Posted on 12/21/2015 11:50:15 AM PST by Isara
When establishment candidates are losing support with the voters, they often resort to their last subterfuge in the bag of tricks. They try to taint their conservative opponent as something less than a consistent conservative in the hopes of deflating the momentum of said opponent. I’ve seen this dynamic play out in almost every competitive primary. And this is exactly what we are seeing with the entire GOP establishment media that is suddenly concerned that Ted Cruz is not really a conservative.
To those of us who worked on the immigration issue in 2013, there was no secret as to who was pushing amnesty and who was fighting for American sovereignty. But who better than Jeff Sessions to set the record straight? Here it is straight from the mouth of the general that Cruz was standing with him “every step of the way”:
Jeff Sessions: Ted Cruz was on my side to defeat the Gang of Eight amnesty bill (Video)
“I believe without the vigorous opposition of Ted Cruz, this bill likely would have passed. So we need to thank him for that.”
Notice that Sen. Sessions speaks of the $1.5 billion spent on ads promoting the Gang of 8. Guess who starred in those ads for Mark Zuckerberg? Yup, the junior senator from Florida.
Sessions goes on to recount that day in May 2013, when the Senate Judiciary Committee met to mark up the bill and how Cruz was one of the first people he saw rattle Schumer’s cage.
You won’t see this video played on Fox News. They will continue to entertain themselves within their insular echo chamber. Unfortunately for them, the voters aren’t listening.
FYI, I have a genius level IQ, received my BA with a 4.0GPA (which I had from the beginning of my schooling), am about to get into law school, and I'm an avid supporter of Donald Trump.
There's just no way you'd match wits with me on any topic imaginable. I also probably know more about whatever candidate you are supporting than you do.
Calling supporters of another candidate "simple minded" is arrogant, and just begging for embarrassment since there's always a bigger fish than you just waiting to demonstrate how stupid you are in comparison.
perhaps the perception is that under that unctuous, bombastic arrogance is a charismatic man that will do more in the first 100 days to meet the pressing goals conservatives long for than pure conservative that is unable to be elected
ΔTg>ΔCg while ΔBg=0 and ΔEt al<1.
that is ΔTg which is change in trump growth exceeds change in Cruz growth and bush ΔBg and Δ et al change are 0
those factors mean that while popular, cruz is not catching on at a rate fast enough to catch, much less pass trump.
This is an observation and does not reflect what I desire.
22, 23 years old?
Your guy until July 24th 2015 was for a legalization amnesty without deportations for the non criminals.
"And then the other ones-- and I'm a very big believer in merit system, I have to tell you," Trump said. "Because some of these people have been here, they've done a good job, you know, in some cases sadly they've been living under the shadows."
"We have to do something,"he continued. "So whether it's merit or whether it's whatever, but I'm a believer in the merit system. If somebody's been outstanding, we try and work something out."
GREAT post!!
Thanks for posting this, reminds me of why I LIKE CRUZ!!
FOX executives need to pay attention. The anger that voters are feeling can quite easily be turned on FOX as well— and it was the angry conservative voter who made FOX news to begin with.
You have obviously less familiarity with post graduate students in STEM. I am a graduate in STEM with masters degree from in Engineering from Univ of Iowa. I have worked for 37 years in the field. I have first hand familiarity with shortage of highly qualified, highly educated workers in engineering and technical fields. Those type of immigrants we need. And that is exactly what Trump is talking about.
We do not need 1.5 million legal immigrants every year, 99% of them under educated and under capitalized. That is why I support Santorum on the Trump ticket. From what I have seen, Santorum understands the excessive immigration going on. And he was born on US soil, when both his parents were American citizens. And he is first rate social conservative. He is excellent campaigner. Observe how many states he won in 2012 with so little money.
Single-minded ignorance when presented with verifiable fact disproving your pet theory is not the sign of an intelligent mind.
That about sums up Trump.
Folks, while we still have time -- dump Trump, choose Cruz.
And Thurston Howell III ... without the TV series "Gilligan's Island." In other words, without the TV show, no one would ever have heard of him.
Rush Limbaugh has only 1 vote. Do not read folloowing article, it might depress you.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-poll-numbers-worse-gop-174800336.html
We've had 2 debates on the subject; you've never refuted anything I've written, and spent most of the time misrepresenting what I had written and the issues at hand.
Look for Brett Baier to play this tonight
YOU depress me, entropy. Not the polls you choose to link, but YOU and what you represent: good, desperate, angry people swept up in emotion rather than reason and ready to vote their country down the river because they hold wealth and fame in such awe.
Obviously what? I'm a structural engineer and systems engineer, 33 years in the field.
I have first hand familiarity with shortage of highly qualified, highly educated workers in engineering and technical fields.
I have witnessed first hand several hundred engineers being layed off at my company this year, and many more the previous three years.
Those type of immigrants we need. And that is exactly what Trump is talking about.
There is no STEM worker shortage.
Senator Sessions Is Right: No STEM Worker Shortage
Trump was asked about the "11 million illegals [sic] already here". He said the bad ones had to go, and he said that for the others, something could be worked out based on merit.
He made no mention of deportations for all the non criminals. That's amnesty.
We do not need 1.5 million legal immigrants every year, 99% of them under educated and under capitalized. That is why I support Santorum on the Trump ticket.
Well then Trump better improve on amnesty if he expects for Santorum to say yes. Santorum is critical of Trump saying that Trump is for amnesty.
Which demonstrates your lack of discernment: Trump has not been a pure blooded Conservative, but he sure has been a Pro-American patriot all his life. Without Trump, Cruz would still happily be telling people that he never tried to "change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight," and opposed deportation and even self-deportation as a solution to the illegal alien problem.
Instead, Cruz now lies to his supporters, claiming that he never supported legalization, even though everybody did, even Sessions, and especially himself, who advocated for it even after the gang of eight fight was over.
So holier than thou Cruz supporters sit there and regurgitate every nasty, exaggerated anti-Trump claim there is, but can't be honest enough to believe their own candidate when he tells them "I want immigration reform to pass... common sense immigration reform... that brings those who are here illegally out of the shadows."
Cruz represents everything wrong with the conservative movement, and why it so desperately needs house cleaning. From his double talk and betrayal on TPA, his lies about his wife being a mere "dissenter" on the globalist CFR, to his close associations with Dominionists and health-wealth prosperity preaching evangelicals, Cruz is a candidate for whom "snake oil salesmen" would be a promotion.
The Christian church in America is sick. The Dominionists and less than honest preachers and politicians who prey on conservative and evangelical fears for a quick buck are just a symptom of the diseases that infect them. Conservatism, in its current state, has a significant leadership vacuum-- which is the real reason why we constantly see 10, 12, 13 people running for President at a time, because they all sense the emptiness of the conservative space.
Trump, a Pro-American, is filling that vacuum in a way Ted Cruz never will, and he's doing it without the support of the billionaires, the special interests, and the same dead and dying "conservative" establishment. He's single handedly changing what is and isn't acceptable to talk about, moving the window of discourse with the sheer power of his personality... something Ted Cruz, Rush Limbaugh, and all the talking heads have not been able to accomplish despite being around for years.
Hopefully Trump crushes this malaise for good, giving us the opportunity to create a new party with a new leadership base, no longer dependent on the same old stale intelligentsia to tell us what to think and do.
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