Posted on 07/02/2015 10:40:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Every once in a while there comes along a candidate who is head and shoulders above the rest. Such a person is Senator Ted Cruz. He is that rare candidate who stands his ground, does not intimidate, never loses his cool and is, above all, always a gentlemen. Everyone who is anyone in the liberal media has been having interviews with Cruz. Not because they are so enamored of the Senator, but more because they are on a mission-a mission to trip him up, catch him off-guard, back him into a wall. They haven't been successful yet. Cruz is fully aware of their tactics.
Thursday The Blaze reports that a young staffer told Cruz how nice a member of the media is. Cruz responded with a reminder about the intentions of most reporters. I actually stopped him and I said, You know what? No, shes not [nice]. She wants to destroy you. Nothing would make her happier than to take your life and filet you on the front pages. And dont think for a minute that because she smiles and is friendly to you, that its anything else, Cruz said, sharing the story on The Glenn Beck Program.
Even though he agreed 100 percent, Beck questioned Cruz about his statement asking if it was a bit cynical. Cruz responded that the mainstream media is full of partisans who have picked a team, and when the sheep are walking among coyotes, it pays to be cynical. He added, You see Republicans when theyre interviewed by left-wing reporters, and they get afraid, Cruz said. They want them to like them. They are not going to like us! They hate us.(continued)
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Well a pretty high percentage of voters automatically vote Republican or Democrat. No one can afford to give up them votes and win. Cruz is very smart. He knows that.
In which case, the Cruz campaign will buy TV time and he will debate an empty chair.
In the end, he will congratulate the empty chair for having put up a better effort than Hillary.
She wouldn't escape him...
Cruz actually had an interesting interview about immigration, but the media drowned it out with Trump talk.
Not sure voters are smart enough to elect him, but he’s our best candidate since Reagan.
Better than my first vote.
Dole/Kemp 96’.
What a joke that was.
My first vote was for Carter. I was an eighteen year old Reagan supporter. I absolutely loathed Gerald Ford, who was a kinder gentler version of John McCain. Ford hated the conservative wing of the party. It was like having Boehner as president.
When Ford used his presidential clout to hold the nomination from Reagan, I jumped to Carter. Carter was loathsome, but he ran as the conservative in the race. That’s what a Rino Ford was. He even forgot Poland was communist during a presidential debate.
Four years later, we got the Gipper. If Ford had been re-elected, we’d have had Ted Kennedy in 1980.
:( You have my condolences. (No pun intended).
I like Cruse, and I would proudly vote for him if he wins in the primaries. However, I think the strongest candidate in the general would be Trump.
I know, I know, that he’s a clown, and a buffoon... That’s OK by me as long as he’s on America’s side. It may take a clown and a buffoon to defeat the democrat nominee.
I’m not convinced that a “Cruse” can get enough of the low information voters to win in the general. The people who will elect the next president will not even understand the issues...
An electorate that would nominate Hitlary are not even going to hear what Cruse has to say, much less analyze it.
Trump may be our best shot. And yes, we’ll have to keep our fingers crossed...
It’s Cruz, not Cruse.
Ha
Trump has a fly up his nose over some Chinese deal/s that didn't go his way and wants REVENGE writ large!
Does he love America? More than the bamster; however, his ego is LARGER than wee barrys !
What impressed me, one of many things recently, is his segment on Fox News with Bret Baier and the special report panel (as referenced/seen on FR and Youtube, as I wouldn't be caught dead with TV). Bret was trying to corner him on how if the Supreme Court struck down Obamacare from extending subsidies, would he be proposing some stopgap measures (however he put it) to soften the blow for people who had to buy Obamacare and weren't going to get compensated, and Ted said no and stood his ground without reservation. Bret looked flabbergasted and incensed in that moment that someone would actually hold to their principles rather than be swept up in feelgood and wanting to soften the blow. That is the moment when I saw real principal and conviction and immunity to the hedging with most politicians!
Ford was an honorable man. Carter was a dope. You helped elect a dope. And you feel good about it?
“”THE DONALD” is a blowhard”
Yep... All politicians are blowhards. The real question is; Who owns them.
Who "owns" "THE DONALD"? ANYONE WILLING TO PAY HIM THE BIGGEST BUCKS AND KISS HIS ARSE TOO !
There's a whole LOT of "dirt" in his many closets.
Many are intrigued by him, for one silly reason or another, but in the end, he would probably lose to ANY Dem nominee.
Seriously? Do you know how much harm Carter did in the Middle East? You looked in your crappy little crystal ball and decided it was better to vote an F!n moderate liberal over a moderate conservative and you are proud of that? Wow.
To express this in secular words so as not to turn off the lurker who might be exploring conservatism, without faith the individual is liable to "miss positioning" that is to hubris, a tendency to play God. The biblical stories in Genesis are not there as fairytales rather they undertake to tell us about the nature of man and his natural proclivity to be God.
The leftist will do away with any notion of God which interferes with his ability to play God. There is no arena offering greater scope which to play God than politics which, after all, seeks to exercise power and control over other men. The natural inclination of every man to rationalize his own desires as the common good permits most men, but especially leftists, to do more and more good at the expense of their fellows.
The political importance of faith is that the tendency toward arrogance is mitigated.
Paradoxically, the gift of faith also liberates and empowers. Thus we see both tendencies at work in Ted Cruz, he is morally empowered to speak the truth as he sees it despite an array of snares and traps but he is speaking a truth embodying sound conservative principles because he is aware that he is not God.
If we want to know why Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton are narcissists, the answer should now be obvious.
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