Posted on 09/25/2013 6:10:34 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Come January 2017, if you see Ted Cruz taking the presidential oath of office, youll largely have the Republican Party establishment that hates him to thank for it.
Whether theyre calling his efforts to defund Obamacare a fraud, sending Fox News personalities opposition research to use against him, or simply claiming to f hate him, the sophomoric and treacherous behavior by the GOP establishment has helped elevate the junior Texas senator from a wacko bird beloved by the base to a force of nature capable of something no movement conservative has done since Ronald Reagan.
Not since Reagan has a nonestablishment presidential candidate had the comprehensive worldview and charisma capable of coalescing enough of the conservative/libertarian base to defeat the Republican ruling class in a national primary. As a result, the grass roots has often been splintered, allowing the establishment candidate (John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012) to win a plurality of fractured support to secure the nomination.
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I sure hope we’re not being played again.
You're a big loser!
Computers are already cheap, thanks to free enterprise.
Healthcare should likewise be cheap, thanks to free enterprise. But it's not, because your kind vote and, thereby, allow the government to be involved in it!
Exactly. McQueeg's just a pale Obama.
That's why we elect them! They will know what's best for us, just ask them!!!
Well put!
Um.
Computers are cheap right now, because they’re all made in China.
Chinese costs are rising.
Bring back American industry.
OK.
(re-assessing)
Born in Canada?
You obviously didn’t bother to read my post since I referenced the fight to bring Medicare in. That was in the late 50s and early 60s.
Nice try though since you comment makes no sense
It’s your right to disagree. And it’s my right to state my opinions and facts.
Obama Rubio and Cruz all have the same problem of not being Natural Born Citizens. That is a fact.
And yes I am a Conservative. I also support and defend the Constitution. I took that oath for too many years to dishonor that oath now.
“Obama Rubio and Cruz all have the same problem of not being Natural Born Citizens. That is a fact”.
If this is the case, apply the George Romney rule to them. He was born in Mexico and ran for president. Subsequently McCain did the same thing, being born in the Canal Zone. In the case of Marco Rubio he was born in Miami, Florida. He is a natural-born citizen. Makes no difference if his parents were Martians.
Government hands off my Medicare?
I agree with your sentiment.
BUT
By promising to pay, without limit, for any necessary or potentially useful services for anyone over 65, the government in 1965 created a monster.
As with all government programs, the unanticipated consequences have been enormous.
Almost nothing that we take for granted today would have been created without the Medicare blank check.
And the Feds have been printing or borrowing money to keep up since the Compromise of 1986.
The government CANNOT stay out of the way until the promise to pay without limit is revoked. Both parties are rightly terrified of this (since their congresspeople would be hanging from lampposts the day after). The Democrats, bless their wicked commie hearts, know what to do. The Republicans are clueless.
Which is why they are getting their asses kicked on the Hill, day after day.
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