Posted on 03/04/2016 5:20:08 AM PST by Kaslin
Mitt Romney's speech against Donald Trump is not likely to win many converts. Romney's remarks will just further vindicate and entrench Trump supporters.
Romney, though a good man, is quintessentially GOP establishment and has shown, by his speech, that he still doesn't understand the role he and his colleagues have played in bringing about the Trump surge.
During campaign season, these guys always seem to get it. They profess to understand how destructive President Obama's agenda is, but once they're elected, they lose their will to fight, which makes many conservatives believe they didn't believe their own rhetoric in the first place.
I know, Republicans tell us that the GOP leadership has done all it can to stop Obama but there's only so much a congressional majority can do. That's also what they said about congressional minorities when they were a minority.
Regardless, they haven't presented their case to the American people with conviction during the past seven years, except in the runup to elections. They didn't point out Obama's evil intentions and often denounced those who did. They didn't rally around Ted Cruz, Mike Lee or a handful of others who tried to stymie Obama. Instead, they chose to ridicule and marginalize these fighters.
Even to this day, the establishment fails to understand the legitimate concerns millions of Americans have over illegal immigration. Establishment types arrogantly and unfairly slander border hawks as nativists, suggesting their opposition to open borders is race-based.
It's not about race; it's about our national sovereignty, the rule of law, protecting jobs, protecting Americans against criminal elements and jihadis, and stanching an invasion of people who will further burden our welfare state -- not assimilate, not embrace the American idea -- and vote almost solely Democratic.
A sovereign nation must control its borders and encourage immigrants to assimilate and embrace the unique American experiment. But Democrats are for flooding the borders for all the wrong reasons, and large swaths of the Republican establishment have affirmatively aided and abetted them.
We've watched as Republicans have allowed many of Obama's budgets to sail through under the radar, on the pretense of just waiting for the next election. Our guys don't even talk about entitlement reform anymore, though they were telling us just a few years ago that we were about to go bankrupt.
The Republican Party has been so tone-deaf to these real concerns that some Republican voters are furious enough to have chosen a wildly flawed solution in Donald Trump. One person on Twitter said she is so disgusted she is going to vote Democratic for the first time in 40 years.
It is tragic that true conservatives, however, are being lumped in and punished for the betrayals of centrist Republicans. Trump supporters are adamant that no elected official escape the blame. Their solution is to burn the house down and rebuild it around Trump, even though they can't be sure what he'd do when elected.
People wonder why they would turn to someone like Trump. The GOP, after all, has stood for moral principles, manners and adult behavior, and Trump seems to exhibit none of those things. In many ways, he is the opposite of conservative principles, in demeanor, lifestyle and his personal conduct in the campaign.
But in their disgust at the Republican establishment, they are throwing out true conservatives and also certain conservative principles and values, as if all of conservatism has been tainted by a party that betrayed its base.
How else does it make sense that even valid, troubling criticisms of Trump seem to help him more than hurt him?
I think it's because this disaffected class of voters wants someone unorthodox enough to break the rules, someone brash enough not to be deterred by the niceties that have prevented establishment Republicans from distinguishing themselves from Obama in bold colors rather than pale pastels. They're seem not only not offended but invigorated by someone who'll hurl profanities and refuse to apologize even when he owes an apology, because they think it's going to take someone like that to resist pressure to betray them once he's elected.
And though the establishment has finally awakened to the intensity of the discontentment among the party rank and file, it still doesn't believe the angst is legitimate. The establishment is still in bitter denial and wouldn't support a person advocating many of Trump's ideas even if he were a paragon of moral rectitude.
If establishment Republicans were the least bit repentant about their betrayals, truly believed in the conservative principles embodied in their party's platform and were realistic about stopping Trump, they'd quit posturing and unite behind Ted Cruz.
For the way to defeat Donald Trump is not to deny him a majority and steal the nomination from him at the convention; that really would be the end of the party. It is to embrace the closest thing to a Reagan conservative since Ronald Reagan, before it's too late. But truth be told, they probably hate Cruz worse than they hate Trump.
I wish Trump supporters would consider this when they wrongly lump Cruz in with the establishment, and I wish they'd simmer down long enough to recognize that Cruz represents the answer to their complaints far more than Trump -- and with none of the baggage.
See my post #100. :)
Perhaps saving the republic is more important to some than a football game? Four mppore years of a egotistical lout running my life is the price I will have to pay for you thinking with your footballs instead of your brains. I owe you a freaking field goal.
I know we squabbled in the past, but your post #21 was just outstanding. Excellent job.
Cruz is not a sure bet even to win in the Bible Belt. He will lose Mississippi next Tuesday. His electoral map will look like McCain in 2008
When Cruz gets to 1237 ...
Let the People decide if they want a President born of two citizen parents (Trump), one citizen parent (Cruz), or no citizen parents (Rubio and Jindal).
The people already said No to Jindal.
-PJ
With all due respect, before you attempt to ignore the large gorilla in the room, Rafael Edward Cruz's constitutional ineligibility, you might want to glance at the operative provisions of the Naturalization Act of 1790, as superseded and repealed by the Naturalization Act of 1795. You will note that the term 'natural born citizen' set forth under the 1790 Act was specifically removed and replaced with the term 'citizen' under Sec 3 of the 1795 Act. The definition of the term [NBC] set forth in the 1790 Act was of course constitutionally invalid and totally contrary to the widely accepted and applied meaning of the term, then and now. Without considering here Congress' purpose for the change, the FACT of the change is consistent with the view that while Congress understood its power to establish rules for extending naturalized citizenship under all manner of situations, it also refused to alter or in any way extend the settled meaning of the constitutional term 'natural born citizen', namely, born on US soil of TWO US citizens. To have departed from that settled meaning would have required a constitutional amendment, not a statute. Quite understandably, Congress understood and feared the negative ramifications of having a foreigner as President.
Thank you
We may differ on how to get there but we all agree where we want to go. I apologies for all the past assaults. I tend to be a bare knuckle poltical brawler when I am irritated by something.
It seems with age, and your kids reaching their high school years, your start to think more about the long term.
It is of little use to post wisdom to fools, as the Bible says,” cast not your pearls before swine for they will turn on you and rend you, then tromp your pearls into the mire”.
I guess as this is a public forum, you have to just ignore Trumps Trolls. They never have anything to say of value anyway, their souls are filled with only mire. I think they studied debate at the local zoo, by watching the monkeys fling feces at the humans.
Sad thing about democracies, when the barbarians out numbers productive citizens, the empire votes in collapse everytime.
“We’re wondering when you will start to LISTEN.”
Good. I am all ears.
Explain to me why Cruz worked with Paul Ryan to get TPA on track. He wrote articles for it, told Sessions he did not know what he was talking about when Sessions warned him about the language in TPA that usurps Congressional authority over immigration.
Cruz helped get the bill to the floor for a vote by voting for cloture (which requires a 60 vote threshold), he then voted for the bill.
When the bill came back from the house, he voted against it because his vote was not needed. The bill needed only 51 votes to pass.
He told Levin that he voted against the bill the second time because “leadership” lied when they promised him they would remove the immigration language from the bill. Cruz lied. Cruz voted for the bill knowing the immigration language was in the bill because Sessions told him about it. Of course, he is not actually expected to read the bill.
He voted for the Corker bill, which was written by the Obama White House that implemented the Iranian TREATY.
That spin that he posted on his web site to explain his vote? Don’t waste your time recounting that.
Ditto.
Rube is outright for amnesty, no matter what lies he tells today. Cruz is playing politics just enough to cast doubts on his reliability. Anti-amnesty groups give Cruz high marks, but he may have been voting strategically to get his score up while scheming to facilitate amnesty, which was only stopped because Cantor lost his primary.
If he's nominated I'll vote for Cruz, but I'd prefer Trump, at least on immigration and trade.
Nope.
David and his brother Rush have climbed aboard the Cheap Labor Express.
Adios, hermanos.
Born in the country to Citizen parents is what creates a natural born Citizen. It is not necessary that your parents be natural born Citizens, only that they were Citizens at the time of your birth.
"...all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners."
I believe he can and will...
May I join Michael and Extremely, in praising your treatise.
You have written what I and many others feel.
Godspeed!
How about the Cruz supporters supporting Trump the front-runner and let Trump reward Cruz with a position he qualifies for.
Trump cannot pick Cruz to be his VP - because Cruz is not an article II natural born citizen constitutionally eligible to be VP.
Trump cannot nominate Cruz for the Supreme Court Justice position because Cruz has proven to be not a person who abides by the US Constitution 100% - Cruz intentionally confused the article II nbc constitutional eligibility issue and refused to address it! How can someone who ignores the most basic of the US Constitution be the justice on the Supreme Court?
If Cruz is honest enough to address and clarify the nbc issue I would be the first one to jump on his band-wagon!
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I’m going for Republican implosion. Let it all burn. There is nothing worth saving here.
I don't mind Beck, he is a hero for taking on and exposing the Progressive traitors crime family. He is over emotional, but I am not electing him for president.
Dual citizenship is not illegal, it has advantages. I personally wish I had dual citizenship with Israel. However it is not appropriate for a Presidential Candidate, perhaps even against the law. So there was no reason to preform a formal renunciation of citizenship till then. I do not believe Ted ever had any passport or other trappings of Canadian citizenship, he was eligible for. You are
eligible to join the marines, that does not make you one.
As to Teds biggest donor having expectations of Ted bending the law, that may be true. But I trust in Ted Cruz's long history of upholding the law, and respect of the law. When push comes to shove, isn't integrity is the only hope in any Candidate?
And to answer your final question, (and showing a lack of willful blindness in my answers getting that out of the way), the state of the union is so dire, homosexuals perverting marriage is not one of our top ten problems. I can easily list more than ten serious issues that are dire in scope and effect. Yes, I am adamantly opposed to corrupting the family, and using child rearing tax breaks to support mental illness, but the corruption of law and justice in the land is the root of the problem. Faggotry being treated as a social class is just a symptom.
Ted was not lying, he was showing his depth of priorities.
Thank you for sharing your well thought out reservations, yours is sadly only the second post from a Trump supporter I have read to date that showed civility and contained real meat on its bones. I look forward to your future comments on Ted Cruz. All men have faults and shortcomings. I seriously want to consider them before handing the reigns to them. Hell, I have to live here too!
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