Posted on 04/27/2016 10:27:56 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright
This is the distortion that began my disillusionment with Cruz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5VsxiReCPQ
Ted Cruz: “I am the king of voterless states!”™
Hi Neil,
I’m truly sorry you feel that way, because much of what you wrote about Trump is simply untrue. It’s all speculation at best. You have created a straw man, and like Don Quixote, are tilting at a windmill you think is an evil knight.
Unlike others here, I respect your decision, but reckon it decided on incorrect facts.
I don't think Trump will sign into law any anti 2nd Amendment legislation, and he will at least make an honest attempt at doing something about the immigration mess. With these two items, I already KNOW where Hillary stands. I cannot allow Hillary to make decisions about those two core issues that are of utmost importance to me. So yes, I agree. It is about my future, my kid's future, my grand kids future, and the future of our Republic. In this, I will gladly vote Trump. I would have done the same for Cruz, but he didn't win.
Folks like you, gave us four more years of Obama! Now, you’re wanting to give us Hillary?
Whether or not you choose to believe or disbelieve a Canadian citizen born in Canada can ever qualify as a natural born citizen who is eligible to serve as President of the United States, it raises the question of how you could ever hope to avoid the ensuing controversy that would make it not feasible to win a General Election with that controversy remaining unresolved for a large number of voters?
The biggest downside for Trump is if he wins and cannot deliver on his promises. There will be millions of opponents, enemies foreign and enemies domestic, to thwart his intentions. The GOPe party alone can throw up roadblocks all along the way. Their Uniparty cohorts, the ‘rats and their domestic collectives, can do much damage. The enemies foreign, international elite and foreign invaders, can cause damage all over the country. Trump’s promises, even if elected, are not a given.
I support Trump, as he offers solutions or a change of direction to multiple challenges internal and external to the republic. He puts HIS money where his mouth is. He has not asked for anything but our vote.
If he loses the election he walks away completely intact saying it was a corrupt system or the people have spoken and did not want to “Make America Great Again”. The biggest loss could come if he wins. His exposure, then becomes exponential. There are a lot of losers/looters/collectivists around the world who hate individuals/winners/America and are willing to take, destroy or kill everything they can and anyone who gets in their way.
Hey Neil next time post all the lies the GOPe and thier little bots have poored on our hoping ears.
And all the socialist programs they have voted for and support.
And list all the conservatives who support Trd sCruz other women.
Hissy fit.
Yawn.
mr. right, if you tell me to “open wide and suck it down,” you had better be a safe distance away from me.
Glad to see your sore loser self gone. But, could you do one more thing? Could you actually leave?
I was a Cruz supporter at first, then when Trump entered the race I reevaluated my choice. On FB from day one Cruz supporters called Trump names and those who support him.
The Cruz campaign started the whole wife attack issue with Beck attacking Trumps wife on the air saying she was in lesbian porno shoots.
I lost all respect for Cruz the very day he paraded Beck out in public. Beck is nuts.
Dear Neal
Bite me.
Now man up and leave I still see your About You page.
Damn...... you don’t get it
the normal conservative agenda has been superseded to solve the immediate existential problems
there is no conservative running that can win the general election. Cruz is the zealot mirror image of Obama. America will not have another zealot.
You have declared your self to be irrelevant, political detritus at the tide line
Awesome, Phil, just awesome!
Sorry to hear you are taking your leave. Even as you signal your reasons (all pretty sensible) you are attacked. It is getting worse than liberals disagreeing with one another to bring their herd into line. Even now you are attacked with a great deal of venom.
While I’ll vote for Trump I won’t attack you personally as I’d wish for you to stay that WAS the beauty with this site, civilized discourse. Not anymore, something has changed and it isn’t the blah blah save the republic (evangelicals have been screaming the rapture has been coming for centuries) it’s something I have yet to figure out. I don’t agree with the article entirely but it does certainly raise a brow.
Thank you for sharing and good luck
We all belive what we want to believe. I believe I would be just as opposed to Trump if he was only running against Romney and McCain.
We can force Mexico and China to build our mausoleum while we choke on abortion, sodomy and socialist statism.
I am contributing because I care. If you read my posts you would know I support anyone’s right to their opinion whether it agrees with mine or not. That is freedom.
Kindly refrain from calling me an idiot. You should be ashamed of yourself. Matthew 5:22.
Personally I could care less who you vote for if you only vote once.
And Thank YOU for the ping Onyx! (HUGS!)
I'm an ardent Trump supporter almost to the day he got into the race last June. However, had the primary season turned out differently and Ted Cruz was the presumptive nominee, I would not be bitter and I would certainly not be putting up such a post and crapping on my nominee. Instead, I would have sucked it up and would have gotten behind Ted Cruz, just like I have for every Republican nominee since I can remember.
But Ted Cruz did not get the job done. He has only won three primaries - his home state of Texas, Wisconsin and I believe Idaho. All his other victories have been in caucus states where political insiders and party hacks control the process. Ted Cruz got shut out in the Deep South and has been absolutely crushed in the Northeast, crushed so badly that he finished distant third to John Kasich in a number of states.
Regardless of his conservative bona fides, do we really want to make him our nominee only to see him lose in a landslide to Clinton?
The reason we have a primary process is to vet candidates and assess their electability in the general election. If Cruz showed us that he could win, I'd be behind him. Ted Cruz's weak showing in the primaries has not shown us that he can win a general election. His nomination will virtually guarantee a victory for Clinton and we cannot afford that.
Ted Cruz is not charismatic. He does not seem to have a plan other than telling us that he's the one that can "beat Donald Trump", but other than a handful of states, he has not shown us that. Besides, what we really need is somebody that can beat Shrillary in November. Somebody that can win Independents and blue-collar Democrats like Ronald Reagan did in his two landslides. News Flash: The choice of Carly Fiorina did not help with Independents and blue-collar Democrats. I've done the math. Even if 100% of registered Republicans vote the ticket in November, we still lose. We must win over Independents and blue-collar (Reagan) Democrats.
To that point, the only reason Cruz is even where he is today is due to Donald Trump. If not for Trump jumping into the race, we'd be looking at presumptive nominee Jeb Bush. No doubt about it. That was the original GOP plan and he had all the money and establishment backing behind him.
Ted Cruz is only 44 years old and he had a bright future ahead of him. His best bet would have been to drop out of the race when it became clear he could not win fair and square and get behind Donald Trump. Maybe he could have been Trump's VP or be in some other high-level position that would set himself up nicely for future presidential runs. But he appears to have leagued himself with the establishment and the "Stop Trump" movement and has blown up the bridges behind him. He now must live with the consequences of his decisions.
Finally with regard to Trump "not being a true conservative", I'm simply going to refer back to the multiple posts made the founder of this fine site who has listed out all the conservative positions that Donald Trump has taken during this campaign - and there are many.
Will he actually follow through on these promises when he wins? I would love to find out. Trump has a record of achievement in the private sector that is very impressive and he has surrounded himself (in his businesses) with high quality people. If he does the same as president, I think we are all in for a very pleasant surprise.
One thing for sure, the lawyer-politicians we have been electing the past few decades have done great harm to this nation. I'm willing to take my chances with a successful businessman.
That is the key point above all others . And the manufacturing trade deficit with china is at least 500 billion dollars.China has perpetrated the biggest theft in history by stealing all our factories = production capability of merchandise = wealth creation = wealth.Trump will stop China and TPP . We have rebuilt china while the USA withers away. Only Trump understands the problem and how to stop China. not anymore not 1 single product made in china not 1 imported from China not 1 single dollar to china
Manufacturing = production = wealth creation. mass production with automation is the best way to increase production of items and so to create wealth , far above all others . We could have many factories in the USA that produce that 1 trillion dollars of merchandise we import from other countries, mainly China , steel mills,machine tools factories,computer chip factories, etc.
Manufacturing = production = wealth creation. Manufacturing = the industrial revolution before that there was no industry without industry there is no civilization no cities, only farms and the stone age.
Imagine if you put a huge city sized steel mill in the middle of a desert in Texas. then you put a machine tools factory right next to it . then a chip making factory. then a plastics plant. How many people and different kinds of other businesses will go there? accountants, electricians, managers, machine operators, custodians, mechanical engineers, construction workers,computer programmers, process engineers, electrical engineers,
electronics techs, electricians, automation specialists,
caterers and a million other kinds of jobs will sprout out of these. and all of these take their salary and spend it out in the city to create retail jobs, banking jobs etc.
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