Posted on 01/24/2016 2:41:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the aftermath of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump, conventional wisdom says that Trump is back on top in the first primary state of Iowa after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) jumped ahead in the state polls a few weeks ago.
Charles Krauthammer said, "I think this could be decisive... not because it helps Trump or it brings him additional support, but that it hurts Cruz. The one thing standing between Trump and success in Iowa is Cruz. He attributes his success in becoming a Senator to her. She now turns against him." Mark Halperin of Bloomberg said on MSNBC, "I think at this point, if you said, of all the people in the race, who's the one most likely to win both Iowa and New Hampshire, today you'd have to say it's Trump." Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) 's top 2008 strategist, Steve Schmidt, says, "If you were betting on who's going to be the Republican nominee today, you'd put your money on either Trump or Cruz... And with the odds favoring Trump."
But Ted Cruz can still win Iowa...
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You missed the important parts.
If you read the paper, he was advising Bush to say conservative things to cover non conservative actions.
By the way, he also talked about a massive increase in H1B visas back then too.
But the most alarming part to me was that he said that people coming here legally were doing it to improve their lives and that our response to that should be finding ways to increase the wages of Mexico so they wouldn’t need to come here.
How do you increase the wages in Mexico? By sending them OUR COMPANIES and OUR JOBS.
If you read the paper Cruz wrote advising Bush you will see that these are the very things that Cruz has voted FOR in the senate even though he has excuses for his votes.
He voted for TPA, he voted for the Corker bill, and he has been squishy on both legal and illegal immigration.
He is sounding more and more like Bush to me. A conservative on social issues but a globalist on economic issues.
Go to the link I included and read the paper Cruz wrote.
I read it. The paper was written for George W. Bush. It is a synopsis of Bush’s views - not Cruz’s. It should be obvious to anyone who actually read it. I am now wondering if you did.
I am not so sure he doesn’t share the views considering his votes for TPA and the Corker bill.
The reason they wanted the Iran deal passed (both parties) were economic ones.
I am not trying to be combative. I am just trying to figure things out that make no sense to me. Like those votes and his reasons for them.
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