"That's the Spirit!
oh, and Death to America!"
Posted on 05/09/2015 1:31:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Establishment Republicans know I'm a reliable conservative but a lousy party guy.
Where we live, most local offices are held by Republicans. If conservative — any — voters here wish to influence who will hold the local offices that most immediately affect them, it's a logical decision to register Republican to vote in primary elections. There's no way to control — or know — how voters will cast general election ballots for statewide or national offices.
That logic helps to explain a common national media misconception about conservatives and Republican party politics.
National Review's Kevin Williamson wrote: "What a great many self-proclaimed political sophisticates do not get is that politics on the Right is not dominated by the Republican party; it is dominated by the never-ending contest between a Republican party that wants to make the conservative movement its instrument and a conservative movement that wants to make the GOP its instrument. ...
"We have a ... raucous and rivalrous gang of independent groups, precisely because GOP leaders cannot exercise the sort of control over their coalition that Democrats do over theirs. Left-leaning PACs and independent group(s) ... supplement ... the Democrats' machine; right-leaning groups are an alternative to the Republicans' machine.
"People who don't understand that the name 'Karl Rove' gets hissed every bit intensely as the name 'Barack Obama' simply do not understand what is happening on the Right."
That misconception explains the consternation of left-leaning national media over how U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a conservative Republican reviled by the "moderate" GOP congressional establishment, raised more than $60 million in days after announcing his presidential campaign. Bloomberg's Mark Halperin reported: "There are no known cases in which an operation backing a White House hopeful has collected this much money in less than a week."
Cruz's fundraising may be an outlier or, more likely, an omen. Here's why:
Fiscal conservatives disapprove of Republican spending habits, too. House and Senate Republicans have passed a bicameral budget resolution that, theoretically, grows spending more slowly than the economy but which contains gimmicks. For example, without explanation, it eliminates Obamacare spending but assumes Obamacare-levels of revenue. And, by continuing to spend vast sums for "Overseas Contingency Operations," extra-budgetary items that aren't counted against budget caps, spending would blow by caps.
Their budget resolution "balances" within 10 years — but, very probably, only on paper.
In fact, despite record U.S. Treasury tax receipts, American budget deficits will be greater this year with Republicans holding majorities in both houses of Congress than they were last year when Republicans controlled only one.
Among other considerations, congressional fiscal irresponsibility encourages conservatives to favor presidential candidates from among Republican governors with demonstrable conservative track records. Presently, as many as seven current or former GOP governors, some of whom will prove unacceptable to conservatives, may run.
Ultimately, the Republican nominee may not be Cruz, but media and the GOP establishment should view Cruz's record haul as more than 60 million clues that conservatives won't allow party operatives to force-feed them a 2016 presidential nominee.
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One man against the GOPe
same as
What can a pistol do against an army?
Constitution, courage and conviction.
"That's the Spirit!
oh, and Death to America!"
This is Wonderful news. Thanks so much for everything you are doing to help in this cause. You’re a Great American!
I honestly think the NRA’s endorsement was a check against the Dem running against McConnell, far more than any great approval of him. For awhile it looked like a close race. In retrospect, we would have probably been better off if he’d lost.
By the way thanks to all who responded. I'll watch Cruz.
Damn right they don’t!
It is what Cruz has “Not” been able to accomplish that should make you vote for him.
If you have a bus of school children being pushed down a hill over a cliff by a club of uniparty Dems and Repubs, and one guy is standing in front pushing back and throwing rocks under the wheels, it could be said that that one obstacle has accomplished nothing while the mob has accomplished much and succeeded in our demise. On the other hand, I think the guy slowing the bus is the one who has accomplished more than any of the go-alongs.
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Yeah. But other than that?
;-)
Yeah. But other than that?
TED CRUZ brought down the house at the SC Freedom Summit today.
CRUZ 2016!
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=ted+cruz+sc+summit&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
Cruz first earned my respect back with the McDonald and Heller 2nd Amendment cases. He was solicitor general of Texas and lead the state briefs for that case (which my then AG Mike Cox was on board with). Since then, he ran for Senate and won. His senate voting record was good.
FOX News never mentions the word Jeb without the lead up of “the frontrunner with the most money” Jeb hasn’t even declared yet.
Why support Ted Cruz and vote for him ?
Easy, consider others who have or will be joining the race.
Rand Paul ? A trojan horse leftist.
Marco Rubio ? RINO qween.
Jeb Bush ? Really ?
Mike Huckabee ? Really ?
What have these other canadates done for you ?
Need I say more ?
Ted Cruz is the only choice for conservatives.
Well, John Kennedy. Obama, Abraham Lincoln neither had executive experience.
That’s why most presidents hire a team as his cabinet for that.
Even though executive experience is nice to have, it’s not a must have, I go along with what a canadate ideology is.
Ted Cruz is about a soild conservative constitutionalist canadate as you can get.
I would not even risk going with the other canadates.
Very good response. I too am leaning towards Walker but would consider Cruz. What worries me about Cruz being he talks nice and politicians have a history of talking nice and then harming all of us. Walker has an executive “track record.”
Was meant tongue in cheek, in case you didn’t know.
[Was meant tongue in cheek, in case you didn’t know.]
I know. I just wanted to share TED CRUZ live in SC on this thread.
” Hopefully we can make it at least $200 million to counter Jebbie and Trump. “
We will need more than this. Perhaps double this amount. Grass rootys will get us half of it.
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