Ted Cruz is not a Conservative (Saturbray)

Matthew 22:16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

Conservatism seems to been driven off the tracks by the Punditocracy. In the old days of the movement character and transparency was every bit as important as policy matters. How can you be a free country when your leaders are hiding everything from you and shading the truth? If they will hide the truth about little issues who says they will not hide it from big ones?

We have two choices now and in reality the election is over and Trump has won it is just by how much and is it enough to overcome the establishment, but it is still two men. In July when we had seventeen candidates and Jeb was the overwhelming favorite with Walker right behind, I predicted Trump and Cruz due to Trump’s wall and Cruz’s ground game. At that time I suggested they should be a team with Trump President and Cruz VP for four years while he was trained in executive skills. I was wrong.

My hesitation at the time with Ted was his question of being a Natural Born Canadian and Heidi Cruz working for Goldman Sachs and making $800K/yr. Both of those are still a problem if not much larger and there has been so much more piled on top without being in the least bit transparent. His campaign makes the old Clinton war room seem open and airy. If you dare ax the most basic question you get hit with a hammer and demeaned in the vilest attacks, but enough about his supporters.

I have no idea what the framers of this Country had in mind when they decided to have Presidents born in America or by military families stationed overseas, but it seems a good idea you be born here. That said, the troubling part of the birther issue is his refusal to be transparent. Why does he seal all of his birth records and immigration documents to keep his citizenship hidden? Lay everything on the table and get it behind you rather than covering it up like Benghazi, this makes no sense.

Goldman Sachs is the bigger issue of the two and lends itself to his lack of character which has revealed itself over and over. If you have a company supporting your family which is the author of ever bad economic policy in America, how can you claim to be a defender of Conservatism? Nobody is asking you to take a vow of poverty and quite the opposite, but this is profiting on all of those years in the Bush Administration writing all of those free trade agreements. Free for the other Countries while putting chains on America. Goldman Sachs is the very last bank any Conservative would work for if they were who they say they are. How would he balance her making over a million a year if he were President or VP if he had to rule against them and for America?

Then there is the campaign, from Iowa to Colorado there is a pattern of behavior that is very troubling for a Christian Conservative. Whether we like it or not, Christians are held to a higher standard which none of us can attain, but at least make an attempt. He has a habit of taking the shortcut and then blaming someone else for his decision. The buck never stops at his desk and that is a problem.

Whenever he has an issue where he is obviously lying like claiming Carson was dropping out in Iowa, he claims ignorance while saying he is the smartest man in the room. The one he really cannot deny or explain is the half a million his Pac gave to the Carley Pac. Now he will claim he cannot communicate with his PAC and if you believe that there is a bridge in Brooklyn you may want to jump off. How was his campaign manager able to buy the partially nude picture of Trump’s wife and turn that over the PAC if there is not communication?

Why would any campaign which is continually short on cash give a rival campaign running for the same office and roughly the same polling position be given such a large sum of money? If there is any explanation give it, since the appearance is this was hush money to cover-up an affair with Carley’s campaign manager.

In the old days of Conservatism, the appearance of corruption was corruption however today it is until proven beyond a shadow of a doubt so you stall. The same old Carvile tactic. Why did the PAC give a half million and what did Carley get for that? Both PACs should tell the truth if either one of them is honest.

Then we move to Whisky Creek and Colorado with his cozy relationship with the establishment. I remember when Conservatives would vomit if they were supported by Linseed Graham, John InSain, Jeb, Georgie Will, Kraut, National Review, WaPo, Reid and the entire GOP establishment but they ignore that to promote their version of conservatism. These people are the problem and will only make our issues worse, yet they claim it will be different this time.

After Colorado when there was not a single vote cast with Cruz taking all of the delegates we heard rules, regulations and the need to educate yourselves. Having been in one of those GOP selection caucuses here is how they work. Everyone knows exactly who they are voting for before they arrive since they have been given slates of names who to vote for of which delegates will vote for Cruz.

The ones who arrive with an open mind or intend on voting for someone else are outvoted by the slate. You vote down the slate so every chosen delegate gets the same overwhelming votes, it is pure corruption. It is all carefully choreographed and has absolutely nothing to do with the people they supposedly represent, only the kingmakers who demand their voices heard.

The one I was at was ambushed by the Paulbots who got around half the delegates even though he received 4% of the Primary vote. These charades are more like the Soviet Union than America. You can bet none of those slate delegates are under seventy or been with the Party less than forty years.

Cruz of course comes out of the Colorado fiasco blaming someone else as it is never his fault. In reality his team organized all of those slates and made sure of the outcome days before they met. You can claim they had the better ground game, but that way of selecting bound delegates has nothing to do with the voice of the people and more to do with the dictates of the Party.

There is a pattern with Ted Cruz which is very disturbing. He continually will take the shortcut on the truth and openness and then blame someone else after he gets caught. It seems we have had enough politicians who fit that mold and we really do not need more of them and especially as President. If we are going to turn America around we need to begin with honor and transparency which is lacking with Ted. This is not an indictment on Cruz as much as the conservative establishment, but some questions need open answers and apparently never will. It is time for a new direction for Conservatism, it is time to Trump the entire District of Corruption.

Like Trump and so many of his supporters, you can keep pouring on the insults but you are full of used food from ear to ear as he is. I was "anti-Establishment" before you knew there was an Establishment. I will match resumes with you any time. This "globalist" bullcrap is a long tiome favorite of the John Birch Society which was read out of the conservative movement by Bill Buckley in the early days of the movement and Buckley also ran off Ayn Rand with the assistance of Whittaker Chambers.

If King George III fathered a child with an American woman, that would be a great shame to the American woman but, according to current standards, the child would be a NBC. Call the courts anti-American and Marxist if you like but that is hardly an intellectual or judicial argument. They don't become anti-American or Marxist just because on NBC, they uniformly disagree with the Birthers.

In those days, however, there seemed to be a reluctance to recognize citizenship passing through an American mother. Your more appropriate analogy would be if Mad Georgie's sister had been impregnated by Patrick Henry, the child would be an NBC. No court in the land would deny that citizenship wcan pass through the mother. In fact, even the Birther fantasy insists, unlike the actual constitution, that BOTH parents be American citizens.

As to your fantasy that as a Cruz supporter, I just MUST have supported Romney (any Romney but particularly Moral Monster Mitt Romney), I invite you to scan my posting history. Most of the anti-Romney people here have been run off by this gutter campaign. He was the first GOP POTUS candidate that I refused to vote for since I started voting in POTUS races in 1968. Wana try to make that two in a row? You are doing a good job of it but I am still stubborn. I am more stubborn than some of my FRiends and I ain't going nowhere. I will be here along with the other ACTUAL CONSERVATIVES long after your secular messiah crumbles. We are the ones who must, as ever, pick up the shards of this disgrace of a campaign.

I live in the CD (IL-16) immediately south of the Wisconsin district of the despicable Paul Ryan. If I were still able to walk normally I would be going there to help his primary opponent. I was willing to give Jeb Bush a fair hearing. His support for Common Core and his expressed desire to be nominated without the base, made up my mind against him now and forever. I don't think I ever posted a word about Light Loafers Linseed Graham (not Gram) without calling him exactly that. Carly Fiorina and Nikki (proper spelling) Haley are transitory figures not part of the conservative core and of no lasting importance. It is GoldMAN Sachs and you can review my posts on "Wall Street, K Street and the US Chamber of Crony Commerce" as well as the $$$$$ whores of Goldman Sachs and every similar outfit farming Americans of modest means to fatten Muffy's trust fund and likely those of the Trump descendants. OR you can stop lying about me. The Club for Growth is accused of being GOP-E simply because that group testifies to economic issues and is characterized by economic literacy.

Meanwhile the Manhattan vulgar motormouth, an actual billionaire in Manhattan circles with Manhattan "values" and who graduated the thoroughly Ivy League Wharton School of Finance (best in the country) at University of Pennsylvania runs around the country autoyakking about slapping 45% tariffs on businesses moving abroad, as though he were an economic illiterate. Think that one through if you are able. That would certainly do nothing to stop companies from fleeing the USA for friendlier climates and venues with lower taxes and lower labor costs. The owners of those corporations did not become as wealthy as they are by being stupid, much less stupid enough to be pushed around by Trump's guff. He tickles your ears with pretty lies and you lap it up as though he can create reality with that foul mouth of his.

Mexico has had an effectively communist party (the PRI or Institutional Revolutionary Party) running it for all but 6 years (Vincente Fox) since the early 1920s. That party under Placido Calles and others martyred Roman Catholic priests for merely saying Mass against government orders leading to the Cristero Revolution of the late 1920s which regrettably failed. Obozo persecutes my religion as well. BTW, even Vincente Fox has called Trump out for the ignorant buffoon that he is if he thinks that Mexico is paying for the Wall Almighty, but Trump tickles your ears and you lap it up.

I am capable of making distinctions. Mitt Romney (M3R) was the single WORST excuse (morally, politically, policywise, Romneycare, went on autowimp against Obozo, etc.), ad infinitum). I will NEVER vote for that despicable babykilling POS. Trump is no wimp (but he is also no pro-lifer whatever he may hallucinate for the peanut gallery) and it would probably be a great deal of fun to see him tangle with the Arkansas Medusa. Not that either of them is fit to be POTUS. However, even Trump does not approach the evil of M3R. As things stand, I intend to vote for Trump with an industrial strength clothes pin on my nose IF he is the nominee. I preferred Scott Walker to all of them. You can change my mind though. Keep those ignorant insults coming and you never know. I seriously doubt he gets elected or is even competitive with Her Royal Thighness anyhow which may free me from that shame. Then I can vote for Tom Hoefling again. Tom never disappoints.

By the way, you forgot to lie that I am somehow in bed with Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, LAMAR!!!! Alexander, Bob Corker, Thad Cockroach, Kevin McCarthy, Haley Barbour, the Rockefellers, the Warburgs, the Bilderburgers, the CFR, the Trilateralists, and let's not forget His Temporary Holiness Francis, etc. I freely confess that I do NOT get my "news" from Infowars, either and I don't think 9/11 was either an Israeli operation or an inside job. I also believe (indeed know) that JFK went down to Lee Harvey Oswald and (maybe) one other shooter from behind, none on the "grassy knoll in front, and I am not impressed by Kim Kardashian and her acres of silicon stuffed skin. I would also be delighted if we pulled out of the UN at the earliest opportunity and stopped sending it checks.

Now run along, little fellow, and learn something before you ebarrass yourself further.

What you reference in Minor vs. Happersett is DICTA, about as effective as including a statement that the sky was blue that day. The issue in Minor vs. Happersett was not "natural born" citizenship, but rather whether the plaintiff there, a suffragette, could FORCE Missouri to allow her to vote by a decision of the courts aand ultimately of SCOTUS. The holding was NO.

Chester Arthur was a conservative Republican, a so-called Stalwart. Check out his status. Born certainly in Canada, probably of Canadian parents. Are you pretending to be an expert on the citizenship status of all those who served as POTUS? That would be a hopeless task according to strict Birther fantasy. Was M3R qualified by those standards? Goldwater? George Romney? John McCain? All other major party POTUS candidates? You might get easy research on birthplace. Citizenship of parent(s) not so much.

I am kind of partial to missionary pots for Birthers. Maybe Obozo's Kentyan relatives can supply them? I am not going to apologize either, at my age, for dropping a letter every now and then.

The constitution most certainly does not enshrine Birther fantasy that would require TWO American parents AND birth in the US. Also the XIVth Amendment has something to say about birthplace but not restrictively so and NOTHING about citizenship of parents. The XIVth Amendment is, by definition, enacted SUBSEQUENT to the original constitution and therefore, modifies it to the extent necessary. That rule of judicial construction is as ironclad as any and guarantees that we have an ongoing ability to legislate changes in constitution or law, by amendment or statute as may me appropriate to the change.

Why resist Birtherism? Because it plays no role in our constitution and Trumpettes are cute when they are pissed. It's fun to enforce the constitution AS WRITTEN against any and all who would distort it.

Trump CLAIMS:

To be a conservative. He is not and never has been.

Trump CLAIMS to be a pro-lifer. He has always been a militant pro-abort. His clumsy attempts to gull the suckers on this issue show not that he is a pro-lifer but that e understands neither the words nor the music of pro-life.

Trump is quite economically literate as an alumnus of the Wharton School of Finance. He makes believe he is an economic illiterate when he knows better but 45% tariffs and the tough guy will teach those fleeing comanies a lesson is what tickles the mark's ears and is wahat they want to hear.

He will build The Wall (maybe) and will make the Mexicans PAY for it. I have this nice traditional bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan. I'll sell it to you for a few million dollars in small, unmarked bills by quit claim deed. You can set up a toll gate and become RICHER than Trump! At least until you are arrested for a fraud not of your own making since I don't own duh Bridge and can't really sell it to you. But, hey, it may be what you want to hear! Isn't that all that counts?

I DO believe him when he says he will make "deals" with Schmucky Chewmer and Nancy Pelosi. THAT's credible! p> And, gee, Trump can't be a liar, can he? Not when every other phrase out of his vulgar mouth accuses Cruz of being "Lyin' Ted."

“He’s been making and building his whole life. Employed more people in the private sector probably more than all Presidents before him combined.
He’s not a lawyer working with the GOP against change like Cruz.

Cruz is proving to be another Obama, I’d worry more about that.
“

Making and building(BTW, also destroying) his whole life does not make one a conservative. Stalin did those things, too.

I do not enjoy most lawyers either. Ted, like Rehnquist, Scalia or Thomas, happens to be a lawyer who knows the Constitution. He can fight for conservatism, as evidenced in his few short years in the Senate.

Trump has no conservative track record, and what he does show on social conservatism is a big fat zero.

One cannot be a conservative if one does not have social conservatism.

And I am unworried on what Ted will do if he gets elected President.

The real big issue anyway is not for the Presidency. A President can be controlled by a Congress that does its job to uphold the Constitution.

Congress is the big target to change, and I feel Cruz will be able to steer more of the fatcats GOPe toward conservative principles than just a street boxer.

What, did somebody ask you that? None of that is relevant.

Chester Arthur was a conservative Republican, a so-called Stalwart. Check out his status. Born certainly in Canada, probably of Canadian parents.

Another damn Canuk usurper. (yeah we all know about that)

Are you pretending to be an expert on the citizenship status of all those who served as POTUS?

Well, same as anyone else who can read. It's not real complicated.

Was M3R qualified by those standards?

Who?

Goldwater?

Born in US Territory, probably yes.

George Romney?

Probably not

John McCain?

Panama was a US protectorate, (unlike Canada) his parents were there in service to the US. (unlike Crews)

None of them got elected. And the term is not "qualified" it's "eligible"

I am not going to apologize either, at my age, for dropping a letter every now and then.

IT'S AN ACRONYN for crying out loud. We can only assume you meant:

Parents Over the Shoulder, Perception of Teasing Scale, Plain Old Time Sharing, Post Office Telephone Service, Purchase Of Telephones & Services, Purchasing Online Tracking System, Playhouse on the Square, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Protector of the Small, P!$$ Off, Tomorrow's Saturday, Plain Old Telephone System, Part of the Solution, Parting on the Square, Pat on the Shoulder, or Path Of The Shell.

The constitution most certainly does not enshrine Birther fantasy that would require TWO American parents AND birth in the US.

They didn't define "war" or the little baby Jesus either. Both are mentioned in the Constitution. They figured nobody would be so stupid as to not know the meanings. AND, you forgot to capitalize Constitution.

Why resist Birtherism?

Because it's RAT-speak, right out of the Obama campaign, after Hillary pointed out what's-his-name's ineligibility. But it's derogatory, sort of like if I called you a Child Molester. Not that I'm calling you a child molester or anything. Unless, of course, you are one.

Because it plays no role in our constitution [sic]

Really! You mean the framers WANTED the English "royalty" to be able to become President of the United States?

Using your logic, anybody from any country (or planet for that matter) could be President...no limitations....

I don't think so.

The XIVth Amendment is, by definition, enacted SUBSEQUENT to the original constitution and therefore, modifies it to the extent necessary.

That refers only to naturalization and citizenship...not eligibility.

That rule of judicial construction is as ironclad as any and guarantees that we have an ongoing ability to legislate changes in constitution or law, by amendment or statute as may me appropriate to the change.

You did not say that...you did not say that...

GEEEEEEZZ!!!

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