Ted Cruz: 'Now or never' to save America

WND ^ | 8/5/15 | Garth Kant

[markomalley]

The questions don’t come much bigger.

In essence, it was: Is this last chance to save America as we know it?

Some might find the answer chilling.

WND asked Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas: If the Democrats win the White House again in 2016, will it be too late to prevent the country from turning into a permanent social-welfare state, and will it be the end of American exceptionalism?

“I do believe, with this election – it’s now or never,” was his succinct and foreboding response.

Why?

“The threats to our liberty have never been greater,” Cruz began to explain.

First, he addressed the immediate threat to all Americans.

“In just six-and-a-half years we’ve gone from $10-trillion in debt to over $18-trillion. Our debt is larger than the size of our entire economy.”

Then he referred to threats stemming from the political weaponization of the IRS and Justice Department under President Obama, including the targeting of conservatives for their political beliefs, as well as the targeting of religious individuals and institutions over objections to Obamacare provisions and same-sex marriage, and government spying by the NSA and Justice Department.

[MaxMax]

Recent in politics is eight years. Look at Trump over the past eight years and
we see a flaming liberal who supports liberal NY causes.

Conservatives need to recognize who Cruz truly is, more Conservative than history.
But alas, there'll always be the Anal Conservatives with one line voter records
that changes according each candidate.

[MaxMax]

Gee, where did that come from. OMG! It's a disaster!

Maybe you didn't grasp the meaning of my post, and now your trolling glee
has you munching cookies at your keyboard at the joy of being replied to.

You go vote for your Hillary now, I don't want you in Cruz' camp anyway.

[TangoLimaSierra]

His H-1B proposal has soured me on Cruz.

Really? I hadn't heard that...

on every single Cruz thread!!!

[tet68]

Cruz is the only one to have a solid grounding in the
Constitution and an unwavering loyalty to it.

Trump is doing useful work now by talking about
issues but is not in my estimation a viable candidate.

Cruz is.

Cruz 2016.

[cripplecreek]

My rule of thumb is that if I agree with a candidate 100% of the time, somebody is lying. Either the candidate is lying to me or worse, I’m lying to myself.

Cruz has a smudge and trump has a couple flecks of paint remaining.

[nathanbedford]

The old saw goes, we get the government we deserve.

We love to sit in our armchairs and criticize the likes of Mitch McConnell and John Boehner but perhaps we ought to acknowledge a simple fact, these men accurately judge the temper of their constituents and the needs of their financial supporters and prevail while we movement conservatives fail to support genuine conservatives and instead go a whoring after a media confection.

Whatever government a Donald Trump would deliver we can count on the fact that it will not be consistently conservative nor will it create a legacy upon which conservatism can grow.

Perhaps it is not just Joe sixpack who gets the government he deserves perhaps we who presume to count ourselves among the well-informed get what we deserve. At least Joe sixpack gets what he thinks he wants while we get smoke blown.

[cripplecreek]

Ted Cruz has a history of standing up to Goliath even when we aren’t looking. In the Medellín v. Texas that few of us even knew about, Cruz faced opposition from the Bush white house, Mexico, the UN, and international court. He found justice for the victims of a raping/murdering illegal alien as well as wins for Texas state sovereignty and US national sovereignty. He did it when he wasn’t running for office.

He’s never supported gun control in any way shape or form. He’s never supported gay marriage or abortion. He’s never supported common core or corporate bailouts. He didn’t accuse Pam Geller of bringing the Garland terror attack on herself or threaten to find dirt to smear Michelle Malkin.

[dontreadthis]

for all practical purposes, if push comes to shove, I can see either Trump or Cruz throw their support to one another in order to deny Bush or Kasick the nomination.
Tell me where I’m wrong.

[cripplecreek]

Not sure what it has to do with anything. I won’t be voting for Trump and that decision is firm.

[WKUHilltopper]

No man can save America. Only Jesus.

[MaxMax]

We cannot have Cruz pick Trump as VP, and Trump won't get the Conservative
vote aka Romney if he wins the primary.

Reagan chose Bush 41 as his VP and look where we are. No, Cruz needs
to pick a Conservative because whomever the VP pick is will become a
viable POTUS candidate in the future and having a RINO hack will not
bring us back to the Constitution.

Bush(41) is the prime example of choosing a VP candidate for the wrong reasons.

[KGeorge]

H1Bs, along with illegals & massive foreign ‘’re-settlement’’ + outsourcing (trade agreements, which Cruz has also facilitated- whether he was ‘’tricked’’ into it or not) are what has decimated us, economically.

Whether it is poor judgement or complicity, I would not choose him to lead our country under any circumstances, for this reason

[Dr.Deth]

H-1B's typically have a marketable skill over and above drywall or trimming hedges. This would not be a detriment in combination with: mass deportation (that is, immediate repatriation for any arrested illegal, including transfer of prison sentences for felons, and self-deportation through enforcing hiring violations), and rolling back the wink-wink FedGov policies that 90% of legal immigration must come from third-world hellholes or else you're a stinking racist.

[peyton randolph]

Why Cruz is not at the top of every conservatives list is unbelievable to me.

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Short answer: Cruz screwed the pooch over TPA/TPP and his tone deafness on H1-B visas.

However, he's slowly regaining trust.

Believe Cruz learned his lesson over crony capitalist trade agreements designed to destroy U.S. sovereignty. Not sure if he understands yet that expanding H1-B visas is a non-starter. If anything, the visas should be eliminated until real unemployment plummets.

[central_va]

I massive layoff in the 1990's and H-1B replacements almost cost me my house and put severe strain in my marriage. I have been personally affected by this monsterous program that needs to die. It is a huge program that had flown under the radar for a long time.

Funny thing the department that I worked in that was layed off most off us were brought back in 6 months later as contractors to clean up the mess the H-1b losers made. Out of the 30 or so a few were decent. That's about it.

[cripplecreek]

Just watching Mark Levin from his appearance on FOX last night. He says that while Trump leading with 26% is impressive, it still leaves 74% opposed.

The Trump supporters are all wound up about a map of web searches for Trump but they’re making an awful big assumption that they are all “pro Trump” searches.

[peyton randolph]

H-1B's typically have a marketable skill

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The problem is that marketable skill means Indians, Pakis, Filipinos, etc. coming here to displace U.S. workers by getting paid 1/3 the salary for the same job done by the U.S. citizen they replace. They're willing to live multiple families to a house (ghetto builders) to cut costs so they can afford the pay cut (that's a raise by what they'd make in their home countries). And they vote Democrat.

Cruz essentially screws the American skilled worker by advocating radical expansion of the H1-B visa program rather than reduction or temporary suspension to protect American workers. Since Trump entered the arena, Cruz has been silent on the visa issue. However, I still haven't heard him take a stance contrary to the one where he wanted a 500% increase in the number of such visas.

[MaxMax]

I would not choose him to lead our country under any circumstances, for this reason

Really? So which isolationist candidate do you support? And which Isolationist POTUS
does your choice represent in the history of Politics in America that
has won on Isolationism?

I demand you answer the questions or be labeled a trolling hack. You don't get
a pass because you seem to obviously know what you're talking about.

[MaxMax]

That is a valid assertion, nobody knows that is being searched for. I don't.

As the primary draws near that map will represent every candidate.

[McGruff]

Trump/Cruz 2016. It would be a powerful team.