Posted on 12/05/2015 6:36:12 PM PST by JSDude1
To protect American national security we must first understand what threatens American national security. We must grasp who our enemies are, what animates them, and how they work together — despite their internecine rivalries — to destroy us from without and within. We must stop trying to define “true Islam†and start restoring our own principles as our guide: liberty, equality of opportunity, the rule of law, and peace through strength. The vast majority of Americans still believe in these principles. It is Washington that has lost faith. It is Washington that looks at liberty’s enemies and sees friends; that looks at anti-Western Islamic supremacists and sees “moderates†it can play ball with; that looks at lawbreakers and tut-tuts that “the system is broken.†Reinvigorating American principles will require taming Washington. It calls for restoring the Constitution as a vital limit on government, not a relic . . . or an obstacle. Ted Cruz gets this. Many Republicans talk the talk — we hear it in every election season, right up until it is time to stop campaigning and start governing. Senator Cruz walks the walk. That is why I believe he should be the next president of the United States. Cruz understands that the most immediate enemy the United States confronts on the world stage is Islamic supremacism, which ignites jihadist violence through its state sponsors, terror networks, and activist organizations. The senator has not just fought against President Obama’s disastrous Iran deal, which enriches the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism while making it a threshold nuclear power. Cruz has concurrently pushed for the designation, at long last, of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427983/ted-cruz-for-president-2016-candidate-would-fight-islamic-supremacism
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Poppycock. You just want a king. I suggest you review 1 Samuel 8.
And how do you ‘know’ Trump has no knowledge of how our government was set up? You’re just guessing on that
From what he says HE will do that (Constitutionally) will require either Congress or the consent of the courts.
He has no ‘Joe Sixpack’ appeal at all.
Very nicely put. Let’s make hay while the sun shines. Those who think it’s raining are probably caught under the sprinkler system. So it goes with pessimists.
When National Review starts pushing Cruz, you know they’ve gone desperate to take out Trump.
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BINGO!
I really have no idea if Cruz would prove more respectful or not to the old fashioned Constitutional ideal. Maybe he too is saying one thing while not being prepared to really follow through.
I would have expected him, at any rate were he sincere about returning to Constitutional ideals, not to thrust a strategic oar into something like TEP, but say he isn’t going to try to figure out which end of a poop is the clean one.
If the choices served up to us include two kings, but one of them is frank about it, I will pick the frank one. However that doesn’t even seem to be a foregone conclusion with Trump if he really is in a unique negotiation mode. Has he ever been asked what he would do with the proverbial Magna Carta?
And you think he would have embarked on this path if he didn't already have a plan to coerce such cooperation?
Also we have to think about how this looks from the view point of “dealmaker.” It’s high time that Constitutional advocates start engaging with Trump about this, IMHO. There are “right” ways to do it, which are not guaranteed to succeed, but we might be surprised at the batting average that Trump would get that way. Not every Trump business endeavor succeeded, but many did, and so Trump does not seem to be one to be bent out of shape or daunted from a larger vision, over a failure.
I think the word here might be to “coax” cooperation. Trump is confident that he has this kind of power. And for whatever it is worth, it has at least maintained his empire that way.
The idea of victories is intoxicating and Trump has poured a glass of that out and put it on his table d’hote. A less demoralized America would be more likely to agree in its political organs on larger goals. Again no guarantees, but I have a hunch Trump could do a pretty good pep talk.
Respectfully, I disagree.
I believe our modern political class, like our modern police, have become largely sociopaths to succeed in their chosen career. They simply do not possess the same moral structure and motivations as the vast majority of their countrymen. As such, the only thing they will allow to stand in the way of their own goals is a convincing threat of real harm to their power and/or position.
The question would remain as to whether Trump envisions himself as part of this class.
You can even herd cats, with a can of tuna fish.
I think the sociopath aspect is born largely of demoralization.
Maybe Trump’s cup of victory is part of an antidote. If Trump chooses to pursue a path that rewards “good constitutional behavior.”
And this in turn is going to depend on the “We The People” that Trump has, to make a pun, pointed his ear trumpet towards.
A boatload of optimism is going to be needed to make this go, and it looks like Trump has it. Can he share it. The acid test is coming.
And I serve up the shameless mix du metaphors....
The wall that Trump wants to build is already law, it was passed by congress and signed into law in the 1980’s by Ronald Reagan. Nobody built it yet, Trump does not need to get approval, he already has it.
As for anything else in congress, well look at it this way, Trump is going to have to make an example out of some that up for re-election in 2018, kick the obstructionists to the curb and elect in people who want to make America great again. Once Trump stumps for people who share his vision and they win in 2018, everyone else will fall in line. The rest will be afraid of getting fired by the voters.
The first two years, Trump can build the wall, fight ISIS (congress is not going to stop him destroying ISIS), and tighten up illegal immigration, he can do that with just following existing laws. That is a lot to do in the first two years, if he needs help in 2018 to get more like minded people in congress, he can do that as well.
You are making a fool of yourself. I would stop digging if I was you.
Clearly, only in jest. How much more non-traditional a campaign can he run?
You can even herd cats, with a can of tuna fish.
Again, I respectfully disagree, bearing in mind the traditional purpose for "herding" animals; and certainly not more than once as with political opponents.
Which is why I fervently hope for a Trump/Cruz ticket....
Why does it always have to be “anti-Trump” when someone posts something positive about Cruz??
Trump wasn’t even mentioned in this article (at least I don’t remember Mr. McCarthy writing anything in it about him).
Let’s let this battle come down to ideas, in that Trump is up there, but I still think Cruz comes out ahead.
Prove your assertion that “Cruz can’t win”, because I don’t buy it from the MSM, and I don’t buy it from other conservatives either. PROOF?
You think that is a good thing? Read my about page. I warned back in 2001 that the pattern which I saw developing was ominous. Only a prepared electorate could avoid it. Lucius Cornelius Sulla succeeded for only a short time, but his success decreed the end of the Republic. Hence I adopted the screenname you see today.
Carrie_okie is telling you what to expect in part because he's rightly skeptical, but also because he knows history.
Just as in Rome in 85 BC, a lot of people feel we need a dictator at this point in order to swing the pendulum back. You do want a king (or dictator). But it won't work because the genie released by the last four presidents will be even more released.
The Progs have always wanted power invested in government, and it won't matter whether or not it's Trump or a Dhimi-crat, they will have it. Hence Trump's free media. The Left constantly talks of economic greed when it derides conservatives, but stupid conservatives almost always fail to counter with the Left's greed for power.
Nothing that Trump has said is against using power greedily. Hence, he's the Prog's agent. Conservatives who fail to comprehend this are falling into the Prog trap. They are claiming to hate Trump much like Brer Rabbit begged Brer Fox not to throw him into that briar patch.
Just making an observation. National Review is firmly GOP establishment. Their editors do not publish a story that does not further GOPe interests.
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