Posted on 03/31/2015 12:33:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SUCCESS by GOP???? They have defined success DOWN....and now the WSJ is merely the mouthpiece of the one world corporatists. Let's CRUZ!!!!
“The blood is in the water. The game is afoot. And the Republicans are brawling.”
Politico’s Chief Political Columnist writes like a pulp hack from the 30’s.
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Tabasco, frankly, I don't give a good doodly squat about the Democrat party, what the media says about it, or who it nominates.
I care about ONE THING: The Republican party, because what it does in 2016 is going to determine whether or not a third party is going to be necessary. The Democrats and their party are a sideshow.
“as if Americans who want less government but who don’t identify as “Christian conservative,” don’t exist.”
All 13 of them.
Yes it has.
Last day of quarter, gonna make another contribution. I wish they would do money bombs.
Or did I misinterpret "All 13 of them."?
And how does a candidate apeal only to white, Christian conservatives? That's a dumb, self-serving statement. Any Republican candidate for president must address a broad range of issues, and then the voters who are open to either candidate will assess the overall positions of the two major party candidates.
The GOPe amd many commentators just can't get away from the idea that a candidate must appeal to narrow interest groups, a bone for this one and a bone for that one.
Yeppers!
And if GOP drives out its Christians, they won't win the election for dog-catcher. And won't deserve to, either.
Try and remember the last time a party drove out its Christians. Its happened twice. One became a ghost and the other a cancer.
Whigs, and Democrats.
To hear this guy tell it, the only conservatives in America are “the religious right”. They are an important part to be sure, but hardly all. There are plenty of people in this country who are not particularly religious but still hold conservative values.
I just listened again carefully to the announcement Cruz made at Liberty University. He mentioned raising a “grass-roots army” and said that he was running for “President of the United States”.
Cruz DID NOT say “the Republican nomination for President”.
Seems somehow important to me that he did not plug for support from the Republican Party, which of course, he will not be receiving.
I think I see in Reagan what many Christians saw in him, one of the most religious presidents that we have ever had.
I think that it is obvious that deep internal and private religious faith was the most powerful force in Reagan's' life.
When one starts trying to learn who Reagan really was, they start seeing a man who seems to have always been striving to hear God's voice as he tried to make his decisions about himself, and others, and in his work and careers.
Reagan is unlike many great figures, with him, the deeper you scratch into his personal and inner life, the more you come to admire and respect him.
Not so many, strong Christian faith is the main marker of someone being conservative.
The non-religious, atheist, non-Christian, and lightly Christian, make up the left/democrats, and the lightly Christian and the few non religious, atheists and non-Christian who are in the GOP, make up the liberal portion of that party.
Rience Priebus won’t even name Cruz publicly, being a fellow Wisconsinite and ally of Walker.
GOP chairman who won’t comment on the only declared Candidate, which happens to be an R. What does that tell you?
The Whigs didn't "drive out their Christians". They were torn apart internally on the issue of slavery. Christians during that era held a wide range of views on the morality of slavery, and were on both sides of that debate (just like there were Christians for and against prohibition). The Whig Party continued to run devout Christians until its dying day.
The DemonRats didn't "drive out their Christians" either. If that was the case, they would tell Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to stop self-identifying as "the Reverend" in public. What they drove out were people who follow orthodox, traditional Christian beliefs. They're fine with people who claim to be "Christian" on paper but don't follow traditional Christian morality.
Well you should because it's the silence on the Dems and the focus on all the alleged in fighting within the Republican party.
As far as a third party, you're the DNC's wet dream my brother, Ross Perot put an end to that silly notion.........
You and I both have our choices in the Primary and we will vote for our candidate. But I'll be damned if I'm going to stay home in the general election simply because whomever I supported didn't get the nomination.........
Those are the fools who gave us Obama..........
The fools who gave us Obama was the RNC insisting on cadavers for candidates.
Cruz to victory or be Bushed.
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