Posted on 12/01/2015 9:12:32 AM PST by gwgn02
After eight years of Obama that have decimated the Democratic Party, the Dems seem poised to nominate a candidate who’s generally thought of as a corrupt, insincere liar with no significant accomplishments. This gives the Republican Party a real opportunity to put someone in the White House who can reverse the damage of the Obama years and get the country back on track.
As of today, there appear to be five candidates who are in the hunt for the nomination: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump.
Out of those candidates, Ted Cruz should be an easy choice for conservatives.
Why?
Well, if you want a conservative candidate in the White House, you can’t do better than Ted Cruz. Cruz has a 100% lifetime rating from the ACU, a 97% rating from Conservative Review and a 100% rating from Heritage Action.
Even on immigration, where Donald Trump is dominating the headlines, there isn’t much difference between Trump and Cruz. Cruz says he will build the wall, deport illegal aliens and he opposes birthright citizenship. Since Cruz opposed Rubio’s amnesty and open borders plan, there’s no reason to think he doesn’t mean it. Although it’s true that Cruz has not definitely said what will happen after we do finally secure the borders, it’s worth noting that Trump hasn’t either. That’s a big part of the reason why both Trump AND Cruz get the same A- grades from the gold standard on the issue, Numbers USA.
If you want “another Reagan†in the White House, then Cruz is the closest thing you’re ever going to get.
- If you want another Reagan in the White House, then Cruz is the closest thing you’re ever going to get.
The Iran Deal.
The Trade Deal.
Sometimes he gets the “separation of Powers” thing. Sometimes he doesn’t. He is more articulate and knowledgeable about the Constitution than anyone else. In voting? Not so much.
Sorry, I missed the name of the first... I think a bug was flying by, obscuring my PC screen that moment.
The only consistent, principled conservative in the race.
How has the better voting record?
As of today, there appear to be five candidates who are in the hunt for the nomination: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump.
If you want another Reagan in the White House, then Cruz is the closest thing you’re ever going to get.
Reagan on Compromise
http://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-reagan-on-compromise-1445379280
If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
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For starters, Reagan never forgot that to win the nomination, he needed the support of the Republican Party as a whole, and not just the hard-right. Then as now, ideological conservatives provided much of the party’s energy and activism at the grassroots but were only a minority of the GOP. Reagan knew that he needed them on his side, but not at the expense of party unity or of alienating independents and moderate Democrats in the general election.
It was Reagan who popularized the Eleventh Commandment (”Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican”) because he understood that a Republican Party that was bitterly divided couldn’t win a general election.
Those two votes kind of overshadow most other votes. The only more seriously wrong one would be a pro-amnesty vote. Being pro-amnesty renders everything conservative one might stand for irrelevant.
So I guess you consider Reagan irrelevant as a conservative, after he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 legalizing illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982?
Reagan was in a different time. He made a major error and he regretted it. There are many millions more illegals in America now than there were in Reagan’s time. The impact Amnesty would have now would totally wipe out political opposition to Democrats, Communists and Moslems. Amnesty now would turn the Republic over to the Total Democrat State from which there could be no recovery short of violent insurrection which may or may not succeed and which may or may not leave a republic that can withstand foreign intervention. Amnesty is not just another policy choice. It makes all the choices and it is existentially final.
Do you think approving the amnesty in 1986 had anything to do with the amount of illegals that are here today?
Cruz was horribly WRONG on two major bills in the Senate, He voted to give plenary power to Hussein to negotiate (sic) anything he wanted with no pushback and out of it we got an effective military alliance with Iran and a guarantee of Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. He voted to give Hussein plenary power to do the trade deal which promises to end the free market internationally and domestically as well as to fasten all facets of his Climate Change tyranny onto the country.
These may be no worse than errors of judgment but errors like that demonstrate clearly that he should not be President. That sort of errors by the President would be fatal to the Republic, perhaps those Senatorial actions already are.
Reagan was in a different time. He made a major error and he regretted it. There are many millions more illegals in America now than there were in Reagan’s time. The impact Amnesty would have now would totally wipe out political opposition to Democrats, Communists and Moslems. Amnesty now would turn the Republic over to the Total Democrat State from which there could be no recovery short of violent insurrection which may or may not succeed and which may or may not leave a republic that can withstand foreign intervention. Amnesty is not just another policy choice. It makes all the choices and it is existentially final.
Cruz Opposes Amnesty, Rubio Supported It, and Rubio Fails to See the Difference
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427046/ted-cruz-marco-rubio-immigration-amnesty
Next I find out that he is open to legal status for illegals here. I am not happy about that at all.
Then Cruz voted to renew the unconstitutional Patriot Act. The Patriot Act makes a mockery of our 4th amendment rights. How can anyone that claims to be a constitutional conservative vote to renew the Patriot Act? Now I am starting to seriously think Cruz just pretends to be a conservative.
The final straw came when Cruz became the Senates' biggest cheer leader for Trade Promotional Authority that fast tracks 3 super secrete trade deals. Really Ted? That's it for me. You are just like all the others we send to D.C. owned by the globalist ruling class.
Cruz supported ceding the total treaty power to the Democrats and the President. Twice. Cruz staunchly supported expansion of H1B that reduces employment for American college graduates.
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