Posted on 01/05/2016 2:44:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
July 18, 2012
"........ [Ted] Cruz, who is 41 and has never held elected office, staked out more extreme positions than the 66-year-old Dewhurst, a career politician who has presided over the Texas Senate as Lieutenant Governor since 2003.
"My touchstone for every question is the Constitution," Cruz said, adopting the refrain commonly heard from Tea Party supporters.
".....Cruz went on the offensive against Dewhurst on illegal immigration-a key issue in the state that shares the longest stretch of U.S.-Mexico border-calling attention to Dewhurst's 2007 support of a guest worker program for the state's undocumented immigrants, announced at a speech in South Texas.
Cruz called the guest worker idea more expansive than President Obama's decision to call off deportations for immigrants without criminal records who came here illegally as children-a policy that Cruz opposes and called "illegal."
Dewhurst, who has taken a more pragmatic approach to the issue of illegal immigration, avoided clarifying whether he currently supports such a program.
Cruz also distinguished himself from Dewhurst with his full-throated support for a border wall estimated by the Department of Homeland Security to cost $7.3 billion, or $6.5 million per mile.
Cruz defended the border wall proposal even if it meant expropriating private property-a position that the debate's moderators, WFAA reporter Brad Watson and Gromer Jeffers of the Dallas Morning News, said contrasted with Cruz's message of fiscal conservatism.
"One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders," Cruz said. "Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation."......
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
trump does have deep pockets to pay his trolls.
Perhaps some people just don’t like or trust Cruz.
Since you think so much, try thinking about that.
After these years of All-Hailing Obama I don’t have the energy left for another session of it.
It would be great to have a real President who functioned within the law, understood issues, made few major mistakes, if possible, and was not auditioning for Reality TV at the WH.
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