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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You think he’s going to have to manage all 4 million himself? Wow.
Sounds good to me too!
Wasn’t he also in Cambodia?
“Cruz will also govern like he has no military or foriegn (sic) policy experience. Does he have any? I’m not aware of any.”
Well, if that is the determining qualification than none of the candidates, from either party, would meet your standards.
“He will appoint whomever he thinks he can get through a democrat Senate, because if he is elected the Senate will go democrat. 100%.”
Senate 100% Democrat? What type of smoke are you inhaling?
BTW, We got Scalia by a vote of 98 - 0 .
“In a 1997 interview with shock jock Howard Stern, Trump talked about how he had been “lucky” not to have contracted diseases when he was sleeping around.
““I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world. It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era,” Trump said in a video that resurfaced Tuesday on Buzzfeed, “It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.””
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After he put Neil Bush in charge of the treasury.
Im having trouble getting past the Cruz speeches where he rails against the Washington cartel, a position that resonated with me, and the reality I see when I look through donor reports.
The reality I find is this - he is funded by G/S, the Chertoff group, and the Club for Growth. Adding Neil Bush to the mix this week left me flabbergasted.
If those folks are all on team Ted, I honestly can’t tell who it is that he’s actually standing against...
Iowa - Caucus, Carson votes and vote shaming helped
Texas - his home state, better not be Rubioed
Oklahoma - Texas border state
Maine - caucus, close to Canada
Idaho - primary, but also close to Canada...even closer to Calgary
so how many states did Ted win? enough to be taken seriously?
“Would he put Glenn Beck in charge of that department?”
Would he build a wall on his southern border? The one between his country and the USA?
Yeah, he went to that academy because he was a little 5th grade hellion who beat up his teachers.
Trump has dealt with foriegn governments as a business man.
Yeah, he tried to talk the Scottish government into forcing some Scottish citizens out of their property.
Trump was involved with nuclear negotiations at one point.
Yeah, well that makes him an expert on par with Amy Carter.
Trump has been weighing in on foreign policy matters longer than the two contenders have been alive.
Yeah, "This is Donald Trump and I want to land my yuge jet in your airport, s'il vous plaît?
“Trump won’t abolish the IRS. Cruz will. Trump will negotiate some trade agreements even with US foes, Cruz would oppose many of them. Trump hasn’t said much about his plan for Social Security and Medicare. Cruz has. He’d fully privatize Social Security, hike the age for Medicare eligibility, and “demand” a balanced budget amendment which would effectively slash and burn funding if not outright eliminate legions of health, education and job programs.
Cruz’s record has made him the runaway darling of every Tea Party, fringe and respected ultra-conservative, religious freedom, federalist, and state rights group in the nation. While millions cringe in stark terror at the prospect of a Trump nomination and White House occupancy, Cruz is being put forth by much of the GOP establishment as the respectable alternative to Trump. ‘President’ Cruz anyone?”
Yes, indeed!
If Cruz has spent twenty years as domestic policy advisor to the Bush presidential campaign and as a former law clerk for SCOTUS chief justice William Rehnquist, as well as arguing before the SCOTUS as Texas solicitor general, and then began working within the Beltway fulltime after being sent to Wash DC as a US senator from Texas—as well as whatever other functions he has performed in DC—he can filibuster objections until the cows come home, but he’s “establishment” by any definition of the word.
This is a good example of the contempt held for the American people that is being ventilated by the people through Trump, for Cruz to take this position that he’s an “outsider” and to say it with a straight face.
I’m sure Ted would talk a good game, but that’s all. He will be ineffective in accomplishing his agenda.
Besides, I don’t need another four years of being lectured to by a one-term Senator who graduated from Harvard Law.
No one ever has any foreign policy experience when they run for President.
what a stupid comment.
Canada?
Trump went to an Ivy league college too!
Quit fantasizing about who you think Trump is. He has nothing in common with us. He was born with a silver spoon, attended elite prep schools and an Ivy League college on his father’s dime, got multiple draft deferments, and immediately set up shop in the crony capital of the world - New York City - also using Daddy’s money.
Trump has no real world experience in what its like to be a working person - none. He looks at the middle class as benighted losers, and will govern as such. That’s your wannabe king.
Of course he should be taken seriously as he is running for President, but Ted does not have the reach or the gravitas to win a national, general election if he cannot win a majority of states in a primary. Next Tuesday will only make the hill harder to climb...
Canadian Bacon is 100% establisment to the core.
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