“The public bluster has you totally bamboozled.”
The only candidate who stayed true to his “public bluster” was Ronald Reagan. Here in Louisiana Bill Cassidy said everything right, we had no other real choice, we put him in office, and in literally THREE DAYS he betrayed us with his vote on the budget. Ditto Bobby Jindal, who said EVERYTHING right, and is about to leave office with the state budget, and other things, in absolute shambles. What a candidate says is what we have to go by, unless they have a voting record. If a candidate is too timid to step up and attack the forces that are destroying the nation, then I cross him off. How much more so if they VOTE for those forces, as in a trade agreement. Trump has been attacking those destructive forces consistently for years. How can an “impeccable conservative” vote to empower Obama on trade? Call for more H-1B visas? Call for more legal immigration (already over a million per year)? The only Reagan-like candidate in my estimation would be Senator Jeff Sessions, and he is not running. People change and progress through life. You can never really know. (As for bluster, everyone I’ve ever met from New York City had that attitude.)
so Trump is okay to bamboozle you because you were disappointed by Cassidy and Jindal too? You make no sense dude.
But I’m gonna tell you this, and your thick noggin won’t accept it, but Trump is FAR FAR FAR MORE LIBERAL than Cassidy or Jindal. You’ll be embarrassed at some point.
You have no idea what issues are really conservative / liberal fault lines. In fact, you have some of them bass ackwards because you are wrong on some of them.
On the cloture vote for trade: it’s hard to say this trade deal is bad or good...because Elizabeth Warren and most of the Democrats are VERY Much against it. That indicates it’s probably okay. On the other hand, Obama is for it, and that indicates it may not be.
I could say he voted to defeat Eliz Warren on trade, and that’s a good thing.
In other words, this is not a conservative / liberal issue fault line. Unless of course you’re a liberal union thug and hate all international trade. Are you?
Or it could be that 60 votes were solid anyway, and Cruz is negotiating on another issue. That type of swapping goes on all the time. It’s a fact of life, get used to it.
As for legal immigration, there’s no evidence Cruz is for more of it...and no evidence that more legal immigration is bad. The H1 B visa issue is used as a bargaining chip to stop illegal immigration, an issue where Cruz is among the best in all of the congress.