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....
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Maine was a caucus.
The best way to predict how a person will later act is to look at how they did in the past. Talk is cheap.
Cruz has consistently done his dead level best to do everything he campaigned on.
That is exactly why the GOPe doesn’t want Cruz, although they may have to accept him.
That’s like saying that because Mr. Obama once worked at Baskin-Robbins he’s got more “business experience” than Ted Cruz.
Good point.
Other than Lindsey Graham (USAF) and Hillary (desperately tried to become a Marine but was rebuffed by sexist recruiters), was anybody else in the service?
Dream on and don’t dally around long, you need to keep pace in that march toward the cliff.
Not even close. That’s the sort of desperate comparison I would expect from someone who doesn’t want to face the reality that the S.S. Cruz is taking on water, despite the efforts of Neil Bush and the rest of the GOPe to keep him afloat.
Man the lifeboats FRiend, and sing “Nearer my God to Thee”, I’m sure Glenn Beck will harmonize.
So who won Maine? Nobody?
Maine was a caucus state. duh
Comment?
Yeah, Milhous would be great for the lulz if nothing else.
So a guy with one term in the senate where he’s accomplished essentially nothing is going to have a successful method of governing? I guess the BHO skool of governance will get a second chance. So maybe he’ll have his wife pronounce him the Facepalm of God and expect the several million people who will work for him to throw themselves prostrate?
Upshot is that Milhous would be an unmitigated disaster in office. He can’t even keep his campaign workers in line and he’s going to successfully manage an entire Federal bureaucracy and the military. Good luck with that.
AMEN!
Tell that to DT.
So who won the most during the caucus vote?
Are you attempting to say that someone who gets the most votes in a state caucus is not the ‘winner’?
Or exactly what are you saying? Only primary states count?
All votes beyond the first at the Convention will be caucuses.
Those 3 Trump repeat lines of simpleton BS will not go far when politicking the delegates, nor will calling them liars, giving em a good cussin, demanding they raise their hand and swear to vote for him or buy his Trump Sham-WOW .
Rick Perry
Good point another USAF guy.
Following the Constitution and back to family values? What a concept!
All that with the left hand and with the right terrible trade policies, plus globalist monetary policies, legalizef massive immigration.
He will appoint whomever he thinks he can get through a democrat Senate, because if he is elected the Senate will go democrat. 100%.
Trump doesn’t manage large organizations. He just terrorizes and surfs talented serfs and sycophants.
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