5 Reasons Ted Cruz is the Perfect GOP Candidate to Defeat Democrats in 2016

soshable ^ | Nov 21, 2015 | JD Rucker

[dforest]

You do know that Cruz considered John Roberts his friend and mentor, right?

We all thought he was a good guy too, until he wasn't. Cruz was also very upset about what Roberts did.

Nobody is infallible. Even Ted.

[Isara]

Trump's Record on Civil-liberty Issue: (from the Conservative Review)

"Trump has an inconsistent record when it comes to civil liberties. He supported the NSA mass surveillance program but did not weigh in on the recently passed reforms. Overall, he has avoided commenting on religious freedom, but says he would be an advocate for Christians. Trump supports an individual’s right to make unlimited campaign contributions, but advocates for an end to soft money in politics. Most concerning is Trump’s belief that the government can use eminent domain powers to seize private property for economic benefit for others."

Trump supports the NSA’s metadata collection program, saying, “I support legislation which allows the NSA to hold the bulk metadata. For oversight, I propose that a court, which is available any time on any day, is created to issue individual rulings on when this metadata can be accessed.” This position was identical to the NSA’s mass surveillance program before being reformed by the USA Freedom Act. (Newsweek) 

Trump has avoided commenting on religious freedom since Indiana passed its Religious Freedom and Restoration Act into law. Instead, he has said that he will be the “greatest representative of the Christians they've had in a long time” if elected president. (Christian Today) (Breitbart)  

Trump believes political soft money should be banned, while individuals should be allowed to make unlimited contributions. "If I were drawing a political cartoon to represent the situation, it would include a very large guy with a huge bag of money. On that bag would be written one word: soft. Soft money is the bane of the current system and we need to get rid of it." (The America We Deserve) 

Trump supported the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, giving public authorities the right to seize private land for economic development by private investors. Trump said, “I happen to agree with [the decision] 100 percent.” (National Review)

Trump highlighted his support for prosecuting "hate crimes" against homosexuals in his 2000 book, The America We Deserve. “Hate Crime” is a term used to extend special protections for a specific classes and in essence elevates the importance of these classes above others. For example, murder of homosexual or heterosexual should be viewed equally under the law and punished equally. Creating special classes is a liberal tactic used to divide and segment society.(Google Books)

Trump said that Kim Davis should not have been jailed for refusing to issue gay marriage licenses. He also said that she should allow her deputy clerks to do so, but also said that 30 miles away you can get a license so people should do that. He added, "The decision's been made, and that is the law of the land." (CNN)

Much like his stance on eminent domain, Donald Trump has shown a troubling tendency to want to use the power of government to stifle political speech. When the conservative Club for Growth released an advertisement regarding Trump's changing positions on taxation, Trump responded with a legal letter calling for them to cease and desist the advertisements. A chilling move towards the silencing of political speech. (Politico)

Donald Trump attacked SuperPACs (political action committees) in the third Republican debate. By suggesting they should be outlawed he came out against the First Amendment protection of speech, and echoed progressive talking points. (Time)

[Isara]

Trump's Record on Health Care and Entitlements: (from the Conservative Review)

Like any good republican, Trump claims to oppose Obamacare, even supporting conservatives’ attempt to defund Obamacare in the fall of 2013. Trump, however, is on record supporting “universal healthcare,” advocating for American adoption of the Canadian healthcare system. This places Trump’s policy inline with the most liberal members of the Democrat Party. Trump has also opposed free-market reforms to Medicare, arguing that growing the economy will solve the problem. To his credit, Trump supports privatizing parts of Social Security, but opposed the recent House GOP budgets citing entitlement reform as the reason for his opposition.

Trump opposes Obamacare, saying, "I will fight to end Obamacare and replace it with something that makes sense for people in business and not bankrupt the country." (USA Today)

Trump has advocated for universal healthcare in a system similar to Canada’s government-run healthcare system. “I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health….We must take care of our own. We must have universal healthcare. Our objective [should be] to make reforms for the moment and, longer term, to find an equivalent of the single-payer plan that is affordable, well-administered, and provides freedom of choice.” (The America We Deserve)

Trump supports transitioning parts of Social Security to private accounts, saying, “Allow every American to dedicate some portion of their payroll taxes to a personal Social Security account that they could own and invest in stocks and bonds… Directing Social Security funds into personal accounts invested in real assets would swell national savings, pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into jobs and the economy. These investments would boost national investment, productivity, wages, and future economic growth.” (The America We Deserve)

Trump has opposed reforms to Social Security and Medicare, arguing that growing the economy will solve the entitlement program’s insolvency, but has not elaborated on his proposal. "I am going to save Social Security without any cuts. I know where to get the money from. Nobody else does." (Twitter)

Trump believes public assistance should be limited, and that religious institutions should carry the burden of caring for the poor and disadvantaged. (2012 Presidential Candidates)

Trump echoed Democrat talking points when referring to Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budgets, arguing that they were too radical. “I’m concerned about doing anything that's going to tinker too much with Medicare. I protect the senior citizens. Senior citizens are protected. They are lifeblood, as far as I’m concerned. I think Paul Ryan is too far out front with the issue. He ought to sit back and relax.” (Today)

Trump opposes reforming Medicare by transitioning to a voucher program, but he has failed to articulate how he would fix the unfunded program. “I don’t think the Republicans should be out on this ledge….I’m studying that situation very closely, and if and when I decide to run ... I’ll have a plan. The seniors have to be cherished. They have to be taken care of.” (Christian Science Monitor)

Trump supported the conservative effort to defund Obamacare, tweeting at Republican lawmakers that “Congress must defund ObamaCare. It is destroying Medicare and breaking promises to our Seniors, including veterans” (Twitter), and “NO GAMES! HOUSE @GOP MUST DEFUND OBAMACARE! IF THEY DON’T, THEN THEY OWN IT!” (Twitter)

In what sounded all too similar to Obamacare, Trump told 60 Minutes that he would replace Obamacare with a plan that "covers all Americans." That the vast majority of Americans would buy their insurance on an open market, and that the government would pay for those that couldn't afford it. (CBS News)

Trump backed off his call for raising the Social Security retirement age to 70. He told 60 minutes that he would instead save Social Security by having "other countries pay for it." (CBS News)

[Unmarked Package]

You wisely speak of trust and the uncertainty that our candidates will withstand attempts to manipulate them and question will they keep their promises made on the campaign trail if they are elected. Fair enough, I want to expound on the probability this will happen with Cruz.

Ted Cruz made solemn promises to the conservative voters in Texas during his run for the U.S. Senate. He has honored his promises and done so much more to fight our political battles. Despite withering criticism and attacks from leadership in both the Republican and Democrat Party, Cruz was faithful to our conservative principles and didn't retreat from a fight in the vicious snake pit of corruption, backstabbing and betrayal that is Washington, DC. Contrast that with the complete betrayal of promises made to conservative and TEA Party voters in Florida of Marco Rubio by leading the Gang of Eight amnesty plot once elected to the Senate.

It's incredibly difficult to trust politicians today. Cruz is the first to say we shouldn't trust their words, including from him, but rather look at their actions once elected. Thus far, he hasn't given me serious cause to doubt his trustworthiness, integrity, or motives for serving in the U.S. Senate.

People like to characterize Donald Trump and Ben Carson as "outsiders", but they haven't proven their commitment to conservatism in the white-hot fires of Washington, DC. In my mind, these two men are outsiders in the sense they do not currently hold elective office. In contrast, Ted Cruz is a proven philosophical outsider to the Democrat/Republican Washington Cartel culture of self preservation and betrayal. A warrior in the lion's den is vastly more meaningful to me than one standing outside the cage cheering him on. Cruz has done this in the most difficult political circumstances imaginable, often in face-to-face encounters in his daily workplace with his most bitter adversaries.

On the topic of obligations to major contributors, there is ample evidence in Texas that Cruz has remained faithful to his principles and opposed major contributors for the public good. Because of his opposiiton to the U.S. Export-Import Bank, calling it "crony capitalism", Cruz has upset major contributors to his Senate campaign representing big businesses in Texas. Bear in mind, the Cruz presidential campaign has received more than 450,000 contributions from all over the nation. The average of the contributions is $73. I know from personal experience in prior fundraising for Cruz, he feels beholden to every small contributor and the faith they have placed in him.

I've followed Ted's career very closely for 12 years since his days as Solicitor General of Texas, having read and listened to most of his writings and speeches to the present day. I trust Ted more than any person I've voted for in the past forty years. I even include Ronald Reagan in the mix, but only because I never had any personal contact with that great man. I've had the good fortune to be around Ted in a friendly group setting out of view of the media on a few occasions and he is the same honorable, Christian man that you see in public. He has my vote and commitment of time and money.

Please don't ask me to trust candidates who began championing conservative ideals only a short five months ago with the same fervor of trust I've held in Ted Cruz for many years. In fact, don't expect me to trust these other "outsiders" at all because they haven't earned it in my opinion.

[TADSLOS]

Thanks for the sanity post.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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2015-11-05 : Free Republic's Patton@Bastogne's Bold Political Predictions



(1) Dr. Ben Carson will be polling "single digits" by Christmas 2015 ... at which point he'll endorse (suprise, surprise) Yeb Bush ...


(2) Yeb Bush will make a good political campaign decision "intelligently" REFUSE to exit the 2016 GOP Presidential Race until he is DEFEATED in the 2016 March 15 Florida Primary. Yeb Bush's political "ace in the hole" is the hopelessly corrupt Florida Republican Party ... the ones who redistricted the great Allen West out-of-office.


(3) Marco "Amnesty" Rubio (lavishly funded by Yeb Bush's former donors) ... will place FOURTH in Iowa (abandoned by the Tea Party Evangelical Christians for being a greedy bad-faced liar) and FOURTH in the Florida Primary (in a "blood-sport" death-match with Yeb Bush)


4) Ted Cruz SHOCKS the "Washington Establishment Cartel" with a three-percent Florida victory over Donald Trump ...


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On November 5, 2015 ... it was revealed that Dr. Ben Carson supports Transgendered Bathrooms (political suicide for his Evangelical Christian base) ...

... and Dr. Ben Carson has "lied" about the names of guys he supposedly beat-up in high school

... which, when combined with the "ridiculous" Pyramid Theory statements, is beginning to make Herman Cain (2012) and John Edwards (2008) look like Einstein and Gen. George Patton Jr.


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"Anything" can happen in a "New York Minute" in American politics.

Just ask Machiavelli, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, Bobby Kennedy, Vince Foster, Gary Hart, Buddy Holly, U.S. Senators Hale Boggs, Ted Stevens, and Paul Wellstone, Herman Cain ...

and Napoleon at Waterloo (who was winning the battle, and Wellington admitting DEFEAT, as late as 5:00 PM in the afternoon).


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Ninety-eight (98) GOP Convention delegates are at stake in Florida's "mas mucho rigged" state Presidential Primary (Winner take All).

That makes it more convenient for Yeb's GOPe Chamber of Commerce Political Whores (aka the Florida Republican Party) to hand Yeb 98 convention delegates on a silver platter.

Yeb Bush has absolutely NOTHING to lose by staying in the presidential race (anything can happen).

Is it a longshot ? Absolutely.

Has Karl Rove already planned for this scenario ? Absolutely.

Will Dr. Ben Carson endorse Yeb Bush when the good doctor is "finished" ? Absolutely.

As a romantic interest once told me ... "It's All About the Money" ... perfectly applicable to Yeb Bush, Ben Carson, and Karl Rove.








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[Liz]

.....not in a million years would I have ever thought Id be wanting a guy from New York as my choice in candidates to save our nation from those hell-bent on destroying it.....

That just about sums up every Trump supporter.....and further extraopolates why Trump has become the most trusted man in America.

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Assuming all of the Cruz supporters are correct, that he's a decent, honorable person who loves America. In today's perilous times, that is not enough by half.

What is sorely missing from the Cruz persona is the ability to think in multiple dimensions....to fast-forward......to factor in all of the variables.

FOR INSTANCE Cruz once considered USSC Justice John Roberts a mentor, but became disenchanted w/ Roberts opinions.

Also mystifying, Cruz did a disappearing act when it came time to put his money where his mouth is ....to vote against Obama's hand-picked AG Loretta Lynch.

But its all of a piece.....it amplifies Cruz's vote to fast-track TPP (Obama's legacy) and his aye vote on the Corker bill (the left saving Obamas *** on the Iran nuclear deal).

[M1911A1]

If Cruz is truly off the GOPe reservation, and his Corker and TPP votes and support of expanding H-1B visas were either mistakes or expediencies that he wants to move past, if he is immune to Super Pac money and can’t be bought or leveraged by the big money donors who foot his political bills, he is a huge threat to the crooked system that runs the rigged game in Washington, D.C. and exactly what the country needs.

What is to keep the Supreme Court, a court that Cruz has stated needs to be reigned in by electoral review, a court that has shown a jaw dropping willingness to find whatever they need in penumbras and interpretation to justify homosexual marriage, forced purchase of insurance and whatever the Hell else they feel is needed for us peons, from deciding that being born in Canada to a Cuban father and American mother makes Cruz ineligible by virtue of being not a natural born citizen?

Remember, this activist court has seen fit to ignore or invent whatever precedent they need to get the result they want. When presented with the opportunity to destroy the man who has directly threatened their power, why will they not take it, if there is even an iota of justification in ruling Cruz not a natural born citizen?

I don’t trust the Supreme Court at all. What’s to stop them from pulling the rug out on Cruz?

[Patton@Bastogne]

[DaveyB]

FOR INSTANCE Cruz once considered USSC Justice John Roberts a mentor, but became disenchanted w/ Roberts opinions.

And Trump was for Obamacare, the homo-agenda, increasing taxes, amnesty, donated money to the Clinton foundation, tried to use eminent domain to forcibly remove property for his own personal profit and that demonstrates to you that that he has "the ability to think in multiple dimensions....to fast-forward......to factor in all of the variables. "

I think when the Donald was giving you those fabulous trumpgasams you may have bumped your head and lost your sense of balance - you might have that looked at that.

Ted Cruz does not have a TV program or a towers built with his mane on it, he has been too busy defending your liberty to enshrine himself as like a god, he has to settle for worshiping the one true God instead.

[DaveyB]

What’s to stop them from pulling the rug out on Cruz?

Ted Cruz and an armed population that are willing to fight the imperial courts by force if necessary. If there is going to be a revolution/reformation, I want a constitutional patriot leading the charge.

[M1911A1]

So, in a scenario where roughly half the population is pulling for a gimme free stuff Dems, a small portion of the conservative base thinks Obama is not a NBC and therefore has to intellectually think the same of Cruz, and the vast majority of moderates and quite a few GOPe go-along-to-get-along voters will hardly be fanatical “Better dead than ineligible Ted” supporters, and the call is for revolution against the “settled law”, then Ted Cruz has the charisma and desire to lead this bunch against the might and authority of the country he wants to be President of on an arcane issue of citizenship?

I’ve donated to the Cruz campaign, but the idea of a populist forceful rising for Cruz against SCOTUS and the FedGov makes Trump supporters seem downright tame.

[Fantasywriter]

CruzCruz been too busy defending your liberty to enshrine himself as like a god, he has to settle for worshiping the one true God instead.’

If this is true, please explain why Cruz so enthusiastically embraces that picture depicting him as naked, covered in tattoos, with a cigarette drooping from his mouth.

[Fantasywriter]

CruzCruz should be ‘Ted Cruz.’

[TXnMA]

I have yet to encounter ANYONE who supports, let alone will vote for, Ted Cruz.

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Be it duly noted: You smoothly neglected to mention that you're in Californica...

Are you also within 50 miles of the coast?

[ru4liberty]

Is that really the best you’ve got in response to DaveyB? Seriously?

[Fantasywriter]

It must be a pretty good question. No one has answered it yet.

People say Cruz is supposed to appeal to evangelicals. Someone needs to explain to him that we’re creeped out by nude men covered with tattoos sporting a tough-guy/prison look with a drooping cigarette.

[LucyT]

Check out # 27 , and # 33 (really? jeepers!)

Predictions at # 26.

Thanks, Liz.

[Unmarked Package]

Of course, Ted had nothing to do with the creation of that poster produced by Sabo, a local street artist in Los Angeles, but I think you already knew that. It's free speech expressing the opinion of one young person and Ted chose to have a sense of humor about it to make a point about communication.

If you have a sense of humor, you'll get a chuckle hearing Ted's joke about the artwork that he included in his speech on 3/27/2015 at the Young America's Foundation Freedom Conference in NH. Cruz makes a connection between the poster and other things that young people can do to connect, make people laugh, tell stories and motivate their young peers about Constitutional liberties.

Use this video link cued up to the appropriate time in the speech about the poster:

Ted Cruz - Young America's Foundation - Freedom Conference - New Hampshire - 3/27/15

[Fantasywriter]

Cruz has embraced and endorsed the picture. He is selling it. At the same time we’re told he’s the candidate for evangelicals.

Ok. Do this. Name one prominent evangelical who is promoting nudity, full body tattoos, the prison-look, and smoking.

It can be anyone of prominence. A pastor. A youth minister. A singer. A well known evangelical, perhaps, who is promoting cigarettes, etc., out of ‘humor.’

Just one.

I’ll wait.