Posted on 02/03/2015 10:11:25 AM PST by Jack Black
... Among them will be Ted Cruz, who from the inception of his political career a dozen years ago has used his rhetorical wits to establish himself as a true conservative. The result is that the junior senator from Texas has become the darling of the GOP's right flank, many of whom are enthusiastic about the idea of electing him our next president. I'm not one of them. It works to a political speaker's favor to tell his audience what they want to hear. Cruz was a champion debater in college, so he knows how to score points with the judges. Certainly he feels comfortable in his conservative shoes. But of late, Ted Cruz has tweaked this comfort zone a few notches to a rather self-serving, holier-than-thou assumption that he is the only viable Republican presidential candidate who holds consistently to conservative beliefs.
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Really ..?? How about a wolf in sheep’s clothing ..??
I’d rather have a Conservative Senator than a rino governor. Senator Cruz may even be smart enough to appoint competent people. There are many things I like about governor Walker but he does have an amnesty problem. Governor Perry has hired haley barbour’s hatchet nephew who goes after Conservatives with dirty tricks, I have a problem with anyone who hires henry barbour. Do I need to list my problems with Jeb, Christie or Huckabee. At this point I don’t believe our country needs to be governed so much as it needs to be fixed and I believe Senator Cruz the best qualified to fix it.
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Since Jeb’s announcement, polls indicate that he leads the field in popularity among Republicans with 23%, his closest competitor being ten points behind. But I don’t care what the polls may show at this early stage. After all, neither Jeb nor Hillary has officially declared his/her candidacy. The “field” has yet to be plowed. The primaries lie ahead. So only one thing can be said with any degree of certainty: If the opposition is going out of its way to insist -- wink! wink! – that there’s only one Republican candidate capable of victory, the GOP had better wise up and opt for somebody else!You can check out her articles by looking at the link I provided in the first comment after the article. She seems pretty solid.
From the comments:
I love how the phony Conservative pro establishment press is telling us more than eight months before the first debate who is our Conservative choice. I’m an adult and I can make up my own mind. Right now I plan on voting for Cruz because he is brilliant, an amazing debater, understands and can frame the issues and most importantly, I can trust him.
Its embarrassing that Doris still clings to the inside the beltway meme that Cruz shutdown hurt the GOP. How? Elections are how we decide if it hurt. Cruz made a stand against a vile, unconstitutional law (sorry John Roberts) that changed the nature of the relationship between the people and its government. Cruz hung Obamacare around Obama’s neck as HIS policy which the GOP had never done before so when the roll out failed it was only then that Obama’s popularity plummeted.
Comparing Cruz’s resume to Obama is laughable. Cruz
attended Princeton and Harvard law school. As a student at Harvard Law, liberal Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant. I can assure you his academic records won’t be sealed.
Cruz appeared as a lawyer before the Supreme Court 43 times. Cruz was been named as one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America. As Texas’ Solicitor General he won several landmark Supreme Court including the D.C. vs. Heller case.
Walker is an establishment Republican who to his great credit went to the mattresses on his union fight. Walker was so tough on that issue yet is mush on other key fronts like amnesty and common core which worries me. More importantly he comes from Wisconsin which has given us Ryan, Johnson and Preibus who all talk a conservative game but sellout and legislate like the Bush/Ford wing. Walker’s seems to be the fallback choice of the GOP because they know the internal polling for Bush is hideous.
Anyone who actually listened to the Iowa Freedom Summit knows Ted Cruz won the day. This idea that Walker won the Iowa freedom summit is DC establishment fantasy. Walker helped himself but Cruz rocked that house.
“I think if he were an opportunist he would have joined up with the Democrats or the GOP establishment.”
In Texas joining the Democrats would be a suicide move.
JMHO but my feelings on Ted are that he’s more of a showboat. He loves throwing out the red meat by making what are arguably symbolic gestures.
Didn’t he recently do this in the senate and unintentionally gave Harry Reid an opportunity to bring about a dozen judicial nominees up for a vote? Nominees who had up til that moment been effectively defeated.
I felt the same way about the government shutdown. In the media it was Ted leading the charge, but it was in the House where the action was. In effect IMHO Ted put the house Republicans on the hot seat while his own position is safe.
I expect he’ll run for president, get walloped, finish out his term as senator and then go to work for Fox News and write a lot of books and do paid speaking gigs.
There’s a lot of money in media and Rush and the rest of the conservative radio hosts aren’t getting any younger.
He’ll continue to throw red meat to his base only he won’t be on the hook and the pay is way better.
“Didn’t he recently do this in the senate and unintentionally gave Harry Reid an opportunity to bring about a dozen judicial nominees up for a vote? Nominees who had up til that moment been effectively defeated.”
That was just bogus attempts to demean Cruz.
Reid and the Dems planned the whole time to vote them in before the term was over and the Senate changed hands.
Okay Jack, I’ll check it out.
I’m very leery of these people who claim to be one thing .. but then attack the most conservative guy on the block; the two don’t go together.
I guess we’ll see how it all sorts out.
“That was just bogus attempts to demean Cruz.
Reid and the Dems planned the whole time to vote them in before the term was over and the Senate changed hands.”
Really? I was under the impression that the nominees were defeated via procedural rules and Ted calling for a vote on some unrelated thing opened the floor.
Didn’t Ted also issue an apology for the misstep.
No.
Ok.
Here’s an objective look.
Excerpt:
on Dec. 9, days before Cruz threw a wrench in the works, Reid signaled his intention to confirm all of Obama’s remaining nominees, no matter how long it took.
“You know, maybe we’ll have to work the weekend and maybe even work next week,” Reid told reporters. “I know that’s tough duty for everybody, but we may have to do that. We have a number of nominations we’re going to do. We’re going to — we have nine judges left. We’re going to do those. We’re going to do [Surgeon General nominee] Dr. [Vivek] Murthy. We’re going to do the head of Immigration Naturalization, ICE. Social Security administrator and other things. I’ve given a list to the Republicans and it’s up to them to decide how long we stay.”
It’s still a misstep and it was due to his grandstanding.
I just think he’s more about the media attention.
You’ve made clear your alliance.
“You’ve made clear your alliance.”
Haha. Alliance?
Patiently read through your post. For the life of me, I couldn’t find a single thing in it that would stop me from voting for Ted Cruz. If anything, it shows how super qualified Cruz is to become president.
That’s fine. I’m just an odd bird. It’s a long time before primary/general election day so I’ll see as I go.
It would be nice if people wouldn’t call me a Troll, however, just because I don’t like one of the candidates. If there are people out there trolling in such a manner, it would be best if you ignored them and moved on. I understand you probably get trolled a lot, though.
The good news is that he is a viable candidate and electable. He’s also a good debater. If anything, he can win, and like I said, if he wins the primary I’ll vote for him in the GE.
If you’re serious about being a conservative now (I was once a proud liberal myself, before my eyes were forcibly opened on 9-11), the first thing to do to build cred on this site is go to your “About” page and put in some info about yourself. You don’t have to tell us your real name, etc. Nobody cares about that anyway. But give us some idea who you are, where you stand, and what you’ll fight for.
I think you’re wrong about Cruz, btw. I agree that he’s probably had the Presidency in mind since he was a pimply kid running around giving presentations on the Constitution in that club he was in. But there are worse things. I also think his father’s experiences were formative for him (hah! much like Obama) and that he hates Communism and despotism with a passion. I like that.
Calm down. Sarge made a one-letter typo early in his post.
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