[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams " Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

[SoConPubbie]

    Ted Cruz Ping!

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    CRUZ or LOSE!

[Paradox]

Wonder if the media is setting him up to “fail”, that is, unless he wipes the floor with everybody, they will claim he was “dissapointing”....

[HerrBlucher]

Getting kind of tired seeing the word “bombastic” in articles about Trump. I cannot remember the last time I saw that word prior to Trumpmania. So for you Trump writers out there here are some synonyms to keep your writing from being repetitive and dull....

pompous, blustering, turgid, verbose, orotund, high-flown, high-sounding, overwrought, pretentious, ostentatious, grandiloquent;

My favorite of those is orotund, but grandiloquent rocks too.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I really like Ted Cruz, but he may have to be a VP candidate to someone due to the general public’s ignorance over what makes a politician and what makes a statesman. We’ll see. If he has to team up with Trump to get his hat in the ring, so be it.

[elcid1970]

“Another said, “I remember him as a scary, driven machine who fought a protracted, bloody land war for total victory.”

That wasn’t intended as a compliment but it describes just what we need in a candidate to win the Presidency in 2016.

CRUZ or lose!

[reed13k]

I just worry that presidential debates are typically not true forensic debates and therefore the skills are different - nowadays a debate is someone throwing a bunch of gotcha questions one way and sappy question another with no real debate of substance or even questions that allow for it.

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Another said, "I remember him as a scary, driven machine who fought a protracted, bloody land war for total victory," which may or may not have been meant to be hyperbole.

It may or may not have been BS.

All successful debaters look like that to outsiders.

Twenty years later, it's easy to say that another competitor was driven and intense and forget that one was that way oneself.