Posted on 12/15/2015 5:42:16 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
Donald Trump is the personification of the "EFF YOO!" that the base and grassroots have wanted to deliver for so long to the GOP and conservative elites who are more interested in being good soldiers than vehicles for keeping the GOP ideologically honest. Even though he's not even on the "list" of candidates as far as I'm concerned, I appreciate Trump for that, if nothing else.
At this point the viable alternatives are few. If you believe the polls at this moment in time we're basically down to Trump vs. Cruz, with Rubio and Carson trailing in the distance, and everyone else remaining will basically stay a footnote, short of divine intervention.
The conservative stars are starting to line up for Cruz, and I'm starting to think that conservatives winning is like the full moon that transforms establishment Republicans and conservative elites into RINOs.
Media elites on the right (clearly, at the behest of the GOP) are responding to the Cruz surge by calling him the "anti-Reagan" at Commentary, and an impostor at the Wall Street Journal. Cruz scores 100% with Heritage and 97% with the Conservative Review. The stupidity, from the stupid party, of trying to distance a clearly rock solid conservative from Ronald Reagan plays right into the hands of the preposterous meme the left constantly foists on the public conscience that Reagan is too liberal for today's GOP. With Cruz's perfect/nearly perfect conservative ratings it's only logical to assume that in distancing him from Reagan that Reagan would have nowhere to go but down...as if Reagan would be returning to the Democrats, who not only left him in the 60's, but 50 years later have left the Constitution and America itself. Come on WSJ...if the comments are any indication, your readers know better.
If there are reasons the elites don't like Cruz then they need to spit it out through their mouths instead of their asses, because the two articles I link to are short on sense and very full of stink.
Of course, there are reasons, but they're not good ones. Cruz has shown he has a backbone to the GOP's spineless leadership, and they don't like that, but they can't say that either. If they do then it solidifies permanently a Trump/Cruz death match, and any chance someone (who is more perceived as someone they can work with) like Rubio has of catching up will evaporate for good.
They don't want that, so honesty isn't the best policy. Except that doing what they're doing now is even worse and they're unable to figure that out. Would anyone expect nothing less from the stupid party?
There probably will never be another Reagan; Cruz is the closest we are likely to get with our current crop of politicians. IMHO
Agreed. Not sure if he’s close enough to beat Hillary but I’m sure that Trump is not.
Amen
Agreed.
I’ve felt we need to move beyond finding the next Reagan for a long time anyway. We live in a different world with different challenges. Principles don’t need to change per se, but it’s just not an apples to apples comparison, it can’t be...which is what I was thinking while reading the Commentary and WSJ pieces.
I find it hard to believe that anyone in the RINO wing of the Uni-Party would want anything good for Cruz.
If they think they can make Trump and Cruz into enemies to rid the RINO wing of both of them they haven’t been pauing attention.
The reason establishment RINOs like Rubio are not acceptable 8s because we do not trust the RINOs because they keep stabbing conservatives in the back.
Agree 1000%
The Republican elites and the media hated Ronald Reagan and called him unelectable among other things. Only after Reagan won two elections in landslide victories did the Republican elites pretend to admire him.
Cruz is like Reagan in that he is popular and respected despite being continually attacked by the media and the Washington elites.
“Full disclosure: I'm a foreign policy adviser to Rubio and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, which Cruz has denounced as a ‘nest of vipers.’”
Excuse me, is that the Council on Foreign Relations that Heidi Cruz was a member of?
Cruz is no Reagan.
Now for a short public service announcement to all on FR:
We need to ensure we don't get another Obama-like America Hater as the next President.
The best way to ensure that is to actively support a candidate as the next President.
I prefer Cruz and my money goes to his campaign, hence the Cruz link. If you like someone else, donate to him/her (find your own link to do it) and if you use FR and don't donate, then please don't complain about the welfare leeches or those who have Obama Phones because, functionally, you are no different than any other FReeloader
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GO CRUZ!! Keep it up Trump!!
“...Cruz is no Reagan...”
There will only ever be one Ronald Reagan.
Ted Cruz is his own man and the closest choice to a constitutional conservative as we are going to get in this election season.
Donald “McCain” Trump on the other hand offers no plausible comparison to Reagan at all.
Yeah, I caught that too...at least he disclosed.
I’m with ya!
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