Posted on 03/11/2016 2:55:39 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I agree Cruz would be better - I have trouble figuring out how to get him to the WH. With all the resistance either would get from all the other politicians, neither would be likely to have much difference in”achievements” except via EOs that could be undone if we don’t stay firm and energized through several presidential terms. I figure that whichever of them gets in, there will be factions on FR with the old “I told you so” memes because they really have expectations w/o actually thinking it through. The system is so corrupted that no President, in one term and with resistance such as either will get, will be able to do enough to satisfy many of the good folks at FR.
I wish i had access to their editing skills!
“Cruz is very conservative, a Bible-believing Christian who is fiercely pro-market and hawkish (if not as interventionist as other Republicans). That might upset secular liberals worldwide. But would Cruz be as erratic, would he be as explosive, would he be as unsettling as Trump? I doubt it. The man idolizes Ronald Reagan. Well, we survived, indeed flourished under, one Reagan presidency. Not a bad model for our next president to have. “
“Well, we survived, ... one Reagan presidency...” Spoken like a TRUE CONSISTENT CONSERVATIVE! I think Matthew’s inner GOPee leaked out! ;-)
My goodness he has you people bamboozled down to the smallest detail. Were you a “student” at “Trump University” too? Will you be grilling “Trump steaks” this weekend? LOL
And here I thought it was because you liked the reverb.
I'm sorry, I can't give a comb-over credit for being "real hair." It's against my religion.
The best case scenario this fall, IMO, would be President Cruz and a GOP Congress with a 60-vote filibuster proof Senate (or one willing to change its rules..as did the last Democrat Senate).
The worst case? (and much more likely than the former) —Hillary with a Democrat-controlled Congress.. Hillary Unchained... and with a 6-2-1 leftwing majority on the SCOTUS— in which case you might was well kiss this country good-bye forever.
In fact, a comb-over is an illegal immigrant to the other side of your head.
High school class presidents are popular and have friends. As far as I can tell, Cruz has no friends anywhere and I'm not sure he ever did. In the 15 hours of raw footage video his campaign released on YouTube, even his own family acts as if they are pretending to like him.
2nd, when the Bible refers to “the remnant” I never thought I would be a part of one, but I know how it feels now. Never understood how after years of listening to and reading conservative sources that people were just heading into the black hole (remember that graphic?) and abandoning what they thought was the truth and even more astonishing, that they don’t take a couple of hours and do some of their own research.
They are looking at the golden facade and ignoring the corrupt center which is in fact, the black hole.
Hope and Change has been replaced by the next GREAT sounding cliche as bait for the fishies.
“But would Cruz be as erratic, would he be as explosive, would he be as unsettling as Trump? I doubt it.”
After last night’s debate performance, I disagree. Cruz seemed unable to make a cogent point on his own without going after Trump, and he tried the same ‘fiery preacher’ manner without success in almost every answer.
Do you know why there’s a stereotype of evangelicals as unlikeable, Bible-thumping conservatives? It’s because of “explosive,” “unsettling” incidents like that. Nobody wants to be lectured to by an angry preacher, least of all the Independent and Democrat crossover voters in the general.
Trump appeals to people’s common ideas, which is why people will remember more of what he said. They’ll remember him talking about Islam and globalization in such stark terms.
The intelligentsia just can’t seem to understand why people aren’t falling on themselves to vote for another bought-and-paid-for policy wonk.
“...art department there in Mumbai”
In English, it’s “Bombay”. Some Indians are spelling & pronouncing it as in Hindi, and that’s incorrect English usage. Like using Pinyin spellings of Chinese place- and personal names, and calques long in use in English, like rickshaw, tea, typhoon, Sun Yat-Sen, Mao Tse-Tung (not “Zedong”), and Hong Kong.
“Matthew Continetti is editor in chief of the Washington Free Beacon. Prior to joining the Beacon, he was opinion editor of the Weekly Standard, where he remains a contributing editor. The author of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine (Doubleday, 2006) and The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star (Sentinel, 2009), Continetti’s articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. A 2003 graduate of Columbia University, where he majored in history.”
Sounds like he’s not one of the poorly educated but has experience in researching what people have experienced and who they have become.
As for who has bailed out DT...
Yeah, that’s why he’s the United States Senator from arguably the most important state in the Union and only slightly trailing the frontrunner for the Republican nomination after only three years in office. Do you folks even read your posts before you hit the button?
To be fair, I’m not so sure if Trump has any real “friends” either...at least not ones he hasn’t bought and paid for...like Hillary or virtual “friends” like the kind you can boast about on Face Book.
By the time a person reaches the age of 45. if he has 4-5 good friends , outside of his family, he is a lucky person.
Cruz is a born loser
The GOP donors not Apple or Google plan on backing Trump
Cruz can't win
Clarify for me - what makes sense? I agree with you about profit/cost but that’s not the reality of Trump’s statement.
Just want to be clear here..........
I am a Cruzite. I love the Constitution and the colonial time period. I know that God is going to judge this nation and all the other nations that legalized child sacrifice. It is an abomination and our nation is no longer worthy of His blessing. Our problems are not economic. Our problems are moral. Our constitution was written for a moral people and I vote pro-life. Makes it simpler and I’m thinking about eternity.
Not only is it truly amazing but a bit disturbing that a candidate like Trump can say nothing of substance and be considered to be the winner of the debate because he said nothing of substance.
So maybe if we win we still lose?
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