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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No one will love me!
Oh..meow, Mr Groupthink.
You mean he’s delusional?
Yeah, no doubt.
Have to agree with you. Usually those kind of idiots have the parents who bleed progressivism while living in the tony, gated neighborhoods.
But I could be wrong.
Lehigh went down the drain when they changed their team name from the “Lehigh Engineers” to the “Lehigh Mountain Hawks”.
Not even. He is a “candidate”. How many umpteenth year candidates have I met?
Hipster Toolbag.
Cruz must be doing something right, if this guy doesn’t like him.
Cruz is my guy, but I can go with Trump if he wins.
I love the exploding heads all over cable TV.
One idealogue can spot another from across a crowded room, apparently.
But y’know what? We had to put up with your guy for 7 long years. Your turn in the barrel Homey.
Levin laid out three questionable Trump gaffs from over this past weekend:
1. Trump called Scalia a racist
2. Trump followed the GOPe talking points about Cruz not being a "nice" guy
3. Trump pandered to large agri-business on ethanol
These three positions demonstrate that not only is Trump not a conservative, which we all know, but worse, he's not an independent thinker and will follow the media line just like a practiced politician.
It should be clear by now that Trump has no core positions and that everything for him is "of the moment" and that my FRiends is what ultimately disqualifies him.
The usual leftist sewer sludge served with garnish.
More like self-deluded. Reality offends such people, thus they retreat into a self-invented utopian fantasy.
Not a Ph.D. Only a Ph.D. student. ie. someone who hasn’t grown up and has never been out of the university environment who is comfortably surrounded by fellow statists, none of whom ever had to actually work for a living, but rather subsist on grants and fellowships - money that is extracted from the taxpayers to support the parasite class. From my time in graduate school in the 60’s I remember the fear and hatred of Republicans was a visceral thing. Republicans were hated loathed and feared because they tended to cut back on the grant gravy train
I think I'd like to sample that bottle though. It looks like good ---- man.
Way classier than I used to be used to (although I've had a few Campari's and soda while not letting a pinky finger touch glass).
Would ruin it all later in the week chasing sips of Fernet Branca with draft bud. X2.
Dirty martinis. Beefeater, or friends (the better of the usual brands) of course. Going any cheaper -- more brine -- filthy please.
Gay as an Easter Bonnet
Queer as a 3 dollar bill
LOL excellent. Will fix it for ya...
5. (sometimes initial capital letter) the principles of a [Clinton/Obama] revolutionary group, active in the [early] half of the [21st] 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. [Best expressed by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright]
The worst part is that either will come to Salon and exile all queer Phd students producing seditious claptrap
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