Posted on 01/13/2016 1:23:05 PM PST by Isara
A question to ask concerning any candidate, and especially Ted Cruz who, until Trump announced almost three months after Cruz, and blew up the primary with his stances on illegal immigration and one-sided trade deals, all Cruz had said on immigration was how he wanted to quintuple H1-Bs and streamline legal immigration and make it something to celebrate.
And, of course, Cruz joined the Uniparty globalist sorts in casting his vote to help the TPA, fast track trade authority, over the 60 vote hurdle.
Cruz has made many changes in his immigration stances since Trump made the issue among the top issues of the campaign. Based on his past stances and flip/flops since Trump's entry into the race, Horowitz definitely needs to have Cruz at the top of his list of those to scrutinize much more closely, along with Marco Rubio, both based on inconsistencies on the critical issues of immigration and one-sided trade deals. "What the day after looks like", indeed.
I absolutely do not trust Cruz on those critical issues.
Trump on 9/9/15:
“I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis, you have to,” Trump said in his first Fox News appearance in two weeks, appearing on “The O’Reilly Factor.”
“This was started by President Obama when he didn’t go in and do the job he should have when he drew the line in the sand, which turned out to be a very artificial line,” Trump said in reference to Obama’s red-line warning to Syrian leader Bashar Assad in 2013. “But you know, it’s living in hell in Syria. There’s no question about it. They’re living in hell, and something has to be done.”
When he saw the mess in Europe and the opportunity for ISIS to sneak in, he changed. Not unreasonable.
In before the Trumpsters trash Horowitz!”
He trashes himself the way he support the establishment.
I imagine we should only look at the parts of his record that Horowitz wants us to look at.
There are other parts of his record that are important to me
* he wasn’t member of the disastrous 2015 majority-R congress (Cruz gets a pass from me on this)
* he wasn’t an active part of the party that let Obama, Pelosi, and other Ds walk all over them for the last 7 years and who were an embarrassment on spending the 8 years before that
* he’s a good executive - managed many large projects, with large/diverse hierarchies of employees and large budgets
* he understands budgets, economy, international trade issues
* he seems to take advice from experts under him rather than assume that he (or an external group like the GOP) knows better.
* he isn’t trading his future decision making options for donations and party endorsements today and won’t be making decisions the first 4 years in order to get the same donations/endorsements for the next election
Well I couldn’t get in before the Conservative Twister board so, “In before the Ted Cruz Star Wars poster!”
Horowitz always was a GOPe Rino
This will help all of those who want him under the bus.
Thats gonna leave a mark.
Someone earlier mentioned some parallels with Arnold in CA. Here, in MA, I'm seeing parallels with Curt Shilling. Curt made initial motions to run for Sinate. After some interviews, some speeches, it became clear to most he could espouse some conservative ideas in concept, but his core was no way Jose a conservative, and did not understand its fundamentals.
I think Mr. Trump is telling people what they want to hear. He is media savvy. I do not trust him. Obama made himself a human mirror that made people believe he reflected them.
Trump has two big things going for him.
1. He is proud to be an American. His past reveals that.
2. He isn’t afraid to say conservative or rightist opinions despite the enemedia and despite the political establishment.
Trump has two big things going for him.
1. He is proud to be an American. His past reveals that.
2. He isn’t afraid to say conservative or rightist opinions despite the enemedia and despite the political establishment.
“But as is the case with so many other issues where he was siding with the far-left until running for president, immigration is no different. His first intuition in September, when the refugee crisis flared up, was to say that we had a humanitarian obligation to bring in Syrian refugees. Then when he discovered that conservatives were so ardently opposed to it, he immediately did a 180 and categorically opposed it in his typical attention-grabbing fashion. At that point there was no turning around, and because the media was attacking his new position from the Left, everyone forgot (or never noticed) his first intuition.”
Is this better?
Not a bad article. A bit untruthful about Trump, but I agree that he needs to flesh out some of his current positions more. One of Trumps strongest points is he has vision. You have to understand that much of what Trump promises are starting points for negotiation. I would like him to identify in more detail where he thinks he can lead America. What will it look like after a Trump term? Then it will be easier to reconcile whether his existing proposals makes sense in getting us to the promised land.
I would like to see this from all the candidates.
"We stopped the Gang of Eight bill. Ted Cruz led the fight against the establishment would be living under amnesty right now if Cruz had not succeeded." - Rush Limbaugh.
"It was that close to being passed... and I think I can say this with integrity. Without the vigorous opposition of Ted Cruz, this bill likely would have passed._ - Sen. Jeff Session
But can Cruz do any deals with Congress or other countries.
Oh.....
So the easiest freaking bill you could possibly ever get through, and something that Sessions has to bestow credit onto Cruz for.
Well hot damn! 50 state landslide.
If a Democrat had this as their full record and was running for president, we would be wondering what was he on.
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