Cruz is sharp. No doubt. My unpopular opinion is that he’s in jeopardy of going overboard on certain social issues, Namely:
Obamacare is a broken egg, you can’t put it back together again and being rabidly anti-obamacare is going to shave a few % from the final statewide counts. It’s just a reality. It needs to be redirected away from it’s single payer trajectory.
Religion is fine and dandy. Christianity even better but Ted, if you want to be a preacher, quit the senate, quite the campaign and go be a preacher. If you want to be a politician, religion should be only an acknowledgment of his personal belief. “Freedom of Religion” is just as specific as “right to bare arms”.
Personally, I don't see it working out that way this time. People are pissed at the establishment and their 'conventional wisdom'
/johnny
I am libertarian so to speak on ‘religion’.
We’ve always had fights between the religious and non-religious but the anti-religion forces cannot dictate their beliefs in and around sexuality and marriage because that abridges the Constitution and turns this country totalitarian.
If Ted wants to preach and arouse the sleepy religious folk, that’s OK because they have targets painted on them and all of us should allow them to exercise their conscience, regardless of our views on religion and sexuality.
Obamacare was called the “Affordable Care Act”. Romney did it in MA first as governor and spoke about the “freeloaders” in the healthcare system.
The people of this country weren’t told the truth about this new more expensive system of healthcare foisted on them so the insurance companies and big hospital groups and so on could be bailed out. Bailed out with mandatory private insurance coverage and expanded Medicaid for the poor and even the death panels will improve their bottom lines.
Because Obamacare is such a bailout for business interests and was done by Romney first, the GOP Establishment is not interested in its repeal.
Thank God someone like Ted Cruz is talking about it at least.
stay focused on the end game. Stay united. Don’t undermine the coalition.