Posted on 12/05/2015 6:19:39 AM PST by Timber Rattler
To protect American national security we must first understand what threatens American national security. We must grasp who our enemies are, what animates them, and how they work together - despite their internecine rivalries - to destroy us from without and within. We must stop trying to define "true Islam" and start restoring our own principles as our guide: liberty, equality of opportunity, the rule of law, and peace through strength.
The vast majority of Americans still believe in these principles. It is Washington that has lost faith. It is Washington that looks at liberty's enemies and sees friends; that looks at anti-Western Islamic supremacists and sees "moderates" it can play ball with; that looks at lawbreakers and tut-tuts that "the system is broken."
Reinvigorating American principles will require taming Washington. It calls for restoring the Constitution as a vital limit on government, not a relic...or an obstacle. Ted Cruz gets this. Many Republicans talk the talk - we hear it in every election season, right up until it is time to stop campaigning and start governing. Senator Cruz walks the walk. That is why I believe he should be the next president of the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
“So many High School freshmen posting tonight”
Well you are on Free Republic so you have to up your game from mocking people to real facts and theoretical arguments that are based in some kind of reality.
If you can’t do that you are not representing your candidate in a good way that would win supporters to his cause.
You can’t just say that Ted Cuz is going to win when he’s trailing by a wide margin to Trump in every poll except one Iowa poll. You have to have some kind of theory as to how Ted goes from 12%-14% to 36% in the next 58 days.
Because otherwise Trump is going to run the table. After Iowa, NH and SC the snowball starts to gain speed.
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Wow!
What a cool, calm, well reasoned response.
You must have been class valedictorian...
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I think you missed the point.
You act like Cruz having won an election is a reason to vote for him.
I’m simply pointing out that a lot of others have won elections so is that a reason to vote for them?
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Comparing to Trump is irrelevent.
Trump, with his 60%+ negatives is not in a take-up position, thus will not be among the few with a chance.
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I agree. They are very rude, angry, and act like immature children.
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You need to pay attention to what I was responding to.
Trump was the point of comparison, and has not nor ever will win any election.
The winner definitely be someone that has won an election.
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Clearly something that permits me to construct cogent posts as opposed to your frantic conspiracy theories.
You sound bitter! Is your candidate far behind Trump by any chance? Thousands of enthusiastic people not showing up at your candidate’s rallies? Your candidate not holding huge rallies EVERY DAY in different locations all over the country? May be your candidate should ask his rich donors to cough up more donations so he can lease a Boeing 757 or at least a 6 seater prop plane! It is a beyotch travelling by car in winter in Iowa. I should know, I lived in Iowa doing my post-graduate degree.
FRiend I feel your pain!
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No pain, only gain!
And we have Obama and ISIS to thank for most of it.
They gave Cruz a guaranteed path to victory, and that is worthy of celebration.
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As opposed to "what are you imbibing?''
That's the adult "contempt and derision'' I was referring to....
Good, but don’t address me in a multi-post either.
Hillary’s dragging behind on every poll except her own..and we know anything she hands out is a lie at beset and twisted at least.
“Trump, with his 60%+ negatives is not in a take-up position, thus will not be among the few with a chance.”
Here is the thing. You have to keep up and you have to keep the facts straight. At this point in time Trump’s negatives are at about 38% so very much improved from when he entered the race in June.
Cruz’s main problem in this election is not Donald Trump anyway its Ted Cruz. He is just too conservative for the average GOP voter. Historically the average GOP voter as well as the average independent voter is middle of the road or slightly right of center. So a much better fit for Trump.
As much as you desperately want Ted Cruz to win if he is still at 23% on the night of the Iowa caucus and Trump is 25% then Ted will still lose. He’s not even close in any other state poll. Rubio is not going to drop out before SC unless he has a scandal and neither is Carson. Where do you think Ted Cruz is going to get all these votes he needs to win?
I’m sorry you are insulted by what I wrote, but notice I did say supporters of ALL candidates, not just Trump.
You have done your homework and I applaud you for doing so. Too many voters don’t.
He's in great danger.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Have a look at this series of articles which appeared earlier this year in MIT Technology Review which outlines the approach used by Obama in 2012 which promises nothing less than a revolution in the way campaigns are conducted. It overturns all of our assumptions and goes a long way toward explaining the inexplicable to conservatives-how Obama could have been reelected in 2012.
If this article is to be credited, the whole idea of how we put together coalitions based on pundits' assumptions or even based on gross numbers garnered in polls are done away with and replaced by this new technology.
If this article is to be credited, it does not matter whether it is Trump or Cruz it matters how the message is packaged and how it is delivered but, most important, how it is individualized.
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/508836/how-obama-used-big-data-to-rally-voters-part-1/
I donât trust Cruz. His wife is a bigwig with Goldman Sacks. If he is so wonderful WHY hasnât he spoken like Trump. What exactly has he done to help our country return to its former glory. NOT A THING. I love Trump since the only money sticking out of his mouth is his! Not so much with Cruz. Plus he reminds me of Green Acres , Mr. Haney.
I don’t trust Trump. He supported TARP which funneled taxpayer dollars to Goldman “Sachs” (your spelling “Sacks” is incorrect).
If he is so great like Cruz, why hasn’t he spoken out and championed conservative causes instead of giving money to the Clinton Foundation?
What exactly has Trump done to make our country great besides trying to take a lady’s land for limousine parking?
I love Cruz because he hasn’t used his money to bribe politicians and authorities in NYC.
Plus Trump reminds me of the character Sam Sheepdog who guards the sheep from Ralph E. Wolf in “Looney Toons”!!!
If Cruz is such a "champion," why hasn't he been able to single-handedly dominate the political conversation like Trump.
Calling McConnell a "liar" may have made you feel warm and fuzzy, but what did it effect in the way of conservative progress?
Contrast that with Trump, who has raised immigration, reciprocal CC across the nation, and veterans benefits to the top of the national agenda....
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Cruz’ vote was for the incoming president, obviously himself.
It had little to do with Obama, and obama is disinterested in trade issues.
Nice try at amateur trolling, better luck next time.
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