Ted Cruz is a FAKE with “0” ACCOMPLISHMENTS, not even a full term in the Senate.
... But now, the impossible has happened: Cruz’s unlikely emergence as the favorite...
The GOPe is willing to do anything to fend off Trump.
Cruz is toast. He’s now going to lose Nebraska and Montana with the “anti-Hispandering” vote, as well as the east and west coast.
The arrogance of boasting of 34 delegates and 100% vote is astounding.
Rich guy Trump has been turned into the humble guy by the media and the used car salesman.
I think Stanley wrote a book about Buchanan as well.
Radical? Rules for Radicals?
No, “Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One”
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents…
Cruz, Kasich, Sanders, Clinton and the remainder of current and former members of the gang of 535 should be in federal prison.
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks. Here the aid of the former encroachments and all the other precedents and way-paving maneuvers will be called in of course.
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt...
He is by far more conservative. He is not a radical.
He is, however, less electable.
Even though Trump promotes himself as anti-establishment, Cruz is less establishment than Trump is. I believe that Boehner called him “Lucifer”, and McConnell is a bitter enemy. Cruz as an ideologue is feared more than Trump by both the Democrats and the so-called Republican leadership.
If Cruz and Kasich deny Trump a win on the first ballot of a contested convention, the party leadership, after having used Cruz, may well turn on him by promoting Kasich.
I am getting tired of this whole mess. because I see Trump as already planning for, and preparing his voters for, a third party.
The GOP power establishment is simply playing Trump against Cruz against Kasic. The goal is to make sure nobody gets the requisite number to be nominated. These power brokers no more back Ted, than they do the Donald. Either of these men would make a fine President but it will never happen because the voters are so divided, that they are ripe for Ryan to snake in their as the base watches with disgust.
Federal UNIPARTY ALERT!
The most important question that was ever proposed to your decision, or to the decision of any people under heaven, is before you, and you are to decide upon it by men of your own election, chosen specially for this purpose. If the constitution, offered to your acceptance, be a wise one, calculated to preserve the invaluable blessings of liberty, to secure the inestimable rights of mankind, and promote human happiness, then, if you accept it, you will lay a lasting foundation of happiness for millions yet unborn; generations to come will rise up and call you blessed. You may rejoice in the prospects of this vast extended continent becoming filled with freemen, who will assert the dignity of human nature. You may solace yourselves with the idea, that society, in this favoured land, will fast advance to the highest point of perfection; the human mind will expand in knowledge and virtue, and the golden age be, in some measure, realised. But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty — if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannic aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining assylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.
Momentous then is the question you have to determine, and you are called upon by every motive which should influence a noble and virtuous mind, to examine it well, and to make up a wise judgment. It is insisted, indeed, that this constitution must be received, be it ever so imperfect. If it has its defects, it is said, they can be best amended when they are experienced. But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.
So far therefore as its powers reach, all ideas of confederation are given up and lost. It is true this government is limited to certain objects, or to speak more properly, some small degree of power is still left to the states, but a little attention to the powers vested in the general government, will convince every candid man, that if it is capable of being executed, all that is reserved for the individual states must very soon be annihilated, except so far as they are barely necessary to the organization of the general government. The powers of the general legislature extend to every case that is of the least importance — there is nothing valuable to human nature, nothing dear to freemen, but what is within its power. It has authority to make laws which will affect the lives, the liberty, and property of every man in the United States; nor can the constitution or laws of any state, in any way prevent or impede the full and complete execution of every power given. The legislative power is competent to lay taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; — there is no limitation to this power…
And are by this clause invested with the power of making all laws, proper and necessary, for carrying all these into execution; and they may so exercise this power as entirely to annihilate all the state governments, and reduce this country to one single government. And if they may do it, it is pretty certain they will; for it will be found that the power retained by individual states, small as it is, will be a clog upon the wheels of the government of the United States; the latter therefore will be naturally inclined to remove it out of the way. Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way. This disposition, which is implanted in human nature, will operate in the federal legislature to lessen and ultimately to subvert the state authority, and having such advantages, will most certainly succeed, if the federal government succeeds at all.
In a free republic…
Brutus #1 - Anti-federalist
No one can imagine it, because it hasn't and won't happen.
Stealing a diamond doesn't make you its owner and losing an election but making backroom deals doesn't make you a front runner. It makes you sleazy.
Ted Cruz wouldn’t be in 2nd place if Trump hadn’t take out all the rest. Especially Bush.
That is the Truth of the matter.
Ask Robert Reich.
One is eligible.
One isn’t eligible.
That’s the only comparison.
Cruz is an useful idiot for the RNC
The so-called conservative champion practices political cronyism just like a friggin Democrat would.
Reference mark.
Apparently the English have as firm a grasp on American politics as we have on their game of cricket.
Beware of the Kool-Aid because it will be offered.
Is it more radical to return to principles the Founders considered America to be or to accept the changes we presently have seen which do not agree with these principles?
If the former, Ted is not radical at all.
And I do not think conservatism, by definition, is radical.
to put the term ‘radical’ in front of ‘conservatism’ is an oxymoron.
like saying a ‘gorgeous’ Hillary. Can’t exist.