[xzins]

“I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed at building a safer and more prosperous North America,” Mrs. Cruz said in an additional statement in the CFR report. She also urged that economic investment in the region “be led and perpetuated by the private sector.”

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/trump-threatens-north-american-union-scheme/

[marron]

I think the idea of submerging US sovereignty is the point of any such agreement. I don’t trust these people. The idea of simply encouraging economic ties could be done without “submerging” US sovereignty, but that would miss the point for these people.

National sovereignty is the #1 issue this time out. This is exactly why Trump has the traction he has. I have many times said that while I prefer Cruz as a life-long constitutionalist who is strong on the border, Trump is my second choice precisely because of his stance on national sovereignty not just on the border but across the board.

If we are going to be building bridges to our neighbors, I want someone in charge who is a devout constitutionalist (Cruz), or at the very least a born deal-maker whose instincts are in the right place (Trump).

I am interested in this CFR report; I’d like to hear what Cruz has to say about it. Like I say, reciprocal agreements between Canada and the US don’t have to be a threat to either of our sovereignties... but that doesn’t seem to be what CFR is interested in.

Quoting from the article: In 2011, when he was running for the Republican Senate nomination, Cruz had called the CFR “a pernicious nest of snakes” that is “working to undermine our sovereignty.”

It may be that he knows whereof he speaks.

[betty boop]

If asked, would Ted Cruz claim he "knows nothing" about what his wife has been up to all these many years?

Actually, I wouldn't put that past him.

I won't call him a liar, because that upsets people.

But I will call him a prevaricator.

As noted elsewhere, he is a sophist, a rhetorician -- a man who makes his living as a spinner of words, for the purpose of persuasion. He comes across to me like a member of the Plaintiff's Bar; and all he cares about is winning his case.

And his wife is a lawyer, too. They probably see eye to eye on most things.... She is an elitist, to put it mildly. Ted's claims of populist sympathies -- of caring about the little guy (a/k/a the great unwashed, i.e., working and middle class Americans) -- is probably pure spin designed to improve his chances of electoral success. It is otherwise void, empty.

Well, that's my estimation of the man, FWIW.

I hope I'll never have to vote for him. But I will if I have to, holding my nose all the while.