I don’t find Cruz conservative enough. He voted to fast track the trade deal that was crafted in secret. He read the secret bill and even wrote an op-ed piece praising the trade deal. When it was a done deal, and his supporters got upset, only then did he vote against it.
He voted for the Corker bill, which usurps the power of the Senate to oppose the Iran Nuke deal. This is without a doubt one of the worse bills ever. Our children and grandchildren have to suffer the consequences.
He said he would consider means testing social security. When he considers means testing Federal pensions, then maybe I’ll listen.
He’s also for increasing H1-B visas, which takes away jobs from American technical workers. We can’t find technical jobs now. The places I’ve work have been at least 75% foreign workers. Yet they do massive layoffsevery few years.
As far as pro-life goes, we’ve had all these pro-life Republicans in power and we still have Roe Vs Wade. It’s not going to get any worse under Trump and I hope better.
I now realize most of the Republicans lie about being pro-life to run as a Republican. The Bushes for example. George Jr. may have been pro-life, but I don’t believe his father or brother. His grandfather was a treasurer for Planned Parenthood and Jeb was on the foundation that gave millions to Planned Parenthood. George Sr. and Barbara also helped Planned Parenthood until George Sr. ran with Reagan. Cruz maybe pro-life like he claims, but I can believe that Trump also had a change of heart. I know people that have changed as they got older.
We need to worry about the economy or we aren’t even going to have a country. All these professional politicians have got us in the mess we are in. 18 trillion and counting in debt. I’m ready for an outsider.
No, you are confusing TPA and TPP which has been told over and over again are two different things. Cruz voted for TPA. TPA is a GOOD thing that the next President should have, but Cruz realized the Democrats would never give TPA to a Republican President. Cruz never took a stand on TPP because it never came up for a vote. But this doesn’t matter to you since I can already tell from your comment you’re a protectionist/isolationist and think high tariffs will bring back jobs when they won’t. So no point arguing facts here. Cruz’s statements are clear on the issue. When he realized the TPA vote got corrupted and McConnell pulled a fast one, he backed out.
The Corker Bill sucks. But no one in the House was willing to impeach Obozo if he didn’t call the Iran “deal” a “treaty” meaning the deal would have been effective immediately without any input from the Senate. Cruz (and Mike Lee for that matter) voted in favor because it at least put in writing that Obama had to bring the deal to a Senate vote and it would delay implementation of a bad deal, if slightly. Voting no on the bill would have let Obama break the law again and given the weakness of House leadership they just would have allowed it. Cruz could have voted “No”, but it would have been on the House to begin impeachment of Obama and it wasn’t going to happen. Cruz wanted to at have at least some input which is why he voted for it.
Others are better at explaining the H1-B than I can so I defer to them, but I will say that Trump’s words of “bringing the productive ones back in” is going to have just as much of a damaging effect on jobs. Though I don’t look at this issue in a bubble. I see Cruz advocating for a fair tax and a reduction in corporate income tax rates which will provide more income for everyone and new job opportunities which don’t currently exist. If then a company wants to play the game of hiring foreign workers to keep wages low, the tax reductions will help more employees save/absorb funds so that they can go out and start their own businesses/co to compete with the others a la Southwest Airlines.
Your not making sense on the abortion issue. You say “Cruz may be pro-life like he claims” as if there is nothing to back that up. Who the hell is leading the movement to defund Planned Parenthood? As solicitor general in Texas, Cruz was exposed to a great many number of attorneys/judges, so when it comes time to pick SCOTUS replacements, I trust his record to make the right choice. Meanwhile, Trump put out conflicting statements about PP saying they should fund “the good parts” as if the money was fungible. Then he labeled his sister, a hardcore pro-abortionist judge that she would be a “phenomenal SCOTUS justice”. And in an interview with Howard Stern, Trump told Stern that he was no “pro-life” but that the “issue wasn’t important to him and he could change in the future”. But that’s the same as Cruz position, right?