Cruz and Carson are the only conservative candidates left.
Trump and his supporters have denounced both good men as pathological liars.
Trump and his supporters have attacked Cruz and Carson with more venom than Bernie or Hillary. There’s a lesson there.
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Really?
Yep, it took a “real conservative” to do the following:
1) Work with Paul Ryan to pass TPA
2) Voted for the Corker Iran Bill
3) Supported an increase in H1B Visas
4) Went to the Southern Border with Glenn Beck to pass out soccer balls and Teddy Bears to ILLEGALS
5) Engaged in slimy behavior in Iowa (sleazy mailers, lied about the Carson campaign leaving the primary)
Looking forward to hearing your excuses for Mr. Haney’s record as a U.S. Senator.
Conservative my a$$!
1) Work with Paul Ryan to pass TPA
Free trade is a conservative point of view. Protectionism is the liberal point of view and favors unions. Trump will make trade deals. You will not get on FR and rail against them as you are here with TPA. You will dutifully get on FR and refer to these trade deals as “America winning!” If Trump favors his own crony business habits which include using illegal immigrants to build buildings, you will ignore that. The key point here is Who is president?
If Cruz was president, it would insure the most conservative interpretation and Enforcement of our trade legislation. Neither Obama or Trump insure conservative interpretations of trade deals.
2) Voted for the Corker Iran Bill
Cruz has taken the hardest line against Iran of any politician to date. He also got the Obama administration to agree with him in refusing the Iranian diplomat travel status— something lampooned in the media and by the Left until Cruz forced Obama to agree with him.
Trump knows little or nothing about Iran or it as a threat. Cruz is demonstrably better on Iran than Trump.
The Corker bill was an enforcement bill that required legitimate inspections of the Iranian nuclear program— something we sorely need now.
3) Supported an increase in H1B Visas
H1Bs are limited and actually have enforcement provisions. There are smart ways to improve immigration. H1B is a good area and quite different from the unlimited immigration occurring now. I don’t think Trump is opposed to H1B and I am quite sure Trump uses H1B for his businesses.
4) Went to the Southern Border with Glenn Beck to pass out soccer balls and Teddy Bears to ILLEGALS
Private charitable actions are not wrong. The administration is deliberately trying to create cruel and harsh conditions here in Texas to stir up leftist activism in our state. Cruz is smart to fight back at a private charitable level.
It is better than employing illegal immigrants to build your buildings as Trump does.
5) Engaged in slimy behavior in Iowa (sleazy mailers, lied about the Carson campaign leaving the primary)
No. Trump makes these sleazy allegations. These flyers have been used for over ten years by various campaigns. I think it is fine to point out how people have not voted for conservative candidates in the past. Of course Trumpsters would object to this because they don’t want conservatives to win. Trump calls Cruz a pussy and the worst liar he has ever met. This is all part of that general meme.
This is because Cruz is worse than Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and rapist in chief Bill Clinton. Ethical people are democrats. Conservatives are not ethical— especially if they beat Trump in Iowa. Trump is for winners— not losers like Cruz.
Cruz shut down the Federal government in 2013 over the objections of everyone. That led to the 2014 flip of senate into Republican hands. Pundits, republicans and so many others said the shutdown was a disaster.
You carefully avoid Cruz’s victories before the Supreme Court because here again he was powerfully effective and conservative. Cruz did work with sessions to stop the gang of 8 bill. That could have easily passed. Cruz organized House members to resist the moderating forces of GOP— helping form the Freedom Caucus.
You cannot admit that Cruz is conservative. You defend Trump reflexively and no matter what Trump says about how great Planned Parenthood is or how great government health care is or how great Harry Reid is, you unflinchingly hit your keyboard to parse the conservatism of Cruz.
There has not been a candidate as conservative as Cruz for a very long time. Reagan was liberal by conservative— passing massive amnesty and nominating Sandra O connor.
The classless manner by which Trump supporters attack Cruz and his supporters is completely unnecessary. Pretending that Cruz is not conservative is a fantasy. There is an abundance of evidence that Trump is not only not conservative, but he actively dislikes them and works to oppose them.
It is perfectly legitimate and right for people at FR to criticize this and to make arguments supporting Cruz.
And let’s not forget to add that Ted Cruz has teamed up with amnesty-loving, Marco Rubio. Cruz a real conservative? I don’t think so.