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.
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Only Trump and the majority if the American people want the “wall”. Everyone else is establishment. The “wall” is the litmus test.
I kind of think that if Trump is the nominee, the 2016 election may be an election that won’t just be a swing state election. It will be a real national election with many more states in play.
In that case, it will force “the Beast” to have to have an exhausting campaign that will take her down.
You’re either for the wall or against the wall.
Not true! He loves America and has become sickened along with the rest of us of what has changed in last 6-7 years. He really wants to make America great again.
I like him and would vote for him, but I think he can easily be depicted as a guy that wants to shut down the government when he doesn’t get his way. True or not, if that sticks it will lead him to the short end of a 400 electoral vote landslide.
However, Andrew McCarthy goes completely off the rails of conservatism in siding with Rubio, and now Trump, in opposing the USA Freedom Act.
Rubio and Trump favor reinstating the Patriot Act and bulk data collection of telephone metadata held by the NSA for every law abiding U.S. citizen. They take this indefensible position contrary to the testimony of U.S. intelligence agencies before Congress that the USA Freedom Act gives them necessary new tools to identify and track the bad guys more effectively than currently possible without any need for bulk collection of telephone metadata held by the NSA on every law abiding American citizen.
I've commented in an earlier post about this topic of NSA domestic spying and candidates that oppose the USA Freedom Act. I have irreconcilable differences with Rubio and Trump on this fundamental issue of right to privacy under the U.S. Constitution with no valid justification in the judgment of our intelligence agencies.
Yea Andrew McCarthy and Kevin Williamson are the only ones I really enjoy reading at nro
It's not about a wall alone. It's about who is best able to govern as a social and constitutional conservative. To me, it's no contest: Cruz.
Agree. Trump can guide a yuuge organization: direct, communicate, delegate, and evaluate. He knows the right questions to get the results he wants. You don’t learn that in the Senate. Cruz would be empowered in a Trump Administration.
McCarthy musta snuck this one in on ‘em
It's about the wall. To prove it, if Trump were to back down on the wall issue, he'd be dead politically.
OK, I understand.
Do you believe Ted Cruz can win any states that Romney lost? If so, which ones?
Do you understand that, in order for a candidate who is not Hillary Clinton to be elected that he has to win upwards of ten million Americans who voted for Obama, twice?
Do you have a theory about how to win those votes? They are not conservatives, much less "true" conservatives, much much less the "real thing".
What's your plan to win them with Cruz?
Even Trump has not stated that. See his comments about "the good ones."
There is an “the views expressed are his own” disclaimer at the bottom, so this is not any sort of an about face for National Review.
How do you propose that Trump can win them? His negatives are through the roof, and that's after being universally known. And Trump hasn't won anything yet, ever. Let's see first if he can win some primaries.
People that have been paying attention for the last couple of years know that Cruz has been saying all the things that Trump is saying now. He has been doing, in congress, the things Trump is promising to do. Trump seems to be catching the ones who just woke up to all the loud noise. People will criticize Cruz because his wife works at a bank but praise Trump for getting rich by buying political support for his deals. People don’t trust Cruz because of the way they see ONE vote but they trust Trump even after he has praised Hillary, single payer medical care and the Kelo decision.
As far as spending his own money, does anyone think Trump will really liquidate a billion dollars of his assets and spend it on a campaign he might not win? I, personally, do not think he will do that, but it makes for a good speech.
//Disclaimer: Yes, I am a Cruz supporter//
Well, if Trump can’t win primaries in NH SC and FL then, obviously, I’m wrong and I will be glad to admit it.
On the ground in NH, things look good right now. I had Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of Boston Democrats, all of whom are on board.
I worked around the corner from the Eire Pub in Dorchester when Ronald Reagan went in there and had a beer with the guys. Reagan won Massachusetts twice, as I’m sure you know. Trump has these same people turned on.
All I’m saying right now is that I want to hear from the Cruz supporters what the theory is that has him winning states that Romney lost. So far, I’ve asked that question probably 15 times and the only answers have been abuse.
If Cruz is the nominee I will enthusiastically support him (although I would much prefer him on the Supreme Court). But he has zero appeal to “Reagan Democrats”, the GOPe is going to defect, and the math doesn’t add up for me.
Naw.
Reagan Democrats have dwindled in number. Most have switched or passed on. Anybody who remains a Democrat is either on the left or utterly malleable by the leftist media.
When crunch time comes, few Democrats will not vote for Hillary. What we need is a good conservative to turn out the conservative/tea party vote.
My home state is NY (I grew up there, and most of my family is there), and I lived in Boston for 22 years. Reagan won both of those states twice, and I'm quite sure Trump will, as well.
I could be wrong, of course. But I know "Reagan Democrats" about as well as anybody here does, and that's the basis for my optimism about Trump (and also the basis for my pessimism about Cruz).
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