Posted on 03/05/2016 7:34:47 AM PST by NOBO2012
This mans letter makes for a good outline of policy for the new Republican Party!
Absolutely!
Shame this well written article, which is a repudiation of Bush Republicanism masquerading as conservative, hasn’t been read by more around here. The Bushes are not conservative.
This is exactly what Pat Buchannan was talking about in his brilliant article about the Trump movement.
I did notice Pat was wishing he had done what Trump is doing now. May not have worked back then, who knows?
Agreed! I haven’t even paid much attention to Cruz until lately but he sure seems to be the one with the schtick tailor-made for his intended audience. The “sucker class” which he perceived the Evangelicals to be,
Fortunately for America, most of them, like myself, check things out and his actions don’t seem to fit the meme.
BJ1: I think the Trump supporters here place much too much faith that Trump will be the guy in office they think he will be.niteowl77: Change "Trump" to "Cruz," and you would be saying what some of us who are leaning towards Trump think.
As for consistency in political philosophy, Donald Trump no doubt worries less about it than Ted Cruz, and the bulk of our solons are perfectly happy to adjust their philosophies to fit the amount of largesse he bestows. May Ted not disappoint you in such things.
Yours in highly intellectual dishonesty,
Mr. niteowl77
“...What is “well known” often isn’t the whole story (particularly when it concerns the current-day GOP). You obviously trust Ted Cruz to be as he has been packaged and presented by a supportive coterie; I no longer do so...”
What “supportive coterie”? That’s laughable. I look at the candidates objectively. I assess based on the information we know — not information we don’t know or whatever you meant by “...What is “well known” often isn’t the whole story...” What would that be? Divined by ouiji-board? Over-active imaginations? Clearly biased and partisan third parties? Some guy you know at a barber shop?
Given the two candidate’s *well-known* history, anyone who would trust trump any further than they could throw him is deluded. There is nothing in his history that would lead a reasonable and prudent person to trust him to do anything other than to act on his ego. Heck, he’s already starting to backpedal on his campaign rhetoric to include his signature issue, illegal immigration.
Quite the opposite with Cruz, his history shows he has been a consistent conservative, says what he is going to do and then does it -and- is willing to do the right thing and stick his neck out to resist his own party and the establishment RINOs to the point of shutting down the govt. He has defended conservative constitutionalism before the Supreme Court and won every time. Question: Has he as a single, vastly outnumbered senator had any chance in turning congress around? No. But, he tried his best anyway and took it as far as he could and shut down the govt. Can you name another conservative who dared go that far to do the right thing? Other than actually murdering establishment/RINO congressmen, what else would you have him do to prove himself?
Trump hasn’t indicated he ever had to fight for a single thing. He hasn’t even indicated that he ever “negotiated” his way through an under-leveraged position. As far as we know, from his enormous head-start with his daddy’s inheritance, he has always held the upper hand in a negotiation. You have no idea what’s going to happen when he has to trade the whole farm (or bill of rights - who knows?) to get congress to advance his legislation when he finds out he needs them *far* more than they need trump.
Perhaps you are placing blind faith in trump out of anger at the GOP and if so, I will grant you that anger is absolutely justifiable, but blind faith in any candidate is not justified - even for Cruz. I would say that the trust you place in trump is wholly unfounded based on his well-known NY-Liberal/RINO history. Further, there is no believable justification to assert trump is more trustworthy than Cruz, or even that trump is more trustworthy than *any* other candidate running, except for perhaps Clinton. Maybe it’s just your inarticulable gut instinct? If so, good for you, but I can’t trust your gut.
Good luck with whatever rationalization you use for your trust in trump as it looks like he is well on his way to being our next president. I’m not saying he will disappoint us more than clinton, but his history indicates he will be a disappointment nonetheless and I will go out on a sturdy limb and make that prediction now.
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