Posted on 03/23/2015 9:14:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A seismic shift? Things will change now that Sen. Ted Cruz has entered the White House race, some say.
“Every Republican candidate for president will have to move significantly to the right, starting with Jeb Bush and Scott Walker. They’ll have to define their position on amnesty for illegal aliens, on fighting and winning the war radical Islam has declared on America, on spending, the deficit and the debt, and on repealing Obamacare - against the positions Ted Cruz will talk about and campaign on in the coming months,” predicts longtime conservative maven Richard Viguerie.
“They will all have to move right to respond to Cruz, or be left behind by a grassroots conservative electorate fed-up with Republican candidates who are merely principle-free messengers for an out of touch Washington elite,” he continues. “Cruz is the first top-tier movement conservative candidate since Reagan for three reasons that separate him immediately from the rest of the Republican pack.”(continued)
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Yeah, it’s a really good question, isn’t it? I think I’d be looking to the states for a conservative firebrand attorney general to take over the DOJ.
Can’t think of the guy’s name right off the bat - but I’ve seen him on FOX. He was in Holder’s DOJ, but he blew the whistle about Fast and Furious (I think); but he’s a doer. I can picture his face, just can’t put a name to it.
I'm glad to see you're not a member of the "some Freepers" I was talking about :-)
This website was put here for those who think like you and I do, not those who will toss their principles for political expediency.
yes, but the change with polls by an organization could be interesting
Enough of the who’s the more purist amongst us. We all have our disagreements on certain issues but all of us here sure as hell don’t want another Democrat in the White House or a Bush RINO there either. This is the best and deepest field of candidates in the GOP race in decades, so let’s let them go at it and let the best conservative amongst them prevail.
Tell that to the bitter Romneybots who, even to this day, continue to hound others that they "voted for Obama".
And for what it's worth, I don't credit any of them with having enough intelligence to see that voting for RINOs only begets more RINOs to vote FOR. That type will jump ship from Ted without hesitation if they even sense that some milquetoast Republicrat is moving ahead in the polls.
Spit....
Can't remember the name, but the Texas AG has stones and principles. Virginia too, IIRC.
OUTDAMNSTANDING
The left would come unfromgathered over the Moore nomination.I would really love to see that.
Here, here and anyone disagreeing with me is a “Racist and a Homophobe”...
The DOJ is headed by the Attorney General (Mark Levin in the above line-up).
No matter how good the candidate - it takes money to move on.
Now is the time for folks to start opening their wallets to help propel him along - waiting to "be sure one isn't wasting one's dough" is a sure way to defeat.
Donate big and early and be prepared to do it several times as he moves along.
I'd like to see him surpass all the others combined - he's worth every penny and if we really want him, now is the time to prove we're not just blowing smoke.
Duh... you are correct. that’s what I get for posting when tired :)
ka boom!
If Mark Levin isn’t interested in AG, I’d pick Rudy Giuliani!
“If I were Ted Cruz...I would make it so!”
However, the psychological makeup of candidates who have run or will run for the highest office in the land really obviates them from taking most bureacratic/administrative-type jobs.
A famous WW1 ditty was "How Are Ya Gonna Hold Them Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree", referring, of course, to the mostly provincial doughboys who went overseas to fight. Same thing applies to politicians.....once they've caught the excitement, attention and glamor of big-league presidential candidacies, they only want to go once more around to snatch the brass ring, or, if not possible, go for nothing any more except equally challenging roles which keep them in the public eye.
The exceptions to the general rule is the lure of being Secretary of State and (perhaps, but only perhaps) Secretary of Defense, two appointment offices with cachet conducive to personal achievement, satisfaction rewards and possible public acclain.
I could just see Sarah Palin tied down to a cabinet post at the Energy Department....a mostly admininistrative/PR desk job with little to no excitement, challenge and glamor....a job which would never satify high achievers.
With a presidential cabinet, diplomatic or high administrative appointment, you fall into a political black hole and no one gives a dang about you anymore. You're off the front pages, except for rare occasions like a scandal or a murder in the hallway....and political major league players know appointive oblivion when they see it.
Making a list of a President Cruz appointments is great fun....but a waste of creativity. They're not gonna happen.
This is not knocking the egos of presidential aspirants.....well-directed egos and confidence is what made them who they are....and it's a marvelous and desirable American trait. I'd hate to see the Palins, Carsons, Levins, Boltons, etc. buried in appointed dead-end administrative posts with their inspired messages, speeches and TV comments/analysis lost to us forever.
How many names of current cabinet appointees does anyone know, anyhow....only a couple, I'm sure, out of the many.
But, not to worry, none of the proposed appointees in the pictured cartoon panel above will end up as Secretary of Anything.....or Ambassador to Anywhere.....unless they're broke or aging or really need an enhanced pension.
And it's fine with me if they don't accept some nothing-ball appointment....we need these talented conservatives speaking for us in the great battle we're in.....and not exiled or buried in the murky corners of Washington cabinets and bureaus no matter how high-sounding the Title.
Leni
I have a list Called. IF NOT PRESIDENT OR VP WHERE WOUKD THEY BEST SERVE
Few example:
Cruz. —Attorney General ( He knows the Constitution better then any
Palin — Energy Her knowledge of Alaska and Petro companies
West — DoDefense obvious
DR Carlson — Health
Perry — Taking care of the borders
F C technology-business
You get the idea ! I want them all to run as a group therefor the Rats WOUKD have problems isolating and targeting any one of them
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