Posted on 03/24/2015 6:43:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This rhetorical pea shooter against Sen. Cruz’s cannon is laughable. They should be afraid of him, and they are. He has truth on his side, and that is the holy water that will destroy the Left.
“Still, we do not elect presidents on the basis of their IQ alone; rather, we also take into account a candidate’s policy positions, his likeability, and his relevant experience in government.”
Uhm, yeah!
yes, because he threatens your business model, which has great rewards and intellectual laziness coupled nicely together.
Let me guess, Chuck... Your pants swell when a Bush comes to the platform??
Methinks Cooke wears silk shorts.
Early on, I became enamored with Dr. Carson but quickly pulled back after hearing and reading his response to some things, namely his statement on Trayvon Martin, now Ferguson and other current events. I came to realize he identifies too closely with black victim hood, while telling blacks to work hard and make something of themselves.
I also liked Rubio but then saw his interview before his election to the Senate, standing firm on securing the border and saying people had waited a long time to immigrate to the U.S. and illegals should get in line besides this nation is a nation of laws!
No matter how passionate and caring his new speech supporting "reform," I found and find his shiftiness and "charming" way he supports open borders a real problem.
I think a few other candidates counting on getting in will realize what a problem it would be in any debate with Ted onstage and they also heard all of their stances articulated in a very winsome way, easy to understand and hard to disagree with.
I guess Charles Cooke never listened to an odumbo speech, now THAT would make anyone barf. There are preachers that I have listened to that I did not care for but it was the message they were sending that was important to me, not how they presented it. Listen to the content, not the volume.
Ever watch Obama speak?
He speaks AT people every time.
Just another Cruz hit piece, in the form of “concern”.
Obama does not threaten this guy’s business model. He can be paid as a non threatening, lazy opposition guy who still gets to attend the cocktail parties.
I have an excellent vocabulary,but had to look this one up-
oleaginousness-being covered with or producing oil; greasy
On the whole, I like Cooke’s writing and speaking, even when I disagree with him, but he’s infected by the same virus that seems to run rampant at NR, which is that they all seem to get the vapors over anyone - even (o r especially) those who state the same positions but who have any hint of “populism” in their approach.
The NR clique essentially wants us all to sit back in comfy chairs with a brandy in hand and discuss things high-mindedly, and not to get involved in the baseness of politics.
What seems to beyond their view is that any movement needs both “thinkers” and “do-ers”. If they want to take the role of “thinkers”, that is, come up with the policy prescriptions (or in Cooke’s case, proscriptions, as he generally favors vastly reduced government involvement in... well, just about everything) to promote, then I’m for that. Ideas are important.
But just as important, if not possibly even more so, is getting those ideas implemented. And the only way to do that is to get down in the trenches and actually practice politics. And populism is an important, perhaps even inevitable, part of politics.
A politician, even on running on ideas, has to make the essence of those ideas accessible to the people who are going to cast ballots. The vast majority of these people are not deep thinkers on the subject of philosophy or policy, because their everyday lives are full of enough other things; they’re not paid to think and write about these things as a full-time job, after all. A message has to be simplified into broad themes that resonate emotionally with an electorate to sink in.
But for the writers, pundits, “senior fellows”, and the like, it seems to rankle them that the minutia of their scratchings is “cheapened” by such rhetoric. It’s an ivory tower issue that they are ironically blind to, especially when they can so easily see the ivory towers their intellectual opposition reside in.
I’m already sick of these concerned writers and their pompous attitudes.
Cooke ABSOLUTELY NAILS IT.
Cruz is my favorite candidate.
But the speech yesterday was EXCRUCIATING. It should have taken fifteen minutes to deliver. Maybe TEN minutes.
Cooke really nails it when he says Cruz seems to believe that “every line should be an applause line.”
Ronald Reagan always knew that, even if he was talking in front of to 50,000 people, his REAL audience of 50 million people were sitting about eight feet from their TV sets.
Reagan didn’t call out his speeches like announcements in a train station. He talked like a human. Reagan usually stepped on applause, because he knew the audience at home doesn’t care about applause.
The high-pitched, nasal voice, and the habit of declaiming, even screaming, each line of a speech, as though amplification had not yet been invented, contributed to Sarah Palin’s downfall as a campaigner. Ted Cruz has much the same faults. Voice tense and nasal. Too loud. Pausing after EVERY sentence for applause.
Cruz needs to fix these flaws or he is finished.
Exactly!
Er, haven’t we had lectures on what to eat, how to heat and how to suck on the teat from O’bozo and the Mooch for 6 1/2 years?
(Sorry, went for the rhyme)
The comparisons are over the top, but I understand what his point is.
Why do you bring up Obama? He’s not running.
Seems you’ve learned a lesson from the lefties, just substituting “Obama...” for “Bush...”
Why do you bring up Obama? He’s not running.
Seems you’ve learned a lesson from the lefties, just substituting “Obama...” for “Bush...”
Sadly, many conservatives will take what was said and decide that Cruz doesn’t stand a chance; waiting for that one perfect conservative candidate.
That is what allows the GOPe to get their way.
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