I don’t understand why they all think its dumb to abolish the IRS. Its not like its required to collect taxes.
He says, launching into a frankly offensive insult to Governor Palin.
Cruz/Palin scares the Rats and RINOs so badly they're wearing Depends.
Toobin is blindly arrogant.
He likes Ted Cruz because he is of his tribe - an Ivy League intellectual just like him. Naturally the implied (and unexamined) idea in Toobins head is that people like him are better than people not like him.
I do not see that having a “completely thought out political philosophy” helps a real politician, or a real statesman for that matter. Its historically absurd. Churchill didn’t have a “completely thought out political philosophy”, neither did Metternich.
I’m not saying anything about Ted Cruz, he seems a fine fellow, but on the whole being a fine fellow comes in spite of his Ivy League background, not because of it.
“. . . Rep. Peter King (R-NY) suggesting he might jump off a bridge if Cruz becomes the nominee.”
Well, there’s another good reason to hope Cruz is the nominee.
Oldplayer
I think I already suggested before Ted Cruz announced that the Left will try to hang Sarah Palin around his neck, having in their mind no better way to keep him corralled from breaking out beyond his conservative base.
It is notable to me that even the Left’s Jeffery Twobit laid that to rest. I’m not sure it’s enough, or the end of hearing the Palin comparison, but it is a start.
Cruz was careful not to alienate that IRS point, when he was discussing his support for a simple flat tax, and then, only in the cooler style of a well placed after thought, did he add the words, “ideally we really should abolish the IRS”, and went right back to discussing the need for simplifying the tax rate with no more than a postal card.
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Picturing Toobin a few years from now, muttering bitterly to himself as he does his taxes on a post card.
When did Peter King (R-NY) become so popular?
Toobin ia an amoral a-hole who cheated on his wife. I guess that makes him qualified to judge the character of the most honest and patriotic politician in Washington, D.C.
As you know better than most, Palin was an easy target because she fit their paradigm. She was from “outside” the elite class, so when she said anything that they could twist int sounding dumb, it helped them marginalize her conservative beliefs.
Ted Cruz is from the “inside” - Ivy League schools, high-powered lawyer, former federal employee, US Senator. So his conservative beliefs are at odds with his pedigree which is awkward for the elites to deal with. In their view, a man with his credentials simply should not think the way he does. Because he doesn’t fit the mold he is not an easy target like Palin was, so they are going to have to work a lot harder and devote more resources to taking him down.
If Ted Cruz has become “ unpopular “ with the GOPe then ?
That’s all the more reason to like him and vote for him.
Haven’t donated to the RNC in about 10 years, you hear that RNC ? No Money to you dopes.
GET ON THE SUPER CRUZ TSUMINI WAVE IN 2016.
RINOS NEED NOT APPLY BUT GO HOME !
Donny from CNN ?
SUPER CRUZZING IN 2016 : TED CRUZ / SARAH PALIN 2016 !
Most people would love to abolish the IRS.
HET MSM ? THE LEFT ? RINORATS GOPe ?
PLEASE HELP US ! WE R’E HEAR IN CONSERVATIVE LAND , SPEEK UP LOUDER WE CAN’T HEAR U !
WE HEAR TED CRUZ JUST FINE AND DANDY WHY THAT YOU !
Cruz can do what few of them can do,which is win the hearts and minds of the electorate and educate them about conservative ideas.
One could only hope.
While Palin is held in good esteem by many here - and by real, thinking people other places - the comments by Toobin reflect more on the caricature of Palin promulgated by the drive-by media.
Unfortunately, in terms of public consumption, his comments were actually positive to Cruz and not injurious to Palin.
It’s just that many who pay attention know how offensive and inaccurate the caricature of Palin really is.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) suggesting he might jump off a bridge if Cruz becomes the nominee.
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Well, that in itself makes me want to vote for Cruz.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) suggesting he might jump off a bridge if Cruz becomes the nominee.
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