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CRUZ or LOSE!He’s my choice. If the GOP chooses someone else, they’ll have to win without me.
Reminds me of Newt’s very successful “contract with America” in the 90’s. Why haven’t the Repubs tried something like that again?
“6) “We need to pass fundamental tax reform, making our tax code simply, flatter, fairer.” He said this should include one key plan: “We should abolish the IRS.””
Sweet music to my ears!!!
I will vote for Ted Cruz, early and often!!!
:-)
Cruz / Palin
Easy to see why so many of us love this guy!
However, are we being hypocrites after discussing birther issues and wishing for a guy who was born in Canada?
I’m asking sincerely, I love this guy, however, he was born in Canada ..... can or should he be a future president?
Ted Cruz is a true quarterback for patriotism because his balls are fully inflated. His questioning of Loretta Lynch was outstanding. Showed her for what she is.. Eric Holder in a pants suit.
For me its Cruz, or Cruz.
Cruz/Walker, Cruz/Palin, Cruz/Lee, Cruz/pick-someone.
If Cruz isn’t on the ballot, they’ve made a calculation that they don’t need conservatives to win. And good luck with that. Because I’m writing his name in if it isn’t on the ballot.
The Cruz Team is off to a very inauspicious start here at FR.
First a vocal supporter uses trickery to falsely slam an opponent, then another mocks an opponent’s position, all the while freely admitting he knows nothing about the issue, but continues to mock the opponents supporters.
But the real coup de grace is the supporter who cheers because he believes an opponent of Cruz is Pro-Amnesty. Cheers for Gods sake. He never thinks for a moment that it reveals that his loyalties lie first with his candidate, not America, and that he cares not how America suffers when major candidates hold position which undermine her.
Unless Team Cruz pulls out this feckless team, Cruz is going to have a hard go of it here at FR,
AND deport the illegals already here, stop the anchor baby law, no welfare or other benefits for illegals, and punish the illegals' employers. Add those things and then we'll talk, Ted.
Sadly, even the supposed conservative, grassroots candidate is only against amnesty if it’s done by Obama alone.
“Abolishing the IRS” is disingenuous rhetoric, given that the federal government is not going to cease collecting taxes.
I would vote for that.
With Cruz, I would trust that there’s more than an ice cube’s chance in hell that he would follow through on his promises.
I’d much rather see a list of Ted Cruz’s top ten Republican fundraisers.
It will be hard to win the primaries without money.
Walker has well proven he is a fighter.
I think Cruz/Walker would be a very good ticket. Walker isn’t very charismatic, but he is fearless. It would be a good team.
Between the two you have two rather fearless and principled men. Walker understands governance; Cruz is a natural leader.
Team them with a seasoned Secretary of State and we have a chance of turning this ship around.
Excellent goals but Senator Cruz needs to constantly
explain to the masses of uninformed why the attainment
of these goals is important to ALL Americans. Liberalism
is about feel good platitudes and it mostly explains
itself in simple terms however silly. Conservatism requires
thought. If conservatives allow themselves to continually
be defined by their enemies inside and outside of the media
then we can expect to continually lose.
America's founding generations understood the history of nations, and framed a government by a written "People's" Constitution to protect and allow freedom for individuals and "chain" (Jefferson) elected and appointed government officials.
Unlike today's crop of so-called "conservative" leaders, those generations could articulate the ideas underlying that Constitution's limits on Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary power. More importantly perhaps, they could explain those ideas to "the People."
See the following for a few examples:
"The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. - Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom." It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." Samuel Adams - Essay in the Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771Why should freedom-loving Americans be cowered into refraining from using the word "slavery" to describe the condition which results as a consequence of coercive government power over the lives, rights, liberties, and pursuit of happiness of individual citizens in the society?"When designs are form'd to raze the very foundation of a free government, those few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery." - Article signed "Candidus," in Boston Gazette, December 9, 1771
"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." Samuel Adams- As Candidus in the Boston Gazette, January 20, 1772
"The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave... These may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." Samuel Adams - Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772
"It is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." - The Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
Perhaps a Cruz can and will be willing to articulate that idea, but will any others have such courage?
Why not just introduce a balanced budget?
I’m mildly disappointed that cutting spending and reducing the size of government isn’t in his top ten.
How about passing, and signing, a budget and sticking to it?
5% spending cut, across the board, for 4 years in a row.
Bye bye DOEn, DOEd, EPA,
If we aren’t going to secure the border, then bye bye DHS