Posted on 02/11/2016 4:42:57 AM PST by TBBT
The progressive elites will try to do to Cruz what they did to Abbott
The American mainstream media, the Republican Party establishment and the Democratic Party are determined that Ted Cruz not be sworn in as the 45th president.
Anyone with that opposition must be formidable.
That he is. Campaigning against Federal ethanol subsidies in Iowa, a major corn producing state, and against all poll predictions, Cruz defeated the media's favourite, Donald Trump, receiving more votes than any Republican candidate ever had. Cruz is the candidate most motivated by his attachment to traditional American principles. For his opponents, these are principles to which lip service only should be accorded these days. But the principles under which a Cruz administration would operate are the very ones on which the American Republic was founded.
Cruz does not merely mouth the proposition that all men have been endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, he lives by this. As Texas Solicitor General he had been one of America's most successful public constitutional lawyers, with a string of successes in the Supreme Court. Having memorised it while still a schoolboy, the Constitution remains his guide to the good governance of the Union. By this he means the Constitution according to the original intention of the Founding Fathers, not that fictional 'living organism' which is the tool of activist judges who claim it means whatever they want it to mean.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
The analogy was correct. You were asking that we forget about TPP because of all the good things he has done.
How about all the good things Rush, and Sarah have done and now they are outcasts. Not to me by the way but look at all the cr@p that has been laid on them here. Rush was practically excommunicated because he was not trashing Trump and praising Cruz but nothing compared to the vile insults laid on Sarah by Cruz supporters.
Caesarism.
That is what Reagan did, dunderhead. How do you think he got his tax cuts through?
Ted does not have that in him. Just sayin’.
That bill passed in the Senate, what killed it was the House majority leader being handed his hat, otherwise it would have passed. So quit spreading that nonsense.
Don’t trouble them with facts. It arouses their ire.
Well congress will d@mn sure not fix them, they created them.
I predict Congress will suddenly discover they had the power all along to shut down a President, whether it be Cruz or Trump.
I do know that his wife works with Goldman Sachs. Unlike most here, I do not find that evil. She made a speech yesterday in support of TPP. I will make it a point to stop and listen and try to understand why.
I am an expat. I have a different perspective of globalization, trade, immigration than I did 10 years ago as result of my experience. But even if Cruz supports TPP for what he believes to be the right reason, I would still support him. His stand on the H1B visas are very nuanced and I don't think many here "get" his point on that. Thats up to him to explain
Mr. Apple, I cannot believe you are trying to drag that old chestnut out of the fire. It was burned to a crisp weeks ago.
It leads one to believe that this is all you have. You did not refute one word of the article.
Ben Carson callously used Ted Cruz to build up sympathy for himself and explain his loss. He knew perfectly well that the whole fiasco was an honest mistake on the part of the perhaps over-enthusiastic Cruz crew.
Why didn’t Ben Carson confront Trump after Trump put the nail in the coffin of his early success?
Was Ben afraid that Trump would abuse him more?
A few months ago, when Donald Trump referred to Carson as pathological and compared him to a child molester, Carson had nothing to say. He was completely impotent. And in fact, his numbers tanked shortly thereafter.
So, he decides to attack the nice guy ... the one who’d never said a bad word about him and the one who was gracious enough to apologize for an inadvertent mistake.
Ride this horse if you must, but it’s worn out and has been put to pasture long ago.
Oh, no, and dang it, I’d written your name on my arm to remind me not to post to you. But I had a sweater on this morning. Sorry.
[Me] Caesarism.
[You] That is what Reagan did, dunderhead..... Ted does not have that in him. Just sayin'.
Zero dunder. I'm saying the same thing, only I see it as a virtue, that Cruz has no aptitude or appetite for wielding that kind of political-kingpin power.
You want somebody who kicks ass and takes name. Be careful what you wish for -- and think of Obama's flunkies making phone calls in the middle of the night, to blackmail the Chief Justice about Obamacare.
If you want constitutional government, then you have to quit voting into office diseased personalities whose eyes glow green with their power need, who don't give a damn about the Constitution.
Cruz is an ambitious political hack. That is my opinion.
I almost posted to Jane Long but she has asked me not to...I don’t know why...I’m a really nice person.
Anyway, she made a specious argument to you that I’m not at all sure was true.
She claimed that Ted Cruz repeated the same story every time she heard him speak. Perhaps she’s unaware that all candidates have a canned story that they open with. Or maybe she never heard him at all.
Anyway, I’d like to say that I totally agree with you about Ted Cruz. He’s a life-long conservative ... not just since he was 57 years old. And he’s a decent man.
It has really only devolved since the onset of the current primary campaign. There have always been disagreements, often heated, but they were usually about points of policy or approaches to bringing the GOP in a more conservative direction.
It has only been a recent phenomenon that we have become just another vehicle for this eerie cult of personality.
I supported Scott Walker, and I think it’s a shame he got out when he did, but, when so many people here pile on a successful governor who has accomplished so much of the conservative agenda in WI, it is shameful. Before this race he was a conservative hero, now he’s a joke on FR. Talk to the people of WI and see how much of a joke they find him.
I just don’t want to hear the whining about President Trump from these erstwhile conservatives who are blinded by His bright shiny wall and his bluster.
Your opinion contains no facts nor reasons.
Yes, Ted Cruz has been interested in politics and has been deeply conservative since his youth.
He memorized the constitution unlike Donald Trump who admits he’s never even read it.
Ambitious? Is that a bad thing? I doubt if anyone who is successful is not ambitious.
I’m sure you would agree that The Don is quite ambitious.
You know The Don wasn’t all that into politics until 2011, when he got a little bored with finding new trophy wives or chuckling with Howard Stern about sexual conquests.
That’s when he looked around and realized he was a Republican.
I always liked Scott Walker and still do. I don’t believe he’s a joke here.
Sometimes Trump supporters get a little agitated about anyone they think might threaten their hero and say bad things.
But I don’t think anyone thinks Scott Walker is a joke.
I LOVED Scott Walker, he was my guy but just couldn’t get going nationally!!! He would MAKE a GREAT VP!!!!!
When people lie about relatively inconsequential things, what make you think they will be truthful about more important matters?
I like your style. Too many posts are just boring.
But the last paragraph... great.
“If you want constitutional government, then you have to quit voting into office diseased personalities whose eyes glow green with their power need, who don’t give a damn about the Constitution.”
Dontcha hate it when their eyes glow green. Creepy.
yeah?
so?
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