Posted on 03/04/2016 4:11:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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"......At the rally [Sen. Ted Cruz] spoke for forty-five minutes without notes, let alone a teleprompter. His speech was a mix of time tested tropes and new riffs pulled from the headlines. He did not stutter, stammer, or search for a word. There was an ideological coherence to his presentation that I have not seen from a presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan.
Nor was this just all talk. In his three-plus years in the Senate, Cruz has deviated from his stated principles far less than any of his colleagues and has the stab wounds in his back to prove it. One can compromise, Cruz noted, on details like, say, the top marginal rate on taxes. What one cannot compromise on are core beliefs.
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After I posted a picture from the Cruz rally on Facebook, a liberal friend from New York responded, “Cruz? Really Jack? He would suffer a Goldwater style defeat.” No, the most principled Republican in thirty years would be running against the least principled Democrat in the history of the Republic.
This is a match-up I would enjoy. These are debates for which I would have friends over and make popcorn. This campaign season, finally, would be fun.
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Ditto!
(I call it "baffle 'em with bull sh&t") Remember the filibusters? Suddenly the GOP, who once hated Cruz, are all of a sudden supporting him. Talk about hypocrites.
RIP Ted Cruz’s booger. Although I’m sure there is at least one Twitter account with the name by now.
Cruz got “Booger Branded” last night.
Looks permanent to me.
I switched from Cruz to Trump because I have never heard Cruz answer several simple questions: 1) If he has undivided loyalty to the United States, why did he wait until 2014 to renounce his Canadian citizenship (the Establishment views divided loyalties as an asset, not a liability)? 2) What do Peter Thiel, Robert Mercer and other billionaire supporters want from Cruz (they are not family values conservatives)? 3) Why did Cruz tell potential New York donors (New York values?) that reversing the gay marriage decision by the Supreme Court was not one of his top 10 concerns? and 4) What role will Glenn Beck have in a Cruz administration (Beck does nothing unless there is a payoff for him)? Neither Cruz nor his surrogates seem to want to address these simple questions. If they are answered sincerely and satisfactorily, I am prepared to gladly switch back to Cruz.
Donning my e-asbestos suit for the forthcoming Trump/DU style flaming from the irrelevant.
Cruz is the best candidate we’ve had in decades. He is the guy we have said we were waiting for. If we don’t support him, shame on us.
Trump is my #2 choice, due to his stance on national sovereignty. It is that important. I don’t have a #3 choice.
But Cruz is the complete package. Moral, honest, a devout Christian, an equally devout constitutionalist, his views are coherent and principled, and he has proven himself willing to fight and willing to stand alone if need be on principle. No one else running, no one else who has thought of running, comes close.
Ignore the Noise Machine. Ignore the mud slingers, ignore the people who can only argue by ad hominem, in both directions. We know who these people are, the good and bad, Trump, Rubio, Cruz, Kasich. It is the job of the Noise Machine to change the subject, but we can simply tune it out. Trump will be a better president than you might think; Cruz will be the best president in generations.
All except for Cruz need thier Mother to grab thier ears and pull them home to do the Hickery Stick Dance.
They’ve all adopted The Donald’s personality traits: (a) the truth is irrelevant and (b) when all else fails, resort to ad hominem attacks.
Cruz condtantly thanks you for asking him a question andcthen in a flourushed manner using verbal distraction manages to evade answering it.
Always. Predictable.
Do you see now how propaganda works, and how easy it is?
Trump University has spelling and grammar courses for Cruz supporters(:-).
“Cruz is the best candidate we’ve had in decades”
And his job was to go out and get support.
He did not. Last summer and fall he ceded that ground to Trump ON PURPOSE.
That’s not the voters fault. If he wanted what Trump has today, then he should have been doing what Trump was doing last summer.
” No, the most principled Republican in thirty years would be running against the least principled Democrat in the history of the Republic. “
Agree. That’s an excellent way of framing it.
But I just don’t see how Cruz beats Hillary in FL and PA, it ain’t gonna happen.
Had to verify. And you are correct. Several of them with various names. Too funny.
This campaign season, finally, would be fun.
This campaign season IS fun, IMHO, at least compared to the others I've seen. Trump says something absolutely insane every once in a while, which is often amusing, and both Trump and Cruz get the liberal media completely crazed, also entertaining. Rubio often crosses the line between funny and just tacky for me, but he's cracked me up at time or two as well.
Not a Trump fan, and I think the fact that he can't articulate his plans in the debates is just more evidence that he's not going to follow through, but I do think he's helped to liven things up.
I keep wanting to do a youtube video comparing how Trump and Cruz deal with challenges on the road. Trump shuts them down and throws them out, which is admittedly pretty standard, but some of the snipes he sends after them are not. Cruz, OTOH, quiets his own crowd, gives the challenger a chance to make their case, and then shreds that case. Cruz knows what he believes and why he believes it so thoroughly he's not threatened by hecklers. I haven't seen anything like it since Reagan, but Reagan didn't take it to this level and was much more likely to toss off a quip than to seriously engage the heckler's points. Reagan was both a charmer and an entertainer at heart.
Cruz is neither, but he is crazy smart, and also crazy committed to the Constitution. I don't know if he's going to win this Presidential election, but I do think he's going to be a force to be reckoned with for some time to come. We are fortunate to have him.
Yeah, I generally don’t engage them. Why raise my blood pressure?
Exactly.
Cruz is my #2 candidate, and this is wht Trump should be president.
The founding fathers meant for government servants to represent the people by being citizens with real jobs, not career politicians.
They established rule of law so the people could select the best person for the job. This means separating church and state, not a theocracy for all of the Cruz supporters to pick the most Christian candidate.
Trump is not a career politician who’s wife spent years with Goldman Sachs. He is not owned by special interests. I am not completely sure Cruz is an outsider, even though he is making all of the right enemies.
I heard George W. Bush give his personal testimony in Ed Young’s 2nd Baptist Church in Houston Back in 1998. I believe him to be a sincere Christian even though he seems to have sold oud to the GOPe himself. He did not turn out to be the righteous crusader a lot of us hoped he would be after winning the 2000 election. He did NOT clean up the Clinton corruption like we thought he would, just like his dad did not finish the Job in Iraq.
I can not be 100% certain Cruz will clean up corrupt uniparty in D.C., but I know Trump will if he gets elected,
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