Posted on 03/29/2015 1:24:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
LET’S SEE, why does this sound familiar? A charismatic constitutional scholar, with an inspiring life story, still in his first Senate term, promising a dramatic change of direction . . . . But wait: it’s 2015, and the candidate, officially as of Monday, is Sen. Ted Cruz.
Here’s one way to tell Mr. Cruz (R-Tex.) from the winning constitutional scholar of 2008: Sen. Barack Obama promised to unite the country. Mr. Cruz — not so much. In fact, the most notable characteristic of Mr. Cruz’s brief time in elected politics has been his aversion to values that are essential to democracy’s functioning: practicality, modesty and compromise.
The platform he described in his announcement speech Monday is about what you’d expect from a candidate whom the number-crunchers at fivethirtyeight.com calculate is right of Barry Goldwater, more conservative than any serious GOP presidential hopeful in 2012 or than the other potential candidates in this election. He would end Obamacare, establish a flat tax, abolish the Internal Revenue Service and put more resources into securing the border. He promised to repeal “every word of Common Core,” even though there is little to repeal: The federal government neither wrote nor required adoption of the voluntary state education standards. It’s unclear how the Republican Party will position itself on same-sex marriage next year, but Mr. Cruz has no doubt that the next president must “uphold the sacrament of marriage.”(continued)
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“Has Obama united the country, as promised?”
Oh, yes, but of course. Just ask the people of Ferguson how their property values are doing.
“In a country that needs to take its political disagreements down a notch, Mr. Cruz’s argument is that conservatives need to crank their volume up.....Crank it up so high that all squealling, moaning and editorials are drowned out.”
The debates should be the best ever.
Is this an omission that 0bama is dismal failure?
But first the Dems ask for a few more things as a show of good faith.
“Newsweek sold for one dollar.”
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They overpaid!
Yeah, how's that goin' for ya, bucko?
Ted Cruz is Sarah Palin (according to 2013 compost article)
When I mentioned to a congressional source yesterday that the first-term senator with degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law is this political season’s version of the 2008 vice presidential nominee who frightened the nation with her woeful lack of preparation for being a heartbeat away from the presidency, my source agreed, saying that Cruz is Sarah Palin, “only smarter.”
20 out of 22 of Sarah Palin’s endorsements won office in 2014.
I will BUST my a$$ for Both/Either of them, (Cruz/Palin), Allen West would be the ICING on the CAKE!
Funny how they never speak of the entire Democrat Party’s aversion to compromise, isn’t it.
More importantly, he was touted as capable of uniting the world. We see how well that is working.
Can't make this crap up.
Go Cruz!
This is a non-paid call to all conservatives to pour so much money at Cruz that his campaign dwarfs all contenders - we asked for it, we need to go for it.....
Compromise is not always good.....the compromise for I want too cut off your legs is to I will cut off one of your legs!!!
Obama is no more a Constitutional scholar than my 14 y/o granddaughter.
I just wish Cruz would compromise the way Obama does.
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