Posted on 03/22/2016 10:57:23 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
Cruz: "It is striking that the day after Donald Trump called for America weakening NATO withdrawing from NATO we see Brussels, where NATO is headquartered, the subject of a radical Islamist terrorist attack."
Cruz supporters: "How dare you say Cruz is blaming Trump for Brussels? Cruz said no such thing."
We see so many politicians working for normalization of relations with Cuba. I guess they have forgotten that 52 years ago a pro-Cuban assassin killed President Kennedy.
I so hope you are right.
So trumpfolks think we should reduce the European PEOPLE’S security right as they’re showing signs of rising up against their Leftist leaders who are purposely destroying all the EU nations with islamos?
I’m struggling to figure out what you’re raving about here. I’m a “low-information” dumbass though, so it’s probably my fault.
Not the way I saw his comments, it seemed to me like he was showing the fact that Donald Trump is just as clueless about foreign affairs as Obama.
If he's got the mormon vote wrapped up there's no way he loses.
Islamic radicals see the strategic importance of NATO
Trump does not.
Cruz has a very good point.
It’s the Koolaid talking.
Where the hell do you come from? Don’t you know you aren’t a REAL Freeper unless you are demonizing the other republican? Dont dare just DISAGREE! You must demonize or you are a fool.....
Good commentary...thanks!
You realize that once people around here figure you out, they just ignore the "Wall Of Spam Text", don't you? :)
I can't remember the last time I bothered with one of your posts that wasn't short and pithy. :)
Cruz is very good at using language in misleading ways to confuse his listeners. This includes both twisting the words of his opponents and saying things that sound like something completely different from what he actually said. This is an excellent skill for a master debater or someone who is trying to get the guilty off with a slap on the wrist. So I applaud him for his mastery of words.
However, this is not an important skill for the job of Commander-in-Chief when the world is in crisis. It may even be a severe detriment. Ted is too smart by half as they say. His charisma is almost non-existent and his trustworthiness is completely non-existent. He is not a leader who inspires anyone to acts of greatness. He is a phony who just does not have it. I used to call him an Elmer Gantry, but that does a disservice to Elmer Gantry. Elmer Gantry had the ability to inspire others.
This latest episode just illustrates once again that Ted is first and only a political opportunist. He will try anything to win an office that he is completely unqualified for. There is no one in the world who I can’t stand more than Obama but I have to grudgingly admit that even Obama has a quality that Ted Cruz does not possess. Even if Ted were somehow elected, we would never see hundreds of thousands of people in Europe coming out to get a glimpse of him. He is unattractive, uninspiring, unreliable and nothing but a straw man that even the GOPe knows they can discard once he has served their purposes.
I don’t think Cruz will lose Utah. Just a guess on my part, but it seems like he will win it.
That being said, my opinion of Ted Cruz really cannot go much lower.
Dude sucks.
Speaking of nut cases for Cruz, looks who shows up.
i wish we would get out of nato....they have how many countries over there in europe and they wont band together themselves to defend their selves and their interests???
why the hell is it up to us?
screw the UN as well...
The Tedimites are completely delutional.
Trump only suggested the Europe pay their own share of the costs for their own security.
Our generosity has allowed Europe to piste their socialist agendas while we carry the defense load for them.
And as soon as you throw out the “people’s” canard, you out yourself as socialist at worst or just a simple neocon. If you want to throw your money away on defending Europe from their own decisions, go ahead. But don’t expect the rest of us to follow along blindly any longer. Those “people’s” security rights are granted by THEIR GOVERNMENT, NOT OUR TAX DOLLARS AND SOLDIERS BLOOD.
I suppose to some outsiders it seems odd to read about conservatives attacking Trump. They figure that Trump is about as far to the right as anyone in American politics.
So I think what’s really going on is a contest between two (and possibly three) brands of conservatism. Donald Trump represents more of an isolationist strain, Ted Cruz is almost a mainline neo-conservative and Kasich (or Romney) would represent a sort of business-friendly fiscal conservatism mixed with either social liberalism or an agreement to look the other way.
Cruz is not quite a full-on neo-con because of his social conservative views. But in some ways he is the logical successor to Bush-Cheney. Trump is more isolationist than any major Republican figure in the past seventy years. However, he balances that with promises to make America great again so that his isolationism is muted by those calls.
I think when you get past the personality stuff that is not all that significant, the real choice here is between a shift towards concern for the homeland and its failing economy and infrastructure, and concern for America’s leading position in the world in military and geopolitical terms. It would be hard to have it both ways — there is probably not enough tax revenue available even to Bernie Sanders to make America both a fully engaged military superpower and a nation busy with rebuilding roads and bridges (plus all the other things Sanders would do with tax money that neither of these candidates would propose).
Personally, I think a blend is the best solution, not quite as isolationist as Trump’s earlier musings about NATO or his remarks about neutrality on Israel-Palestine, but certainly more committed to domestic recovery and stronger trade deals (and action on the illegal immigration issue) than we’ve heard yet from Cruz. I think a Trump-Cruz ticket would solve a lot of problems. There would be no more talk of a brokered convention. It would be the strongest available Republican ticket. I hope it occurs to Cruz tomorrow in the afterglow of whatever happens today.
The nation needs a change in government. That is the only really important thing now.
To pursue...
He’s totally lost me. He’s turned into a Political Preacher, and I don’t need people to “preach” to me. Demonstrate what it is that YOU “HAVE ACCOMPLISHED” to make me feel that you are UP TO THE JOB!
Donald Trump is horrendously terrible, now as a candidate for the nomination, and (God forbid) later in the general election. The man is past his prime, and in his prime he wasn't that good either, to tell the truth.
Still I get why so many people like Trump's brashness. What I don't get is the downright hatred for Ted Cruz, who is obviously the most solid and reliable down to the bones conservative candidate we have seen in decades.
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