Posted on 02/17/2016 10:34:43 AM PST by SoConPubbie
I filled in for Herman Cain earlier today and had on Senator Jim DeMint, the current President of the Heritage Foundation and former Senator from South Carolina.
The interview was about the Supreme Court, but I had to ask DeMint about the attacks on Cruz in South Carolina. Neither Cruz nor Rubio would be in the Senate but for Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund supporting them.
Senator DeMint told me he knows Ted Cruz, knows he is honest, and knows that the attacks are coming because Cruz fights Washington. Washington politicians, in turn, have decided they have to take out Ted Cruz.
You can listen to that part of the interview from the Herman Cain Show here:
Of course. So is Sowell, Rush, and anyone who dares oppose Trump.
Decades of actions mean nothing, anyone who opposes the Trumpster is either a GOPe hack or a leftist.
So now, to support Trump, you conclude that endorsements are meaningless?
Only Donald Trump isn’t part of the establishment, you should know this by now!
BTW Donald Trump is our new ‘messiah’ and can do no wrong/s.
BOL!
Disclaimer: That was sarcasm. Unfortunately the circular firing squad has made what used to be self-evident hard to discern.
That would also explain the current trend of criticizing conservatives among the same folks using these tactics.
I conclude that Cruz constantly needing people to “circle the wagons” around him because he cant seem to hack the heat of political war shows me he is wasting his time running for this office.
He’s supposed to be this, as his fans keep saying, this legendary fighter of epic abilities, then why the hell do we have to keep hearing from 3rd party folks having to constantly talk up what he cant seem to demonstrate?
Like I said, in the general election these people will become meaningless pipsqueaks as the press isn’t going to spend two drops of ink to print what they have to say about him.
You haven't been listening recently. Levin utterly despises Hatch.
And Trump is not as good a businessman as he pretends. In at least one of the Chapter II bankruptcies, he went Chapter 11 to avoid Chapterr 13. He is not in the same league as a capitalist like Bloomberg.
If Cruz is such a conservative, then why haven't his conservative colleagues come out and supported him? Where are the other conservative Senators who have good things to say about him?
In the last 48 hours, both Coburn and DeMint have come out to defend him and now the attacks are:
Look! He needs others to come out and protect him! What a wuss!
Just pathetic.
So you view Trump getting endorsements as a negative as well?
Ping to this article. :)
Now: In an interview with Bloomberg Politics in January, Trump said, "I'm pro-life and I have been pro-life." He said he believed there should be exceptions in cases of rape, incest or the life of the mother.
Now: At the 2015 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum, Trump said if he became president, "the 2nd Amendment will be totally protected." He told the Web site Ammoland he does "not support expanding background checks" and said current background checks "don't work."
Now:Â On NBC on Wednesday, he called Clinton "the worst secretary of state in the history of our nation" and said she would be "a terrible president."
Now:Â Has been a registered Republican since 2009.
There are also some flips which haven't necessarily been from left to right.
Now:Â On Fox News's "On The Record" this week, he called Bush "pathetic" for his support of Common Core, said his immigration views were "baby stuff."
Are you kidding? He darn near wet himself when Palin announced who she supported.
De Mint sold out a while back to Freedom works, just like Beck, Levin & Rush. De Mint supports Paul Ryan too!
FOLLOW the $$$..yes, it all boils down to that.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3398277/posts?page=60#60
#1) No, they actually said “where are his senate endorsements”. This is just DeMint on a radio talk show.
#2) What I said has nothing to do with “endorsements”. I listed names of people that aren’t all elected officials, that form the nucleus of the “circle the wagons club” that has to swoop in and try to protect Cruz every time he gets into tight jams because he keeps getting swept up in controversies, and hasn’t the foggiest idea how to navigate them without these people coming in to hand-hold him out of it!
This is a FORUM which means we discuss issues. We don't follow any marching orders about what it means to be conservative. FWIW, it seems that if you listen carefully to the candidates, you can tell which ones (and there are some) follow discussions as they evolve here.
As conservatives, we have different priorites about what's most important and even what conservative means.
The "vile attacks" go both ways. It does seem the personal attacks have cut back, even though the differences are still vigorously discussed.
Would you really want us to just agree with everything your candidate says and stop thinking for ourselves?
Trump knows how to use the press, to get their attention. he has spent much of his life learning how to draw attention to him. He is, as they say, good copy. For instance at the South Carolina debate it was expected that he would act more presidential. Instead he went ape, he played the hostile crowd like a fiddle. As Rush said today, he learned along ago that people don;t remember your words, they words, they remember how your words make them feel.
Since when was the utterings of Orrin Hatch seriously considered on FR?
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