all the candidates. He is just not a leader nor can he connect with the voters. He has no executive experience. We don't need another first term senator in the WH.
How much the GOPe paying you man?
FYI: I am not a supporter of Jeb, Rubio, Kasich, Hcukabee, Fiorina, Carson, Jindal, and Christie. I despise the GOPe and want McConnell and Boehner replaced immediately.
I support Cruz. Are you that stupid to consider him GOP(e)?
1987- GOP
1999- Independent
2001- Democrat
2009-GOP
2011- Independent
2012- GOP
Hell, this guy can't even stay focused on a political party. What makes you think he won't continue flip-flopping on everything? BTW, we all thought John Roberts (SCOTUS) was a conservative too, and we know how that turned out.
I will stand to the end, with a principled conservative like Cruz.
I would love to be proven wrong. But, Obama got into office twice. People like Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura & Al Franken win elections. And then there's Trump...
Again, you need to update your info. The authorization didn’t pass both chambers. When it came back to the Senate, Cruz voted no.
Now if you want to argue that Free Trade is bad, go right ahead. Just please do it with correct information.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420181/cruz-now-no-tpa-andrew-c-mccarthy
Then why do you not want to discuss further Trump's support of Hilary? If it was 30 years ago, I'd give it a pass, but...............
While Trump and Carson ooze sincerity, Cruz can let his calculation show — he sincerely supported trade promotion authority, until the politics shifted, and then he sincerely opposed it.
I think Lowry is paying attention to the crowds Cruz is attracting and not the stupid polls, which are totally unbelievable and, indeed, incongruous.
Would that be the same National Review that publishes an anti-Trump article every day? The poster you are responding to is correct. Full court press by the GOPe to take out Trump.
I love this “no executive experience” claim. From 1999, 2003, Cruz was the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. Here’s the current flow chart.
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/office-policy-planning/opp-org-chart-june2015.pdf
Fair enough. I just insist upon veracity when discussing positions and votes.
It should be noted that too many folks think TPA gives a President carte blanche with trade deals. That is not the case. The Congress still gets a vote on the actual deal.
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43491.pdf
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