Posted on 09/02/2018 2:13:51 PM PDT by gattaca
Edited on 09/02/2018 4:56:39 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
“Why is the stuff this teenager dreams up considered newsworthy by our media?”
We live in a world of 24/7 media coverage. That consumes a huge amount of content. Every time you see a name that isn’t vaguely familiar and the headline reads “Joe Blow says Trump is insane,” you know it’s an attempt to create clickable content. David Hogg is a name we at least recognize and, therefore, he is clickable content. This will go on until he is no longer useful to anybody. (Like that woman who used to run around protesting George Bush. The moment she was no longer useful, she vanished.)
Well, let’s just say that when Ted Cruz opted not to be involved in the Mississippi race and cut a deal with Mitch McConnell, his Tea Party credentials proved fake.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/09/for-ted-cruz-supporters/
Though personally I had been suspicious of him since 2013.
And when Cruz attacked Sarah Palin for backing Trump, his true RINO colors were revealed.
It will be $400k by Oct 1st.
“Overall, he is 98% perfect as a conservative politician. “
Maybe according to Conservative Review.
But otherwise absurd.
He has espoused affinity for every trade deal there ever was and voted for every one he had the opportunity to.
He has advocated for legalizing illegals in place.
He has voted for and advocated for the expansion of H-1B.
He has voted for all the GOP spending bills.
He has voted for all the Deep State surveillance bills, and strongly advocated for some.
He has voted for innumerable foreign adventures and advocated for more.
He traitorously shamed himself at the GOP convention in 2016.
And there’s more...
But, hey, if that’s what you call “98% conservative”...you can have my share and do with it as you please. I have no use for that kind of conservative and neither do most here on this site.
He’s a traitorous, despicable scumbag.
But should be elected over the full blown commie.
And that’s the ONLY thing to recommend him.
Though I did have a brush with death with the 2015 Nepal earthquake; I was in Nepal in 1988 and in geological terms that’s a close call. I was shook up for days. 😏
I am a survivor as well. Please send money.
His Go Fund Me is probably going to fund his own pocket.
good strategy
“The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.”
- President Ronald Reagan
Cruz is not only an ally, he is among our best allies - in an imperfect world filled with imperfect politicians who make ugly deals to avoid things that are even worse.
This should get interesting. It’s fair game to use statements made during primaries.
why not?
Where does Piglet Hogwash find the time?
I thought he was too busy making out with his boyfriend Cameron Kasky.
“You are coughing up the same lame Rove-era squeeze-play that got all these RINOs in office in the first place.”
Rove had nothing to do with Cruz becoming a senator. Cruz is the product of the Tea Party movement. Sure, he had to raise money somewhere, and that is his Achilles heal. That’s also one of the great things about Trump is that he never needed anyone’s money and was actually taking a step down in his personal lifestyle in order to serve as president. I don’t think any other national politician can say that, including Cruz.
Cruz was picked by the Tea Party to replace Kay Bailey Hutchinson rather than GOPe candidate David Dewhurst.
“Two years from now, I will be proved correct.”
How? You think Cruz is not going to support Trump in 2020?
If he does that I will, as a long time Cruz supporter, admit you were right.
But if the facts show otherwise in two years, will you admit it?
Nope. Cruz was picked by Bush Rove and wrote Bush’s Amnesty papers in the early 2000’s, at a time when he should have known better than to advocate open borders during wartime.
In two years, if Cruz is re elected, we’ll just see more of the same impotency from Cruz. My, you are so over-invested in Cruz, ain’t cha?
I agree with Sundance’s opinions of Cruz from 2014 on, so no need to reply to me. Just read Conservative Treehouse the same way the Cruz campaign did in September 2015, when they lied to Sundance and said that they “had the numbers” to win the White House and that they’d send them to him.
Then... they didn’t. Because Sundance was right about Cruz. RINO stooge.
We are voting for Trump, not Cruz.
“Cruz was picked by Bush Rove and wrote Bush’s Amnesty papers in the early 2000’s”
Rove and Cruz have butted heads from start to finish. You have a lot of outlandish assertions but no evidence.
Cruz served as a clerk for Chief Justice Rehnquist on the Supreme Court in the mid-90s. He also worked for a small conservative constitutional law firm before going to work for W’s presidential campaign. He offended Rove there, though Cruz admitted he overstepped his bounds a number of times, and this kept him from getting any appointments in the Bush admin.
So, he took an offer to work for Texas Gov. Abbott. He represented Texas before the Supreme Court for five years where he earned his early track record as a conservative. These are the evidence-based facts, not the emotional, intuitive imaginations of someone who holds a grudge over Cruz’ mistakes, failures, and sins.
In 2009 Cruz raised over a million dollars with a planned campaign to become the Texas attorney general, but then the current attorney general at the time decided to stay. When Hutchison announced her retirement, Cruz went against Rove and the GOPe, aligned with the Tea Party, and campaigned against and defeated Dewhurst in a major upset.
In 2013, Cruz defied the GOPe on the government shutdown. He listened to people like those on this site. He listened to Tea Party supporters. He listened to conservatives. He ignored the GOPe bigwigs and made himself odious to them. Cruz managed to get the shutdown, but the GOPe went mushy and attacked him for political fallout.
During the next couple of years, Cruz became known for bashing his fellow Republicans to their faces and in the press, much like John McCain, EXCEPT for their not being faithful to their campaign promises and commitment to conservative principles and the official party platform. McCain was the opposite—always attacking Republicans for being conservative.
“In two years, if Cruz is re elected, we’ll just see more of the same impotency from Cruz.”
Cruz is a senator. He can not do the job without support from other senators. He has been on the right side of issues and the voting record most of the time—better than almost any other senator during the same time period.
“My, you are so over-invested in Cruz, ain’t cha?”
I’ll just take what you’re saying at face value, even though you come across as having the same secret agenda that you accuse Cruz of having. Who exactly would you prefer in Cruz’ place? Dewhurst? Would he have been a better pick to you? Was Hutchison a better senator?
You said Trump backing Cruz was a mistake. Do you prefer Beto O’Rourke? Are you advocating voting for the pro-abortion Democrat?
Even Sundance recognized Cruz was the target of the GOPe, to prevent Cruz from having a path to the White House:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/09/for-ted-cruz-supporters/
Sundance (and you) have many legitimate complaints about bad choices Cruz has made. TPP is probably the worst.
But if you are going to rail against him, you better have a better alternative. I contend that some Republicans, such as Mitt Romney and John McCain are (or were) so bad that a Democrat might actually be preferable. But I can’t see how anyone could sanely argue that against Cruz. If Cruz needs to go, there are about 80+ Republican senators that need to go first.
Trump recently appointed an openly lesbian judge. This was a mistake, but it was not something that anyone can point to and say Trump broke his campaign promise. It was a mistake, but we all still are fully behind him as our president. He’s human after all. I feel your objections to Cruz are unreasonable given the context of our current situation.
I’m not going to abandon Cruz and label him a RINO for his failures, just like I’m not going to abandon Trump over a mistake like this judge.
Cruz is a reliable vote to defund Planned Parenthood and repeal Obamacare. That’s more than you can say about many other Republican senators. Perhaps you should be directing your animus toward those phonies rather than Cruz, even if Cruz has some major flaws.
“there are about 80+ Republican senators that need to go first.”
I meant 80%+.
Just read Sundance/The Conservative Treehouse for the truth on Ted Cruz and please leave me be... argue with him, not me.
Don’t forget Ted Cruz’s campaign LIED to Sundance when they read his September 9/2015 assessment that Cruz did not have the numbers for the nomination.
Just do your homework from The Conservative Treehouse and try to deny his arguments about Cruz.
“Gee, I wonder why so many colleges have rejected Hogg’s applications?”
Hopefully all of them. Hogg missed so many days of class last spring, on account of his activism, I’m surprised Parkland did not hold him back to take 12th grade again. If he is accepted by a college this year, you can bet politics got him in.
Not necessarily. I expect the public and even the MSM to tire of his whiny, immature behavior. Worst case is, he runs and loses (like Cindy Sheehan) and rides off into oblivion.
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