Posted on 04/14/2016 5:33:24 AM PDT by Sun
"Sen. Ted Cruz has warned that we are only one justice away from having the Second Amendment guaranteeing our right to keep and bear arms written out of the Constitution. (snip)
What few people know -- and the media won’t remind them -- is that Ted Cruz was a prime mover in getting Heller, in which Scalia wrote the majority opinion, before the Court and decided in favor of gun rights, ruling that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right and that the word “militia”, as the Founders intended, meant the “whole people” of the United States. If Heller had gone the other way, our gun rights would have been thrown on the ash heap of history. In January Cruz told CNN: "I represented 31 states in the Heller case, which upheld the individual right to keep and bear arms. ....(snip)
Hillary Clinton, for example, has said she will put Supreme Court justices on the court who will overturn Heller. And if Heller is overturned… there were four justices who said that there is no individual right to keep and bear arms whatsoever, that it is only a collective right in the militia, which is fancy lawyer talk for a nonexistent right… [If] Hillary Clinton gets one more Supreme Court justice, what it would mean is, the Supreme Court would say you and I and every individual American have no constitutional right under the Second Amendment at all, and either the federal government or a state government could make it a crime to possess a firearm."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Your interpretation is a valid one. but so is the following:
Trump was doing what businessmen do in the world to survive. He has never denied it or prevaricated about it, indeed he says that is how the system works. I recall the debate where he said that and every other candidate just kept their pie-holes shut, including Cruz. The all know it and profit from it.
All business men pay both parties to have access and to avoid potential issues. That is how the system works. It was set up by and is run for the benefit of the political class. That is why Washington and the surrounding counties are among the wealthiest in the nation. Cruz is part of that and has benefited from the system as much as anyone
Cruz, working as a public employee had a million dollar investment portfolio by age 41. he did not start working at a paying job until he was done his clerkship, which was in 1996 at age 26. So in 15 years of mostly government work, while maintaining two households he and his wife accumulated over 1 million in investments alone. One could say that is mostly due to his wife, but an observant person could not help to notice that wives of up and coming politicians seem to find lucrative work that pays well.
A great many folks see him as a insider who is of the class Trump was paying off.
Many fail to see that as particularly admirable status, indeed the political class that set up this system of corruption, profit from it are hardly the folks who will clean it up. A businessman who has had to deal with it might at least do something to mitigate this corruption.
equally valid interpretation to yours. Notice said without any personal insults.
Do you have an example of a major real estate builder in the New York City area who gave nothing politicians?
Should be, ‘ to politicians.’
I still find it intriguing no one on the Cruz side wants to know the details of why he changed his mind on guns.
Your comment made no sense.
If you are putting forward the proposition his stance on guns is driven by election politics, please make that case.
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If he had changed position on 1 issue you could have a point, he has vacillated on every issue, no core.
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well sated and , yes a lot of folks worry this is just a tactic of trump. I can see your point of view.
Just wanted to acknowledge that.
As a businessperson, I never gave to politicians, but that was because I worked for them (the name - pollster - is a clue to my work). I did have to decide whether to work for liberals. Initially, I worked for the people who hired me, and I charged a premium price and then delivered premium quality answers. I moved to charging liberals 2-3 times what I charged conservatives and still getting their business. Finally, I stopped working for them regardless of price.
In business, you have a lot of obligations, including looking after the interests of investors (I didn't have any) and employees (I had a couple dozen). It would have been tough to fire someone because I wasn't willing to take liberal money. Considering how many employees Trump has, I find it difficult to blame him for participating in business the way it's done in New York under the rules he followed to make things work.
Good seeing you posting again. How are you sir?
Do you want a president, or a friend?
This isn’t unlike the parent or friend problem we have in America.
This lack of conservative understanding for the issues we hold dear is why Trumps advisors will not let him debate Cruz one on one.
It would be too easy to make a mess of him.
Of course, that threw Don and Marla together...fellow victims of that buttinsky Ivana.
Ivana should have known...if its sex, it only lasts two years....and that/s exactly how long Donald and No 2 Marla lasted. When Donald found out Marla was catting around w/ her bodyguard, the thrill was gone.....and she got dumped.
No 3 Melania came along way way after Marla got dumped. There was no hanky panky there on Donald’s part.
Wow. Just Wow.
here,here!
From where we are right now (which is not where I would have chosen to be), there are two choices:
1. We can, perhaps, nominate Trump in the first ballot, and there is almost nothing the establishment can do to stop that if Trump has the delegates.
Or:
2. We can try to nominate Cruz on the second ballot after Trump fails to make it on the first ballot. I need to see the wording of the rules approved for this convention, but I have serious concerns on how second and subsequent ballots would turn out once delegates were no longer bound in their voting.
Why? Maybe, presidential aspirations and having seen how Bloomberg and Swartzenager pulled the wool over gullible Republican eyes for an easier path to the nomination?
No core.
Coreless Trump!
Paying off the local pols and criminal elements is one thing, funding Pelosi and Reid is something else.
As to businessmen who don’t fund those looking to destroy the country the hated Koch brothers come to mind.
I hope that, some day in the near future, you regain your sanity and read that post with shame.
I’d rather have dinner with Donald than Ted.
And Ted’s “negatives” are almost as high as Trumps. Which, by the way, are right about where Reagan’s were at this point in that election cycle.
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“Trumpsters aren’t conservative, they’re populist. “
I’ll vote for Trump and I am conservative, and I believe the Constitution means Cruz is NOT a natural born citizen and therefore NOT constitutionally eligible.
Ha. Ha.
‘Yes, the Koch brothers have given millions of dollars to both conservative and libertarian causes, but their PAC, privately held by Koch Industries, also gave to Democratic candidates and causes. The money is being spent on trying to influence the list of lawmakers which includes Chuck Schumer, Mary Landrieu and Mark Pryor.
The KochPAC gave almost $200,000 to Democratic candidates and committees, including just most recently in 2010. This included a $30,000 donation to the DSCC.’
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