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Posted on 05/20/2012 6:26:33 PM PDT by Syncro
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As LG, what did Dewhurst DO to stomp out any discussion of creating a state income tax????
If I understand correctly, Cruz is a mamber of a substantial and large law firm, does not personally represent China and is not in a position within the firm to veto the acquisition of such a client. This almost sounds like attacking a defense lawyer for representing a client charged with murder as though the lawyer were the murderer by association. I despise Red China, but it too can hire lawyers. I also suspect that the client is not Red China but some business there, previously in partnership with the Texas corporation on the other side f the lawsuit. Messy as it may be, that is how our judicial system works.
Your posts attacking Dewhurst are downright entertaining, if a bit tiresome, because they are so full of misdirection and class-warfare that they take a lot of time to rebut.
But easily rebuttable they are!
First, let me answer your question as to why you get the idea you have about liberal republicans “salivating” over a Dewhurst win. That idea comes right out of your own fevered imagination!
As to Dewhurst’s net worth, which you exaggerate by 25% according to my source, it really is not large for an entrepeneur who got into the energy and land and cattle businesses in Texas in the early eighties and oil drilling business and has benefitted from the rise in the price of energy and boom in the price of land over the last 30 years. Besides, he is into actually producing products that people like to buy, and why you seem to think that is a bad thing I don’t know. Perhaps you think it better to make your living as a government lawyer or on legal fees delaying the paying of court judgements against billion-dollar corporations. And of course you know that David Dewhurst does not have the advantages of incumbency because he is not the incumbent.
Your second paragraph is pure nonsense. The only Bush I know of that made an endorsement in this race made it in favor of Cruz. But you probably also knew that.
I’ll cut this short by addressing your misdirection about Harvard. Of course, we all recognize Harvard and the Ivy League as the producers of some of the finest legal minds capable of twisting the Constitution into meaning whatever they want it to mean! Why, isn’t the Supreme Court made up exclusively, or nearly so, of Ivy League Lawyers? Didn’t Barack and Michelle and Bill and Hillary and John Kerry all attend Ivy League schools at one time or another?
Just so you’ll know, maybe the country would never have gotten into its present difficulties if we still thought pre-seventeenth amendment; actually having our states represented in the Senate by productive citizens engaging in private business in the states of their birth where they have actually lived and done their primary business. Just a prefenence of mine, which goes to just another reason David Dewhurt rather Cruz is preferred by Texas conservatives in the know.
But, I guess you prefer that all three branches of government be completely populated and run by Ivy-League lawyers.
If you did actually believe in conservative principles and have had quite enough of the GOP-Elite, you would be supporting David Dewhurst for the Texas Senate seat, not Cruz.
“Dewhurst is the better conservative. And he is the proven conservative.”
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Is it true that Dewhurst claims that he is “severely conservative”?
What are you talking about now?
Dewhurst has had nothing to do and would never have anything to do with creation of a state income tax in Texas.
“Dewhurst has had nothing to do and would never have anything to do with creation of a state income tax in Texas.”
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Say what? You can call it by other names and/or try to disguise it, but a tax on my earnings is a tax on my earnings.
If anyone (other than ngat) is delusional enough to be thinking of voting for Dewhurst in the primary, then google “dewhurst wage tax” and read a selection of what is returned.
Then vote for Ted Cruz.
You forgot your sarcasm tags...
That’s the best you’ve got?
Telling me to google a phrase that leads to the Cruz websites and quotes where Cruz falsly accuses Dewhurst of proposing a tax on your earnings?
You know, and Cruz knows, Dewhurst did no such thing.
In the AP story Cruz likes to quote, or rather repeat the misquote, Dewhurst was talking about reforming the state’s business tax, which is not based on income and requires businesses companies to pay taxes even when they are losing money. Nothing to do with any income or wage tax.
Even Austin’s Statesman says in its May 14 edition “Cruz has falsely implied that Dewhurst supported a personal income tax,”
You, sir, are running false ads on behalf of Cruz, and because conservative Texans recognize false attacks on their conservative Lt. Governor Dewhurst, Cruz will not cruise, Cruz will lose.
You & Dewhurst might be advocates of coming in the back way to extract taxes thinking folks won’t recognize what’s being done to them. But any woman will tell you that whether you’re raped from the front or the back, it’s still rape. You can’t hide the fact that it’s rape by coming in the back way. Nobody’s fooled!
If an employee’s employer has a new tax levied on the employee’s wages, it’s still a tax. And it’s a tax that will come from money that might otherwise have gone (now or in the future) directly to the employee—it’s a cost of employing that employee.
Vote Tea Party! Vote Ted Cruz.
PS — ngat, you must be beginning to feel that sinking feeling of impending doom that the Lugarites began to feel in the couple of weeks leading up to the Indiana primary. I can almost feel the tension coming through your posts.
Here’s a link I had intended to post but forgot (I’ve been posting during “House Series Finale” commercials).
David Dewhurst knows that our Texas Constitution forbids an income tax. He’s declared he will never endorse a State income tax.
Not at all, House.
Dewhurst will win this simply because the comparison with Lugar is ridiculous, and the vast majority of Texans know it.
So, real conservatives will save you from feeling the disappointment you would feel when you found out Cruz’ professed tea-party beliefs were but a ploy on the part of a smart lawyer to vault into a Senate seat position in his very first try at elective office, by hanging onto the skirt of Sarah Palin and taking advantage of inexperienced tea-party suckers like you. This has already been experienced in 2010 in other states by tea-partiers.
But, conservatives really did not expect to be attacked with lies like this by tea-partiers who claim to be conservative.
Any official at any level of government can be attacked for mere discussion of any proposal to collect revenue because they are wrestling with the budget problems of a state government trying to comply with federal government mandates in the areas of health, education, and welfare and created by allowing uncontrolled immigration into this border state.
Cruz, smart debater that he is knows this ploy. Since Cruz has never even been elected dogcatcher, much less ever served in any legislative body, and has never been responsible for any budget anywhere, he is therefore immune from such attacks.
Good, underhanded tactic, but I don’t think it will be enough to put Cruz over the top.
That op-ed was from 2005. I never said that Cruz wrote it, I said it’s his source. An op-ed is *opinion.* Not news, not reporting. Not a good source.
Unfortunately, Cruz hasn’t shown any restraint in his campaign. He started out negative enough for me to confront him on it in mid-November. I was taught to reason and to meet with anyone with whom I disagree, so I made sure that the discussion was private and unobserved by others. He attacked me with a vehemence that was out of proportion. The same thing happened in February, although slightly more muted. That was when I decided to change my endorsement and asked my husband if I could send Dewhurst 4 times the money I sent Cruz.
Uh Oh. Then who was that guy I was hugging in San Antonio?
I loved the way that Cruz started out his speech and became hopeful that he’d campaign this day on his own possibility and philosophy. Then he fell back into the attacks and half truths. I was disappointed, once again, that his philosophy seems to be that he can’t win unless he destroys his opponent.
Wish I had a pic of that...but I do have this one:
I was "Cruzin'" the www, and found our picture Here
The University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll shows Dewhurst at 40 percent and Cruz at 31 percent. Cruz had been trailing the self-financed Dewhurst by over 20 percent, so this poll shows him closing strong.
*snip*
The poll is good news for the conservative Cruz, whose election many conservatives believe is the most important this election cycle (Congressional) for the future of the conservative movement.
Here's an interesting story. From USAToday so it can only be Linked
You look disappointed, too.
You are helping the GOP-E. If you happen to be successful and this elitist twerp goes to the Senate, I hope you are satisfied with his undoubtedly pathetic voting record and with the GOP-Es who will be his, ummmm, comrades.
Why do I imagine Dewhurst being supported by trash like James Make Me Mo Money Baker? Sorry my taste runs to candidates with backbone not judged by their wealth and privilege.
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