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Maybe we can combine both of them and make everyone happy!
Posted on 01/01/2016 7:42:09 AM PST by Isara
Yes, Cruz is the real deal. No need to take my word for it. Just look and listen. It's as Limbaugh says: the left and the establishment right will always tell you who they fear the most.
Sure, they hate both Trump and Cruz. The hatred for Trump is understandable, from their standpoint. He makes republicans look bad – he's intolerant and generally causes them embarrassment. But the antipathy for Cruz is born of fear. They fear the end of the government gravy train if he get's elected. They fear that with Cruz at the helm, Americans may just discover they don't actually need Washington involved in every facet of their lives. They fear an uncompromising Constitutional standard bearer as head of the party.
So their strategy is to send out trusted surrogates to trash the candidate and place the seed of doubt in voter's minds (and big money backers) that a Cruz nomination will surely equal a Hillary win.
Case in point: Moderate republican shill and former George W. Bush communications director Nicolle Wallace said in an interview regarding Ted Cruz: "He is truly despised [by republicans] - he is not a team player" and is apparently the king of "hubris and egomania." She, like almost all other establishment hacks, pundits and politicians are just plain befuddled, as Wallace, with an uncomfortable laugh, tells the interviewer that Cruz is "at the top of the polls in Iowa, so I think voters are saying they just don't care."
The key here is not so much that Cruz is despised or is tops in hubris and egomania. No - it's that "he is not a team player." I'm reminded of the movie Johnny Dangerously. A gangster boss known as Johnny Dangerously is actually Johnny Kelly. His younger brother Tommy Kelly has no idea he is the notorious mob boss Dangerously. Tommy is appointed assistant District Attorney and vows to bring down the infamous gangster. The D.A., who's on the mob's take, invites Tommy to his palatial estate, which is all courtesy of gangster payoffs. He tells Tommy, he too could have what the D.A. has, as he proclaims, "It's all yours Tommy, if you play ball! What do you say?" – to which Tommy replies, "I'll see you in prison!"
With this unfortunate confirmation of the assistant D.A.'s lack of cooperation, the mob, unknown to Dangerously, attempts to then "take out" his younger brother Tommy.
Ted Cruz is Tommy Kelly. He must be taken out.
Wallace explains that, "these are good republicans who worked in the Bush administration and who clerked in the Supreme Court who say they would have a really hard time voting for Ted Cruz if he were the republican standard bearer."
What can you say to an exclamation such as that - but WOW! I've been holding my nose and pulling the lever for progressive establishment republicans since 1988 and these people have the nerve to cry over one conservative candidate? Look at who we've been conned and bullied into supporting, all for the good of the precious party! George H.W. Bush, the kinder/gentler progressive. Bob Dole, war hero, but his nomination was equivalent to a lifetime achievement award. George W. Bush, who merely pretended to be a conservative. Bush lied - my vote died. And of course the other two loser establishment picks: McCain and Romney.
And we're not allowed one candidate? This inner circle of power and control is very exclusive and conservatives are not allowed a seat at the table - and we certainly don't have the necessary accreditation to sit at the head of the table.
What have we conservatives been saying all along? If someone like Cruz or Trump gets the nomination, the establishment would much prefer a Hillary presidency and this is the exact veiled threat the establishment kingmakers sent Wallace out to disseminate.
They are scared to death of Ted Cruz. It is a delight to see and I personally count it as a gift to finally be able to back someone I believe in – not someone we have to settle on, or like Romney, try to convince ourselves that he will be okay. We finally have someone for whom we don't have to constantly wonder, "Is he for real this time?"
I shall say it again, “Presbyterians do not wear their religion on their sleeves.”
Read the thread today where Cruz is calling on the pastors to put Christ to work on his behalf. I find it outlandish and quite repulsive.
Presbyterians believe in quietly doing good deeds. Trump has a long list of things he has done to assist those in need. He has been helping individuals and families for years. Only now are some of these people and families speaking out so that others can know the extent of the man’s true heart. To listen to people bashing Trump as a non-believer turns my stomach.
Trump makes it clear that a man is responsible for his own actions, good or bad. He believes in individual responsibility. He also doesn’t do drugs and neither smokes nor drinks. He has the will power to lead a healthy “clean” life and his children and grandchildren are people he can be proud of. Again, no points for strength of character from the Cruz idolators.
Last but not least, Trump is a true American raised in the true American Traditions. He loves America and wants to do what he can to save her from destruction. I’ll take a True American over any politico any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Then you keep saying it. Obviously you can not be reached. If folks don’t get on their knees and pray, change their behavior and actually begin to live by God’s word (all of it), this nation will not stand.
I was leaning toward Trump, but after what you've posted I am now opposed to him and will tell and try to influence everyone I know not to vote for him. So it is written, so it shall be done. Don't even reply. Don't want to read another word you write. Ever.
So obviously you are not interested in a man living a good life, only in what he preaches to others. Sad, for someone who claims to be a Christian.
So it is written, so it shall be done.
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My oh my, where have I heard those words before!!! Just a bit overboard, obviously.
Nice! Combined, they look like Donny Most.
A lot of Trumpkins have been making that same claim on this site.
Trump would have the same problem with Congress.
Oh. My. Goodness. What a pic! Dear Senator Cruz: avoid Trump’s barber at all costs!
Fact.
Three days after the election, after examining the reports of irregularities, McDaniel announced that he thought the election was stolen.
You wanted Cruz to intervene before that, before McDaniel thought the election was stolen??
Again, McDaniel has had nothing but praise for Cruz and campaigns for him in Mississippi.
Trump can fight like a RAT. Ted can’t.
“Is he for real this time?”
He was little too real for me when he voted for cloture on TPA and voted for the Corker bill. That and the fact that nobody can seem to pull the word deportation from his lips.
So none of the illegal shenanigans were known ahead of time? It was thought to be a fine upstanding election until after the fact?
Btw, what is this hearing supposed to accomplish? I have yet to see a hearing run by Republicans accomplish anything.
Trollette, do you have anything to actually say pertaining to the topic, or is contention your only purpose?
Captain Kangaroo
Obviously all you have to say is your opinion only. Inferring Trump is all talk and no walk is just an example. IMO, such a statement belongs to Cruz. Cool aid is also way over worn out. Can’t you come up with some facts?
Closing the barn door after the horses get out is as futile as Cruz’s effectiveness in the Senate.
You wanted Cruz to intervene before that, before McDaniel thought the election was stolen??
Closing the barn door after the horses get out is as futile as Cruz’s effectiveness in the Senate
Really? Describe the actions Cruz should have taken.
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