Posted on 03/14/2016 9:36:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Trump has German ancestry”
Yes
I hear the war drums in Youngstown but I have learned not to be incited to death
Never march to death
People in the Mahoning valley pass out turkeys, and glad hand, and they stuff folks in the river
The steel mills and the pensions aint coming back
I have thought for many years that I may retire to the great state of Ohio,
but I might just die here smiling
I’m the opposite. I want to know that he does actually believe a word he says. He seems to make it up as he goes along.
GO CRUZ
No, I don't suppose it is. My humble suggestion to some of the Cruz people several months ago was that they insert a line into the stump speech anchoring his story just a bit on his mother's side of the family. He talks a lot about his dad, who has a compelling flight to freedom and up from rags narrative, but on the birther thing, his mom's family is the key.
Three of Cruz's maternal great grandparents were immigrants from Ireland and Italy. The fourth, I think, was born in the U.S. I don't know how far back that family thread goes in the U.S. In a perfect world, Cruz would have a great uncle who was with the Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg, a great, great, great grandfather who froze at Valley Forge, and a bit of Native American heritage mixed in from an 18th century liaison that would make him as Indian as Elizabeth Warren. (He could just "recall" the latter without any corroboration at all, and still be as Indian as Elizabeth Warren.) I'm just making up those examples for fun. I don't know what the most compelling peg in his family tree might be. He could peg a story to a factory worker in Delaware or a farmer in Pennsylvania just as well. But it's important to make it a story, not a legal debating point.
None of that is relevant to the fact that he was born in Canada, but framing is important. People are thinking he's the son of a Cuban who was born in Canada, as opposed to the great great grandson of an iconic American type whose mother happened to be living in Canada when she gave birth.
Failed?
Ted Cruz Wins: The Shutdown Worked
http://spectator.org/articles/60939/ted-cruz-wins-shutdown-worked
Ted Cruz: Man of the Year
He’s both principled and effective
“It is a rare thing for a freshman United Senator to make the impact that Cruz has made in his very first year in the Senate. To take a stand, to stick with it impervious to the assaults and petty jealousies of the crowd. And most importantly to bring about change.”
http://spectator.org/articles/57187/ted-cruz-man-year
He rarely speaks of family though many enemy’s do
Back in the 50's-60's when Kennedy was running it was said we can't have a Catholic as they would rule the world. Then with Romney we can't have a Mormon because they think they are Gods. Now we can't have a Pentecostal, because they are nuts.
It is looking more and more, like people would prefer a candidate who is an Atheist.
“Cruz is part of the whacked-out Dominionist faith.....”
Back in the 50’s-60’s when Kennedy was running it was said we can’t have a Catholic as they would rule the world. Then with Romney we can’t have a Mormon because they think they are Gods. Now we can’t have a Pentecostal, because they are nuts.
It is looking more and more, like people would prefer a candidate who is an Atheist.
BTW, I have not found any posts by people advocating for the President be an atheist.
His dad’s story is a staple of the stump speech. Imprisoned in Cuba, released, came to America with $100 sewn into his underwear, took a job washing dishes for fifty cents an hour, worked his way up, started a business, now a pastor. It’s a great story. It’s just the branch of the family tree to use when a relative newcomer, the son and grandson of immigrants, is challenging your authenticity as an American.
correction: it’s just NOT the branch to use ....
Open your ears and stop hearing only what you want to hear.
Cruz said: "As violence broke out the rally was canceled altogether. Now the responsibility for that lies with protestors who took violence into their own hands. But in any campaign responsibility lies at the top.
Don't you think that when Trump has said he likes the old days when we could fight back and carry them out on a stretcher, then he says he would like to punch him in the face, isn't contributing to a brawl type of mentality?
Donald Trump on Smiling Protester: Id Like to Punch Him in the Face, during Nevada Speech
Be careful Bernie': Trump threatens to send supporters to Sanders rallies
Compare that to how Ted Cruz handles hecklers.
TED CRUZ TALKING WITH CODE PINK
Watch Ted Cruz Get Ambushed By Angry Iowa Farmer, Then Turn Him Around
If The Precious (Trump) manages to win the general election, I wonder how many of his most vocal supporters will own up to that support 8 months into his administration?
How many old posts will be dug out of the FR archives to remind people that they were warned?
Most pols wait until they have been anointed at the convention before they start moving to the middle.
Hasn’t anyone told Trump that?
Remember, the rally in Chicago was a lot more than merely an opportunity for Donald Trump to exercise his free speech; it was an opportunity for his supporters to exercise their right to peaceably assemble to express their grievances against an over-reaching Federal Government. What is ultimately at stake, here, is the right to express dissent to the new norms the "politically correct" theorists are trying to force upon the rest of us.
“But for me, its obvious that he loves this country, and hes willing to risk everything to protect it.”
He has risked everything? Except for the 20 years of his life as a billionaire when he contributed to Democrats who were destroying the country because he didn’t want to offend Democrats - because it might cost him some business deals.
In the past the only thing he has put above country is money.
I get it, and people on this forum try to paint him as a turd?
"BTW, I have not found any posts by people advocating for the President be an atheist."
The point I was trying to make is that it appears no matter what ones religion is, if they don't like that person one of the calls is that they are from a so called BAD religion. Therefore maybe they would rather an Atheist.
Anyway Ted Cruz says he is a Baptist.
"I was raised in the church. Each night, my dad would read with me from our children's Bible. We'd memorize Bible verses, and compete to see who could do the best. We'd act out scenes from the Old Testament. We attended Clay Road Baptist Church, pastored by the same Brother Gaylon Wiley who had led my father to the Lord."
One of the biggest mistakes an American voter can make is to vote for a candidate for president that they know to be arrogant. It is true: pride goeth before a fall.
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