Posted on 03/28/2015 11:18:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Despite what he wants you to think, Ted Cruz is not the great anti-politician of our time. In fact, he may be our most potent symbol of everything that is wrong with modern politics.
This would be hard to believe if youve been listening to him, of course. He desperately wants to be thought of as the one principled man in Washingtonat least if your values hew closely to those of the Tea Partybut that posturing has alienated much of the party establishment. Ted Cruz attributes that development to them being squishes, while the rest of the world suspects its because Cruz is the kind of guy who goes around calling his co-workers names like squishes.
Of course, being a showboat is forgivable in American politics; if it wasnt, Bill Clinton wouldnt still be as popular as he is today. The bigger problem with Cruz is that the thematic basis for his showboatingthat he wont sell out like the rest of the Washington phoniesis a whole lot of bunk, like the rest of his campaign. After all, Googling Ted Cruz lies pulls back an astonishing 7,890,000 results, and on Twitter, the two phrases are basically synonymous....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
How dare you I’ve been upgraded to Mo-Fo..
Matthew must be sniffing the burnt paper of a Lehigh Ph.D.
Agreeing with Salon overall means you will smell of smoke in the next realm.
It worked for Bibi!
How could anyone be so dumb as to use these figures without checking to see how their favorites also would fare?
The Salon BULL$HIT machine is in gear and spewing BULL$HIT in every direction.
WHen I see articles like this I realize they are very leery of a Ted Cruz candidate because he speaks and CONNECTS with the people as well as anyone I've listened to since Reagan.
Chortle!
When it’s not obvious, brandish the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Yes, very impressive. He said the first thing he did was to hand out to his team’s David Plouffe’s book on the 2008 OBAMA campaign. He emphasized entrepreneurial approaches at the grass roots. For example, the (later) Cruz posters of him shirtless, tattooed, ripped, smoking a cigarette were all done outside his campaign; and a hashtag “cruztovictory” campaign organized entirely without direction from his people, swamped a leftist “cruzyoulose” campaign massively, becoming the 2nd largest hashtag in the WORLD.
I agree. Any godliness/righteousness that a man has is not his own. Christ is our righteousness; anything else is self-righteousness. The hope of our nation is not in politics per se. Our institutions have been corrupted by godless men. This nation will change for the better when born-again men and women become the head in: government, media, education, arts, business and yes - the church house.
"If my people called by my name humble themselves (to Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Word) and pray, then I (God) will hear from heaven and heal their land."
They fear him. Tee Hee
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