Posted on 11/20/2015 11:30:00 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
May you both have a wonderful weekend and look forward to a blessed Thanksgiving holiday!
Explain the “he lacks intergrity” and “is too ill-informed to be president” bits.
Cruz is my first choice. I have a real problem discerning a second choice; though I do have a group at the bottom of my list (and, surprise, Trump is down there with them).
In the end, I’ll vote for whoever is running against Hillary, happily or reluctantly.
Thank you, and same to you and yours, the Lord be with you!
There a lot of really really old paid trolls on this forum...age does not matter.
Amen
Good post. You've said it well.
I posted the basis on which my EXTREMELY well educated opinions are based. You, OTOH, offered NOTHING and I highly doubt that you have an "educated" opinion on much of anything.
Trump is in it to win it and by this coming Spring will be the nominee.
Trump prides himself as being inpredictable on negotiations. That’s how he wins. You can see him playing his cards very close to the vest when he skates in answering a question. Furthermore, he knows the other candidates are copying his position on some issues.
We have two candidates that need to make it through the GOPe Labarinth... Trump and Cruz....let’s focus on getting one of these guys through and the other will be part of the team.
I’m very glad there’s two people I can actually support that can spend the next 16 years undoing the immense amount of damage inflicted on this country by decades of the Communist Democrat/Socialist RINO Uniparty.
But for being a Cruz supporter, I find it highly unsettling you spend almost all of your posting time here attacking Trump. As another poster has in his tagline, Cruz doesn’t attack Trump. Cruz knows that he is on our side. I don’t attack allies in the fight for our country. We lose this race, we lose this country for good.
I define integrity pretty literally, integrated. One’s body, soul, person is integrated: in personal life and business life. One face, one standard, consistent values.
For Trump the “lack of integrity” part is being a major supporter of Charlie Rangel (one of the most corrupt politicians ever), supporting Hillary, supporting Reid, Pelosi, House and Senate Democrats.
To be conservative and do this one has to lack integrity (”all successful businessmen must be corrupt” is a liberal worldview).
The only alternative I can see is that he is really a liberal. :)
I’m no trump fan, but this piece is dishonest at its core and totally misrepresents trumps responses to these inane question. And need I add that no one can control what idiocy will spew from the mouth of a reporter. Or from the fingers of a journalistic hit man.
They sure are and more and more of them doing it this past week !
Thank you AntCeeCee.
Have a great weekend and Thanksgiving too.
Unlike some folks on this forum, I happen to think we have someone great to thank God for this year.
He may not have been what we asked for, but God generally knows best. He may have provided a way for us when there was no other.
BINGO
And yet as he’s ‘become more childish’ his poll numbers have risen. Imagine that.
He doesn't approve of it, won't engage in it as president, but you refuse to understand that.
I like Cruz, but nobody has investigated him.....yet. I'm NOT saying, nor implying that he has "skeletons"; just that we don't know of any..............yet.
You can't see the forest for the trees, IGNORE the points I've made, because you don't like them ( but I bet you know that they're true ), and are closed minded.
To begin with, you misread what I was trying to get across in my post. I am not talking about policy details or minutia. (although it’s true that Trump rarely gets into it at all)
What I am talking about is a explanation from him and from his mouth as to why he believes he can make can do what he says he can do. I want to hear why he thinks the country is on the wrong track and how it got that way, and I want it in complete sentences, not verbal quips or blunt statements. You have to make a candidate explain Conservatism, and in the process of answering that, he should be able to do the things I have asked for.
If they cannot explain it with some detail, then they are not conservative. Nor will they ever be. .
Secondly, as to Cruz and the polling. Are you saying that one should vote for the candidate that can win, according to polling?
That’s not what should happen here. That’s not what we should be doing in a republican primary because that is why we (Conservatives) have always lost in the past several GOP election cycles for president.
You are telling me to paint in pastels because the majority of voters seem to like this one guy so he’s the guy.
I made up my mind some years ago, to always vote for the most authentic Conservative candidate. I say authentic because appearing to be a Conservative is very easy to do. I am seeing it done every day by democrats and republicans but in some cases we don’t see the mistake until they get to DC.
I support Cruz and will continue to support him because he is the authentic conservative in the race. Not because polls say he can win. I support him because he should win.
If he does not, then so be it. I’ll not compromise any more. My pragmatic days are long past. Pragmatism is killing this country and this party. Works OK for business decisions but it fails to identify the best leaders for a nation.
Pragmatism did not lead to Reagans presidency, nor Churchill, or Thatcher. What led to their wins was a sense of urgency to really change direction to save a society from ruin or defeat. Polls said they were impossible as well.
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