Posted on 03/24/2015 7:56:47 AM PDT by don-o
While he's undeniably brilliant and worth reading and considering what he says, it's imperative to actually look at his whole record and keep that in mind before blindly trusting him. I have to post the following every so often to remind people:
"Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility of the kind enjoyed by sister democracies such as Canada and Britain. Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily. It certainly cannot be done radically. It will probably take one, maybe two generations. It might be 50 years before the United States gets to where Britain is today. Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation." - Charles Krauthammer, "Disarm the Citizenry", The Washington Post, Friday, April 5, 1996, page A19
He has never retracted nor disavowed this. He's an elitist, not one of us, and although his opinions can be useful, he is not a friend of freedom.
We all need to calm down and take a deep breath. Krauthammer’s reference to a ‘first-term Senator’ does have some merit. Still, Cruz is certainly in no way similar to Obama - No Way.
We conservatives have several good horses in this 2016 race. Let’s not handicap them so early. Also, eventually we will need to coalesce for one candidate. It’s still 10 months out before we get close to any primaries.
This the immediate DEFAULT position of the Media and RINO class whenever a real American gets close to power. They know nothing of how THE PEOPLE will actually vote.
Daaaaaaaang.
I’m all in.
(I’d been ambivalent about him before, knowing he’s conservative but largely dismissing him because he started campaigning way too soon - few who start this early survive. But that’s a pretty sharp resume, especially contributing that much to _Heller_ and preserving religious expressions.)
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