Posted on 01/19/2016 7:25:30 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz
Just a thought on the Republican primaries.
Cruz.
Yes, Rubio and Jindal were born in the USA. I consider both of them anchor babies and am against their automatic citizenship.
I supported Cruz 110% for POTUS for many years until he dishonestly campaigned for Barack Obama’s TPA. Then I began to realize that Cruz the man does not match the myth and dropped him.
Cruz 1st. Carson 2nd.
When Trump announced I really didn’t take it seriously. Never kept up with or cared one bit about Donald Trump. I haven’t watched TV in over 20 years. I pick and choose what I watch online. So Trump was not on my radar and I didn’t like his personality or style.
He had me at BUILD THE WALL. Then after that, I agree with most if not all of his platform, which is the best platform of all the candidates.
Go Trump!
Nobody. The rest were just politicians.
Me too, he made me feel so proud and patriotic the way he talked but then came the gang of 8 and being bought out by establishment. So weak and fell in with that gang. So disappointed.
I supported zero, zip, none of them.
Terrible leadership, from top to bottom.
As an independent, I was floating out there, feeling completely unrepresented. Without Trump maybe I would have supported Bernie Sanders because bringing industry back to the US and H-1B visa fraud and gun rights were the issues that I cared about most, and Bernie has been talking about these issues for years. I gravitated to Trump because he’s a stronger leader and he is also saying sensible things about immigration. I want that wall and strict vetting of immigrants. Cruz makes me uncomfortable. He comes across as smug and sanctimonious and appears to view a lot of people as evil sinners.
“I supported Ted Cruz. I still support both of them. I wish they’d quit fighting.”
I think that Trump is more electable, and in the same way that McCain became less ideologically unacceptable after nominating Sarah Palin, I think that Trump will after choosing Cruz for VP (or Jeff Sessions, with Cruz as Attorney General).
My perspective is that the Republican MUST win this election, no matter WHO it is - because if Hillary or Sanders does then the courts are lost forever and all of the Obama legacy will become a permanent part of the fabric of this country...IOW, the United States of America will be OVER. That CANNOT be allowed to happen!
I wanted Cruz but wasn’t happy because he wouldn’t addresses what he would do with illegals here and wouldn’t explain wanting an increase in H1Bs. I waited for him to be more forthcoming. When he wasn’t and Trump started saying things I wanted to hear from Cruz - I waited a little longer, then gave up and switched.
Yeah. Perry and Walker were the “least bad” of the bunch.
Laughing at the “dilute-the-local-vote” establishment toadies (Graham, Pataki, Christie, Kasich..)
Bush was obviously “The CHOSEN One” this time by the Establsihment.
Without Trump in the race, he would be nominated already.
I was totally uninterested in the primaries. It was filled with has beens, never weres, and establishment types like Bush, Rubio, Christie, and Fiorina. There was no one that generated the least little bit of interest, except maybe Cruz, but I wasn’t that interested in him either, figuring he wouldn’t attract a broad enough slice of the electorate to win. There were none that could or even would put up a struggle against Clinton.
Trump is the only one who has shown a willingness to fight Clinton using her own tactics.
This year has the potential of greatness, to see the end of the 0bama regime, the destruction of the Bush machine, and the destruction of the Clintons.
There was a race before Trump?
I was for Scott Walker, and that ‘conditioned’ me for the continued vicious attacks from the Cruzers when I switched to Trump.
Mostly Establishment candidates, undoubtedly.
I am completely in accord with you there.
Originally I was for Walker, Jindal or Cruz. Now for Trump or Cruz.
I was first for Cruz, but always knew Canada would be an issue and it is.
I liked his beliefs and values but for me it’s gone over the top. I’m not interested in a Pastor-in-Chief. We need a CiC with those values but the Come-to-Jesus rallies are too much for me. I like a leader who shows his values in the way he lives without having to constantly tell everyone about it.
TPP vote and being snookered by McConnell was a red flag. Either he was naive or too arrogant to listen to his experienced staff — neither are good.
Then there is the the ability to win. You can’t change anything if you don’t win the general. You have to be president for all, not just evangelicals. I was dumbfounded by his slam of New York. I get the premise, but the broad stroke dissing reached even me here in the SW. I lived in NYS during 9/11. It was the wrong term to use. It caused division rather than unity. It appeared that he would rather be right than to win so he can fix things. The additional flips and info coming out haven’t helped either.
Maybe I’m not really conservative after all. Maybe I’m just a pro-American nationalist first. My roots go to the Mayflower, the founding of the 2nd Baptist church, the revolutionary war, the Pony Express, the settling and building of the American West, the family that came and built a new life after losing everything but their lives under Hitler, to name a few. So maybe that has something to do with it.
Cruz, until I learned more about him. Now I support Trump.
I was for Cruz, originally, and he is still my strong 2nd choice. i don’t think any of the rest have enough following to overcome the vote fraud machine of Clinton.
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