Posted on 06/04/2016 11:07:51 AM PDT by Mariner
Lost in all the back and forth of the Republican presidential primary is a profound question for the conservative movement: “Whither Ted Cruz?” Let us not overlook a conservative powerhouse, with a proven track record of organizing actual voters across a wide swath of states, expertise at small-dollar fundraising, and the discipline to endure months of heckling by Donald Troll and his oafish minions.
Is no one else excited to see the next chapter for Cruz? If he so chooses, Cruz can be the conservative leader he was so often attacked for not being over the last few years. Now that he is no longer required to hedge his every position, craft every utterance for maximum flexibility, and throw inconvenient political groups under the bus, Cruz can focus on actually legislating and moving the American political center rightward.
As I argued last year (in an unheeded essay urging he stay put in the Senate):
It’s not time.
I wouldn’t have known what FOAD meant even if I’d seen it. :>)
Then you should go to one of the places where the other people who are incapable of conversing went, like I said.
Dude just told you his opinion in a civil manner, and you told him to **** of and die.
You are the one making conversation impossible, not him, and that is and was true of many Cruz supporters.
They are not civil, and then they cry about people not being civil to them.
Definitely not one of my better moments.
no it’s not, stick around. Cruz will remain in the Senate here in Texas for as long as he wishes. He has a lot of support here.
As far as what someone said, a Castro brother in that seat. It will never happen. Granted from San Antonio south it practically is Mexico because very few whites live there. But Castro may carry Austin, Dallas and Houston also but the rest is dark republican. Notice I said Republican and not dark red.
I hope Trump can change the narrative that the Democrats are red and we conservatives should be blue.
Well that is what it means.
And it is really sad that people bought into Cruz’s BS so hard that they cannot unbuy into it.
They hitched their carts to his horse, and they are going over the cliff with him, and they seem happy to do it.
Apparently all you gotta do to get conservatives eating out of your hand is say a few things, call a few people liars, and they will follow you to oblivion.
It’s unbelievable really.
don’t worry I still don’t know what foad means
I’m going to trust the wise voters of Texas to make this huge decision. I’m worried that he may try to reap some revenge for not being chosen as the republican nominee for President.
Chose wisely Texas, we don’t need another John McCain.
I can see your point but what you can’t see here are previous conversations. As I said, this was my first. Probably it all built up from being to f’ing polite in the past. This is my last post on this thread.
<< “ I hope Trump can change the narrative that the Democrats are red and we conservatives should be blue.” >>
I have had that very same thought, beginning with Obama’s inauguration..
They are “Reds” in the worst sense of the word. La Raza is a force that deserves a reckoning on this side of the border.
La Raza is either a cover or a pawn for the communist infiltration of the country.
“Reds”, inarguably.
Go a search engine and type in FOAD and you’ll find out.
Don’t worry about it, man.
Personally, I just can’t understand how people got so hood winked by Cruz.
Honestly, all the guy did was not applaud and look annoyed at a State of the Union speech, read Dr. Seuss during a filibuster, called McConnell a liar, and then voted for all sorts of goofy crap, brought teddy bears to illegal aliens, and ran a campaign that was so despicable that it boggled the mind, and his supporters are still eating out of his hand.
I can’t figure it out.
I had to look it up on the web. I must live a sheltered life.
Nonetheless, Cruz’s sins are less than Cornyn’s by a long shot.
He really did just follow the party-line conservatism. His sin wasn’t in supporting TPA/TPP but in trying to hide it.
But, go ahead and name me the replacement, and I’ll show you another guy probably connected to the establishment by hidden ties.
In short, if they have the money to run, then they owe somebody something.
Here’s one thing I see. I live in Texas and the ethnicity is similar to California, New Mexico and Arizona.
If you visit a local school in any of those 4 states you will see that, yep, we are almost Mexico because soon they will be the super majority of which they already are in New Mexico.
I hate to break it to you but most of the border patrol on our southern border are in fact Mexican-Americans. They don’t give a crap who comes here. Besides most of our state police and local cops also are Mexican-American via Affirmative Action plans.
Please tell me do you think even for a second Trump will be able to deport illegals with forces as such?
It is never ever gonna happen and neither will the illusionary wall. Never ever happen, you are dreaming
Nice going......our wonderful trusting Texans were bamboozled by this Canadian globalist.
I disagree(a little). I look at it this way....
I would rather be known as a "Red Blooded American" than a "Blue Blooded American", just my distinction between the two.
Then maybe the time has come to clean house.
but I usually depend on yous guys to help me along
never thought about it that way, good point
<< “ I’m worried that he may try to reap some revenge for not being chosen as the republican nominee for President.”>>
That thought has occurred to many of us.
However, since Cruz had such cult-like support in TEXAS, surely he knows that any public political future depends on keeping himself pedestaled over and above these devotees.
I just don’t know what he wants, now. Perhaps he doesn’t know either. His run was so pre-mature, for the presidency.
It exposed his arrogance and clinically proportioned ambition, right off.
It was like he thought he had nothing left to learn— that he already knew it all, and that is exactly how he behaved. It was a jolting similarity he shared with Obama!
All oratory and staging and more oratory! For others, just what did he actually accomplish on paper, while in the Senate? It was always the pony show and oratory.
I never liked Heidi’s connections to the Goldman Sachs, North American Union poseurs. No one appreciated that agenda even before we knew she was cheerfully engaged in it. Who wants to be found associated with that, anyway?
Then, comes Ted who talked the talk, but on paper never actually harmed a hair on the head of the globalist agenda monster.
So. What has changed, Ted? Do you want to recalculate, or what? Your time is up. We’re on to you.
when 1/2 are Mexican it would be a civil war
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