Vet vet vet. Imagine how much they could have dug up on Obama if they had actually done that.
I’m all in for Cruz.
kidd is 100% in agreement with Cruz.
Yet this is red meat to their liberal audience.
“He opposes Common Core and abortion??? Oh how racist.”
/libspeak
My one conservative friend in real life says I have to stop looking for the “perfect” candidate because there aren’t any, but instead, find the candidate who comes closest to my conservative standards and beliefs.
I think I’ve found that candidate.
I’d bet PBS wrote that as if no one knows these things already.
“The Budget and debt: Mandate a balanced budget.”
Even better than a balanced budget would be a reduction and a cap on spending. The goal should be a much smaller federal government. I would gladly trade cutting the federal government in half and then letting them have a small deficit.
no matter what ideas he has he is not a natural born citizen and is not eligible to run for president or vice president
This shows that even Cruz is not a perfect conservative — even if he might well be the most conservative candidate we’ll get from the GOP.
His stance on gay “marriage” is troubling. Handing it over to the states is a cop-out. God will not be mocked. This situation requires nothing less than a Constitutional amendment to clarify the definition of marriage to be the one consistent with the Biblical worldview.
Also: Letting states to opt out of Common Core without affecting their ability to receive federal grant money is OK as far as it goes. But the real goal needs to be getting the federal government (and, eventually, state governments) out of education entirely.
I also do not think Cruz goes far enough on the subject of taxes.
PFL
“Taxes and the IRS: Move toward a flat tax and abolish the IRS.”
I know it would be harder to do, but I would love repealing the 16th amendment (income tax) and replace it with a national sales tax. That amendment did more to empower the federal government over us than anything else I can think of.
Not only did it give give the politicians and bureaucrats the power to take as much of our income as they like, but it allowed them to intrude into every facet of our lives and to control our behavior like puppets, by passing tax laws that reward or punish the behavior that the bureaucrats and politicians like or dislike.
Sure, we know that as President, he's unlikely to get more than a few percent of it done, but hey, he might stave off a civil war for a few more years. That's something.
Looking to PBS to answer "What does Ted Cruz believe?" is like looking to Fidel Castro to answer "What does the USA stands for?"
Even if you think PBS's answer is favorable, then look closer or wait for the other shoe to drop!
Cruz also supports DOMA.
Abolishing the IRS. Count me in. I like Walker better but I will vote for ONE ISSUE! Abolishing the IRS is a time that has come. They have shown they are political and that should be their downfall. Plus I just got my tax bill. I am firing my accountants.
Cruz believes in America. Obama believes in Islam.
Obviously they find his positions so extreme that merely listing them will destroy him. What sort of evil menace opposes massive tax breaks that politically-connected corporations paid good bribes for, or a 10 million page tax code no one can understand, or political misuse of the IRS and education departments, or laws created by executive and judicial fiat instead of legislation, or an Affordable Health Care Act that increases costs, or spending ourselves into bankruptcy, or carving up viable fetuses just before birth? Is this Cruz guy sane or something?
The fifth-column leftist PublicBS propagandists use "firebrand."
I would add a lot more to the Ted Cruz wish list, but much of what needs to be done is constitutionally essential, but not what could be called crowd pleasers, that is, most people would have no idea what it meant.
Remember that by all accounts, Cruz is a master of constitutional law and theory. Not a fraud like Obama, Cruz is the real deal.
And if he can win the primary, it will be the year of the Tea Party.