Posted on 02/01/2016 10:28:42 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I tip my cap, unreservedly, to Ted Cruz. With everything on the line - and so many GOP colleagues cowed and intimidated - he took on Donald Trump and won. Late last year I wrote that the GOP needed an actual leader, someone who would step up and take on Trump directly:
Now is the time. A presidential campaign is an early test of leadership, a proving ground for dealing with the challenges of the world's most difficult job. I don't want the last man standing. I want the guy who took down the king. If Trump can absorb the best shots from the Republican party's best young talent, then he deserves the nomination. If one of the two talented freshman senators can dethrone The Donald, then at least we have some assurance that they can first stand strong against the coming Clinton onslaught and then have the strength of will to lead a nation desperate not just for wisdom but for the right kind of tough-minded leadership.
Cruz challenged the king of polls - the man who'd intimidated so many others - and he won. And he did so when the conventional wisdom said that he'd lose - that the larger the turnout, the greater the chance that Trump would win. Instead, with record Iowa turnout, Cruz won.
This is a deeply encouraging moment for the conservative movement. To his immense and undying credit, Cruz refused to pander on ethanol, he defied Iowa's popular governor, and he stuck to his conservative principles - and he won.
Yes, Marco Rubio exceeded all expectations, but tonight was Ted Cruz's night. There is much hard fighting ahead, but had Trump won, we would even now be shuddering not just for the future of the conservative movement but for the future of a nation bounded and governed by constitutional principles. Cruz stood up when others fled. Iowa rewarded him for his courage, and tonight Cruz is ascendant, Trump is in retreat, and the conservative movement breathes the air of new life and new hope.
New Hampshire represents a different challenge, and the race is far from over, but Cruz deserves the accolades - and momentum - he'll get from Iowa. Well done, Ted. You did your part for your country on this crucial night.
The lawsuits still happened for McCain and Obama and went nowhere. I’ll be supporting Cruz until he’s out of the race. At this point I’d love to be able to wave a nice fat court ruling for eligibility in the birthers’ faces, so I’m even more enthusiastic to support Cruz and see the results of any lawsuits.
I’m really just responding to you voting for Trump. You claim to be a conservative don’t you? Conservatives don’t support eminent domain, federal government controlling 70% of Western land, single-payer health care, and his claim that he will go establishment when he’s president. Those are Trump’s current positions. We could also talk about his character and the positions he held, people he supporter just prior to running for the nomination. I know Trump supporters don’t want to talk about those, they’d rather talk about Rubio’s Gang of 8 and Cruz’s vote on TPA. If those are legitimate, and the are, then Trump’s past is too.
My point is, no one who hasn’t completely bought into the Trump scam believes that Trumpees are intellectually honest (with themselves least of all). There’s been way too much made known, Trump has said too much, and nothing you like of him holds up to any scrutiny. Every thinking conservatives has already ditched Trump. What’s left is a coalition of disparate groups which is void of anything that anyone should call conservative: LIVs, nationalists, neo-fascists, progressives, and opportunists. There is no conservative case for Trump.
Welcome back. Missed you.
You need to go be secure in your own choices and stop trying to destroy others’ . Gloating doesn’t become you.
It is on Jonathan Turley’s site, but it was submitted by: Mike Spindell, Guest Blogger. Jonathan Turley is the only lawyer who would go thorough the trouble needed to support the Area 51 employees in their suit against the Federal Government for damages caused by the chemicals used out there. So he gets a free pass on his politics in my book.
Agreed, it is good to here the Lord exalted in a political campaign. If Ted Cruz is not sincere about it, then YHWH will judge him for it.
He had one less delegate than Cruz. Same as Rubio.
Not bad for a guy with no ground hame
Precisely
And the big fear despite all the acrimony here between the Cruz or the highway or Trump or else folks is this could line up to be the usual
The two Rebs split the vote that most closely mimics what we like here and the GOPe guy snags a plurality
That could happen if Rubio gets all the also ran support?
Thats a big uncertainty
No question FOX is now pimping Rubio from the second floor at 1211 6th ave
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“Claiming trump’s mother caused trump eligibility questions!”
OK, I wasn’t going to call you at as being unhinged, but this takes the cake. Are you really as bad as Sheldon at detecting sarcasm?
“I learned ‘original intent’ of natural born means one must be born on US soil.”
Wow!
Which originalist was born on US soil? Oh, wait, US soil didn’t exist at the time. Can you name the first President that was born on US soil?
“Iowa voters showed up to their caucuses Monday night in record numbers, party officials said.
The Iowa Republican Party says they have officially broken previous turnout numbers, setting a new record tonight.
ABC News estimates that turnout for the Republican caucuses will be more than 180,000, compared to the previous record of 121,354, set in 2012.”......
Despite kowtowing to big corn on ethanol in a gutless big government concession, despite his alleged yuge lead throughout the nation, he barely beat the third place winner. Spin it anyway you want, but it’s obvious the big blowhard, the big insulter, got schlonged.
“Trump is not a progressive.”
So Trump doesn’t believe that the federal government would be working fine if it had better managers? Or that the federal government, when used correctly by good managers, can “make America great again?”
Anyone that is in any way supportive of our current level of government is certainly a Progressive and that describes Trump so well that he actually says it out loud.
Unless of course we re-define the term “progressive.”
“It is the true believer’s ability to ‘shut his eyes and stop his ears’ to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger nor disheartened by obstacle nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.â€
-Eric Hoffer
Very interesting that Huck and Santorum showed up at Trumps Vet Rally directly after the debate.....then to pull out of the race altogether soon after.
It sure looks like it played out just as you posted.....I also noted the media is playing Rubio and Trump as central figures despite Cruz winning.....it’s like Cruz’s win is the “after thought”....but the media’s running story is Rubio practically bumped out Trump....and Trump as the “Looser” he said he would never be.
One site shows Trump and his family in the center with Cruz in much smaller photo on the side as the winner......they are STILL focused on Trump.....regardless. I suspect Trump won’t mind as long as the news is still about him.
“Congress passed an exemption for McCain that allowed him to run.”
No they didn’t. The Senate held an affirmation vote, period. There was no legislation, temporary or permanent.
“It will go nowhere. Courts will rule against them for the proverbial ‘lack of standing.’ That’s how Obama escaped all the law suits against him.”
That and the other 120 lawsuits that have been brought over the last 100 years.
What a ride and the victory was indeed sweet....am very happy they won....still basking today in the after glow but quite aware there's alot of work yet ahead...
...Stage celebration ...a victory moment well earned and shared by all...
...Ted's parents....the joy they surely have at the moment...
Yes, NH is very liberal so I don’t see Cruz winning there...will be happy if he places in top three but won’t be surprised if he doesn’t. He was focused on the South moreso though would like to win NH.
Carson’s pointing fingers and off to florida for a change of clothes, as his staff confirmed.....as if Iowa and NH don’t have dry cleaners?...I like the man but he’s out of his league and it shows.
Huck and Santorum on the vets stage with Trump certainly pre-cluded they would be next to drop out. Both are Establishment which looks to now be behind Rubio but would settle for Trump.
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