But with all you say you know who is, none of that seems to bother you. No, Cruz, the 97% consistent conservative bothers you. Cruz bothers you because his consistency holds up a mirror to your own inconsistency. That is what makes you uncomfortable about Ted Cruz and makes a lot on this Board uncomfortable about themselves, and I understand that you all don't like that.
Cruz bothers me because he is a caricature. He has selected certain traits that he deems to be "conservative" and exaggerated them, played them up, to convince more emotionally driven voters that he really is conservative. On top of that, he expects conservatives to swoon over him solely because of his conservative persona, while he fails to demonstrate that he has any skills or experience that would actually qualify him for the job.
I do not like fakes. I grew up in CA during the hippy movement--believe me, I saw more than my fair share of phonies, and developed an intense dislike of them. That Cruz is pretending to be conservative by putting on an exaggerated veneer of the same conservative stereotypes that the media constantly mocks tells me that he has no real understanding of conservative values. Furthermore, his action in CO--crowing about a "win" that looks like cheating--does not fit the behavior of a man who is truly principled and conservative.
Right now, the media is mostly focused on taking out Trump, since he is the only real challenge to Clinton or Sanders, and threatens the political/media cabal. However, do not kid yourself that the media's current silence about Cruz will remain if Cruz should (God forbid) become the nominee. The media will crush him. Suddenly, his fake "principled conservatism" will be evidence that he wants to install an authoritarian theocracy. Since he never did deny the National Enquirer story about his alleged trysts, the media will trot that out, too--and they won't be inclined to cover up bimbo eruptions the way they did for Bill Clinton. The media will attack him hard, and he won't be able to deflect the attacks because he doesn't have Trump's skill with handling the media. And so on. Even if Cruz were genuine, he wouldn't have a chance.
Suddenly, his fake "principled conservatism" will be evidence that he wants to install an authoritarian theocracy. "Authoritarian theocracy?" Is that what truly principled conservatism is to you these days? You might not really be quite so "ex-Dem" as you pretend.
Cruz' conservative creds are impeccable, longstanding, and accomplished with and a string of significant victories long before he was ever in this race. Trump's gotten his conservative "religion" conveniently just in time for a run for the Presidency -- his biggest ego rush yet.
To learn of your phony hippy roots doesn't surprise me at all. I opposed your types back then when you were all just getting high and shooting up your drugs, and smoking-up all your "Purple Haze."
All that greasy bandanad slop-talk self-righteousness "peace" and "love" gave Southeast Asia was 5 million dead in Pol Pots killing fields in Cambodia, and the lost generations of Vietnam and Laos + 58000 American lives. So you think you know a phony now, do you? Like, "takes one to know one" kind of familiarity is it?
I countermarched your commie anti-US military "Moratoriums" in Washington, DC back in 1969 and marched in 3 Marches for Victory in Vietnam in Washington, DC in 1970 an 1971. My own core conservatism predates this site by almost 35 years.
I've seen the fighters and the phonys over 50 years in the conservative movement and can the smell posers a mile away.
DT is no conservative and he doesn't claim to be, but all the lemmings on this site line right up behind him as he tries to elbow his way to this nomination. All I have to say is be careful for what you wish for. If he gets the nomination I suspect he'll turn on the lot of you so fast it will make your collective heads spin.
You cling to "the image" you desperately want him to be, and willfully choose to ignore the real man that you know he is and by your own admission has actually been all along - the bombastic, debate-ably principled NY media hound lib.
This past week gave you another (unsurprising) glimpse at the politically correct push-over that he really is at the core of his comb-over.
Get ready for more of the same.
Who knows, by the time this is all over and after another string of just-can't-help-stepping-in-it-himself liberal gaffes you might be changing your screen name to ex-Trump.
FReegards!
