Posted on 12/15/2015 12:34:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
If you can't stand the thought of Donald Trump becoming president, the good news is that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) looks poised to upset him in the pivotal Iowa caucuses next month.
The bad news is that if Cruz succeeds and ultimately becomes the Republican nominee, he will prove to be far worse than Trump himself.
For one thing, Cruz has proved himself to be far more ideologically narrow-minded than Trump. For better or worse, Trump has been willing to defy conservative dogma on a number of issues (e.g., social security reform, progressive taxation, the 2003 Iraq War), indicating that at the very least he has a mind of his own. Cruz, on the other hand, has refused to waiver from the tenets of Tea Party doctrine even when the fate of America depended on it. That last statement isn't an exaggeration, by the way-anyone with a reasonably comprehensive memory can recall his instrumental role in causing a government shutdown at the end of 2013, one that business interests and moderates across the board vehemently opposed..........
Matthew Rozsa is a Ph.D. student in history at Lehigh University and a political columnist. His editorials have been published on Salon, The Good Men Project, Mic, MSNBC, and various college newspapers and blogs.
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Dwarfs: cause to seem small or insignificant in comparison
“...Cruz (R-TX) looks poised to upset him in the pivotal Iowa caucuses next month.”
I think not. Why does Cruz support a brokered convention to keep Trump out?
So the turkey who wrote this thing has terrible diction, no notion of what the word “nihilism” means and to top it all off, he’s a blogger.
Three strikes.
“He gone.”
No one will “keep Trump out” but Trump.
nihilismnoun
1. total rejection of established laws and institutions.
2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
3. total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself: the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler's last years.
4. Philosophy.
a. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.
b. nothingness or nonexistence.
5. (sometimes initial capital letter) the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.
6. annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, especially as an aspect of mystical experience.
The author is apparently a congenital idiot.
Definition #5 perfectly describes the Progressive Movement though.
He’s not even that. He’s still working on his doctorate.
So Cruz is simultaneously a nihilist and ideologically narrow-minded? You’ve got to be impressed by that.
Alternatively, the author likes to throw out scare words that he doesn’t really understand. “Cruz is icky” is the gist. Got it.
He condemns him for fighting for what he believes is right. No different than Obama in that sense which scares the hell out of the left.
No, you dumbass socialist, Cruz is a true Constitutional advocate that supports your rights to say such nonsense. That is as open-minded as it gets. You so-called intellectuals have NO idea how many have fought for your freedom to espouse your unworkable ideals that have always failed. Keep reading your socialist screeds and thinking how you can make this nation better through your communist ideology. Then explain to me why not ONE commune worked back in the 1960's or why ALL communist societies eventually fail. Go ahead Mr.-I-got-a-doctorate-degree and know all.
I lived it and saw ALL fail, you miserable prick. You do know that North Korea is still totalitarian? Want an airplane ticket?
So now Salon has joined with the GOPe in its effort to elect Cruz (as theorized by some as to why Rush and Levin have “turned” on Trump). Kooky I know. But that seems to be what some are going with.
*Ahem*
*Points at Salon*
HAW HAW HAW!
I am so looking forward to seeing what they have to say as we’re taking OUR nation back.
If Salon hates him, he’s obviously doing something right.
If Salon hates him, he’s obviously doing something right.
I wouldn't call it that ... more like an effort to abrade and erode everyone's popularity but Marco Rubio's and Yeb!
Still playing games. For keeps.
Trump's using his own money. Wonder whose money those other guys are using.
Truth in advocacy: I favor Cruz's positions, with an exception for his silence on the in-country illegals.
It reads more like Salon would prefer Trump.
As they well should. He is a liberal, circus sideshow.
Fascist hipster douche.
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