Personally I wish that Ted Cruz would have been more combative andI disagree with your FIRST proposition, and agree (in part) with your SECOND.would have shot down the numerous errors & fallacies that Jay Leno repeated ad nauseum...
The Left is trying to paint Senator Cruz as a wild-eyed loon, so he cannot appear TOO combative......but he does need to prepare more effective short answers to the Left's standard talking points...
...like he did when he hit Jay's question about the Bush/Obama gun law enforcement out of the park!
...but he does need to prepare more effective short answers to the Left's standard talking points...From the FULL TRANSCRIPT now posted on The Lonely Conservative:...like he did when he hit Jay's question about the Bush/Obama gun law enforcement out of the park!
Jay: Let me ask about gun control.Boom, and BOOM!Why is increased or better background checks not a good thing?
You voted against this.Why is that — why is keeping the mentally unstable, those type of people —
not saying you can’t have guns, you just have to pass a background check.Why is that bad?
Cruz: Look, I support background checks.
In fact, when we had the battle over gun control, I was very proud to work with Senator Chuck Grassley
on the law enforcement alternative. There are two different philosophies.Do you target violent criminals, or do you try to
take away the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens?Jay: Well, no, you always target violent criminals, obviously, but the fact that
a complete psychopath can go to a gun show and buy half a dozen guns — and now,
hasn’t your new bill made it easier to go across state lines with guns?Cruz: You know, you say you always target violent criminals.
But in 2010, over 48,000 felons and fugitives tried to illegally buy guns.The Obama Justice Department prosecuted only 44 of them.
44 out of 48,000. I think that’s completely unacceptable.Jay: How many did the Bush Administration do?
Is that just — just law enforcement, or that.
Cruz: Under President Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30% higher than it is under President Obama.
They’re not targeting bad guys.
And so the law enforcement alternative we introduced was to create a task force — I think those 48,000 —
if you’re a felon, you’re a fugitive, you’re trying to illegally buy a gun,
I think we ought to come down on you like a ton of bricks.
Being combative with solid facts & responses is a good thing, especially for Republican conservatives. Being overly conciliatory & capitulating & failing to aggressively pounce on Jay Leno’s inaccuracies & interruptions is not a good thing. So far, only Newt Gingrich is able to factually & precisely shoot down demoRATs, especially when he destroys media partisan hacks for the demoCRAPS & 0dumb0.