Posted on 02/12/2016 5:02:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
You've gotta hand it to Ted Cruz. He might be a ruthlessly self-aggrandizing right-wing bomb-thrower who antagonizes everyone around him, but he also clearly has a rare mixture of good fortune and consummate skill at marshaling his insatiable ambition to the festering cultural alienation that pervades the grassroots of the conservative movement.
Over the past week, Cruz's good luck and talent for exploiting culture war grievances have given him the perfect issue to use and abuse as the fight for the Republican nomination heads into the South. I'm talking about the question of whether women should be required to register with the Selective Service so that they (like men) could be conscripted in the unlikely event that the military draft was reinstated.
For the injection of this issue into the Republican race we can thank ABC News' Martha Raddatz, who at last Saturday's GOP debate asked Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush (but not Cruz) where they stood on the issue. Both of them came down on the side of including women, as did Chris Christie, who volunteered his opinion.
Cruz remained silent....
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Actually, most Freepers have the intellect to grasp that there is both a difference:
A: Between a total war which requires engaging the entire populace down to and including school children and a more limited war requiring a small segment of the most fit.
and
B. Integrating women with men in the combat branches versus auxiliary branches composed of women (WAACs, WASPs, WAVEs) primarily.
Granted there are people who aren’t capable of grasping that or of comprehending basic principles of the maintenance of moral.
It’s important to me. I have two younger sisters. I couldn’t bear to see them sacrificed on the alter of liberal PC BS.
Women in the draft may be a pretty big one - it would constitute a surrender to one of the Left's most insidious ploys to remove all differences between the sexes and give us a conglomeration of hedonistic orgasm seekers vs. the two sexes.
Just last night, my wife remarked that there was something seriously wrong with so many commercials these days - they seem to bounce between heavy homosexual overtones to women riding roughshod over men by ridiculing them.
The eminent domain and cursing "issues" are just folks flailing to try to slam Trump because the rest of their attempts haven't borne fruit.
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