Posted on 04/06/2016 3:22:29 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
MOONIES FOR CRUZ
April 6, 2016
Congratulations to Ted Cruz for winning his fourth primary! Usually Donald Trump wins the primaries -- where you go and vote, like in a real election. Cruz wins the caucuses -- run by the state parties, favored by political operators and cheaters.
Until now, the only primaries Cruz has won are in Texas (his home state), Oklahoma (basically the same state) and Idaho (where Trump never campaigned).
So now, Cruz has finally won an honest-to-goodness primary. This is great news for him, provided: (1) the general election is a caucus, and (2) the national media universally denounce Cruz's Democratic opponent the same way the Wisconsin media denounced Trump.
In that case, Cruz should do fine.
The Cruz-bots don't care. They don't care that they're being used as a cat's-paw by the Never Trump crowd, and that a brokered Republican convention is more likely to end with Bernie as the nominee than Cruz.
The Cruz cultists don't even care about plain honesty, which I always thought was a conservative value. Republicans used to be appalled by guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons. Now they are guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons.
It's all hands on deck to stop the only presidential candidate who wants to save America from the cheap labor plutocrats.
Cruz has flipped to Trump's side on every important political issue of this campaign -- which only ARE issues because of Trump. These are:
-- Quadrupling the number of foreign guest workers to help ranchers and farmers get cheap labor: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.
-- Legalizing illegal aliens: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.
-- The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.
-- Building a wall: Cruz was against it, and now is for it.
These are all positions Cruz has changed since being a senator -- most of them he's flipped on only in the last year. I'm supposed to believe that U.S. senators can sincerely change their minds about policies it was their job to know about, but a New York developer can never change his mind about pop-offs he made more than a decade ago.
Back in 1999 -- 17 years ago -- when Donald Trump was considering a presidential run on the Reform Party ticket, he said this when asked about abortion by Tim Russert on "Meet the Press": "Well, look, I'm very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject. But you still -- I just believe in choice."
Russert then asked him specifically if he'd ban partial-birth abortion. Trump said, "No. I am pro-choice in every respect and as far as it goes, but I just hate it."
A year later, Trump wrote in his book "The America We Deserve": "When Tim Russert asked me on 'Meet the Press' if I would ban partial-birth abortion, my pro-choice instincts led me to say no. After the show, I consulted two doctors I respect and, upon learning more about this procedure, I have concluded that I would indeed support a ban."
Sometime in the intervening 16 years, Trump became fully pro-life.
You can say you don't believe him -- just as you might say you don't believe Cruz has truly changed his mind on amnesty, the wall, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership, etc. But to claim Trump is pro-choice today -- present tense -- is what's known as a "lie."
But that's what Cruz says over and over again, including in a campaign ad -- and not one of those "super PAC" ads that count even less than a retweet. A Cruz ad plays the clip from that 1999 interview where Trump says, "I am pro-choice in every respect," repeats it three times, and then cuts to a narrator proclaiming: "For partial-birth abortion, not a conservative."
These are the kinds of lies that used to drive conservatives crazy when the Clintons did it. Not anymore. All's fair in smearing Trump.
Trump has said a million times that he'd scrap Obamacare and replace it with a free market system (which, by the way, he explains a lot more clearly than Washington policy wonks with their think-tank lingo). Merely for Trump saying that we're "not going to let people die, sitting in the middle of a street in any city in this country," Cruz accuses him of supporting "Bernie Sanders-style medicine."
Yes, because Trump is against people dying in the streets, Cruz says that Trump thinks "Obamacare didn't go far enough and we need to expand it to put the government in charge of our health care, in charge of our relationship with our doctors." Over and over again, Cruz has repeated this insane lie, telling Fox's Megyn Kelly: "If you want to see Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine, Donald Trump is your guy."
Trump's alleged support for the kind of national health care they have in Scotland and Canada is another big fat lie. Trump was issuing his usual effusive praise before he drops the hammer -- "It actually works incredibly well in Scotland. Some people think it really works in Canada." Then he continued, in the very same sentence: "I don't think it would work as well here. What has to happen -- I like the concept of private enterprise coming in. ... You have to create competition."
Cruz and his cult-like followers lie about Trump wanting a health care system akin to Canada's and Scotland's. They lie about his supporting Obamacare. They lie about his supporting partial-birth abortion. They lie about his ever having been a Democrat. They lie about his campaign manager assaulting a female reporter.
I tried being nice after Florida, when it became clear that Trump was the choice of a majority of Republican voters, nearly choking on a column praising Cruz for his admirable flip-flops to Trump's positions on immigration and trade. I censored loads of anti-Cruz retweets. But -- as with the Clintons -- you offer these Cruz-bots an olive branch and they bite off your hand.
The next thing I knew, the Cruz cult was accusing Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of criminal battery for brushing past a female reporter. Anyone who claims this video shows a "battery" is as big a liar as the liberals who lined up to say Clinton did not commit perjury when he denied having "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky.
If James Carville and Paul Begala had a baby, it would be a Cruz supporter.
They lie about my own tweaking of Trump -- I didn't like the Heidi retweet! -- amid a tidal wave of support. Trump is the only presidential candidate in my lifetime who will build a wall, deport illegals and pause the importation of Muslims. He's the only one who cares more about ordinary Americans than he does about globalist plutocrats. Does anyone really think I'm "tiring" of him because of a retweet?
Apparently, for slavishly devoted Cruz-bots, a normal human making a small criticism of her preferred candidate is unfathomable! That fact alone proves how dishonest they are about their own candidate.
I was under the misimpression that I was dealing with adults and not swine like Carville and Begala, willing to twist someone's words to win a momentary political advantage. Mostly, I was under the misimpression that honesty was still a conservative value.
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Agree with you one hundred percent. Cruz said at the time that he wanted the Gang of Eight to pass/become law. He correctly foresaw that it would be difficult to get it through the House. The single biggest change to the bill the Cruz amendment mandated was a fig leaf to give Reps a talking point. I.e. they could have told their constituents, “But the legalized ‘undocumented immigrants’ can never become citizens.”
It was a lie—Cruz’ specialty—but he hoped voters would be stupid enough to buy it just long enough not to vote their Reps out en masse. Cruz is the antithesis of conservative; let’s sincerely hope his supporters don’t have to find this out the hard way.
Agree with your post/analysis! I have some corroborating info. I have an errand to run first. Then I’ll plan on elaborating.
Great analysis! Here are two more points.
Cruz supporters base their assumptions on two erroneous presuppositions. First, in order for their theory to hold up, the Cruz family had to be responsible, conscientious and efficient. I.e.: a top priority after Ted’s birth would have had to be getting the paperwork squared away at the US Consulate.
Here’s the problem. No family headed by two alcoholics is efficient, responsible or conscientious. These families are by definition dysfunctional. It’s rare for even all the necessities to get taken care of, much less extras.
Second, the assumption is that even if Cruz’ dysfunctional family did nothing, Ted was automatically a US citizen.
NOT TRUE.
Governor Paul LePage of Maine has the facts. He, being an American citizen, had two daughters born in Canada. Neither was an automatic US citizen; both had to be naturalized in order to gain US citizenship.
There are not two sets of rules, one for LePages and one for Cruzes. There is one set of rules. Cruz, to gain US citizenship, would have had to naturalize. There is zero evidence that he did.
Agree with you; he’s not a US citizen at all.
Oops; your candidate has issues. See post 103.
Apparently, ya’ll can read Cruz’s mind and know his intentions better than he or Jeff Sessions and Mike Lee do. You haven’t addressed Trump’s statements that support amnesty.
I’m not reading Cruz’ mind; I’m reading his tweets. The, “He was lying,” explanation has simply worn too thin.
Jeff Sessions co-wrote Trump’s immigration paper, and Sessions publicly approved/endorsed the final product. Sessions doesn’t endorse amnesty.
Sessions supported Cruz and his position and knows it better than you. You are making an assumption about his ttweet when it can be interpreted in a different way.
First, Sessions is on the record saying that what killed amnesty was Cantor’s defeat/Brat’s victory. Cruz didn’t lift his littlest finger to help Brat in any way, shape or form.
Second, Cruz’ tweet is not deep or mysterious. He expressed himself with simple clarity: first comes border ‘security,’ then comes legalization. Anyone with English as a first language can easily grasp what he meant.
And again, the “He was lying,” routine is just silly. Cruz had no reason to lie to his most devoted supporters.
Gang of Eight was passed in Senate.
However, in the House it was stopped when Cantor lost in his primary.
Dave Brat saved us from Amnesty.
CanuckTed had NOTHING to do with stopping it.
Apparently Jeff Sessions thought Cruz had an impact. He delayed it and brought out the problems with it. Cantor losing was the biggest impact, but the Senate battles helped in the election and got more people to contact their representative.
Still no explanations for Trump's statement?
it’s hard to generalize, but you’re going to have to look at the individual people, see how they’ve done, see how productive they’ve been, see what their references are, and then make a decision.
‘You can accuse him of being a lawyer with a strategy, but your accusation of lying is your own interpretation.’
Could you get it any more backwards? I’m the one saying take Cruz’ tweet at face value. I.e.: accept that he was telling the truth, and supports mass legalization.
The explanation I’ve gotten from Cruz supporters is that Ted was lying. I.e.: that he said he supports legalization but he wasn’t being honest.
Are you able to grasp this? It’s very basic, and shouldn’t be as confusing as you make it.
If you want to understand Trump’s immigration policy, read his position paper on the subject. The one Sessions co-wrote. There’s no amnesty in it.
Now, that is pretty funny. You choose to twist anything Cruz says while telling me to basically ignore what Trump says in the past and point to his position paper.
Well, I will do likewise.
Would this be Cruz’ post-soccer balls and teddy bears position?
Trump didn’t support his own signature issue until just recently and you’re mocking Cruz for helping kids that were being used as pawns? Got it.
Here is Cruz’ problem. He got into the race before Trump. He made a speech spelling out the basis of his candidacy. He didn’t mention a wall. He made no mention of the abject crisis on the border. Heaven knows he said nothing about deportation. Above all, he didn’t even hint at America’s catastrophic loss of sovereignty.
Additionally, his soccer ball and teddy bear Foreign Invader Welcoming Party was a window into his soul. That was the real Ted Cruz, serving the needs of Foreign Invaders before concerning himself with the carnage they inflict on America/Americans.
Speaking of which, it is a total and complete Obama/Alinsky MYTH that these were ‘kids.’ Most were late teens/early twenties gang bangers. Obama has been flooding the country with this devastating crime wave as part of his vile and hateful goal of fundamentally transforming the USA. And Cruz aided and abetted him—shame!
Trump subsequently entered the race. Unlike Cruz, he spoke of the foreign invader crisis, and of the need for a wall and for mass deportations. Most importantly, he detailed the absolutely devastating loss of sovereignty the US has suffered, and the critical urgency of restoring it. [There isn’t one Cruz supporter in a million that grasps the issue of sovereignty. That is why the fact that to this day Cruz has still not mentioned it bothers them not at all.]
Yes, Me-Too-Ted has been appropriating Trump’s immigration issues ever since—at least, after he saw how strongly they the resonated with voters, he began appropriating them. But that doesn’t change the fact that he couldn’t be bothered to mention such issues when he entered the primary. His biggest donors wouldn’t have liked it.
Cruz has shown us all who he is, and whose side he’s on. His supporters simply cannot/will not see it.
Caveat Emptor
Here's a quote for you to look up.
Trump is NO conservative. He’s a self-dealing charlatan and he’s got a lot of fall-for-anything chump types fooled.
In The Art of the Deal Trump says you make promises...and then you DELIVER on those promises. Delivery is an indispensable part of the deal.
This is how Trump differs from Cruz. Cruz campaigned on building a wall when running for the Senate. With Palin’s crucial help, Cruz won that race.
After which we heard no more about the wall—not so much as a whisper. It was just a line Cruz used to get elected; then he threw it away.
Of course after Trump promised a wall, Me-Too-Ted retrieved his old line from the trash can and dusted it off. But anybody who falls for it this time just likes being lied to.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, and I was asking for it [or in this case, Cruz supporters were asking for it].
I hear what you are saying. But I see a double-standard when it comes to accountability. For example, a month after entering the race, Donald Trump said that he would expedite the return of illegals back into the US. Yet Trump is not held to the same standard as Cruz. In 2012, Trump criticized Mitt Romney’s immigration position as being “mean-spirited”. Yet those words are forgotten as Trump continues to inflate the cost of his wall - a wall that he will allow expeditiously returning illegals to bypass.
I'll just leave you with this:
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