Posted on 04/27/2016 11:07:30 AM PDT by jalisco555
From: Rich Danker, Lone Star Committee founder
Date: April 24, 2016
Re: The 2016 Republican race
For those of you who have supported the Lone Star Committee's independent expenditures and operations, I want to give you an overview of what we did, how it contrasted with other organizations' efforts, and most importantly, how and why I believe the race has run its course with Donald Trump besting Ted Cruz as the presumptive GOP nominee. This includes an analysis of Cruz and Trump's respective strategies, especially in the critical early voting states where we played a role.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Every Trump rally is on YouTube. I have not found any Cruz rallies on YT. Trump’s three-minute trashing of Huma and Anthony Weiner is a classic bit of stand-up.
The article does not mention that Cruz’s emails and texts were so frequent and obnoxious that people unsubscribed or blocked them. I did, and so did a lot of FReepers. Who is going to donate FIVE TIMES A DAY?
I remember my mother mocking politicians for saying “the American people”—fifty years ago.
WHAT “machinery”? The “machinery” that Cruz used to win his voterless primaries? That Trump hung around his neck?
It was the Caterpillar that puffed on the hookah. Otherwise, spot on.
Trump sees people, Cruz sees delegates to take.
I got more e-mail this week on this question than any other question. And it is about immigration.
I’m told that at least 8,000 people cross our borders illegally every day. Some people believe this is a security issue, as you know. Some believe it’s an economic issue. Some see it as a human-rights issue.
How do you see it? And what do we need to do about it?
BUSH: I see it as a serious problem. I see it as a security issue, I see it as an economic issue, and I see it as a human-rights issue.
We’re increasing the border security of the United States. We’ve got 1,000 more Border Patrol agents on the southern border.
We’re using new equipment. We’re using unmanned vehicles to spot people coming across.
And we’ll continue to do so over the next four years. It’s a subject I’m very familiar with. After all, I was a border governor for a while.
Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They’re coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5. 15, you’re going to come here if you’re worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that’s what’s happening.
And so in order to take pressure off the borders, in order to make the borders more secure, I believe there ought to be a temporary worker card that allows a willing worker and a willing employer to mate up, so long as there’s not an American willing to do that job, to join up in order to be able to fulfill the employers’ needs.
That has the benefit of making sure our employers aren’t breaking the law as they try to fill their workforce needs. It makes sure that the people coming across the border are humanely treated, that they’re not kept in the shadows of our society, that they’re able to go back and forth to see their families. See, the card, it’ll have a period of time attached to it.
It also means it takes pressure off the border. If somebody is coming here to work with a card, it means they’re not going to have to sneak across the border. It means our border patrol will be more likely to be able to focus on doing their job.
Now, it’s very important for our citizens to also know that I don’t believe we ought to have amnesty. I don’t think we ought to reward illegal behavior. There are plenty of people standing in line to become a citizen. And we ought not to crowd these people ahead of them in line.
If they want to become a citizen, they can stand in line, too.
And here is where my opponent and I differ. In September 2003, he supported amnesty for illegal aliens.
SCHIEFFER: Time’s up.
Senator?
KERRY: Let me just answer one part of the last question quickly, and then I’ll come to immigration.
The American middle-class family isn’t making it right now, Bob. And what the president said about the tax cuts has been wiped out by the increase in health care, the increase in gasoline, the increase in tuitions, the increase in prescription drugs.
The fact is, the take-home pay of a typical American family as a share of national income is lower than it’s been since 1929. And the take-home pay of the richest . 1 percent of Americans is the highest it’s been since 1928.
Under President Bush, the middle class has seen their tax burden go up and the wealthiest’s tax burden has gone down. Now that’s wrong.
Now, with respect to immigration reform, the president broke his promise on immigration reform. He said he would reform it. Four years later he is now promising another plan.
Here’s what I’ll do: Number one, the borders are more leaking today than they were before 9/11. The fact is, we haven’t done what we need to do to toughen up our borders, and I will.
Secondly, we need a guest-worker program, but if it’s all we have, it’s not going to solve the problem.
The second thing we need is to crack down on illegal hiring. It’s against the law in the United States to hire people illegally, and we ought to be enforcing that law properly.
And thirdly, we need an earned-legalization program for people who have been here for a long time, stayed out of trouble, got a job, paid their taxes, and their kids are American. We got to start moving them toward full citizenship, out of the shadows. SCHIEFFER: Do you want to respond, Mr. President?
BUSH: Well, to say that the borders are not as protected as they were prior to September the 11th shows he doesn’t know the borders. They’re much better protected today than they were when I was the governor of Texas.
We have much more manpower and much more equipment there.
He just doesn’t understand how the borders work, evidently, to say that. That is an outrageous claim.
And we’ll continue to protect our borders. We’re continuing to increase manpower and equipment.
SCHIEFFER: Senator?
KERRY: Four thousand people a day are coming across the border.
The fact is that we now have people from the Middle East, allegedly, coming across the border.
And we’re not doing what we ought to do in terms of the technology. We have iris-identification technology. We have thumbprint, fingerprint technology today. We can know who the people are, that they’re really the people they say they are when they cross the border.
We could speed it up. There are huge delays.
The fact is our borders are not as secure as they ought to be, and I’ll make them secure
Typical Cruzbot.
1) Grossly exaggerate Trump’s past liberalism;
2) Read Trump’s innermost soul, and find nothing there but demonic levels of selfishness.
Who is “Kacik”?
While I am hopeful like you I remain doubtful that Mr. Trump is “that” guy...
The one thing I am positive of is my deep respect and admiration for your service. I have visited Normandy and I cannot imagine the hell that was unleashed on those beaches. Sir I commend you and honor you.
“I served under FDR as CIC during his time of WW2-—a man of courage, determination and deep love of country who knew what the cost of war might be BUT kept his citizens knowing the tears and sweat needed to win for America and the free world—those of us who served respected his faith and strength of purpose and trusted his leadership to his eventual death——thank God there are such men regardless of politics and greed——I pray Donald Trump is such a man for we need such a one now”
Thank you very much for your service.
I pray, too, that Donald Trump is such a man, and I think he is.
[Trump sees America, Cruz sees useful idiots.]
I think it’s the other way around. Cruz seems to have a tremendous amount of respect for voters, IMO. He always engages their questions respectfully (even hecklers).
The Cat took over his toadstool and now specializes in smiles and dirty deeds done cheap.
You obviously don't watch body language enough to tell the difference between staged situations or chats with folks from a carefully culled herd of supporters and real, unplanned, unscripted, interactions. Ask Hannity about your theory, he's finally gotten a glimpse of the real Ted.
If you honestly believe what you said then you must think everyone in the Senate is incapable of playing well with others when, in fact, the majority of them are personable, likable, folks or they'd have never gotten elected.
I have a friend who worked for a Senator and another who was a Senator. Both of them will tell anyone who asks that it's nearly impossible to try and have a conversation with Ted and an unbearable experience if you dare to disagree with him on even a minor point.
I'll take their word and the obvious body language I see when Ted interacts with people over one person's opinion any day.
Those of us in CO laugh in your general direction.
Ooooh. You got me.
Yeah, first thing I heard this afternoon after turning on the car radio
was some blowhard babbling on about John Kasich’s eating habits.
Such a statesmanlike adult.
I then changed channels.
I remember the heckler incident. He struck me as condescending there. Just an impression.
I think I’ve known too many ego-centric people. They’re predictable.
Then again, all POTUS candidates are ego-centric.
This is worth reading.
Your statement strikes me as totally disingenuous...
Vote Trump
It’s a given that Rat operatives are trawling all the websites and social media looking for useful ammo to use against the Repub nominee.
The constant attacks on each other by the candidates and the mudslinging by supporters of different candidates can only help the Rats.
I DO NOT WANT KILLARY IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
If only the Right would focus on the real enemy...........
So, you figure the news that Ted isn’t likable and that no one in the Senate can stand him may leak out ?
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