We did that to ourselves and ended up with McCain and we did it again and we ended up with Romney. Let the best man win because he is the best man not because he is the least worst.
Posted on 02/15/2014 4:42:27 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Cruz - American who support the Constitution and Equality
under the LAW
obama - an undocumented Indonesian, forced on America
by Pelosi and Soros, who hates the Constitution, and Law,
and had created “Holdering” (the widescale attack, rape
and destruction of innocent or elderly white people
aided by the DO”J” which has told them REPEATEDLY that
they are above, what was once, Law).
Well Earned.
I respect both of you but cannot understand this cheering for Cruz. I don’t understand it. He has about as much experience as Obama did when he became President and this is who we want? The guy has not had a single thing get through the House, Senate and signed into law. Sure he and Wendy Davis have the same experience with talking for 30 hours but accomplishing nothing. Why are people not getting behind Walker who is a Governor and has proved to get things done and even rise above adversity and even get reelected after a recall? I don’t get it. Why are we wanting another Obama clone in Cruz…..sure they don’t agree with each other but they both do nothing but talk. I just don’t get it.
Walker is great too. He has accomplished great things - but would have a tough time with a lack of “zing”.
Cruz, while only a very short time in office, is indeed an outsider and actually says, straight up, what we’re all craving to hear. And damn he can talk - debate anyone - which becomes easier when you just tell the truth.
Both would be good. No candidate is perfect but these two are close imo.
Cruz reminds me of Wisconsin’s Governor Walker. Walker said something like this, “I may not be here long but while I am here, I am going to do what ever it takes.....etc.”
I applaud Cruz for his tenacity. The Rhino’s need to be shaken and shaken hard. They fear Cruz might upset their cushy jobs and self sustaining ideas. No doubt he has other plans than the Senate. He needs to keep a close watch on his back. Nothing surprises me anymore.
No candidate is perfect but these two are close imo.
My biggest complaint with Cruz is his zero accomplishments. If he could just have one result, I would at least be more comfortable with him. I am just concerned that he does not have the ability to motivate and convince his fellow senators to pass laws. He should be able to convince the Democrats too which he has not been able to. I think that is why he is so weak. He is certainly no Reagan who was able to convince Democrats to go along with his beliefs. Heck even Bush could too. Cruz has not convinced on Democrat to vote his way.
He’s the next president. A cross between Ronald Reagan and John Wayne.
I think it behooves EVERY voter out there who is resigned to the mistaken idea that voting for the next best alternative is a good thing when it comes to RINOs.
Even the RINOs who have succeeded in maneuvering their ‘conservative’ records by emphasizing their “no” votes on liberal legislation. Most of the time, these are just ‘show votes’ which are pointless simple majority votes the KNOW they won’t stop. The time to have stopped them was the vote before that, forcing a 60 vote majority for cloture on the bill. They vote yes for that and no for the floor vote. DESPICABLE.
If you are considering voting for one of these traitors, don’t believe their ‘conservative’ ratings. Go look at the votes prior to the ones they are claiming are true to their constituents. RINOs are masters at this game.
I like him...
We did that to ourselves and ended up with McCain and we did it again and we ended up with Romney. Let the best man win because he is the best man not because he is the least worst.
To me, his most important accomplishment is that he is stirring the right to stop being an 0bama rubber stamp. This has the added benefit of identifying the gope [who are now in charge of money and committee assigns.]People crave that.
If he succeeds in overturning the R leadership to conservative, that would be huge to me. At that point, the many other like-thinking but less courageous would find the courage to fight 0bama and the dems too.
IMO the plan never was to defund 0bamacare or prevent the debt ceiling hike - although those outcomes would have been great. The plan was to fight at all to slow them down or even get something in return. It would have been so easy to turn down the debt ceiling increase unless there was a repeal of the cut to troops retirement or a prohibition on ins co. bailouts [risk corridors] or both.
So IMO Cruz HAS accomplished a lot albeit not legislatively.
Bravo. This seems to be a challenge for many.
Yeah. What he said.
Notwithstanding what he said... wouldn't it be cool if FR really DID pick the nominee?
It’s called standing on principal my friend... the best politician is one that endears himself to the people by standing on principal, not by playing politics to win the affections of other “witty” politicians and the low information voter.
Well you have a point. I just find Cruz to be Obama in many ways….the gift to gab and one term Senator. We used to forbid Senators from running or at least that was our hope. We need a Governor this time to win because we need someone who has accomplishments. But again you are right with your assessment.
Differing walks in life appeal to different people. Cruz has exactly been out
of the loop but has been involved in many different arenas.
Here are a few examples of his career.
Clerkships, 95-96
Private practice 97-98
Bush Campaign 99
Bush v Gore 2000
U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Federal Trade Commission 00-03
Solicitor Attorney General office - Tx 03-08
Private Practice 09-13
US Senator 13 -
I thought the idea was to STOP all this legislation and roll a lot of it back.
Re experience - Ted Cruz was the Solicitor General of Texas for 5 years pleading cases before the U.S. Supreme Court - very impressive record, you can review it here:
After that he was in private law practice. After Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison retired he fought what was believed to be a losing challenge to a shoo-in candidate for her seat. Yet he was sworn into office Jan 2013.
Reagan was willing to work with the Democrats and to compromise. I don't think Cruz can. If Cruz is elected president in 2016 the Democrats will spend the next four years blocking everything he tries to do.
Though he's not my choice for POTUS, Ted Cruz has chosen to help fill a political void left by the former Republican party's abdication and he's doing an excellent job keeping his promises to those who elected him.
For these things, he has maintained the respect he earned from me and is my hope for Senate leadership and to return the Senate to Constitutional governance.
I wish there were more like him in both houses.
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