Oy. This will doom his already 3% polling. Of all the issues to go big stick on. Gay marriage is toothpaste that is never going back into the tube. How I wish he could be perceived by a wider audience as right for the country. This cements him in front of the palinization wood chipper. Wish I could be wrong.
It seems his advanced Ivy League degrees are not helping him get out in front of the media who have nearly completed their boxing him into the “different from you crazy right wing freak” category.
I am for states rights too but this was not the issue to go big on for a candidate. We have to kill the media to win, and instead we are feeding them.
Sure that isn’t the Californian in you talking? I grew up there in the 60’s until the mid 70’s and I know that your view is skewed by living there, no matter how conservative you may personally be.
The majority of the voters are obviously against gay marriage, as it keeps failing in referendums. People may say one thing to friends and family on the issue, or even to pollsters, since there is such fear of the backlash and “bigot” label. Yet, when they get in the voting booth, Americans keep showing that they haven’t really changed their opinions on the issue very much, and they are the ones that Cruz needs to appeal to, not the media.
Yup; a bridge too far.
If his public stances would be more public — that us, given extensive coverage in the media — I think they would work in his favor. People need to see that Ted Cruz is the only candidate who consistently defends what is good and right. I want to think that there are far more moral individuals than that noisy bunch of Satan’s slaves. This country is being lost to God and desperately needs a leader who will bring it back to traditional values.
I’ve already decided on voting for Ted Cruz, but if I was undecided, this makes me want to vote for him even more, not less.
Most Americans oppose (strongly) the Democrat Party's ongoing efforts to sodomize us. If you want to just bend over and take it, that's your business.
I'm glad to see a potential Presidential candidate stand up and say "NO!" to the creeping evil of the Demonic Party.
TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Actually, I see this stance as being about as neutral as a conservative candidate could be...let the States decide, which is the beauty of the Federalist system that our Founding Fathers left to us, and the commies hate so much.
That is what all the libs are trying to tell us. Same with Obamacare. It is the law of the land, so everyone needs to shut up and sit down and get with the program. Opposition is futile, and just conform. That actually works for the libs. They want everyone to forget and just live with their radical programs, so those will not be turned back.
Actually, this is one of the reasons I like Ted Cruz. He shows bold leadership. Unlike, the quit and wave the surrender flag candidates.
If there is a will, there is a way. Libs would love for conservatives to not have a will. Unfortunately a lot of the GOP do not have a will. Others are just libs posing Republicans.
I think you are wrong in a few points Yaelle.
Gay marriage is not “toothpaste out of the tube” - it’s just a smidgeon of toothpaste that can be easily cleaned up if doing so were not prohibited by feds.... to put it in your words. Strangers are coming into your bathroom and leaving the cap off of your colgate tube - that’s all. Cruz says if you want your toothpaste tube left off, fine. But let the owner of the bathroom and toothpaste decide....
This issue is indeed huge for his base AND for the overwhelming majority of Hispanics and blacks.
If polls matter to you right now, he’s only polling at 3% in polls that don’t matter. The post i’m replying to is like a reaction to media stories. NO, no no no and NO!
+1.
Bad decision to campaign too strongly on that subject. A little Ju Jitsu is needed on the subject.
Something like dropping an anti-gay message into a pro and reaffirming family message in spite of the gay advances made during the story of O would be better and more Reaganesque.
That toothpaste may not go back in the tube, but you miss the most salient points of what Cruz said - regarding the 10th Amendment. When it becomes passe' to talk such "nonsense" we might as well all lock ourselves in our homes and wait for the "authorities" to come by and put us out of our misery.
CRUZ CRUZ CRUZ!!!
I am so honored to be here and read so many brilliant responses that REFUTED your post #3...!!!!!
They said what I would want to say and very well.
Your post made me so mad all I could think to say was
PHOOEY on you......
Sure, Yaelle, we should just roll over and accept everything....right...can’t change it ....just learn to love it!
NO!!!!!!!
Thank GOD for the Ted Cruz......Jeff Sessions....Judge Roy Moore .....of this world.
We still have some Defenders of the Faith taking the heat for those of us who need representing!!!!!
>>Gay marriage is toothpaste that is never going back into the tube.
Oh it’ll go into the tube, the sewer tube — right along with the culture of self-worshiping progressive Useful Idiot American-Idolacizers who “normalized” it.
Got Romans 1:25+?
Nature rules.
If Cruz gets this through the Senate and House and past Obama into law then he is the clear winner.
I haven't seen that yet. But if he gets results on this I am with him 100%.