Posted on 01/24/2016 10:43:32 AM PST by smoothsailing
January 23, 2016
by sundance
Most of you knew this was going to be a wild ride. Heck, many knew back in June 2015 when candidate Donald Trump entered the race this was going to be unlike anything we’d ever seen. Boy howdy, was that ever an understatement
Going all the way back to the spring of 2014 those who didn’t fall into the emotional chasm, which surrounds candidate advocacy, saw the makings of a really strange situation possible. Today many of those possibilities are now front and center.
In Iowa…. candidate Ted Cruz takes to the stage next to Glenn Beck to accept a quickly structured endorsement to stem the electoral collapse. If pictures are worth a thousand words, the look on Senator Cruz’s face is, well, priceless:
And really, who can blame him….. poor Ted eh’?
After all, the endorsement comes from a man who uses a radio and media platform to continually decry “identity politics” yet uses the event to proclaim his anointed candidate based on what else, ethnic identity:
“The first Hispanic president”?
You just can’t make this stuff up.
And following Mr. Beck’s recent ‘gang-of-22-conservatives’ proclamation as published in the National Review, Beck goes on to say “if not Ted – then he supports Bernie Sanders”, an avowed communist.
Wait, wha… huh?
Yes, this is what happens when a compass-spinning candidate attaches his wagon to the squirrly Cheshire Cat, Glenn Beck, who relishes life inside a swirling Political rabbit hole.
By golly Ted Cruz is the reincarnation of George Washington that Glenn Beck has prayed for, swear!…. and if that doesn’t work for you, why there’s always Karl Marx’s second-coming, Bernie, as a contingency vote.
HA! 8^)
Beck, Lowry and The National RINO Review’s Gang of 22 have led Cruz to his Waterloo. Crying shame that Cruz teamed up with these stalwart GOPe wannabee kingmakers.
It’s disappointing to have Cruz fall for it. It diminishes him at a time when I was looking forward to a Trump/Cruz ticket.
Ted needs to disassociate himself with Beck and that bunch ASAP in order to salvage his credibility.
I agree. His leftist side is revealed. Also, he is a loser desperate for attention, for anything that gets his name mentioned.
If we were looking for an explanation or a rationale, it might be that one might make different endorsements based on whether a president would have a majority in Congress or not.
Sometimes, a candidate who'd be a disaster with a majority in Congress behind him, can function adequately as a caretaker president with a Congress to oppose him.
One problem with that is that we can't accurately predict whether a president will have a majority in Congress, and it's not something one would want to take chances with.
The other problem is that everything now is done through executive orders and Congress is becoming irrelevant.
Senator Cruz -- Dump This Dumb S.O.B.!
Glenn Beck to Vote for Hillary if McCain is GOP Nominee
Glenn Beck - Why he would of voted for Hillary instead of John McCain
Glenn Beck: McCain would've been worse
Glenn Beck: I May have Voted for Hillary Clinton
Glenn Beck: 'I won't vote for Trump.' (Even if running against Hillary)
Well put.
Beck is reverting to his true calling, a drunken rodeo clown.
Cruz was foolish to get hooked up with him.
Has been in his entire career in radio.
Trumpsters getting drunk off of the CT Trump koolaid.
Koolaid or not, Cruz has had a lousy week.
“One problem with that is that we can’t accurately predict whether a president will have a majority in Congress, and it’s not something one would want to take chances with.”
Excellent point and worth repeating. Others may draw different conclusions from that point, but in my opinion, it bolsters the case for Trump. I’ve always felt that, just in general, Trump would be much more effective at pushing his agenda through than a President Cruz. If you consider the possible scenario of a non-GOP controlled Congress, the case for Trump over Cruz seems even stronger.
Looking at it objectively, I don’t see how anyone could argue that Cruz would be effective in dealing with such a scenario. Trump on the other hand would very likely find ways to still push much of his agenda through. He understands what motivates politicians from both sides and how to handle them.
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