Posted on 01/01/2016 7:42:09 AM PST by Isara
Where you get the idea I’m in Mississippi is a mystery to me. I’ve never set foot in the state.
Here is the problem. Saying you are anti Capital Cronies and will stand up to DC are empty, hollow, meaningless slogans IF, when conservatives need action, your principles require you to do nothing. Cruz supporters seem delighted with a candidate that gets no results. They just need to understand that others see it differently.
See post 118.
Correction: 121.
After Cruz found out about the blatant legalities/wholesale election theft, did he do anything that produced concrete/desirable results?
You must actually believe Trump wants conservative things. LMAO. Trump is all ego and will say anything to win the primary. I was not born yesterday. I remember all the things he said that tells me he is a lib at heart and at best no better than all the rinos that have run before him.
I did.
So?
What do you want from me, if anything?
You didn’t get pinged to the “correction” in my very next post?
I mixed the GA. and MS. flags.
Here is the problem. Saying you are anti Capital Cronies and will stand up to DC are empty, hollow, meaningless slogans IF, when conservatives need action, your principles require you to do nothing.
You've identified no specific course of action outside of Cruz endorsing McDaniels, and I (and another poster) have already addressed that point.
Cruz supporters seem delighted with a candidate that gets no results. They just need to understand that others see it differently.
There you go again with the generalizations. You should address people individually. Would you like it if I start lumping all Trump supporters as being of a certain type? You need to understand that when you are addressing a person, that you are addressing an individual and not a group.
And here's the problem. You need to understand that Cruz is one congressman out of 535 congressmen who make up one of three branches of a federal government that has constitutionally limited powers. There is only so much one individual congressman can do when just about all the other members of Congress and the other two branches of government are corrupt.
The first step in such a situation is to articulate the correct positions, rallying the people of the country to the correct positions.
Cruz is doing that and now, and you and others are blaming him for the difficulty of his heroic task.
Again.................identify what you think he should have done.
What I am doing is saying that all words and no results satisfies Cruz supporters, but does not satisfy non-supporters. It’s not just Mississippi, it’s a pattern. When Cruz announced his filibuster I thought it would accomplish something. But it didn’t. Neither did calling McConnell a liar. It’s all just words. That’s not enough for some, though it obviously satisfies others.
Emulate Trump!
The Donald has been able make things happen without the office, nor by spending much money.
Dude, I'm really trying to be patient but you are making it very difficult.
I gave you a small explanation about why you should address people individually and not as a group, but it.
And then I asked you again and yet again, what additional thing besides the endorsement thing, should Cruz have done, and you ignore the question yet again.
Yeah what?
Wow. It's apparent that you really haven't read about either one of them at all...
No. You addressed it to yourself.
However, I've now read #121.
Cruz supporters seem delighted with a candidate that gets no results. They just need to understand that others see it differently.
You refer, of course, to the canard that Cruz "can't get anything done" in the Senate.
And, as you're already aware, there is a perfectly good reason why. The GOP Senate leadership isn't going to allow him to get anything done -- the price or having publicly called them out.
Nonetheless, as Sen. Jeff Sessions has explained, Cruz was critical in keeping Rubio and his Gang of 8 from getting anything done, too.
Further, you should be aware that Cruz got quite a bit one in the House. His "Thursday Night Pizza Sessions" helped the House's Freedom Caucus get organized and focussed. I it were not for Cruz's leadership, John Boehner would probably still be Speaker.
If you don't appreciate what Cruz has accomplished in a.) revealing the misleading practices of the Congress and exposing the GOP leadership's role in fostering them, b.) working behind the scenes to help organize the conservative caucus in the House and c.) steadfastly keeping his promise to the Texas voters that elected him...well, I don't know what to tell you.
You may have preferred that he have his name on a few bills appropriating expenditures for a new program or highway. But doing so would've required that he "go along to get along."
We like him the way he is.
While it's true that, to date, Trump has had the most influence on this cycle's election dynamic, it's also true that Trump's impact was enabled by the work Cruz did to expose the GOP-e.
Deputy: That them shootin'?Sheriff Langston: No, it's coming from those rocks.
Deputy: Well, let's go. He ain't hittin' nothin'.
Sheriff Langston: You idiot, he's hit everything he's aimed at!
"Silverado" 1985
Cool. I remember that movie.
Back to my question.
What changes have been signed into law because of Trump?
Oh, bullcrap.
He has ALWAYS been for border control. Outstandingly so. Build the Fence FIRST.
He has ALWAYS been for deportation of criminal elements.
He has ALWAYS been for drying up welfare and job opportunities.
He assumes correctly that without all the candy, aliens will deport on their own.
THEN 'what to do with what's left.' - which is a reasonable position.
That's straight out of the Duncan Hunter Handbook.
That has been the Conservative position as long as I can remember.
He has been remarkably consistent in that, all the way back to his days in Texas.
It is Trump who is inconsistent and all over the map. He cried, "DEPORT THEM ALL!" ...Which you seem to have heard - Yet you ignore that three days later he turned that into some kind of vague touch-back theme. And likewise, you ignore his LONG record of being *for* amnesty.
Metamorphisis from liberal to conservative in three years or less and you take his word (which is all you have) over a tried and true Conservative lifetime record in Cruz? Which one is likely to actually do what he says?
I have been keeping a close watch on both of them for a long time. I used to be a Cruz supporter, but no more. He is too closely knit with several issues I do not like.
Trump is the only candidate with the skill set we need at this point in time to get our country back on a sound footing and our people back to work.
A lot of what you “read” is crap. Dig beneath the surface and research to find the real answers.
It was not Cruz that stopped comprehensive immigration. That is a myth. And if you think Paul Ryan is an improvement over Boehner, what can be said? If anything, he’s worse.
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