Posted on 03/09/2016 3:11:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The conventional wisdom is that the GOP candidate who poses the far greater peril than Trump can't possibly win the GOP presidential nomination, and would have absolutely no chance in a general election. The result is that few have actually taken the time to closely scrutinize Ted Cruz's actual record. Now that the race for the GOP presidential contest is effectively a two-man race between Trump and Cruz, and the GOP establishment is mounting a furious, all-out full court press to stop Trump, it's time to take the hard look at Cruz that should have been done long ago.
In 2000, the then 29-nine-year old Cruz was the domestic policy advisor to the Bush presidential campaign and a former law clerk for the hard-line, strictest of the strict constructionist SCOTUS chief justice William Rehnquist. From his Bush post, Cruz lined up the legal team that wrangled the conservatives on the Supreme Court to halt the disputed election Florida election count and tip the White House to Bush. Cruz' star skyrocketed in the GOP after that triumph.
While Cruz has seemingly warred with the GOP establishment at times, the fight has been mostly over his style, personality, and comportment, but not on the key issues from abortion and Planned Parenthood to the economy and foreign policy. Take Cruz's rough edge off his bluster about these issues, and his stance on them is mostly in line with the party's on many of these issues. Cruz has been on the political scene long enough to have enough of a paper trail to piece together a fairly accurate picture of what he will say and do on the big ticket issues such as the budget, government spending, civil rights enforcement, the environment, crime control, the military and foreign policy if in the White House....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Intelligent commentary from the left. Any honest, sane observer knows which candidate in the race is the real conservative.
I didn’t get past the “Huffington Post”.
He would restore the family as paramount in our country.
Not like Obama who said “ I would not punish my daughter with a baby if she made a mistake”
The difference between what Cruz and the Establishment is that Cruz means it and will do it.
Would he put Glenn Beck in charge of that department?
LOL, same here
So HuffPo prefers Trump over Cruz? I can’t say it’s a surprise.
On day 1, he will be in charge of over 4 million government employees. And it will be a disaster.
Cruz will also govern like he has no military or foriegn policy experience. Does he have any? I'm not aware of any.
“Cruz would do all to wipe out the Supreme Court’s pro-gay marriage ruling, clamp down on gay pride parades, would oppose reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, would require voters to show IDs, and, of course, would outlaw any and all abortions. He’d dump the common core standards and let local school districts decide all education issues with no federal checks and controls.”
Cruz would support justices who know when it’s a federal issue & when it’s a state issue. Most of these are state issues. He’d like to get rid of the Education Dept, which most here want very badly. He’d act to return federal lands to the state, thereby reducing the size of gov’t by eliminating what would then become unnecessary federal agencies. All that being said, there’s nothing he could do unilaterally - with just his phone & his pen. But I’m sure he’d work to get a consensus to make it happen.
And that sounds good to me! Rock on, Ted Cruz!
And Trump’s foreign policy and military experience is...???
Great read. They think this is a slash and burn article against Cruz, but it makes him a very desirable candidate to me.
Bookmark.
Cruz will not be president in 2017. He can’t win enough delegates to win the nomination outright, and the GOPe will not choose him in a contested convention. 4 years as VP, helping move the Trump agenda through Congress, will provide the American people with a track record of action and accomplishment.
Unlike Trump, who commanded that battalion in Vietnam, right?
Where is the problem with a President Cruz?
That’s what you got out of this? Seriously?
And that is too bad.
What does that tell us?
Cruz is a conservative, was a conservative, will be a conservative.
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