Posted on 12/14/2015 9:57:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This grumpy old man would not HAVE to hold his nose to pull a lever for The Donald. While The Donald is no conservative, he is a good many parts of being libertarian in his outlook, and he is saying, essentially, that is is a darned good thing to BE an American, and we need to revive this love, faith and abiding belief in what it means to stand for all that is good and positive about America.
If The Donald is alienating the Establishment Republicans, I do not necessarily see that as a bad thing. It certainly builds up his stock with the “middle” and millions of people who feel themselves disenfranchised by the two national parties. Hell, The Donald could potentially pull a lot of support from what have been traditionally whole blocs of voters who have defaulted to Democrats for years.
Remember “Reagan Democrats”? We may be seeing that phenomenon again.
Rush has, no doubt, heard from the Bush clan. Trump needs to be destroyed....
Rush just stated this is a “Huge Mistake” by Trump. Talk about Clash of the Titans! Rush Vrs Trump.
Trump had a good week attacking conservatives from the left.
The Big Media push polls will reward him.
and Cruz did the same liberal/Rhino talking points thing to Trump and Carson saying they couldn’t be trusted around the nuke button
RE: Trump is never afraid to come out and state the truth unequivocally
You are assuming that everything he says is the unequivocal truth.
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What Ted Cruz Really Stands For
By Mark Salter
October 01, 2015
Although I find Sen. Ted Cruz’s “lonely man of principle†act as tired as it is phony, I should give the devil his due. Cruz has given Americans exasperated with Washington gridlock hope that Congress can, when sufficiently motivated, find consensus and act.
In this instance, the consensus is that Ted Cruz is a jackass. The bipartisan action taken was to deny him a vote on the Senate floor, and the additional speaking time he desired for another unctuous tribute to himself, courtesies that are routinely granted all senators. But hey, it’s hard to get Democrats and Republicans to agree on anything these days. So, congratulations, Senator Cruz, you trailblazer.
I worked on Capitol Hill for the better part of two decades. There might have been other occasions when a senator couldn’t get a colleague to “second†his amendment, but I can’t recall any. It’s also unusual for senators not to agree to give a member who has exhausted his allotted speaking time a few more minutes to finish his remarks.
Then again, I can’t recall any senator who was as nearly universally loathed by his colleagues as Cruz. There have been others who weren’t likeable. There were plenty who were self-interested and who preened and blustered as often as Cruz does—and who routinely elicited senatorial smirks and rolled eyes. There have been senators who frequently forced their colleagues to cast difficult and unpopular votes. And, of course, there is a long list of senators who ran for president and treated the Senate floor as a campaign stop. (And for some of them it worked). But no senator in my memory did all that with such abandon and was disliked with as much intensity as is Ted Cruz.
The late Minnesota progressive Paul Wellstone took lonely stands on the Senate floor that ended in missed flights and embarrassing votes for his colleagues. Recently retired Sen. Tom Coburn did, too. They often irritated their fellow senators, but that was usually temporary and mitigated by the wide admiration they enjoyed in the Senate on both sides of the aisle. Senators respected them as genuinely principled politicians who had the courage of their convictions.
Wellstone and Coburn risked their positions to advance their political values. Cruz is their opposite. He risks his principals to advance his position. I don’t think any senator really believes Ted Cruz is a conviction politician, save for his conviction that he ought to be president.
I know that Cruz and his minions boast that he wears the establishment’s animosity as a badge of honor. But before anyone adds more brushstrokes to Cruz’ self-portrait as a modern day Edmund G. Ross, let me point out that at the heart of colleagues’ contempt for him isn’t their distress at finding themselves confronted by a principled conservative, but their belief that he is an imposter.
He deliberately sets up conservatives to fail by goading them into empty gestures and self-defeating stunts like shutting down government, which make it harder to persuade more Americans to embrace conservative policies. They can’t even be described accurately as Pyrrhic victories. They’re just abject failures.
And Cruz bets on them to fail. He stokes the anger of grassroots conservatives in the hope that it devours everyone but him. He offers false hope and misinformation as a plan, stands defiantly in the imaginary breach, and scurries to blame others for his singular lack of success.
Now he’s playing lickspittle to Donald Trump, a candidate without a single conservative or even serious political principle, in the hope of grasping a few crumbs of support from Big Daddy’s table when the notorious Internet troll tires of pretending to run for national office. Cruz claims allegiance to Ronald Reagan’s famed 11th Commandment about not speaking ill of fellow Republicans, and won’t cock an eyebrow as Trump attacks the rest of the 2016 Republican field with insults that would embarrass a mature sixth-grader and offers decidedly non-conservative policy prescriptions. But Cruz will call Mitch McConnell a liar for not playing along with his latest deception, and he crows and struts when Speaker John Boehner, a man who gave decades of service to his country and party, is obliged to retire.
Many grassroots conservatives believe that Republicans in Washington think they’re better than the people who sent them there. No politician has ever fit that description better than Ted Cruz. He hasn’t done anything for anyone other than himself since he came to town. He thinks if he promises you the impossible, and identifies a few scapegoats, you won’t notice he’s faking it. He thinks you’re that easy to fool.
Are you?
Sarcasm?
“Trump had a good week attacking conservatives from the left.”
That is the current talking point today.
So you are taking what a blogger says he THINKS Cruz may do as evidence of what Cruz would actually do? Are you THAT gullible?
Why not take what Cruz has actually done in office as a guide to his future actions, as opposed to what someone thinks he will do based on their own opinions? While Cruz has engaged in some tactical legislating, Cruz has been the MOST consistent person in Congress in actually standing for the positions he promoted in his campaign. We don't know what Trump would do, because he has no record to judge.
To be fair, Cruz hasn't accomplished much of anything in the Senate as he is one of the few attempting to be responsible. I don't see any reason to believe, at this point, that he would be any more successful as the President.
If he is incapable of building a consensus in the Senate, why should we be confident that he could do any better in a higher office?
Wow. We need to start making a list of all of the solid conservatives and conservative positions that are now considered RINOs, GOPe or under control of the Bush family because they dared to disagree with Trump...
Just in the past few days, I have seen Trump supporters trash Mark Levin, Scalia, Cruz, anyone who opposes ethanol subsidies, opponents of affirmative action, and now Rush. I am sure I am leaving out a lot. Anyone want to add to the list?
“Don’t forget to vote tomorrow.”
That would be nonsensical except for the fact that you are a Cruz-bot.
He is attacking Cruz FROM THE LEFT. Who would have guessed it?
To all of you who are wavering back and forth between Trump and Cruz, you should understand who is to the left/right of who.
Perhaps i think that Democrats should run in Democrat primaries...
So now you are relying on a McCain supporter to help take down Cruz? That says a lot more about you and your candidate than it says about Cruz.
For me, even if he’s nice to conservatives, if he wins the nomination, I’m not going to vote for him. I don’t vote for liberals.
Wacko Bird was a badge of honour, but Maniac, that’s it I’m voting for JEB now!!!!!
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Probably the only person more despised by Congress than Cruz would be Trump. So if Cruz would not be able to get anything done, why would anyone believe Trump would do any better?
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