Posted on 07/31/2016 5:13:58 PM PDT by Daniel Clark
Leni
Yes, Christie’s a whore. And maybe there’s a lesson for so many in that realization. But Trump’s shortcomings pale in comparison to what our only other alternative is, given the current state of affairs.
BTW, you really like the word “splenetic”, don’t you?
Has Christie gone AWOL in the battle against Hillary and her American killing policies? No. Given that, Chris Christie is far more “conservative” than the junior Senator from Texas. “True conservatives” do not cut and run with Americans dead in the street by the dozens. Self interested careerists do. Ted Cruz is dead to me.
Mind you, it was Christie, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, who couldn’t keep is hands of President Obama
May your tenure here be mercifully short.
And a horrid one, at that.
Indeed
“Anyone who’s read Utopia will know that Thomas More was a socialist at heart ...”
Author Daniel Clark may have done more harm than good, by citing the case of Thomas More, as some sort of dippy moral comeuppance directed at the modern Republican party.
Forum members had better stop believing they know the real Thomas More from seeing Robert Bolt’s compelling play, “A Man for all Seasons.”
“Socialist at heart” is the least criticism that might be leveled against the real, historically documented Thomas More. He certainly wasn’t a man of fastidious morals, devoted to following some species of worthy dictates of his own conscience, in preference to some random collection of allegedly improper or morally suspect directives from the English crown.
He was a raging religious fanatic who spent his spare time dreaming up new ways to torture “heretics” - those not totally devoted to his totalitarian brand of pre-modern Catholic-church power politics. He violated every oath of secular office and of personal fealty he may have sworn to the English crown (to say nothing about loyalty to nation or familial interest), in pursuit of the corrupt, thoroughly temporal/secular, and ruinously sneaky aims of the Papacy of his day (Italian, hopelessly entwined with then-rising imperial Spain).
More’s own wife described him as loopy (in pre-Elizabethan terms). He wasn’t canonized until the 1930s; that the Church had to think it over for so many centuries is not exactly a vote of confidence for the man, or his deeds.
Well said!
Cruz started his presidential run resume` in college (probably before) and felt every bit as entitled as Hillary does. His "exuberance" has peeled away his facade and explained why he always seems to be lecturing instead of talking - he feels superior in the same way that Obama does.
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