Posted on 12/29/2015 7:12:16 PM PST by Isara
I’m pretty resigned to your eternal dedication to prideful cynicism, absent some miracle that I am unaware of (though of course I hope that miracle yet comes).
It keeps me humble that not everyone wants to be saved. I can’t pretend it depends on me, that way.
And wouldn’t it be rich, sweet, and delicious to you if Cruz blew it?
(I don’t think so)
Or again, it might BE that way to you... ah, another impostor outed, well to hell with that person, and maybe you’ll forgive yourself someday....
Cruz, Huckabee and Santorum all oppose: abortion, the homosexual infestation, recreational drugs and central control of education. They only differ on the best strategy to affect positive change. Santorum and Huckabee want to use the imperial power of the Federal Government to force such change, Cruz want to use the constitution. It is too bad to see the socialist conservatives attack the constitutional conservative, but really what else do they have?
Cruz is on the right track. The biggest mistake social conservatives can make is giving the federal government more power to implement their own agenda. When you do this, you are giving the other side additional hammers to hit you with later. Someone once said that “ All victories and defeats are temporary”. Under Santorum’s scenario, he has to win every federal election till the end of time in order to defend what he won. If he doesn’t, he just gave the other side additional power to squash his ideas, and implement theirs. To my thinking, Cruz places his trust in the Founders and the people. The people locally will decide these issues democratically, without the coercion of the overarching federal leviathan. That is how the Founders designed our system. The 10th Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights, was placed there for a reason. If the people of Vermont want to live one way, and the people of Wyoming want to live another, that is called Liberty. And for us individuals, we get to choose by voting with our feet, (or cars). I oppose a social conservative tyranny as much as a secular liberal tyranny. I trust the Founders and stand with them. And what I am hearing from the campaign trail, so does Cruz.
It is called the 10th amendmnt
As I mentioned.
True.
I hope Cruz, who appears the most plausible of them to do this, at least on the surface, actually genuinely leans on the Lord here.
God is less particular about the Constitution than He is about a people who believe. The Constitution is like a building that was made for revival meetings (though it had chattel slave trading going on in the basement). Its use depends utterly on the purposes of those who use it.
Those who don't know history...
Being Huckabee’s previous vocation, I would hope so.
Well stated. Establishment republicans like big government as much as progressives, just a different flavor of big government. Constitutionalists understand that our constitution outlines a limited government "Finding" (aka inventing) Constitutional rights and responsibilities at will invites the abuse that has dug the hole in which America now finds herself.
“helicondata would take any opportunity to serve his god trump and attack Sen. Cruz.”
When you mention another Freeper in a post it’s good manners to ping him/her.
Why is this no percenter going after Cruz?
Rick has always been pious and petty
Ted has never been petty
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IMHO, Santorum is going after Cruz in an attempt to curry favor with any GOPe type candidate who may benefit. Santorum has ZERO possibility of winning the nomination and HE KNOWS IT...he just doesn’t know that he also has ZERO possibility of being anyone’s running mate.
Santorum is a has been who is a legend in his own mind.
General rule doesn’t apply to trolls.
Mr. Personality has spoken.
Re “If I had money to put on it, I’d say that Trump is busing in supporters to make his support look larger than it really is.”
In his announcement for candidacy he actually paid people to fill the venue.
Fact.
Sorry if that busts the bubble of the trumpholes who always proclaim crowd size as the final barometer of votes. I would be willing to bet that many of the mouth trumpholes will not even get off their ass to vote for him when it matters. Cruz has broken glass supporters. What is a “broken glass supporter” you ask? We are ready to crawl over a mile of broken glass to cast our vote for Ted.
Cruz ceded the moral high ground when he hid behind “constitutionality” instead of right and wrong. If Cruz was seriously against homosexual marriage, he should have said so and said that yes, each state can make their own choice, but as a nation we also need to determine what the nation accepts on a national level. Nothing wrong with state vs. national being at odds. Just because California wants to sanction homosexual marriage, they should not individually have the right to force it upon the nation. Cruz ceded the national battle, which also undermines state’s rights. How can any state say No in the current status quo that Cruz has now endorsed. Thus, Cruz has tossed the towel on the fight against homosexual marriage. His varying comments to different groups is simple pandering and playing politician. The lawyer in him hides behind the definition of is. And the hypocrite in Cruz won’t allow him to be transparent and honest about it all.
Well said.
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