Posted on 03/04/2016 11:31:55 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Tonight was the night when I could clearly see Ted Cruz as President of the United States. He made the right moral judgment — dealing with Donald Trump was far more important than jockeying for position with Marco Rubio or John Kasich. He made the case against Trump in the right way — he was civil even as he eviscerated Trump again and again. And he connected with the audience not just with his command of the facts, but also by making his case in an effective, human way. When he asked the audience how many had been waiters or waitresses, I had to smile. Both my wife and I spent more than our fair share of time bringing ice tea to thirsty customers, and the notion that waiting tables — even for a season – is a job Americans won’t do is absurd.
But I can’t praise Cruz without also praising Marco Rubio. Their nonaggression pact was clear. It is an extraordinarily difficult thing for political rivals to choose not to attack each other, but both Rubio and Cruz made the right decision. They both kept their eye on the ball, and in so doing kept hope alive in the quest to save the conservative movement and stop Trump.
Regarding Kasich, his performance was cheap and cowardly. Anyone can look statesmanlike when they opt out of a necessary fight. By choosing to cast himself as above the fray, he created a false moral equivalence between Trump, Rubio, and Cruz, and he transparently curried favor with viewers weary of conflict. With every passing moment, he is staining his legacy and his reputation. At a crucial moment, Kasich chose to be — first and foremost – for Kasich. Shame on him.
Finally, there is much more to be said about this, but words cannot express the contempt I felt for Trump’s insistence that the military would follow his unlawful orders to murder women and children. There are men who’ve paid the ultimate sacrifice rather than kill the innocent, yet he pretends our warriors would simply salute and follow orders when told to kill women and children for the sole purpose of punishing terrorists. Trump is sadly mistaken. If he won the White House and tried to implement his “policy,” the military would refuse to comply — because it has honor, because it respects the law, and because it knows the lessons of history. No order can justify an atrocity.
Vote Trump!
Lol, yeah, Ted did a fine job reading the chicken entrails to tell us exactly what Trump would do as president. What a pompous, self impressed lawyer. We don’t another triple talking Harvard lawyer like Obama in the Oval Office.
TRUNEWS: Glenn Beck on Donald Trump: “The Stabbing Just Wouldn't Stop”
“I don’t know what I would have done if I was sitting in” Cruz or Rubio’s shoes, Beck said. “I can’t say it that way. If I were on the stage, I would have said, ‘have you been listening to him tonight? Have you been listening to what I say about him?’ I believe these things.”
Beck ended by saying: “If I was close enough and had a knife, the stabbing just wouldn’t stop.”
I know that National Review is pimping for ABT (anybody but Trump), but I’m surprised that they aren’t in Rubio’s camp. I’d call this article misdirection.
I would never support Cruz. He is illegally running for the presidency....even by his own words just a few short years ago before he became convinced he could hoodwink the voters with his lawyer double-speak.Seems it’s working with you.
Cruz is a lock on NY, NJ, CT, PA.
I don’t get your point. Cruz has been out in front on every single issue in this campaign, sometimes for years. The ‘me too’ guy is the latecomer, Trump, just now pulling out some conservative ideas as if they had been stuck away in his sock drawer all these years.
I don’t think so
I doubt he knows what a handkerchief is, let along carry one.
Even a tissue would do. Stupid is as stupid does and then there is something called “uncouth”...................
How blind are those who will not see that the slick talking Cruz will sell out Americans and American jobs and sovereignty to the globalist cabal.
Goodbye English. Goodbye culture. Goodbye the spirit of the Constitution and the Natural Law that built America. Hello Babel. Hello to a non-unified diversity which destroys a culture.
Cruz knows the words of the Constitution. In fact he has them memorized. But he does not know the melody of the Constitution. It is a song of a healthy nationalism, a lilting populism and frankly, an America first, but not the only, responsibility of us all.
It must suck to be you, Molly.
Booger boy will never be able to win in the general election.
Too bad you can’t see that.
I think you meant to say: There is too much emotional attachment to him from the NON-GOP voters voting in the GOP primaries and caucuses.
Who is they Kemosabe?
Personally, I don't want Trump to win the nomination, but I sure don't want a treasonous criminal to win! Nor do I wish for the GOPe to win for that matter.
So many Cruz supporters are just rude. You included.
Cruz is the typical smug Harvard lawyer with no self-awareness.
I was just joking. I see someone noticed.
Minor detail. Trump never said such a thing.
And I’ll never support tRump. He’s a loud mouthed, obnoxious, man-child who has hoodwinked people with his BS.
Nopoe. Trump showed he was a red blooded American under attack by the international mafia determined to destroy American sovereignty. BTW American Sovereignty is something Cruz DOES NOT BELIEVE IN!
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