…personal observations impel me to conclude not only that Ted possesses the qualifications to be president in terms of intellect, temperament, and knowledge of the issues facing the country; but even more importantly, that he is uniquely the right person to lead America at this time in its history.
- Ted Cruz’s Intellect Is Extraordinary
- Ted Cruz Has a Winning Temperament
- Ted Cruz’s Knowledge of the Issues Is Deep
- Ted Cruz Is Uniquely the Right Person for President at this Time in History
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It seems I never get to pick the winner. Trump is a no class egotist out for himself. I don’t trust him and I just don’t like the guy. His ad hominem attacks on Megan Kelly and Cruz just make me like him less. if, and he probably will, he beats Cruz I will once again be left holding my nose and voting for the lesser of evils. i don’t think America can afford such an ego in the White House again.
I find my self in full agreement with Theodore A. Gebhard!
I agree. His twitter feed is atrocious. I am no Beck fan, but this is just crude:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/691836764185608193
All I know is some asshole keeps calling Cruz a “nasty guy”.
This same asshole has never said that about Harry Reid, 0bama, Hillary, Pelosi, etc. No, he has given them money!
I grow very weary of Trump and his mouth.
He might as well be calling Cruz a nigger, it’s just as bad as far as I am concerned.
In fact, I expect Trump to actually use that term one of these days and DQ himself right out of the race.
Nasty guy? Just STFU Trump.
A fool and his diarrhea mouth…
I’m still hoping for a political “marriage” between Trump and Cruz. I’m old enough, and have read enough, to know that neither Trump nor Cruz (or any other candidate, of either party) gives a flying fuck about me or my journey through life, and refuse to deceive myself, to the contrary.
It is enough that our paths run parallel for a while.
Everyone has an opinion. Mine is, that picture is plain creepy!
Cruz is a conservative constitutionalist and has clerked for supreme, argued 9 times before the supreme court as a Texas solicitor general.
He drafted the amicus brief and made oral arguments in the case for DC vs Heller representing 31 states saying that D.C. hand gun is unconstitutional and won.
He successfully defended the posting of the Ten Commandments on Texas State Capital.
Successfully defended Medellin v. Texas, which was a legal battle with Mexico involving the death penalty of Mexican murderers.
In that sense I think Cruz does care about the American people because he battles in support of the constitution and the constitution protects us and gives us the power. I would trust him to battle the Dems and establishment in defending the constitution and appoint constitutionalist to the supreme court.
It is the big govt types that don’t care about the people and are willing to remove their liberties and grant even more power upon the govt.
yea, trumps no constitutional conservative and cruz’s not natural born and his wife is a central banker and cfr insider.
but there are both better qualified and more desirable than her cankleness or the commie running against them.
choice between a douche and a turd sandwich once again.
it’s not going to change on the choice for potus, we the people will have to physically make the change. until then it’s just more business as usual.
I haven’t followed all the back and forth of each candidate’s throw-away lines about the other. I’ve heard some some of the flames going in both directions — some oddball, some not so much.
From what I can tell, the questioning of Cruz’s temperament is coming from his galvanizing purist constitutional thought and his fiery senate floor speeches. Without a doubt we all loved him for saying some of the things he’s said there. However, can he translate that into cooperation with the congress when he needs to or will we have another administration that tries to get things done without trying to engage the other side. Will this see-saw of extreme ideology (as perceived by the “average” voter) result in a landslide of congressional seats for the Democrats? Then what do we do?
I’ve had one commenter here say my head was so far up Trump’s backside, she/he wondered how I could breathe. But that wasn’t the worst thing. He/she went on to say “once a liberal, always a liberal”. That was the unkindest cut of all. Apparently, unless one is bathed in genetically-inherited amniotic fluid and emerging from the womb with the Constitution in one hand, the Bill of Rights in the other and reciting a John Adams speech from the Second Continental Congress, your conservative bone fides are seriously lacking. Is this conservative puritanism going to queer the deal within the congress? I’ having a difficult time seeing how it won’t.
I’m with Pinko — no surprises there, right? — when he said that we’re not really positioned for the kind of ideological sea change contemplated by conservative puritans. I think there would be too much red meat there for our ideological enemies to exploit; maintaining this cliff-hanger of a position we find ourselves in now.
We need a moderated (moderated, not moderate) voice who knows how to cajole, flatter, even schmooze a little — someone who does know how to deal with difficult personalities. You can have all kinds of great ideas and programs, but it’s no use if you can’t get the people around the table and ultimately close the deal.
Sorry, AA.
The Republic is DEAD. All that “unity” and “one America” talk is pure crap. The catastrophe can be delayed, not averted. Whoever subscribes to the Constitution needs to understand that it has been under attack for a century, and is not honored even in the breach. Whoever subscribes to the Constitution needs to understand that divorce, total victory, or enslavement are the only options – and we must choose.
Coexistence among the disparate groups, all filled with hatred, greed, and envy is an ephemera – a lost dream – dashed by the unholy alliance of money and politics. So long as we accept that greedy, worthless maggots have a “right” to our labor, we are slaves.
Well, Tim, what are suggesting? What I’m reading in your response is, “This means war!”
Trump is countering, for the first time since this country’s, maybe, third or fourth presidential election, the problem with buying an election. He is not taking a dime of Wall Street’s, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s or K Street money. Not a dime. Not a penny. He doesn’t have any post-election phone calls to return from big money donors who want a good seat at the inauguration or a comp’d room at the Old Post Office Hotel. He’s not only upsetting the U.S. political machine, he’s getting heat from European sell-outs who have traded their souls for political power and dirty money. He is the quintessential poke in the eye to every politician who made their wealth in back-room deals instead of earning it the old fashioned way.
So, we either work within whatever is left of constitutional law or we fight another civil war. It wouldn’t be unheard of. From a contemporary standpoint, countries fight civil wars all the time. But your views are too radical for me and probably for most Americans. And I was afraid of this when the NR piece came out, that it would make coming down off the ledge gracefully all but impossible.
It’s coming, whether I like it or not (and I don’t).
Just reading the tea leaves.
“Hope for the best; Prepare for the worst.” is what I admonished my sons. I think it relevant.
Well, there’s always that possibility, of course. I don’t see the constitutionalists coming out on top of that fight — ironically because there are too many in law enforcement and military who still believe in the rule of law and would execute their constitutional directives. Such a war, now, would be horrific — as is any war. I’d much rather avert such a dire option by having someone who is clearly conservative enough take the helm, change courses and show Americans it can be done. I think it takes so much more imagination to do that than to take up arms against each other.
Socialists are relentless.
They are a flesh-eating bacteria.
Their aim is to contort America into a socialist Hell-hole, and they are succeeding. They use the Constitution to mask their intentions with soft words and foolish notions.
After every Summer comes Winter.
And we have lost the will or the knowledge to resist – thus, the descent continues, apace.
The nation is a sham. We produce nothing – except garbage (literally). We possess 5% of the World’s population and 95% of the World’s lawyers. The filthy fucking rat-people swarm here to take advantage of our kindnesses and return that kindness with hatred and contempt. And we NEVER learn.
Our schools have been socialist indoctrination centers since Dewey showed the way (1920s?) and our college graduates are as ill informed as the most remote aboriginal on the most deserted island. The task of rectification is positively Herculean, demanding the greatest efforts of our most gifted, and yet the most gifted continue to stuff their pockets with the fruits of the labor of others.
Dream that sweet dream.
No attacks on Reid. Haven’t heard Reid attacking Trump either. You don’t suppose that’s because Reid is one of those honorable politicians, You know the kind – once they’re bought, they stay bought. No, that can’t be it.
You know the wording of your responses take that alienating and insulting turn. I’m not a dreamer of dreams. I think you’re sincere about what you say, but sometimes people can be sincerely wrong, too.
You won’t get any argument out of me about socialists and socialism. I know very well what that outcome is. But I’m not sure what you are saying. Either Cruz can handle the divisions within the congress or he can’t. He’s not going to be able to take out his long gun and shoot his ideological enemies. So, how’s he going to do it? He’s going to have to convince everyone — including his Wall Street backers — that he can come up with a win/win all the way around. I want him to be able to do that, not because I think he’s a wonderful guy but because without that ability he can’t execute any of those great conservative things. But he’s not only galvanized rejection and suspicion among his ideological opposites, he’s managed to alienate most everyone he needs from his own party — whether you like those people or not. And we don’t. But it doesn’t change certain realities. How does he now change his well-known persona as a hard-core conservative pit bull and pull off a Newt Gingrich-type, let us reason together, administration? I think it will be very hard for him to do, without looking like a sell-out to everyone who wants an ideological hard-liner.
Cruz not a natural born citizen?
Who says, Trump?
Citizenship goes with parents citizenship regardless of location. So an immigrant coming to America has a kid on US Soil, he is a natural born citizen?
Yet if your parent is a US citizen and she is on vacation outside the US and gives birth to you, then you are not a US citizen?
This is a none issue. If this was an issue then I believe some of the early presidents wouldn’t have been qualified.
Do the democrats like Pelosi and Reid try to meet in the middle and cut deals?
They stand their ground while the Republicans capitulate and then a ideological liberal Marxist comes to the white house and doesn’t engage with the otherside and he gets everything he wanted because of the weak RHINOs. Why can’t conservatives put conservative into the Prez office and be firm in their ideals and policies and stand strong against the Dems.
You have to fight them like they fight us, which is what Cruz has done and that is why the libs hate him. Just like we hate the Pelosi’s and Reid’s.
Obama doesn’t smooze, the dems don’t smooze, so why do we need a smoozer in chief. Conservatives have brought Victory to the Senate, House, Governors, state houses, I don’t want to hear this crap about we need somebody that can negotiate and smooze. That means capitulate to the Dems in my book, which is something they never do.
I’m not voting for any Lawyer
Just VOTE.
Am for Cruz, but will vote Trump if it will keep prisoner #257681 or Burn-ee out.
Polarity, is what we need, badly.
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Alienating?
Insulting?
Wrong?
If a doctor says: “You have cancer” he isn’t trying to alienate or insult his patient, though he may be wrong.
Facts are simply facts. We are hurling into the abyss.
Socialism cannot exist with Liberty. Socialism requires coercion.
I have yet to hear a single candidate explain how he (she) will alleviate our $20Trillion debt. Or our $220Trillion unfunded liabilities. Or how he is gonna make jobs for people who refuse/ill-equipped to work. Or call the filthy fuckin ragheads what they are. Or the criminal invaders from the south what they are. Or how it is illegal to require one to obtain a permit to exercise a right. Or how it is an absurdity to claim that the “right” to marriage is in our Constitution (or Bill of Rights). Or how citizenship and the concomitant proof, thereof, is required to exercise the vote.
Europe is not a destination.
Europe is a way station.
I am truly sorry if my analysis seems a tad dark.
I take some small comfort in the fact that I’ll probably be dead when all the evil comes to fruition, though I weep for my children and grandchildren.
Oh … I AM a dreamer of dreams … though the stark daylight chases them away.
http://youtu.be/RSNY_VnysmM