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With Rubio, we get more Republican establishment politics. I'm not real hot on that idea.
With Trump, we get another ego-maniac/narcissist who relies more on stoking the passions than in sound governance. We've had that for the past eight years and I'm not real hot on it continuing. I was eager to vote for Perot, but Perot hadn't bankrupted four businesses, benefited from government taking private land under eminent domain, encouraged higher taxes, or shilled for socialized medicine.
Cruz has been so consistent that the conniving RINO hypocrites of the "mainstream" GOP are horrified by the thought of him becoming POTUS.
I've read and heard the RINOs are starting to back The (deal-making) Donald if that's what it takes to beat Cruz.
I don't see Cruz as our next president.
Still, I intend to vote for him in the primary to make a statement.
At this point in time. Something more may happen to change my mind.
Recent libtard Trump making fun of Cruz will not change my mind. Neither will Gang Of Eight trickster RINO Rubio.
Well, I hold some such views, rejecting others just as I do with my ongoing study of philosophy.
I am pro-life but not a zealot to the point the point that I think a woman should have to carry a rapist's baby. Rubio is a RINO anyway.
We've had plenty of Christian presidents. It helped a lot of them become just that by proclaiming their faith before crowds.
Catholic JFK was not a papist slave. He even messed around. "Bless me father for I have sinned----" LOL!
My American born full-blooded Swedish father was raised a Lutheran who converted to Catholicism to marry my mother.
They now rest side by side beneath the same somewhat sizable grave marker.
Dad turned into a devout Catholic. I didn't.
All five of his sons fell away from the Catholic church, though his youngest reconverted in recent years. He used to be agnostic.
I'm the oldest, a Protestant who rarely goes to a church, Methodist being the last one.
The only atheist now says he believes there is a God due to beauty in the world.
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The whole country was based on christianity, and a rebellion from the king's religion (whatever that was) and his taxes. Freedom of religion didnt extend to "other" religions like mormonism so it wasnt real religious freedom- just freedom from the king's religion
I was once a heretic in my past. It's a resentful reaction to having any specific religion shoved down your throat.
Ex-Catholic talking here. Fifteen years later I was "born again" as it's called.
I was won over. Not forced.
I am who I am.
About to turn 69 with most of my life behind me, I try to be honest with myself and have a good time.
There are some Christian lurkers here. I get PM'd from time to time.
The First Amendment does not either.
Ted Cruz won't be doing that.
Such theocratic behavior is not at the core of his conservative American principles.
And he's not going to win anyway.
Trump may yet win me over. I listened to him speak in Texas today.
He said he's going to protect Christians.
A TV preacher was even invited up to the podium.
I've plenty of time to think about Mr. Trump.
I'm still (at this point) voting for Cruz to make a statement.
Well, try to. Heard on the car radio today that Trump has a lock on the Alabama GOP vote.
Where I live the blacks will make Hillary a winner in both the Dimwit primary and the USA final.
You'd think I'd just stay home; but no, I consider voting to be a citizenship duty.
You're fired. LOL
We need a reality TV show called POTUS Trump Says You're Fired!
Cruz is a preacher at heart. Texas is a bible belt state. To be a popular governor, he has to be a preacher. I remember Rick Perry, who said that evolution didnt exist. Thats like saying the earth is flat. Crazy
All the Pharos had been found buried in the valley of the kings not one was ever found in a pyramid.
Survival of the fittest causes a fear and greed
Dichotomy.Thats not what my interpretation of Galts gulch was in AS! Peace to all Gulches
When it actually is a private corporation owned by 20 not so secret shareholders many who are not US citizens and the ones who are would like to
Put us into a "new world order" Governed by the United Nations. Peace and safety to you!
As to federal reserve, you are right that it's private. But it moves in lockstep with our government for 100 years now to destroy our money. It should be abolished
Promote certain desirable traits.Who manipulated
The genes of an ape to create human beings to need clothing to reason to invent to communicate verbally and orally in hundreds of different languages .I know that the argument is mutations
Changed apes to mankind but it doesn't make sense to me that no other creatures mutated into intelligent beings.
As for the federal reserve it has been in some shape or form controlling the money of our country for over 215 years and every president who tried to reign in its power has been assassinated Abolish it yes but also the puppet masters should be imprisoned and their ill gotten wealth should be repatriated.
First of all, I'm not a Trump fanatic. I'm a realist that wants to see us WIN at many levels. Trump seems to bring out a shit-load more voters to the polls than anyone else can in their wettest dreams. 7 out of 8 of his supporters were not even registered to vote before, which isn't surprising, considering we have like 20% voter turnout in this country. The 'polls' always say "among likely voters" - which is why, although they are accurate in predicting his win, they are way under-estimating his victory numbers. If you haven't voted in 20 years, you are not being polled as "a likely voter" and sure as shit not being "a likely Republican Primary voter".
Those people are going to turn out in numbers that are going to say "I'm a Republican, I need to vote for all these other Republicans too". Every R on the slate is going to strongly benefit from a Trump landslide voter turnout. I don't really care what Trump does, frankly, I think we need a wall built. I live in California, I'm officially a minority in terms of diversity preference in government hiring here for being a white male. I like immigration, most of my friends are immigrants, but I also don't like people cutting the line. Cruz & Rubio seem to be just fine with that, I don't see the difference between 'citizenship' and just living here and enjoying the benefits while myself and my family goes off to fight for freedom. We actually let them buy firearms, but not vote.... whatever..
I'm looking at the benefit of registering new Republican voter rolls in RECORD numbers. We can actually turn back the dial on the fact that we are in a diminishing population segment while the democrats cobble together 50 different groups that don't like each other but always vote together. (Teamsters + the gay vote, environmentalist + the union logger vote, etc.)
Don't let the pundits and the media, all funded & hugged by the democrats, mislead you with that 'electability' crap. Trump brought 35,000+ votes in Nevada, compared to a TOTAL of under 12,000 that voted for Hillary and Bernie. He also swept the hispanic vote. That doesn't sound like someone that will lose 50-40% to me in the general... not at all.
Here's the magic, look at the TOTAL votes cast in each of these primaries, look at Trump's numbers, compared to Hillary and Bernie's actual vote counts, don't look at 'percentages' because they are only showing the percentages. Trump carried all but 3 of the counties in South Carolina, and those 3 were cities, and in my California world, the cities are where the liberals live. The carpet doesn't match the drapes you might say...
The media pundits don't like him, because frankly, they all work as campaign workers during election season and he's not interested in hiring them. The networks don't like him because he doesn't seem to feel the need to buy ad time, so that deflates their general election anticipated advertising money bonanza by like, 30-50%. The 'establishment' doesn't like him because it's pretty obvious he's not going to hire Karl Rove or any of their other 'handlers'. The other politicians don't like him because he's going to show them up for the fools they are with 'free trade' deals. Why did we ever feel the need for 'free trade'? Think about it, we're the largest economy in the world, what the hell do we need to give others free access to our markets for? If trade isn't free, do you think BMW is not going to want to sell their cars here?
You always have to follow the money... what does Karl Rove get for blasting him? well... if Rubio or Cruz get the nomination, Karl Rove might have a job again.. Lindsay Graham is a failure anyway, I wouldn't listen to anything out of that RINO's mouth. Have you noticed all these people that don't like him, have literally never had a paycheck from anything other than government, let alone never having signed the front of a paycheck...
Today, Sanders is in Hibbing Minnesota, about an hour from my hometown of Bemidji, telling Native American tribal leaders that he feels their pain, and he has always thought we treated them disgracefully... Huh? Just what we need, another apologist for shit that happened 200 years ago. In addition to casinos, extreme preferential 8(a) set asides for government contracts to tribal-owned companies such as Bearskin and Cherokee Services, and around $1200 / month for every man/woman/child + free indian health services... maybe we need to what? give them more? Hold onto your wallets folks... Then he walks across the street to the iron workers and tells them that free trade has been just disgraceful for the steel industry... LOL... ya think? Nice of him to say that, needs to credit that plagiarized statement to Mr. Trump though, I think he needs some more of his own free college plan.
He's very vulnerable, Hillary isn't hitting him on this stuff because she probably vacationed on the taxpayer dime herself, Trump will just decimate him if he's the democratic nominee. I just don't see that happening though.
He's calling it a "loan", but there really isn't a lot of people that get $500,000 & $650,000 loans out of Citibank or Goldman Sachs without some real estate backing it or something. I find it suspicious that his wife happens to work at Goldman Sachs and he is a sitting senator.
for Scott Walker. I had really wanted him to run
for president about 4 years ago. Well, live and
learn.--But I don't think that Cruz will be able to
have much effect with his "religious zealotry" if
he is elected.--And we would have more freed-
om with him in the job than we would with
Clinton, Sanders, or Trump.
I think your comments are naive regarding Trump.
there is no need for sneakiness. He brazenly
praises eminent domain and brags about his lack
of principle, and says he can change into what
others want. And if people don't want to bother to
hold him to any standard of principle, it should
be pretty easy to fool them. I think Clinton or
Sanders would be worse, but it will be a disaster
if our only choice is between one of them or
Trump.
That is clear sign of brain only behavior, devoid of self inspection and have either been brain washed, put on prescriptive medication or early in life had chosen Not to be an accountable conscious human being; and of course there is always the probability of having a genetic retardation preventing them from being so.
again in the future. . we might want to think of Cruz
staying in the senate to filibuster when needed. -- j
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On balance I much prefer Cruz accent to that of what's her name Ma Chalmers of Texas talkin' 'bout silver spoons....now that is the perfect candidate to play that role in the AS movie...what's her name?
That said, he did pull a few nasty tricks trying to get votes from Ben Carson- telling voters Carson was dropping out and to switch votes to him. Thats where the liar tag came from, and it was justified.
This is the behavior we would expect from Hillary, except that she would deny it and then hide inside some email server...
I've been watching Cruz for a few years, waiting for him to fail to live up to his words or my expectations based on his words - he never has. It is conceivable that he was loyal to his people, giving Tyler another chance, and then had to cut him loose when he spread falsehoods again. Its also possible that he's guilty. To Ms. Martin, President and Co-Founder of the Tea Party Patriots. and I it just seems out of character.
Trump's attacks on them have been landing punches because they don't necessarily attack his opponent's politics. He attacks Cruz for being a [Canadian] anchor baby, that's a very factual statement. I seriously doubt he can be president and many others do as well. That left a mark, so then the Roe tricks come out, and now Trump is hitting back very effectively with the "liar" stuff, and whether it's Cruz making those ads, or its Roe, it doesn't matter, Cruz is responsible. He [should] be in charge of his campaign. If he's not in control, it makes him very unfit to be Commander in Chief. He doesn't have any executive experience, so it could easily flip either way.
Trump's early attacks on Rubio were very accurate, he had a small handful of people keeping him in the race and those people would be looking for their payback later. That's not a stretch at all, the first year of his campaign efforts were funded entirely by a car dealership owner in Florida.
I actually kind of liked how Donald went after a couple of people specifically to just get them out of the way, Rand Paul never really had more than 1% or so of the vote, so why was he there. I completely agreed. The same thing with Jeb Bush, he didn't really look or act like he wanted to be there, Trump just helped him get out of the way. Rubio kind of owes Trump a favor practically for that one.
I honestly think that the only one remaining on that stage that wouldn't find a home in a Trump administration is Cruz. He chose to make it very personal in a very insulting and inaccurate way, so I don't think it matters who wins, if its not Cruz himself, he's probably going to be a senator for another term or two, and out of politics after that. The political parties tend to remember which ones created more problems.
The Cruz/Rubio theory that the 'establishment' would coalesce around him, just isn't panning out. Trump benefited almost entirely from Bush leaving, with very few votes going to Rubio or Cruz. With that not being the case, I expect funding problems to become real issues from both. The heavy lifting of a campaign is through 'commitments', not necessarily cash in the bank. When they stop performing, the recurring monthly commitments will dry up just like it did for Bush.
The latest ruling .....is a child born of one or more US
parent but born outside the limits of the USA is considered as natural born citizen...
Trump knows that. He's full of excrement. I didn't know that or you would be discussing my name.
End of discussion . Dead issue.
Except for Trumpeters
Possibly he just went where they told him to go and gave the speeches but finally had to do something.
I will say that Trump is probably running his own campaign -- no professional political operative is running that!
That's the problem with government, no one is ever FIRED. No one is accountable for being incompetent, in fact, if you do nothing - you will probably have more job security than someone that tries to stand out. The unions don't like 'standing out', they are there to protect mediocrity, so the best way to do that is to have everyone working at ΒΌ impulse speed.
People are not remembering the last couple of seasons of the 'celebrity apprentice', they are thinking about when it was a hit show, and they remember seeing the Donald looking at the one that lost and saying "you're fired". He doesn't care how hard you tried, or that your mom is really sick and you are distracted, or whatever sad story I've heard a govie say too many times in my life to not be depressed over. If it were me, I'd honestly start with the 3 million federal employees, and figure that at least 1 out of 2 of those doesn't do a damn thing, and start with firing half in every labor category and career point, and see what we have to work with after that.
1. Someone ethically challenged enough to be sanguine about the dirty tricks
2. Hoping the candidate is competence compromised in this area in preference to being unethical.
Neither strikes me as appealing.
and the only one left standing....
When the left of the left seriously suggests pairing Biden with Reid they are seriously in trouble
But still not excuse for supporting the right wing of the left... Nattional versus International Socialism
It's the only choice you are going to get....
Constitution to the right Patriot Act to the left.
Probably Cause to the right suspicion of to the left
Personally I would prefer a Constiutional Candidate....but we don't have one of them except Johnson and Webb and they aren't allowed on the ballots of the left.
Plausible Deniability was a phrase coined and used by Democrats and left wingers....It means we can get away with it and you can't
as for the waters in which they swim...DC was a swamp to begin with...
Your comment is a side step or a duck not an answer.
'Probable Cause' to the right is 'suspicion of' to the left. Duck that.'
Trump fires up the masses by bringing in huge swaths of newly registered voters that quite honestly, would have probably been predicted to register democrat - displaced blue collar workers, poorly educated, etc. He carried the Latino vote in Nevada... more Latinos turned out to vote for Trump, than they did combined for Hillary and Bernie. Actually, 4 times the number of people turned out to vote for Trump, than turned out for Hillary and Bernie.
Cruz's critique of Trump is really just a reflection of his own myopathy when it comes to anything other than a legal argument or campaigning (the 2 skills in trade of a career politician). In large project management, business construction, or strategic planning, we use expert judgement and experience to outline a plan in broad strokes, assign resources and increase the level of detail through the project plan as we approach each phase and "know more". If you are planning a new high rise building to break ground in 2 years, do you know what day and hour the 4th dump truck of concrete will be delivered for the sidewalk on the back of the building? Of course not. You know it will have to happen, and you know about how much it will cost, but scheduling is very generalized and rolled up into a summary work package with a sticker price attached to it.
So these other clowns will release exceptionally detailed tax plans, health care proposals for 340 million people, etc. etc. None of which has a snowball's chance in hell of getting through Congress, let alone actually 'penciling' from a resource perspective, and Cruz is no different with his flat tax plan. Will it work? Probably, I don't know, it sounds good, but can he actually implement it by fiat? No, he can't, even if he wins.
The Cruz'rs also tend to deny his obvious faults, I strongly reject the idea he is a natural born citizen. His mother was a permanent resident (the criteria for a green card here) and his father was a Cuban national and both had been living in Canada and working in the oil industry for years. That sounds a lot like, you moved to Canada and you are not coming back, as most expatriate jobs last about 6 months to a year, in fact, you can't stay in Canada beyond 179 days without immigration & work VISA... soo... which is it? He had a Canadian passport until he renounced his citizenship in 2014. That doesn't sound like 'natural born' to me... Whatever stupid arguments he has been making, is just his trial lawyer double-speak, he could easily argue against it if it was Hillary or Trump or Bernie or Carson, but it's him, so he's grabbing onto some silly "my mom was a citizen living overseas". Ok, whatever. Here we call them anchor babies, in fact, he calls them anchor babies when it comes to illegal immigration. What the hell was he?
Second, while he does pontificate, he has never actually accomplished 'anything' in doing it. You see him on CSPAN, but when they pan the room, no one is there, he's just reading Dr. Seuss into the Congressional Record and wasting your tax dollars doing it.
This group is about people that ACCOMPLISH something, that BUILD something, that have skills. I'm pretty shocked, quite honestly, that the elected official that has never had anything but a government paycheck is somehow more popular than the guy that absolutely fits the description of what Ayn Rand wrote about as titans of industry that eventually just 'shrugged'. He's not building steel for train tracks, but he's building very large buildings, he employs a lot of people that seem to like working for him, and he does everything he can do to avoid paying taxes (and I'm 100% guilty of that as well - anyone that is not, is a fool because your dollars are buying $600 million of planes and selling them to the Afghan Air Force for $32,000 - we really did just do that).
Lastly, have you ever noticed how Cruz screams fire and brimstone, but he's pretty much a liar fairly consistently. He lies about Rubio's record, he lies about his own naturalization and upbringing, he lies about Trump as the PT Barnum circus, as if Trump is a master of sideshow ticket sales, instead of creating billions of dollars in trophy-class real estate investments. What has Cruz done? I mean REALLY done... has he invented something? has he innovated a service business in someway? No. He debates & argues with people for a living. Period. How does that really improve your life? Or anyone's life?
Then he lies about "forgetting" about a million dollars in loans from investment bankers that quite honestly, no one would really qualify for in his position unless it's a little bit of 'favor-buying'.... If you make $200k a year and are probably paying (or should be paying) $10,000 a month of interest on a signature loan, do you really forget something like that?
on the right "Cruz with his 20% plus of the Real Republicans Party probably more since the hard core Rinos really don't count AND the 46% disenfranchised who have no representation
on the left you have a National Socialist and his Trumpeters and and two International Socialists the Clintonistas and Bernie and the students.
The left is so set it's looking at people like Biden and Reid, Biden and Rubio, Biden and anybody.
There is no conservative movement anymore just some ineffective tea sippers who went Rino.
I hope you are insulted you should be.
Like the populists the Tea Party got rolled, hosed, and screwed by the RINOS.
So that's the line up;
Does the left really care. No. There is not a candidate still in the race that won't in some way help them and they are nothing if not patient.
It's up to Cruz to make go to the majority of unaligned voters and convince them he's worth it.
So far he has failed to do so.. This time though it will take more than empty rhetoric or a RIno Promise. Neither are worth spit. It will take a major stance in a position from which he cannot retreat. He'll have to lay his political life on the line.
otherwise i give it 50 50 trumpeters versus Clintonites with Bernie sucking hind teat.Students are not well regarded these days except in neo-Nazi circles
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epol...
Cruz is actually dropping back with Carson & Kaisich in many polls. Trump is up by 20 points on average in pretty much every Super Tuesday state.
Trump now defeats Clinton or Sanders handily.
I recommend you don't just look at the summary number, but click on the link itself, read the questions that were asked, why the respondents say what, etc... These are usually 30 minute interviews, there is a lot of information in them. The numbers are shifting because Cruz & Rubio followers are no longer "sticky" - maybe 30% say they wouldn't consider another candidate, where 70% or so of Trump supporters say they wouldn't support anyone else in the field.
The latest polls were post-Texas debate, the vast majority of Americans just saw it as a couple of little kids trying to pick on someone.
So, the new Cruz line is 'neo nazi'? I thought he was a RINO or a liberal before? It's really just more immaturity and lack of business sense, in business development, we call it "throwing spaghetti on the wall" - just throwing out a bunch of ideas and see if anything sticks. If there was a mature and winning concept there, it would be like a war drum beating consistently, but Cruz & Rubio at this point are shifting every 48 hours practically in desperation. Their donors are no doubt threatening to pull out by now.
I'll go back to my near year old and still unchallenged ten to one odds hundred dollar bet.
95% of the electorate will be listed as voting for left wing fascist socialism.. So far that could be Bernie, Hillary, or Donald.
Winner take all is why I'm so confident.
The other two are immaterial. There is no opposition to support them