Not sure, exactly.
I can only chalk it up to “anger” at DC, which is why Cruz was elected to the senate in the first place, among other reasons, most notably, his record as TX SG.
I guess we are being “out-angered “.
I will vote for Cruz in the TX primary.
Before the race and way before Trump. H1Bs, Goldman Sachs, passing out teddy bears with Glenn Beck were more than enough for me.
It started with Trump. They used to say one or the other. Not so much now. A man with real principles and a man with no principles. Go figure.
Freepers are a fickle lot. 14 years ago it was all “Rove, you magnificent bastard.” So quick to eat their own.
Lie of omission;
“Also known as a continuing misrepresentation, a lie by omission occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster a misconception. Lying by omission includes failures to correct pre-existing misconceptions.”
Here’s and example of Ted’s lies of omission, seven lies and misrepresentations in under three minutes. That is walking the talk “the most principled conservative in the race”???
Lie 1 - Pro-abortion and supporting partial birth abortion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=197
Lie 2 - Trump is calling for the same socialized medicine as Sanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=216
Lie 3 - pushed partial birth abortion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=239
Lie 4 - Even as a candidate Donald says we need to have full on socialized medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=298
Lie 5 - at the debates he said we ought to have socialized medicine like Canada and Scotland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=302
Lie 6 - If you as a republican don’t support socialized medicine you are heartless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=312
Lie 7 - If you want to see Bernie sanders style of socialized medicine Trump is your guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=335
So ironic that the title of his book is “A Time For Truth”. Highly disappointed I bought it, and believed it. I wonder if he will give me a refund?
The back-lying issue is some hate religion and those that dare mention it. Like people that put “Do not Bother” signs on their front porch hoping to keep Mormons from knocking on their doors.
That is fine and dandy, but suddenly they have a candidate out of the blue that claims to support some of the things they liked about conservatism and whamo Cruz is suddenly the boogieman.
In 2006 this previously played out on Freerepublic with a lot of the hardcore atheists. Lots of FR members formed another website called DarwinCentral. It may still be around, not sure.
Part of the problem was JR kept a “Pro-God” notice on the frontpage of FreeRepublic. Since then people that have a bone to pick with religion try to do it more on the sly. You see today lots of “Bible Thumper” comments but usually it does not escalate into a full blown tirade against religion. But the irk of religion vs those that don’t like anything mentioned religious still rides under the covers here.
JMHO.... take it for what it cost you.
That’s exactly what happend, I believe many are under a strong delusion.
When he started lying and turned his campaign into a sleaze machine of the worst kind.
Trump campaign hit this site— you can bet on it.
There’s no perfect candidate.
But Cruz is the closest I can find in the current lot.
Other than that, politics is a blood sport!
Go Cruz!
I sure haven’t turned against Cruz. Mainly, because when I think back to all the multitudes of politicians I’ve voted for since reaching voting age, Cruz has been virtually the only one I cast my vote for who has genuinely followed through on what he said he’d do. And indeed suffered withering attacks and vilification from all directions, including his own Party, for this. That counts for something with me. Counts for a lot, in fact. Enough that it pretty much overwhelms a couple of things I’ve strongly disagreed with him over (H1B being a glaring example).
Indeed, I’m leaning towards going with Cruz in the primary, even though Trump’s stances/platforms are probably closer to my own positions. Mainly because I see Cruz as ‘tested’ when it comes to making principled stands. I’m not sure I really ‘trust’ Trump. His history is all over the map. His words are good, but his past actions and activities do not inspire confidence in me. I have this nagging, uneasy feeling about a potential Schwartzeneggar-Ventura redux. But not that all this matters a whole lot to me, these wacky Trump/Cruz battles. My main interest is just seeing a dagger placed in the heart of the slimeball GOP-E.
cruise voting for Corker bill did it for me. I read his excuse and it doesn’t pass the smell test.
Cruz!
I don’t like that he is pretending to be an outsider when his Campaign Chairman is Chad Sweet. - co founder of the Chertoff Group. And if you don’t know who that is...lots of people from banking and intelligence are involved - including former Director of CIA and NSA
I will vote for Cruz if he wins the nomination. Or anyone else, over Hillary or Bernie.
I do not hate him, I don’t even know him. But when he was presented as the inevitable candidate, alarm bells went off, as that was exactly how Obama was presented. As I did my own reading and research I learned that Cruz has a lifelong habit of not playing nicely with others, due to his conviction that he is smarter, better, and destined for greatness. That sounds like narcissism and we’ve seen that movie before too. The birthplace issue is ambiguous, everyone knows it, but when Cruz dismissed it as “settled” (the exact term Algore uses with regard to gorebal warming) another alarm bell rang. When I saw he was a Harvard lawyer who used his elite connections all his life to advance his career until it better suited his ambition to start calling himself an outsider, that added more doubt. As a junior senator he hasn’t accomplished anything other than making speeches, his colleagues dislike him, and he wasn’t even willing to finish out the term he fought so hard for before deciding he was ready for the big job. Since the primary began he has done some unethical things which I don’t need to enumerate and denied them all. He has also shown himself to be mediocre in the debates, not the vaunted debater we were told to expect, and he’s committed a number of errors, such as failing to report the GS loan, all of which add up to Ted Cruz being just another typical politician.
I’ve waited for decades to a real-life Hank Rearden to run, and I now have a businessman-citizen candidate to support- GO Trump!
Last May because:
Ted Cruz helped facilitate the nuclear Iran deal with his support of the Corker Bill. Only 4 scenarios exist for that.
1. He was bribed
2. He was threatened and caved
3. He is a traitor and really supported the deal
4. He was too stupid to figure out what the bill would lead to.
I used to like him a lot... until I got to know him during the course of the campaign. His ugly creepy side came out.
Turned or exposed? Trump supporters claim they are conservative while supporting the liberal agenda. Most Freepers are antiestablishment but are petrified of freedom.