Posted on 12/31/2015 11:28:34 AM PST by Isara
There is a time when we must say we can’t pick up a turd by its clean end.
An answer, enspirited by the Lord, might look like constitutional amendment to (1) put in a balance of some kind to judicial supremacy, which engages the will of the people; (details we can debate, the need we no longer can) and (2) require any kind of household arrangement that isn’t based in natural marriage to not be called marriage — to reserve the term marriage.
Mincing around with states rights to call nonsense sense (I didn’t say to call the immoral permissible, I said to call nonsense sense) is playing with that turd. Everyone’s hands will get dirty even if dirt is defined away.
“My question is, why is Rick even putting forth the effort? Does he seriously think he has a chance?”
No, he’s a cynical A-hole, stealing from old ladies. He raises money from his niche support base. Ten he gets to pay himself the salary of the office to which he aspires from those donations. He can hire wife and kids.
So essentially, he is robbing well meaning people.
Its a pure scam, nothing more.
It’s good old American choice, as we know it. Even to the point of allowing people to choose foolish things. I have the right to blow my fortune trying to become President, and to ask others to blow theirs helping me, even though my agenda is the silliest one since the Garden of Eden and I am always polling in the noise.
Allow any less freedom, and you will end up filtering out some of the gold as well as the garbage.
Personally, I believe both Santorum and Cruz - and the rest of the GOP field for that matter - to be far too liberal in certain key areas that will determine whether or not the republic survives.
Exactly right. And he does strike me as a theocrat in his normal impulses. And don’t forget, little ricky earns 400K a year as long as he is a candidate.
And such unseemly pictures are part of the price we pay for the opportunity to do better than that.
Don’t know how much you like Trump but at least he has opened up some important issues and blared them front and center in a way others aren’t, yet. Even if others adopt the best of his policy ideas, he still spearheaded them to popularity and managed to outfox news censorship by always being the man who is biting the dog (who is yelping on camera). Rules that would stifle a Santorum would risk stifling a Trump too.
he was vicious in 2012, though for some inexplicable reason, very few called him on it.
wow, post 13 - some of the scariest kool aid yet.
Well if God is Kool-Aid I really don’t have anything else to offer.
It WILL kill, granted... it will kill civic self righteousness. Are you willing to let that die? Because it has to, before civic faith can revive.
Ok, ill ask. In what key areas?
Just one more joining in the with the sentiment of the recent thread where over two dozen Trump fans called for their candidate to be installed as a dictator. Well, two dozen on the first two pages...I didn’t read any more after that.
This particular one doesn’t surprise me, being familiar as I am with his nutbaggery.
5 big reasons I cannot personally support Cruz:
1. His enthusiastic support for immoral, unconstitutional “fetal pain” and other regulatory bills which violate the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendment’s explicit equal protection and due process requirements and encode governmental permission to kill babies, all of the babies, as long as they are killed on schedule, or by some arbitrary set of man-made rules.
2. His constitutional republic-destroying judicial supremacist views.
3. His pro-choice for states position on marriage.
4. His horrid tax plan, which retains the federal income tax, while piling an insidious value-added tax in on top of it.
5. His support for the continuation of the unconstitutional treasury-busting, posterity-robbing centerpiece socialistic programs of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.
Santorum fails on most of those counts as well, plus some other doozies that I won’t even bother with. He’s not worth the time.
Just more of your liberal bullshit on display for all to see.
You found ‘bemusement’ in the Planned Parenthood videos so it’s no surprise you’d abort the whole basis of America as long as you get your leftism into power ‘no matter what’.
I like both Rick and Ted, but I think that Rick has the high ground on this one.
how dare you hide behind God....God through Jesus nor Paul nor John nor anyone else ever said a single syllable about using law to force people to follow and believe the Bible. God is NOT NOT NOT in favor of theocracies.....
Your Kool aid drinking has zip zero nada to do with faith.
let’s see, you v Ted Cruz on The Constitution????
Wow, close one.....(cough cough) Sorry dude, you lose.
Can anyone make sense of post 53?
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