I’ll ask you the same thing I’ve asked two others here: If Cruz isn’t for you, who is ? Who is the great statesman that you’re supporting for President ? They seem not to be able to answer the question.
I favor Gov Walker at this stage. Has great conservative accomplishments as governor of Wisconsin. Which other governor had the balls to fight unions like walker did? Then he survived 2 recall elections in BLUE Wisconsin. That clearly shows me he can win nationally. A republican winning statewide in Wisconsin is lot harder than winning in Texas.
However I also like Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, Paul & Trump.
All for completely different reasons. There are positive and negative aspects to all of those. Walker on the other hand has very few negatives.
1. You are using a classic tactic that too many people have used that has got us terrible untrustworthy candidates like McCain. Rather than deal with the fact that Cruz talks great and then betrays us you try to talk about something and someone else.
2. Some folks are talking about Walker and I think he has done some good things in fighting mandatory union membership and he has fought over and over again to show that conservative principles and less government can take a state budget deficit and turn it into a surplus.
Those are not bad things and most candidates can’t claim that. The thing that does concern me about Walker is that years ago I think he said he would consider legalizing illegals here, but this year he has been saying he is against any form of Amnesty. It’s not as bad as Cruz saying one thing and then voting another because Walker never voted for Amnesty, but it concerns me a lot and over the next couple months Walker will have to prove to me he can be trusted.
I’ll consider Walker and I’ll hear a few other folks out as well like Jindal. I don’t care if Jindal’s numbers are not as high right now because we are 17 months from the election. I have watched him for a couple years and he has done what he said are his principles.
Jindal has been 100% pro-life, has fought for DOMA, has a 100% NRA rating, lowered LA taxes repeatedly, has pushed for school vouchers, and advocated for a bill allowing businesses to not lose their licenses if they refuse service to same sex couples or groups if a religious objection exists. I have not looked at him that much, but I’ll consider him. A lot of democrats in LA hate him and the unions hate him too so that can’t be bad.
3. Main thing is I don’t have to fall into your logic trap that gets us candidates like McCain. We have over 20 candidates. Voting for the “least ethically offensive person” has gotten us nowhere in leadership.
I think it is an absolute joke when people compare Cruz to Reagan. It is absurd and insulting to Reagan. Even when Reagan did something you wouldn’t like you couldn’t say he had lied to you. Cruz has already betrayed us and his so-called principles. I want someone that I don’t necessarily agree with 100%, but instead someone I mostly agree with that I fell can be trusted to DO WHAT THEY SAY.
Voting to give Obama special powers in an unconstitutionally classified bill an hour after he spoke about how Obama can’t be trusted tells me that Cruz cannot be trusted. What he SAYS does not matter because I don’t know if he is telling the truth or not. The rest is just spin and liars spin. Cruz cannot be trusted so next candidate please.
How can I vote for a guy that is OK with giving a traitor like Obama special powers and also has so little backbone that he doesn’t even put up a fight about the government illegally hiding legislation from the people and ALL members of congress?
4. If you want to vote for a guy who is more into theatrics for 12-hour speech-a-thons that are designed to garner Look-At-Me publicity you can vote for Cruz. That is just theatrics by a guy who decided years ago he was going to run for President.
When things actually mattered and it was time to either be a Leader and fight illegal classifying of bills and stop Obama from forcing another nightmare on us or betray us by voting against his so-called conservative principles Cruz chose to betray us. That is a FACT and anything else is just the typical spin we have all enabled by supporting the most popular person we can sort of stand.
I think if we all acted more on principle and looked for leadership and integrity truly better people would rise through and our country would prosper. I think we all need to look closer at non-top five folks. To me it almost feels like a top-five are being forced on us and anybody else is “a joke” so say the media pundits.
By eliminating those not good enough I pray we are getting closer to a truly good and respectable candidate. I think our country is desperate for leadership right now. This time after Obama is very similar to the time after Carter. We have to get this right or we will have failed our children and our grandchildren.