Posted on 03/23/2015 4:06:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
“Think just how different the world would be,” said Senator Ted Cruz on Monday, in a speech so packed with vision-spinning and the word “imagine” that it seemed as if John Lennon had returned, as a Hispanic Texan running a hard-right, anti-establishment, Christian-themed campaign for the White House.
Weird. But weird is the essence of Mr. Cruz, who is now the first major Republican in the 2016 race.
The “imagines” that Mr. Cruz doled out were well chosen for his audience, students at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. Robust cheers greeted one of the first: “Imagine young people coming out of school with four, five, six job offers.”
Of course if you know Mr. Cruz, or are familiar with how government is supposed to work, or with reality in general, you’ll find some of his imaginaries problematic, like abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, sealing the border, or “repealing every word of Obamacare.”
“Imagine a federal government that works to defend the sanctity of human life and to uphold the sacrament of marriage,” he said. But Mr. Cruz says he is a champion of personal liberty, too, and gay couples who love each other are demanding their liberty to marry, just not in a way he finds acceptable. No data supports Mr. Cruz’s claim that health-insurance premiums are “skyrocketing” under Obamacare. Immigrants, legal and otherwise, are building this country, and efforts to vacuum-seal the border by troops and fences alone will continue to fail, and the country will suffer from its entrenched hostility to its immigrant population, no matter what Mr. Cruz says.
Mr. Cruz, whose oratory captures so many Republican paradoxes and idiocies, especially on immigration and health care, has set a solid baseline for the messy job ahead.
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So instead of a conspiracy theory about the president not being a U.S. citizen and thus barred from office by the Constitution we have a openly Canadian born person of legal Canadian citizenship running for the office.
No doubt about it, the constitution is toilet paper.
Progressives think that simple Voter ID laws present an unconstitutional burden on citizens, but they are always defending a highly-complex tax code, many provisions of which are only decipherable by accountants and tax experts, and which we must comply with under threat of fine or imprisonment. Weird.
Words to make me happy, you all have a Ted Cruz great Day.
:-)
When Democrats use words like “imagine,” the press goes along and tells us how inspiring the message is. But when a Republican uses that word, it becomes an occasion for mockery. The press is largely comprised of bullies.
I guess no one on the editorial board has had to purchase insurance.
“I don’t know how Richard Nixon could have won. I don’t know anybody who voted for him.”
- The late film critic Pauline Kael’s reaction to Richard Nixon’s landslide victory over George McGovern.
The NYTimes viewpoint.
That is utter B/S. Hubby runs a small Company. Less than 10 employees.
Insurance went up 450.00 per month per plan, Family plans.
How do they spew such utter lies and not instantly burst into flames is just evidence of God's patience.
So, your insurance premiums went up $54,000/yr. more for 10 employees.
Don’t know what the split is, but it looks like you are going to have an 8 person firm soon.
“Mine only went up 3% this year.” my son’s went up over 28 percent. daughter’s went up over 15 percent.
I stand with Ted
Go blow.
Like the Nazis calling the Jews "weird" for fighting back in the Warsaw Uprising.
All I can say is thank you Texas for Sen. (President) Cruz.
I thought it was: thank you Alberta?
I think that he is thinking of getting out, between that and the Unions, we may just retire.
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