Posted on 02/25/2016 7:42:56 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
VOTE TED CRUZ!! The Consistent Conservative!!
More name calling. Why come to this thread just to insult people- that is not worthy of this forum.
Thank you for your post.
Just saw a new Monmouth poll with Cruz at 38% and Trump at 23% in Texas. Hope the results reflect this.
So, this is what UNDECIDED looks like.
According to the writer, Cruz is the same as he was in 2008, “when no one was looking.”
I thought he was donating to Schumer, Pelosi and Reid. Or was that the liberal New Yorker?
“The Cruz “faith” angle has been marred by his campaign choices.”
Cruz is a crusader from the european mold.
If faith was driving his campaign , he’d be in low single digits like Carson.
[The Cruz “faith” angle has been marred by his campaign choices]
No, it hasn’t. It has been marred b an orchestrated smear campaign after Cruz stood against the establishment Iowa and won.
-— It is great to fight. POTUS also has to lead. -—
Instead of winning Supreme Court cases, we need a liberal New Yorker with no conservative track record to shout meaningless slogans.
That’s leadership.
This posting paradigm is akin to Jeb's "I don't need Conservatives". It's not just one post here and one there, but a flood of them. Its going to make it very hard for this voter to come around, should Cruz not get the nom. With all this puerile vitriol, I may vote for a different nom winner, or... I may not. Why should I, when Conservatives are being ostensibly jettisoned?
-— After analyzing what I learned about Trump, a certain biblical character kept coming to mind -—
I watched “All the King’s Men” last night on Turner Classics Las night. Trump is the slogan-shouting main character to a T. Check out the signs of his supporters in the movie.
STA, I suppose that if you really thought about it, you understand that arguing a legal case before the Supreme Court is a very different task that leading people who have different interests in order to get things done.
If making america great again is a meaningless slogan to you...
If building a wall to protect us from invasion is a meaningless slogan to you...
If limiting muslim immigration for now is a meaningless slogan to you...
If thoroughly protecting our Second Amendment Rights is a meaningless slogan to you...
If reducing taxes is a meaningless slogan to you...
... well, to each their own.
In the meantime, please step back out of the way and watch as we lead.
Thank you for posting. It is a really good article from Representative Krause and contains all the reasons that Ted Cruz is my second choice and the second choice of most people who support Donald Trump.
Off the top of my head here are a few of my reservations about Cruz:
He doesn’t have enough appeal to general election voters to actually win. If he actually gets the nomination; we better hope that either Hillary’s problems blow up in her face at a very inopportune time or Bernie scares the hell out of people in the middle more than Cruz does.
He is not someone who inspires even those in his own party to follow him. Not a single Republican Senator has endorsed him, most will not even say something complimentary about him.
His wife is a top executive at Goldman Sachs and he took a large loan from them and from Citibank for his senate campaign that he did not disclose.
He somehow forgot to mention during his Senate campaign that he still was a Canadian Citizen from birth. I know a lot of Freepers who have said that they were shocked to find out after they voted for him that he was born in Canada with a Cuban father. Cruz said that he just forgot, which I find disingenuous. I know also that he renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014 but I still believe that the circumstances of his birth are going to be a political liability in the general election.
Both of his parents had problems with alcohol and Ted has his own history of difficulties. One can’t help but notice the burst capillaries and swelling at the end of his nose. My wife who has been a nurse her entire adult life, exclaimed the first time she saw him, “He looks like an alcoholic.” She has had to take care of a lot of alcoholics over the years. It is not just his nose he tends to look tired most of the time, has watery eyes and looks older than his actual age. Compare him to Marco Rubio who is the same age. When I looked into it... there are many stories circulating about Ted’s history with alcohol, and this concerns me. My own family has a large proportion of alcoholics especially those who are Native American and Norwegian which is why I choose not to drink even socially.
To me Ted Cruz just comes across like a televangelist and not the good ones like Pat Robertson, Robert Schuller, or Jerry Falwell. To me he comes across more like the charlatans like Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, and I know that is not completely fair... it is just my perception.
When Donald Trump first said that he wanted to deport all the illegal aliens in the country Ted first said that he wouldn’t support “Jack Booted Thugs” kicking people out of the country. Now he has changed his tune and claims he will be the strongest on illegal immigration which I find now find completely disingenuous. My grandfather immigrated from another country. I wouldn’t trust my own mother to faithfully uphold current immigration law as it applied to our relatives who might want to come here now. I do not trust Ted to uphold even current immigration law and I do not believe he cares at all about building the wall.
Well I could go on, but Ted Cruz is my second choice because of his good points of which he has many as cited in the article. There is no perfect candidate and the good lord knows that Trump has plenty of warts. But those are some of my concerns about Ted Cruz.
Another classy Trump-troll stinks up a Cruz thread.
Agreed. It takes very little effort to figure out people have been lying about Cruz.
OTOH, I think Cruz himself talks faith too often when he should be talking the Constitution or his own record. I’m astonished the number of people this time around who claim to vote based on faith who are going for Trump, the dude who flat out states that he’s never felt any need to ask forgiveness.
Whatever faith they’re voting by, it’s not nearly so Biblical as the faith Cruz is talking about, and nothing he can say is going to change that, so I’m not convinced his faith talk is getting him much of anywhere. Plus Carson’s been in total violation of Biblical principles since Iowa, while Cruz has done everything the Bible requires of him; the fact that many who claim to put faith first in their voting still support Carson is another reason I think the faith position is meaningless.
I suspect that, for most people, “faith” is just code for “my guy.”
I feel the same way. If Cruz does not get the nomination, we are in trouble. I think Trump would be more of a dictator than Zero, but the media will eviscerate him if he gets the nomination.
Voting Cruz. Rubio will never get another vote from me.
A couple years ago, when many posters were trying to warn of the double faced jibberish coming out of Cruz, we were told quotes from the TEXAS TRIBUNE were misquoted, that they couldn’t be trusted....fact is they’ve always been pro Cruz.
And they were right.
On Immigration, Cruz Aims for Middle Ground
http://www.texastribune.org/2013/09/13/immigration-cruz-aims-middle-ground/
[snip]When it comes to immigration reform, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has made it abundantly clear what he opposes: giving citizenship to people who broke the law to come here.
What has not been as evident is what he supports: legal status for millions of people here already, while making it easier for immigrants to come here through the front door.
“I have said many times that I want to see common-sense immigration reform pass,” he said. “I think most Americans want to see the problem fixed.”
What Cruz has tried to articulate in both word and deed is a middle ground. It got no support from Democrats in Washington, but it goes further than many on the far right want to go by offering leniency to undocumented immigrants here already: A path to legal status, but not to citizenship.
“The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,” he said during a recent visit to El Paso. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation....”
You cannot trust immigration to those who are not of american stock. Just sayin’.
I would really like to believe all that but sadly of late Cruz’s actions do not jive with his words. The more you get to know Ted Cruz the less you like him.
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