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I’m for Cruz too. I will vote Trump if Cruz fails.
*yawn*
*burp*
*fart*
Go away, this is a Trump Safe Zone.
I am not kidding.
The reason I so ardently support Ted Cruz for the nation's highest political office is that he is the same person, espousing the same principles that he did back in our first meeting in 2008. Integrity, by one definition, is "who you are when no one is looking." For all intents and purposes, no one was looking that day we met in February of 2008. Cruz had no reason to think I would ever have a title by my name that could be beneficial or helpful in a future political run. He was not telling me things that day to pander or win votes - it's just who he is.
Cruz- the consistent Constitutional Conservative!
While other candidates were getting a star on the Walk of Fame, Cruz was standing up to the UN, world opinion, President Bush, the national media, and his own party to get justice for two girls brutally gang-raped by illegal aliens, and defending our national and state sovereignty.
If you are not familiar with the Medellin v Texas case, look it up. It is Ted Cruz at his finest.
Wait, let me guess... because you're a lifelong Republican, you feel genetically inclined to vote for the loser? LMAO!!!
I don’t mind, “Why I like someone”, articles, its the “Your guy is a buffoon, comb-over” crap, that’s annoying.
If Cruz figures out how to win, I'll support him. For now, I'll continue to support Trump.
Matt Krause is a personal friend of mine. We attended law school together. Matt is going to keep moving up. He is an extremely bright and good-hearted person. FReepers who are sitting on the fence because they are not sure whether Cruz has really been a consistent conservative, you should listen to what Matt has to say. He is an extraordinary person whose testimony is reliable, honest, and worthy of trust.
Peace,
SR
VOTE TED CRUZ!! The Consistent Conservative!!
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?
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.
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....”
Excellent headline on the article. It tells why you should vote for someone as opposed to articles that tell you who NOT to vote for. People hate being told what to do; sorta pisses them off!
However, I didn’t read the article because my mind is made up. I am voting for TRUMP.
Cruz “character”:
1. Phony summonses mailed out, scaring people to vote for Cruz.
2. Claiming Carson quit, presinc captains told voters “vote for Cruz”
3. Campaigning in the 800 churches, showing video “vote for me” with his preacher/father stomping for him. Rafael Cruz is a 7 Mountain Dominionist and believes his son is the anointed one.
4. “Brilliant” lawyer, did not know he was Canadian citizen and that he is not Natural Born Citizen, not eligible for office of P or VP.
5. Making phony video advertising with lies about opponents.
6. Phony video about Rubio - Obama.
7. 7 Mountain Dominionist Church = Christian???
Just enough to beat Trump in IA, apologize, rinse and repeat?
Liar is the polite term for this Cuban. His father was pro-communist in Cuba, imprisoned by Batista, but now he is refugee?
IRREFUTABLE AUTHORITY HAS SPOKEN
(Oct. 18, 2009) The Post & Email has in several articles mentioned that the Supreme Court of the United States has given the definition of what a “natural born citizen” is. Since being a natural born citizen is an objective qualification and requirement of office for the U.S. President (and VP), it is important for all U.S. Citizens to understand what this term means.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2009/10/18/4-supreme-court-cases-define-natural-born-citizen/
Applies to Cruz and Rubio, both at the time not born to US citizens and on US soil.
Excellent headline on the article. It tells why you should vote for someone as opposed to articles that tell you who NOT to vote for. People hate being told what to do; sorta pisses them off!
However, I didn’t read the article because my mind is made up. I am voting for TRUMP.
Ted Cruz supports illegal alien amnesty.
TED CRUZ: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing, 5/21/13:
"And I'd like to make a final point to those advocacy groups that are very engaged in this issue and rightly concerned about addressing our immigration system and, in particular, about addressing the situation for the 11 million who are currently in the shadows. If this amendment is adopted to the current bill, the effect would be that those 11 million under this current bill would still be eligible for RPI status. They would still be eligible for legal status and indeed, under the terms of the bill, they would be eligible for LPR status as well so that they are out of the shadows, which the proponents of this bill repeatedly point to as their principal objective to provide a legal status for those who are here illegally to be out of the shadows. This amendment would allow that happen, but what it would do is remove the pathway to citizenship so that there are real consequences that respect the rule of law and that treat legal immigrants with the fairness and respect they deserve. And a second point to those advocacy groups that are so passionately engaged. In my view, if this committee rejects this amendment, and I think everyone here views it as quite likely this committee will choose to reject this amendment, in my view, that decision will make it much, much more likely that this entire bill will fail in the House of Representatives. I don't want immigration reform to fail. I want immigration reform to pass. And so I would urge people of good faith on both sides of the aisle, if the objective is to pass common sense immigration reform that secures the borders, that improves legal immigration, and AMNESTY: that allows those who are here illegally to come in out of the shadows.Then we should look for areas of bipartisan agreement and compromised to come together. And this amendment, I believe, if this amendment were to pass, the chances of this bill passing into law would increase dramatically."