Overwhelming – List of Ted Cruz Supporters

Education News ^ | Jan 19, 2016 | Donna Garner

[Carnac the Magnificent]

Palin said: “It’s now or never.”

[dp0622]

i can use the best of luck :)

voting for either one, FYI

never followed a primary before. didn’t know it got so dirty.

[dp0622]

he just said no insults please.

he meant to each other. i’m sure these pictures are fine, just seem pointless and childish to me.

concrete intellectual discussion of ted and donald are needed.

not blind faith in either or taking sides like it’s a sports game.

but thats just me.

Ted has made some dubious decisions for a true conservative.

donald has said hundreds of things, both liberal and conservative in the past.

donald likes to win. he will say and do what he has to to win.

what if this is just another game to be won for him and he appoints liberals to the SCOTUS.

what if Ted is a closet establishment guy beholden to corporate money.

trump has NO voting record yet a history of financial success,

Sessions said Cruz is the real deal. we all liked sessions at one time, now his opinion holds little weight.

and with all this to discuss, we’re posting silly pictures.

[Fresh Wind]

Beck shouldn’t be a problem for Cruz, at least among FReeper Cruz supporters, who will suddenly discover that they have been wrong about Beck all along, and will now worship him as a conservative icon.

[wagglebee]

And lest you forget, not a single GOP president has, nor could he, change the abortion laws.

This may be the prevailing wisdom, but it is not actually the case.

Here is a very relevant passage in the Roe v. Wade opinion:

The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a "person" within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment. The appellant conceded as much on reargument.

There is NOTHING prohibiting a president from issuing an executive order declaring an unborn child a person for purposes of Fourteenth Amendment rights. Doing this would be nearly identical to what Lincoln did with the Emancipation Proclamation. Establishment of personhood DOES NOT need to have Supreme Court approval and Blackmun never suggested it did.

Could such an order be overridden by Congress or a future president? Yes, BUT they would then be forced into the politically untenable position of arguing that personhood could be revoked at will. Could it be challenged in the Supreme Court? Yes, BUT the Court's actions over the past four decades seem to indicate that they really don't want to revisit abortion if they can avoid it. Moreover, the Court would also be in the position of having to assert that personhood could be revoked.

[wagglebee]

Donald Trump is not going to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it.

Even if he could get a wall built, it is basically impossible to even locate all of the illegal aliens, much less deport them.

What method do people think Trump would employ to round up the illegals? Would government agents be sent to every home in the United States to search for illegals and demand to see proof that everyone present is here legally? Would police be empowered and instructed to stop people in public and demand to see proof of citizenship or legal residence? Because those are really the only two methods I can think of to accomplish this and they both reek of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

[Fiji Hill]

What if...what if.....WHAT IF YOUR FATHER HAD FOUR WHEELS AND A HORN; HE'D BE A BUS!

Your screen name is on a list of fanatic Trump partisans that I am compiling. If he's elected and then goes liberal on us, I want to see how all of you react.

[trisham]

Good grief.

[EternalVigilance]

That’s what I ran on in 2012, and am running on a gain in 2016.

http://prolifeprofiles.com/tom-hoefling-americas-party

[wagglebee]

I know.

It's amazing that so many have been duped into believing that ending abortion is some impossible undertaking, it isn't.

[EternalVigilance]

No, it’s not. All that is required is for those who take the oath to keep it, and provide equal protection for the supreme right of every individual person.

[itsahoot]

Hopefully she will see the light before super tuesday.

Some would say she has already.

Glenn Beck is hysterical today saying that Trump will become a dictator. How can that do anything except help elect a democrat if Trump is the nominee?

Strange that Trump supporters are described as Zombified worshippers of the Donald, when in fact the Cruz supporters are acting even more like they have looked upon Stupefying Jones.

Trump in fact may be the worst of the bunch, no one can really know, but he will be the nominee. Many of us old timers tried to point out that Cruz was not really a likable candidate, and I have said many times that if Cruz was in Rubio's body he would have been a shoo in.

The silliest things can determine history.

Anyone that has lived in Southern Texas or California knows that immigration is the number one issue and people believe Trump will actually do something while Cruz is just not trusted on that issue. Had Cruz came out strong with the positions he is taking now it could have been a very different story, but he didn't. Don't you even wonder why he didn't.

Waving a Constitution at the vermin that now occupy the political power structure in D.C. will accomplish about as much as passing stricter background checks to prevent gun crime.

Many here, like myself, put a lot of faith in Palin rising to the challenge in 08 and were sorely disappointed. I suspect many Cruz supporters will have the same disappointment soon. Like Europe we seem hellbent on Suicide.

[itsahoot]

Do they only participate in the big game and forget all the important elections along the way?

I have noticed some 98ers that I do not recognize either.

I doubt I have missed a day since before I signed up but decided long ago to not risk posting prohibited stuff, Jim Rob didn't need the grief.

This forum is a great substitute for shouting at the TV and saves the wife a lot of frustration. Probably has about as much effect too.

I don't know if I have ever read a post where someone has given credit to another freeper for changing their mind on an issue. I do see occasional thanks for the info and often requests for more info.

We have collectively failed to affect any presidential election since GW and most of us regret that we did.

When Obama was re-elected it should have been a wakeup call to all of us that it was no longer politics as as usual. We had to accept the fact that either the country had lunged deeply left or election fraud had advanced to an scientific art and neither prospect can easily be remedied.

Thanks for confirming my contention about the vitriolic nonsense.

[xzins]

Not to be terribly disagreeable, but building a wall or a high tech double fence with state of the art technology is easy. Israel, India, and many other countries have built them for border security. It truly is not a tough engineering challenge at all.

So far as deporting 11 million illegals. You do it with a combined program of secure borders, coasts, ports, visas, e-verify, biometrics, and ICE. You do it humanely, you get work records, police records, social welfare records, and you ban some of them from applying for entry once back in their home country. Those who were criminal or who lived off the social welfare system never come back.

[P-Marlowe]

Donald Trump just said that Ted Cruz would be worse for America than Hillary Clinton.

If you were standing on the bridge, Trump just blew it up.

[xzins]

Without the context, it doesn’t mean anything.

[wagglebee]

Not to be terribly disagreeable, but building a wall or a high tech double fence with state of the art technology is easy. Israel, India, and many other countries have built them for border security. It truly is not a tough engineering challenge at all.

I've never questioned the ability to build the wall. I do question whether it can get funded and actually built.

So far as deporting 11 million illegals. You do it with a combined program of secure borders, coasts, ports, visas, e-verify, biometrics, and ICE. You do it humanely, you get work records, police records, social welfare records, and you ban some of them from applying for entry once back in their home country. Those who were criminal or who lived off the social welfare system never come back.

Deporting criminals has never been an issue.

However, to start examining non-criminal records to determine who MIGHT be here illegally will trigger an avalanche of lawsuits on Fourth Amendment grounds and hold up the process for years if not indefinitely.

The fact of the matter is that aside from being here illegally, most illegals abide by the laws once they get here. There's no real way to "round them up."

[xzins]

Context:

He said that Ted Cruz, great lawyer, not knowing about proper filing of huge loans from Goldman Sachs is worse than Clinton claiming not to know about handling classified info.

So, it wasn’t about his political positions at all.

[xzins]

I don’t think it will trigger a huge number of lawsuits IF CURRENT immigration law is applied by ICE. To be honest, if we’d been enforcing current law and built a fence that’s already approved, then we wouldn’t be in half the mess we are now in.

[kabar]

On that we disagree. Immigration is a symptom of the Moral decay that has infected the United States. We have aborted 50 million unborn American children. We have an immigration problem because we had to replace the dwindling population.

I suggest you get better informed. Our immigration policies are intended to bring in cheap, exploitable labor and transform this country so the Dems will be the permanent majority party. We don't have a population problem. We are a nation of 320 million. The nation’s total population will cross the 400 million mark in 2051, reaching 420.3 million in 2060. We have a surplus of labor with the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign born; today it is less than one in 8, the highest in 105 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history. We don't need 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants a year along with 640,000 guest workers annually. All the jobs are going to immigrants with fewer native born working today than in 2000.

Labor Participation Rate

Immigrants vote more than two to one Dem. As their numbers increase so does the power of the Dems. There is a direct correlation. Immigrants support Big Government with more services. 87% of all legal immigrants are minorities as defined by the USG. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities. Each cohort that turns 18 annually will be more Dem and more minority. By 2043 non-hispanic whites will be 50% of the population down from 63% today and 89% in 1970. Immigrants and minorities vote more than two to one Dem.

Both the democrats and republicans were guilty not only of foisting abortion on demand, but also encouraging the cheap labor and the social security taxes that the illegal aliens brought in.

The immigrants will help destroy SS. Immigrants use the welfare system to a much greater extent than the native born. They are costing the taxpayers a fortune thru the costs of health care, education, and incarceration. They are destroying our social safety net.

In my book abortion is the biggest issue. Even if we can't do a damn thing about it, it is still the main issue in my book.

Abortion is not the biggest issue, immigration is. Also, the biggest users of abortion are blacks. If those children had not been aborted, the black population of the US would be twice what it is today. I am totally against abortion and as I have said, it is murder. But you can't be intellectually honest without discussing the real world results. Abortion should not be used as a means of birth control.

Frankly we are not going to do a damn thing about immigration either. It is just not going to be done. Donald Trump is not going to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it. He is not going to do 1/10th of what he is promising because he is not running for dictator.

Au contraire. Trump can do plenty without getting anything from Congress. For starters, he can start enforcing our existing immigration laws. Obama has not. He can also eliminate Obama's two executive amnesties. He can build the wall under existing legislation. Deportation is US law. It is illegal for the lawbreakers to work in this country. Sanctuary cities are prohibited by law. In sum, Trump the President can do plenty about immigration from day one.

I am looking for a man of moral principles. Ted Cruz may have waffled on some political issues, but not on the moral ones. As John Adams said so succinctly: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." So if you are a constitutionalist, you should be more concerned about the morality and religious commitment of your leaders than anything else.

I am more concerned about demographics and the colonization of the US by the Third World. They have no such reverence for the Constitution or the vision and values of our Founders, whom the Dems have been successful in painting as bigots, racists, and elitists.