Posted on 05/16/2015 11:36:00 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
It’s clear that Jeb isn’t a conservative, but it’s mightily kind of him to be honest about it. He could also do what the Mitch McConnells of this world like to do: lie about it until they get elected after which they ‘suddenly’ become as progressive as Nancy Pelosi.
That’s what Senator Ted Cruz recently said on Megyn Kelly’s show on Fox News.
Well, OK, I admit I added the last part about Mitch McConnell myself, but I’m sure you get my drift.
"I’m a fan of Jeb Bush. I’ll give him credit for candor and consistency. He is running based on his views, his views are different from an awful lot of Republican primary voters, but he’s honest about it and I think we’re going to have a clear straight-up debate about what’s the right direction for the Republican Party to go."
Cruz continued:
"I think it’s important for someone to stand by what they believe."
He’s right, of course; this way, Republican voters can’t possibly say Bush deceived them if they nominate him and he suddenly seems to be as far to the left as Hillary on many issues. You know what you get if you vote for Jeb: more government spending, more expansive government programs that increase the power of the federal government and that undermine the individual states.
"I think we should repeal every single word of Common Core. The reason is I think education is far more important for it to be governed by unelected bureaucrats in Washington. It should be at the state level or better the local level…"
Now, Bush and his ilk pretend that individual states have the opportunity to bail out if they want to in theory, but sadly it’s an entirely different matter in practice.
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He is indeed a progressive, just at Teddy Roosevelt, Hoover, and Rockefeller were. It is a battle that has gone on in the Republican party for over 100 years. Coolidge was a conservative, then not until Reagan did Republicans elect a conservative. We need to understand that, to understand that Boehner and McConnell are not on our side, if we want conservatism to prevail.
“why we see FR flooded with “That’s it! Ted Cruz just lost my vote!” posts.”
Win a “Weekend With Karl Rove” contest.
No, he just wants the lesser evil of RINOism like so many idiots before him. No matter what. The ones that demanded RINOs, told us how we hated America if we didn’t elect more of them and now cry the blues because we were 100% right about what their RINOs would do with the power.
I mean, we WERE 100% right after all...
Nobody remembers The Usurper because he was AWOL smokin’ in the boy’s room.
(He’d smoke anything - weed, poles .....)
I wish you had not put my name in the list you used at post #21. About me, not, absolutely not true.
???
Actually, I would prefer someone who is not a lawyer. Lawyer’s seem to control politics and are beholding to laws that promulgate their profession which has ruined the U.S. judicial process.
“Bush and Hillary
Tweedledum and Tweedledee”
You mean Tweedledum and Tweedledumber.
So you want a lawyer from a lesser school
Or a dropout? Or someone with just a bachelor's degree from some state cow college?
So you resent success and intelligence?
Are insulting to a Ted Cruz supporter like myself.
So you don’t think that Harvard Law School is one of the best in the world and that the University of Miami School of Law (Rubio) or Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson Law School (Santorum) are considered lesser schools by pretty much everyone who rates law schools? Seems like I was just stating facts, not being snobbish. Did Senators Rubio and Santorum turn down going to Harvard Law? Are Penn State (Santorum) and the University of Florida (Rubio) now considered the equal of Princeton?
We’re talking at cross purposes. What say we just drop it?
I hate to nitpick but Cruz is incorrect here.
He wants to repeal every word of Common Core. (similar to his call to repeal
every word of obamacare)
However, Common Core is a set of curriculum guidelines set up by
an independent organization. The states were led to adopt Common
Core standards in order to participate in Race to the Top funds
from the Obama Administration.
No President or Congress can repeal every word of Common Core.
They can change Dept. of Education funding rules to the states
that hold the states hostage to federal rules.
I stand corrected.
I watched the interview. Megyn Kelly points out that Common Core
is a standard that states adopt and was designed by a consortium.
Cruz totally gets it. His answer is pure gold. Even Rand Paul probably
wouldn’t have explained it better.
Speaking of which, where is Rand? What’s his view on Common Core?
How did I know you were brand-new before I even looked?
I really was just joking, it’s a pretty good line from City Slickers...
Mitch: Hi Curly. Kill anyone today?
Curly: Day ain’t over yet.
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This debate illustrates the seduction of socialist government programs. It was a wrong for government to be given the power to run school systems. It is wrong for the federal government, state governments and local governments. Government must not have the power to educate the children. Period.
The seduction of this system is people expect government to educate their children, no matter what the total cost. So the “conservative” candidate can only tell the voters that he will run the socialist institution of public education better than the socialists can run it.
Most conservative candidates cannot bring themselves to doing the better thing, to campaign on eliminating public education and replacing it with parental choice of private vendors.
With the news that the Fairfax school system is going to teach “gender fluidity” and of course the instruction in California that same sex marriage is normal, we now have public education overtly teaching our children values and morals that are directly hostile to those of Christianity. The only choice that parents have in this matter is how to withdraw their children from the public school system.
But this is what happens when government that must allow freedom of religion must act. That is: where religion is prohibited, only secular values will prevail. Because it is easy for secular forces to prevail in the battle of values, we must revoke government power from areas where secular forces will take their war against Christianity.
That also means that since too many in government are now hostile to God’s definition of marriage, we must also revoke government’s power to define and regulate marriage. Then secular forces will not be able to use same sex marriage as a way to destroy godly marriage.
Strangely, when I post this position, I am shocked by how many people who call themselves “conservative” rise up to defend government, and write as if no marriage or education could take place unless government perform it. So, I also plead with people who think of themselves as “conservative” to please think deeply about what they really are attempting to conserve. All too often it is conserving government.
It is not far fetched that we will soon see some Christian arrested because they committed the hate crime of peacefully declining to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage. We could also see a parent arrested because they declined to allow public education from indoctrinating their child with values that were opposed to God’s plain words about sexual morality. Our government has become our enemy. It is time to fish or cut bait on what powers we allow government to have and that is why I advocate an Article V convention.
That’s it! Cruz just lost my vote ;-)
Good post. General all-around bump, for re-reading.
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