Posted on 01/22/2016 4:08:30 AM PST by monkapotamus
There's something initially angering that becomes very sad when a fraud is revealed. Tonight on his radio show Mark Levin was forced to admit the son of his fiancee is a full time staffer for Senator Ted Cruz.
After spending weeks attacking anyone who critiques candidate Ted Cruz, the motives of Mark Levin now take full sunlight. He should be ashamed, VERY ashamed.
No, Mr. crony-constitutionalist, lying by omission is not the least bit funny. Nor is deception toward your audience when you do not disclose your own conflicts. Especially when we consider the hours Levin spends railing against the internecine family associations like George Will and his wife working for Scott Walker.
Crony politics is apparently alive and well amid the Mark Levin radio show. Perhaps he will tell the audience how much advertising money he takes from political campaigns? Or more specifically entities with a vested interest in political campaigns?
Think he'll fess up now that he's busted?
Nah, me neither.
He's got another book to sell...
Wow. Just Wow.
The campaign of Donald Trump continues to expose the "Decepticons".
Beck? Check. Levin? Check.
No actually Levin never addressed the issue in a meaningful manner, same with Rush. I listen to both all the time.
Gee, I sure hope they are all natural born talk show hosts. Don't want one of them hosts hatched from a lizard egg! That's one of the most vital issues facing the USA, you know?
Rush (the Rush I listen to) has been sneaking in a furriner to cover on his days off: Mark Steyn, your undocumented talk show host from England by way of Canada and now in New Hampshire). My God, it's a plot by the Bilderbergers, the CFR, and furrniers trying to sap our sovereignty, unlike say GATT, NAFTA and all those "trade deals" to line the pockets of the investor lass at the expense of Joe Six-Pack.
What we need is a POTUS (unquestionably a NBC by the strictest fantasies which is about 80% of the game who knows how to play Monty Hall in "Let's Make a Deal!!!!").
We could save all this Birther controversy by nominating McConnell, Ryan-o, Cantor, Boehner, all having that vital, by God, credential of Birther approved narrowest definition NBC status (maybe) and all fully capable of selling our country down the river to its actual enemies, domestic and foreign since they have made a career of it.
How many Isis foot soldi.. err, oppressed refugees (yeah, that's the ticket) will be moving to YOUR neighborhood? Make sure that whoever brings 'em in by the millions with their AK-47s and their plastique is, him or herself, a NBC by the strictest Birther fantasies. We want our traitors to be NATURAL BORN TRAITORS according to the strictest definitions possible. Was it the Donald's mother who was born in Scotland? Or maybe his grandmother? Hell, let's redefine the undefined NBC to require that ALL ancestors of ANY candidate for POTUS going back to 1787, be NBCs according to Birther fantasy?
When Ted Cruz decided to be conceived and born in Canada, well, he just shoulda known bettah if he wanted to be POTUS. As they say in NYC, Fuggedaboudit!
AND Cruz stands up to them... (That said, I'm still a Trump person)
Good on borders. Good on guns. A pig in the poke on everything else. Yeah, he's the champeen! Besides, reflection on the nuances of issues or even simple manners are irrelevant to his fans and make their heads hurt. Who wants all that complexity? Whaddya want? ACTION! When do ya want it? NOW!!!!!!! What kind of action? WE DON'T CARE! STOP CONFUSING US! TRUMP WILL BUILD THE WALL ALMIGHTY and all will be well for ever after.
As far as teaching those uppity Ivy Leaguers a lesson, you ARE aware that The Donald's alma mater is The Wharton School of Finance at the, ummmm, quite Ivy League University of Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate, Mark Levin attended Temple University in Philadelphia, graduating summa cum laude at the age of 19, and went on to graduate Temple University Law School. Temple is NOT an Ivy League school. Rush matriculated (studied and was enrolled at) at Southwest Missouri State College for two semesters and one summer, flunking almost everything, according to family sources, and then got on with the business of saving the USA from its foreign and domestic enemies. Southwest Missouri State College is, ummmm, not an Ivy League school unless the Ivy League has massively expanded and it has not.
Basic principle: a grammar school dropout hustling garbage cans in Chicago WHO IS RIGHT is MORE RIGHT than an Ivy Leafgue professor of Poetry or Gender Studies or Global Warming Fantasies WHO IS WRONG.
Credentialism is not part of our movement in the sense that you have to have grown up in the right neighborhood, been educated at the right schools and married the right spouse. Bill Buckley's Yale degree was more significant because of his manifest differences with prevailing prejudices at Yale than if he had conformed (see God and Man at Yale). That Ronaldus Maximus came from a comparatively humble background was also a source of conservative pride. Neither ever made a point of saying that we had to pay heed to him because he was rich. In relative terms, Buckley was and Reagan was not but Buckley would certainly have deferred to Ronaldus Maximus as more successful politically. Buckley also famously observed on many occasions that he would much rather be governed by 100 people chosen absolutely at random from the Boston telephone directory than by 100 Harvard professors.
If Mark Levin is an elitist, he is genuinely an elitist of the mind and that is nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone does not have to be such an elitist but it is nice for a political movement to have some folks who are and have them in leading roles and NOT because they were born to zillionaire families or have the fattest stock or real estate portfolios. I disagree very strongly with Levin on restoring election by state legislatures of US Senators, for example, and, I am sure on other issues as well, but he is always thought provoking and knows well how to use his talents and his radio and publishing pulpit.
Levin was also quite active in Young Americans for Freedom in its death struggle with the New Left. Trump, ummmm, was not! We also need in leadership those blooded in such domestic wars. I would bet good money that Hannity got his playbook on Bill Ayres, Bernardine Doehrn and Obozo's other communist political playmates from his lawyer, Mark Levin. Trump probably could not identify the roots of Obozo's radicalism if his real estate empire depended on it. Levin can and does.
Where do the term “native-born” appear in the text of the Constitution instead of in the fervent wishin’ and hopin’, however fervent, of the Birthers? Since when does some bureaucrat acquire the ability to unilaterally amend the Constitution? Garbage In, Garbage Out!
The government tells us that the welfare state is for our own good. Likewise, cowardice in foreign policy; disarming our military; killing 60+ million innocent babies and counting by surgical means alone since 1973 "under color of law," that man-made global warming, errr. climate change or whatever exists and MUST be stopped (preferably by shutting down all productive manufacturing and returning our way of life to the Stone Age), making endless promises to spend our grandchildren's money that we and they do not have on things we and they do not want and that we and they definitely do not need, are all things that our government and BOTH political party leaderships assure us is for our own good, like Castor Oil except that the government schemes do not work.
Relying on the gummint's fantasies and lies? What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, and Sundance, the anonymous blogger, whoever he/she may be (Robert Redford perhaps?), regardless of his/her unknown credentials or lack thereof, is either right or wrong on the merits. In this matter, that would be a wrong whether he has a string of Ivy League PhDs or dropped out of grammar school.
Is Ted Cruz a native born US citizen?
In or about 1990 or 1992, a friend of mine, State Senator Tom Scott, was running for Congress in Connecticut's Third Congressional District centered on New Haven and other hideously liberal locations. Tom was the most relaibly conservative Congressional candidate that has stood for office since the 1950s.
His opponent was one Rosa DeLauro, STILL to Greater New Haven's shame, a member of Congress and a leadership factotum in the Demonrat Treasonweasel Caucus in the House. She was and is married to Stanley Greenberg, the very accomplished Demonrat pollster. She is his second wife. The original Mrs. Greenberg was quite offended by the husband divorcing her to marry Rosa and even more offended at references in DeLauro's campaign literature and photos of Stanley, Rosa and "the children" as though they were "the children of superannuated childless Rosa rather than of their actual mother.
Jack Kemp came to New Haven to campaign for Tom Scott and speak at a fundraiser at a Downtown New Haven nightclub. When he referenced "Ms. DeLauro" as the radical she was and is, a wiseacre in the back of the room shouted: That's Mrs. Greenberg. Whatever the intended significance of that remark, Kemp put down his prepared text, faced the anonymous fellow who made the remark and told him: "This is America where we are all proud of our names and if you don't accept that, you can leave." I was there and I believe that Kemp knew nothing about the original Mrs. Greenberg but thought that the wisecrack was anti-Semitic and he wanted nothing to do with anti-Semites and good for him. He was a man who should have been POTUS but was simply too fine and admirable a man for the despicable whores who run the GOP.
Whatever, if the shoe fits, wear it and be ashamed of yourself. If it does not fit, then I apologize in advance. His actual name is Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz. What of it?
Rafael Cruz Jr., is his legal name. He’s from Canada. He’s a Cuban citizen according to the Cuban Constitution.
WHERE Ted Cruz was born is utterly irrelevant, as with Obozo and McCain and Weicker, since in both cases, mom was an American citizen and that was all that was necessary for her son to be an NBC. Marco Rubio was born in the USA whether his parents were citizens or not and THAT was all that was needed for him to be an NBC.
Now, despising Weicker more than any other politician as I do since he combines the social revolutionary commitments and performance of Moral Monster Mitt Romney with the murderous intentions (toward babies at least) of Charles Manson and the rapacious fiscal greed of Clan Rockefeller for Other People's $$$$$ all expressed as public policy, I am willing to entertain evidence on the possibility that he was not an NBC. It may have been a mixup at the Paris in which his mother's major bowel movement was mistaken for an infant and that Satan, somehow animated that excrement until it became a 6'8" and 400 pound servant of Satan non-pareil. Until evidence is presented, however, his NBC status is presumed on the citizenship of his parents and his trust fund. A rebuttable presumption in Weicker's case, but a presumption nonetheless. When he goes to his eternal, ummmm, reward below, the evil he consistently did in life will long outlive him.
Our courts have long since ruled that American citizens need not submit legal actions as to automobile injuries occurring in Saudi Arabian courts because that country does not maintain anything legally cognizable as due process of law. By analogy, I don't think that Castro's Devil's Island of Cuba is any more civilized than our sometime ally Saudi Arabia. If anything, rather less so.
And you are not answering the import of my point. Rosa DeLauro thinks that her birth name DeLauro should be her name in public life (apparently because her father, a gangster named Eddie DeLauro (now very long dead) and her mother Luisa DeLauro, served for nearly sixty years as Aldermen, Luisa succeeding Eddie when he died, from the traditional nice Italian American Wooster Square neighborhood in New Haven, and the Congressional District is heavily Italian American. If Ted wishes to be known as Ted, that is also his name. Though Rosa DeLauro is, in fact, Mrs. Greenberg, she wants to be known as Ms. DeLauro. Any problem with either? What?
Like all of us, Chancellor Kent had a nose, some other body parts and opinions, some relevant to Wong Kim Ark and some not. The HOLDING of the case has NOTHING to do with an American citizen born in Canada. It merely affirms that Wong Kim Ark (child of Chinese citizens) born in San Francisco in 1870 or thereabouts was by that very fact and by that fact alone a US citizen legally entitled to be re-admitted to the USA despite the "Yellow Peril" hysteria of the usual gang of idiot bureaucrats who tried to keep him from coming home from a visit to China.
This embarrassment and disgrace were brought to us by the usual gang of hysterical paranoid nutcases who imagined that the USA was being overrun by the "Yellow Horde." Genghis Khan is coming! Genghis Khan is coming! He's been dead for centuries! He's coming anyhow!
Wong Kim Ark was NOT standing for POTUS. This has NOTHING to do with Cruz. Cruz's mother is/was an American citizen by birth and passed her citizenship to Ted Cruz. Rafael Cruz, Sr., had fought FOR Castro in his misspent youth and in his early 20s had been tortured in Castro's prisons. He fled Cuba permanently, as a result. If Ted Cruz was a citizen of each and every nation on earth, through his mother, a native of Delaware and an American citizen, Ted was a citizen. The HOLDING in Wong Kim Ark excludes no one and certainly no one situated as Ted Cruz.
Children of foreign ambassadors are specifically excluded from citizenship by birth in the USA. That is a LOT more than can be said for the Birther fantasy.
We call extraneous comments that are not PART of the HOLDING, DICTA. If the court says the sky was blue when Wong Kim Ark arrived from China to return home, the color of the sky is irrelevant and not part of the holding and of NO precedential value. The word "native" is not found in the constitution.
I am posting this part of my response before I lose it. More to come!
Common law is a body of judge made law, changeable by legislation consistent with the constitution and by changes in the constitution itself. However, importantly, common law "evolves" and, while based on precedents, those precedents may be set aside by judges when they deem such advisable.
After seven plus years of Obozo, and total refusal of every one of the many courts approached to do ANYTHING about his quite analogous birth circumstances, I must admit that I am not too friendly to the notion that legal eccentricity be applied only to the CONSERVATIVE candidate in the race.
While I would, so far, vote for Trump IF he is nominated, I will need vise grips on my nose after this shameful exercise in Trumponic Plague and Trumpmania. Buying a pig in a poke like Trump on most issues I care about is still better than the major party alternatives. If this crap keeps up, there ARE third party alternatives. I know and approve generally where The Donald stands on immigration (under current outrageous circumstances), guns and a few other issues. I am not satisfied on the basis of his generalized and quite non-specific pledge to do an undefined SOMETHING about an undefined SOMETHING with no specifics and the idea that I can just trust The Donald because he sounds mean and talks dirty to Megan Kelly.
I would remind anyone familiar with my posting history that I despise the GOP-E Wall Street, K Street, the US Chamber of Crony Commerce, etc., ad nauseam, and John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan-O, Mitchie McTurtle, John Cornyn, Thad Cockroach, etc. as much as anyone here.
Nonetheless, the purpose of this exercise is to elect a principled CONSERVATIVE candidate for POTUS and let the purges and retaliation begin. If Trump wants my vote, he NEEDS to prove he is that candidate more than others and not by these schoolyard bully tricks but by actual policy commitments WITH SPECIFIC DETAILS.
Given the REASONS we despise GOP-E "leadership" whores, electing someone who wrote The Art of the Deal does not sound like anything more than jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
Everyone hears what they WANT to hear when the candidate REFUSES to be specific. Don't be suckered by the Birther sideshow.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.