Posted on 07/31/2012 10:38:01 PM PDT by Arthurio
AUSTIN — Ted Cruz, the top appellate lawyer turned tea party favorite, shocked the political establishment Tuesday, grabbing the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate and virtually guaranteeing that he’ll be Texas’ first Hispanic senator.
Cruz handily defeated Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a Republican runoff for the seat of U.S.
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Post #50 says 57 to 43.
He also stopped the TSA groping bill, the anti sanctuary city bill and supported some form of the dream act.
sweet!
Thanks. I just saw that. Doo hurst got taken behind the woodshed for a good old Texas whoopin, even though he outspent Cruz by a huge amount.
“My only concern is that Nolan Ryan backed Dewhurst.”
Nolan Ryan is a putz.
I can’t stand that guy.
So what if he threw a f’ing baseball, he is a political idiot.
Oh geez, mr. baseball player, please tell me who to vote for!!!
Really?
People actually follow baseball players for political advice?
I laugh at that idiocy!!!!
I didn’t make it through that movie...but...what you say is true...and sounds like something Reagan himself would say!
It is also true that seat by seat, we are gaining ground in the Senate: Cruz, Rand Paul, Coburn, Mike Lee, Jim DeMint, Rubio, Richard Mourdock....Slowly but surely. Reagan would be proud of the last year and a half or so with our incremental improvement.
Dewie said in his concession speech “as your US senator, I will”. Does he not get it that he LOST?
At the end of V for Vendetta, what appears to be most of the surviving population of London marches on the abusive government’s forces surrounding Parliament all wearing copies of the (unbeknownst to them, deceased) protagonist’s Guy Fawkes costume replete with masks.
The message is simple: “We are all Guy Fawkes. And we have come to finish the job.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnPvbfogeSI
Turns out not to be necessary, but the point is still taken.
I forgot to mention that the rest of the movie is pretty awful and an absolute travesty compared to the graphic novel. They took a Brit-centric tale of anarchy vs. fascism and tried to turn it into an indictment against conservatives and Bush plus a liberal wish fulfillment fantasy. It was so bad the original writer demanded his name be removed from the project.
In early voting the week before the election, Ted Cruz got 52.9% of the votes, but on election day that increased dramatically to 60.7%. The final margin of the total vote was 57% to 43% as you know.
The Get Out The Vote effort was amazing for this runoff election. FreedomWorks called our home twice (Monday and on election day) to remind us to vote (we voted the week before). Over 1.1 million Republican votes were cast in the Texas runoff and Cruz won by more than 150,000 votes.
That it did. Quite well I must say. Upcoming primaries/elections will be greatly guided by those Dewhurst endorsements.
This is the best news of the morning!
“Romney can stand bye for the **** storm that is coming if he crosses us.”
Don’t plan on Romney crossing the Conservatives, especially if Republicans win both houses.
If republicans take the Senate, keep the House and win the Whitehouse, first thing you are going to see is the change of votes to 51. Then you can tell Harry Reid and the NY Slimes to pound sand.
Then get rid of every law over the last 50 years that destroyed business.
Then get rid of every ACORN like group and 501C groups that promote an agenda.
And any liberal commentator or ex liberal politician that wants to lie about it in front of the camera, gets a visit from the IRS. When they complain, remind them that they supported it when Obama did it.
Reminds me of the remake of “The Longest Yard” where the ref keeps making calls against the cons. After getting hit in the boys twice, he decides to call a fair game.
That’s what we need to do. And it is the only way we will roll back Marxism in this country.
I know. He gets to be a Mexican American. Obama gets to be an African American.
I just get to be white.
It’s not fair.
Yes, and that was why I didn’t make it through the first fifteen minutes. Once they put one of the villians into the religious conservative camp, I turned it off.
Of course, many other conservative friends told me I was premature, as by the end it all paid off...which is, I think, what you are saying, as well. I was likely just impatient, but I really don’t have time for anything political from Hollywood...
I do love the motif, though. And so would Reagan! Thousands upon thousands of us, rising up, running for offices at every level, building the movement!!!
Question (before reading the thread):
A caller to Beck this A.M. said that one man is responsible
for Cruz’ win; Holder.
The caller asserted that the Just-Us department interfered in
Texas’ voting law and forced a two-month delay. Cruz would
have lost by 20 points but the extra two months was time for
him to ramp up recognition and win the vote.
Any truth there?
I haven't seen much evidence that Romney is capable of 'seeing the handwriting on the wall'. I mean, he completely ignored the Tea Party movement, from its inception, through all the major rallies and establishment as a permanent political activist class, and right up to the present.
While nationally known politicians like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, and others were breaking bread with these highly motivated patriots, Mitt was missing in action. Perhaps he was listening to advisers who cautioned him against associating with 'those rebels'.
Whether by his own calculation, or at the behest and urging of others, he showed remarkably poor judgment in shunning and distancing himself from this historic sea change in US politics. In either case, he missed the train, and failed to correctly analyze the changing mood of those he would later depend on to help him win the presidency.
It says much about the man. As you say, it points toward his being a 'political animal', i.e., a wind up doll without a heart or a brain. Someone who's operating in somewhat of a robotic state, in that he doesn't operate from a set of core principles, but by some outmoded set of programming or instructions.
Knowing this about Romney, we must understand that he's essentially a tool to whatever forces are dominant in his immediate vicinity. Once he's in the White House, and is immersed in and surrounded by the black muck of Washington corruption, I expect him to do the bidding of whichever dark forces apply the greatest pressure.
I was born in the early 50s, so I'm a living witness to all the societal changes our culture went through in the latter half of the 20th century. The fact is, our national character matured its way beyond institutionalized racism long before the turn of the millennium.
As I've told my black brethren many times, "the war for civil rights ended in the 60s - and we won it." In truth, 'the struggle' was over a long, long time ago.
In my observation, a real homogenization of the races in this country was underway from the 1970s, forward, but that fundamental shift toward a single American people didn't serve the goals of the deep left. They could not achieve their goals of 'fundamentally transforming America' without the aid of class and race divisions amongst the people. Where there were none, or where they'd been transcended, the deep left worked to rebuild them, or create new ones.
Race pimps like Jackson and Sharpton were (and are) merely paid tools to accomplish a greater end. They've worked tirelessly to individuate and radicalize an entire subset of the American people. They've been quite successful, too. They've now built a virtual army of racist, hard left clones, who are programmed to destroy everything normal Americans believe in, and to supplant our entire culture with a Marxist totalitarianism.
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