Hard to believe, but there it is.
I support and will vote for Trump because he's way better than horrible Hillary
Showing posts with label Ted Cruz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ted Cruz. Show all posts
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Ted Cruz at the convention
Ted Cruz not backing down as he reopens wounds from hard-fought GOP primary
Given the facts reported he neither refused nor even declined, last night, he simply didn't endorse Trump.
He called on Republicans to vote their consciences up ticket and down.
But today, when urged to endorse and support Trump, he refused.
“In that speech last night I did not say a single negative word about Donald Trump,” Cruz said.
“And I’ll tell you this morning, and going forward, I don’t intend to say negative things about Donald Trump.”
But some at the breakfast had some negative things to say about Cruz.
A man held up a sign reading “Clinton/Cruz 2020.”
Others yelled at him to sit down or accused him of sowing discord and reneging on promises.
Cruz justified his remarks by saying that he congratulated Trump on securing the nomination.
He also assured attendees that he will not be voting for Clinton in the fall.
But he was far from conciliatory, repeating that although he would listen to Trump’s speech Thursday, he would not be endorsing the real estate mogul.
“I’m going to be listening to how he and the campaign conduct themselves every day from now until November,” Cruz said.
He also stood by his decision not to honor a pledge he made last year to support the eventual GOP nominee, saying that the pledge was rendered moot because Trump attacked his family.
“The day that was abrogated was the day this became personal,” he said.
“I’m not going to get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump, but I’ll just give you this response: I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.”
Given the facts reported he neither refused nor even declined, last night, he simply didn't endorse Trump.
He called on Republicans to vote their consciences up ticket and down.
But today, when urged to endorse and support Trump, he refused.
“In that speech last night I did not say a single negative word about Donald Trump,” Cruz said.
“And I’ll tell you this morning, and going forward, I don’t intend to say negative things about Donald Trump.”
But some at the breakfast had some negative things to say about Cruz.
A man held up a sign reading “Clinton/Cruz 2020.”
Others yelled at him to sit down or accused him of sowing discord and reneging on promises.
Cruz justified his remarks by saying that he congratulated Trump on securing the nomination.
He also assured attendees that he will not be voting for Clinton in the fall.
But he was far from conciliatory, repeating that although he would listen to Trump’s speech Thursday, he would not be endorsing the real estate mogul.
“I’m going to be listening to how he and the campaign conduct themselves every day from now until November,” Cruz said.
He also stood by his decision not to honor a pledge he made last year to support the eventual GOP nominee, saying that the pledge was rendered moot because Trump attacked his family.
“The day that was abrogated was the day this became personal,” he said.
“I’m not going to get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump, but I’ll just give you this response: I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.”
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
The worst of all worlds
Hillary lost in Indiana, Trump won, Cruz dropped out of the race and Kasich is expected to later today.
Sanders needs to get over it and drop the hell out.
Again, he won in an open primary with the overwhelming support of people who are not Democrats, or indeed anything else.
He announced he can become the nominee and continues to run against Hillary and to echo Il Duce in attacking her on trade.
Sure, if he's the nominee I'll vote for him and even put signs on my lawn.
But I'd rather have Hillary, both for her politics and for her electability.
Nobody can red-bait Hillary with the least show of plausibility.
Bernie Sanders pulls off shock victory over Hillary Clinton in Indiana
Trump owns the GOP, now, and the Wall Street conservatives are homeless.
Buchananism is now on top in the Republican Party.
The Republican Party's brain is self-deporting, and conservatism is dead
Donald Trump Won Because Republicans Have Bad Ideas And People Hate Those Ideas
Newsies are saying Trump is running to the left of Hillary on trade.
Sanders, Kucinich, Reich, and others in recent years have made protectionism a position of the left.
They could say as much for his foreign policy views.
But it's all pure Pat Buchanan.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Il Duce is "a pathological liar," says Lyin' Ted
Trump attacks Cruz’s father on unsubstantiated Oswald claim
Republican front-runner Donald Trump rehashed unsubstantiated claims Tuesday that his rival Ted Cruz’s father has links to President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
In a telephone interview broadcast by Fox News on Tuesday, Trump cited a National Enquirer story that claimed Rafael Cruz appeared in a 1963 photo in New Orleans with Oswald and others as Oswald distributed pro-Cuba leaflets.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump rehashed unsubstantiated claims Tuesday that his rival Ted Cruz’s father has links to President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
In a telephone interview broadcast by Fox News on Tuesday, Trump cited a National Enquirer story that claimed Rafael Cruz appeared in a 1963 photo in New Orleans with Oswald and others as Oswald distributed pro-Cuba leaflets.
Cruz vs Trumpists
Saw it on MSNBC.
Cruz waded into a crowd of Trumpists and both brilliantly and fearlessly shredded Trump and his candidacy to their faces, and said outright he was making chumps of them all.
The Guardian's writeup says the Trumpists showered him with rude verbal abuse.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
John Boehner on Ted Cruz
John Boehner talks election, time in office
I really don't see Cruz as a suitable ideological match for Carly Fiorina, but there it is.
I really don't see Cruz as a suitable ideological match for Carly Fiorina, but there it is.
Update.
Boehner also said Kasich is "high maintenance" and "needy," and that he supports Trump.
Anyway, Boehner at Stanford.
When specifically asked his opinions on Ted Cruz, Boehner made a face, drawing laughter from the crowd.
“Lucifer in the flesh,” the former speaker said.
“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
Anyway, Boehner at Stanford.
When specifically asked his opinions on Ted Cruz, Boehner made a face, drawing laughter from the crowd.
“Lucifer in the flesh,” the former speaker said.
“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
It's over, sort of
Informed comment this morning is taking the races in both major parties as settled, with Il Duce and Hillary the nominees in waiting - waiting for the conventions to make it official.
A relatively conciliatory Sanders statement has been taken as a sort of de facto, if rather graceless, concession speech.
In it, he vowed to continue to the convention in order to write a Sanders platform for Hillary and the Democratic Party in which he has refused membership for going on half a century and which he has lately regularly and robustly damned as hopelessly corrupt, but made no suggestion that he might somehow become the nominee.
And on the other side, Trump declared himself the chosen one and ordered Kasich and Cruz out of the race while scheduling a "presidential" speech on foreign policy for today.
Cruz, mathematically eliminated from any chance of a first ballot victory, has scheduled a speech for 4 pm today, and nobody seems to know what it's about.
Having called a basketball hoop a "ring" while campaigning in Indiana, reputedly his absolutely last ditch if not one ditch past his last ditch, twitter has advised him his goose is cooked in that state.
The short-lived Cruz-Kasich alliance to stop Trump has failed.
Trump, who convinced Republicans Cruz and Rubio were not for them by dubbing them "Lying Ted" and "Little Marco" to their faces during debates and permanently adopting the style of Mussolini, is already denouncing "Crooked Hillary" as weak, tired, old, female, and totally incapable of the job.
Neither he nor anyone else has done anything to convince anyone of the truth of his claims about free trade, immigration, Chinese currency manipulation, the corruption of the establishment and the primary/delegate selection/convention process, his own competence, the possibility and usefulness of throwing out existing trade arrangements, or anything at all.
His entire sales pitch is bombast, aggression, and thuggery, and it has taken him very far, indeed.
Well, to be fair, Bernie's campaign rhetorical style has not been much different, though the worst aspect of his own ad hominem approach has been to smear Hillary by vicious innuendo and the entire Democratic Party - and indeed the entire classe politique and the government of the United States and every state - by explicit accusation of corruption.
Per the newsies, 30% of his voters have said they will absolutely not vote for her, and Trump is already wooing them by continuing Bernie's attacks on free trade and "Crooked Hillary."
An unknown but not insignificant number have already declared for Il Duce.
Meanwhile, diehards on the left are still running against Hillary rather than for Bernie, or even for any of his particular signature issues.
That will not help in November.
Meanwhile, it's perfectly true that more unites than divides Hillary from Bernie, and that the actual agenda in play is not radical at all, but pretty main stream.
A relatively conciliatory Sanders statement has been taken as a sort of de facto, if rather graceless, concession speech.
In it, he vowed to continue to the convention in order to write a Sanders platform for Hillary and the Democratic Party in which he has refused membership for going on half a century and which he has lately regularly and robustly damned as hopelessly corrupt, but made no suggestion that he might somehow become the nominee.
And on the other side, Trump declared himself the chosen one and ordered Kasich and Cruz out of the race while scheduling a "presidential" speech on foreign policy for today.
Cruz, mathematically eliminated from any chance of a first ballot victory, has scheduled a speech for 4 pm today, and nobody seems to know what it's about.
Having called a basketball hoop a "ring" while campaigning in Indiana, reputedly his absolutely last ditch if not one ditch past his last ditch, twitter has advised him his goose is cooked in that state.
The short-lived Cruz-Kasich alliance to stop Trump has failed.
Trump, who convinced Republicans Cruz and Rubio were not for them by dubbing them "Lying Ted" and "Little Marco" to their faces during debates and permanently adopting the style of Mussolini, is already denouncing "Crooked Hillary" as weak, tired, old, female, and totally incapable of the job.
Neither he nor anyone else has done anything to convince anyone of the truth of his claims about free trade, immigration, Chinese currency manipulation, the corruption of the establishment and the primary/delegate selection/convention process, his own competence, the possibility and usefulness of throwing out existing trade arrangements, or anything at all.
His entire sales pitch is bombast, aggression, and thuggery, and it has taken him very far, indeed.
Well, to be fair, Bernie's campaign rhetorical style has not been much different, though the worst aspect of his own ad hominem approach has been to smear Hillary by vicious innuendo and the entire Democratic Party - and indeed the entire classe politique and the government of the United States and every state - by explicit accusation of corruption.
Per the newsies, 30% of his voters have said they will absolutely not vote for her, and Trump is already wooing them by continuing Bernie's attacks on free trade and "Crooked Hillary."
An unknown but not insignificant number have already declared for Il Duce.
Meanwhile, diehards on the left are still running against Hillary rather than for Bernie, or even for any of his particular signature issues.
That will not help in November.
Meanwhile, it's perfectly true that more unites than divides Hillary from Bernie, and that the actual agenda in play is not radical at all, but pretty main stream.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
By their applause lines shall you know them
Ted Cruz live moments ago at a rally, broadcast on MSNBC, to enthusiastic cheers.
Some day soon you will fill out your tax return on a postcard and the IRS will be abolished.
Also, by their websites shall you know them.
Copied and pasted from Cruz's website:
To shrink the size and power of the federal government, the Cruz Five for Freedom plan eliminates the IRS, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
As President, Ted Cruz will appoint heads of each of those agencies whose sole charge will be to wind them down and determine whether any programs need to be preserved.
Like Trump, he wants to build a wall and deport the illegals.
He promises to replace the current federal income tax step function with a flat tax of 10% on everything above a initial, exempt amount that varies with family size but would be $36,000 for a family of four.
Most of the website is Christian right boilerplate.
There is a lot of pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian stuff.
Some day soon you will fill out your tax return on a postcard and the IRS will be abolished.
Also, by their websites shall you know them.
Copied and pasted from Cruz's website:
To shrink the size and power of the federal government, the Cruz Five for Freedom plan eliminates the IRS, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
As President, Ted Cruz will appoint heads of each of those agencies whose sole charge will be to wind them down and determine whether any programs need to be preserved.
Like Trump, he wants to build a wall and deport the illegals.
He promises to replace the current federal income tax step function with a flat tax of 10% on everything above a initial, exempt amount that varies with family size but would be $36,000 for a family of four.
Most of the website is Christian right boilerplate.
There is a lot of pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian stuff.
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Friday, April 15, 2016
Trump, the champion of democracy, in the WSJ
Let me ask America a question
He will crush Cruz in New York.
Sometimes I think he and Bernie have the same speechwriter.
The only antidote to decades of ruinous rule by a small handful of elites is a bold infusion of popular will.
On every major issue affecting this country, the people are right and the governing elite are wrong.
The elites are wrong on taxes, on the size of government, on trade, on immigration, on foreign policy.
. . . .
Mr. Cruz has toured the country bragging about his voterless victory in Colorado.
For a man who styles himself as a warrior against the establishment (you wouldn’t know it from his list of donors and endorsers), you’d think he would be demanding a vote for Coloradans.
Instead, Mr. Cruz is celebrating their disenfranchisement.
Likewise, Mr. Cruz loudly boasts every time party insiders disenfranchise voters in a congressional district by appointing delegates who will vote the opposite of the expressed will of the people who live in that district.
That’s because Mr. Cruz has no democratic path to the nomination.
He has been mathematically eliminated by the voters.
While I am self-funding, Mr. Cruz rakes in millions from special interests.
Yet despite his financial advantage, Mr. Cruz has won only three primaries outside his home state and trails me by two million votes—a gap that will soon explode even wider.
Mr. Cruz loses when people actually get to cast ballots.
Voter disenfranchisement is not merely part of the Cruz strategy—it is the Cruz strategy.
The great irony of this campaign is that the “Washington cartel” that Mr. Cruz rails against is the very group he is relying upon in his voter-nullification scheme.
My campaign strategy is to win with the voters.
Ted Cruz’s campaign strategy is to win despite them.
He will crush Cruz in New York.
Sometimes I think he and Bernie have the same speechwriter.
The only antidote to decades of ruinous rule by a small handful of elites is a bold infusion of popular will.
On every major issue affecting this country, the people are right and the governing elite are wrong.
The elites are wrong on taxes, on the size of government, on trade, on immigration, on foreign policy.
. . . .
Mr. Cruz has toured the country bragging about his voterless victory in Colorado.
For a man who styles himself as a warrior against the establishment (you wouldn’t know it from his list of donors and endorsers), you’d think he would be demanding a vote for Coloradans.
Instead, Mr. Cruz is celebrating their disenfranchisement.
Likewise, Mr. Cruz loudly boasts every time party insiders disenfranchise voters in a congressional district by appointing delegates who will vote the opposite of the expressed will of the people who live in that district.
That’s because Mr. Cruz has no democratic path to the nomination.
He has been mathematically eliminated by the voters.
While I am self-funding, Mr. Cruz rakes in millions from special interests.
Yet despite his financial advantage, Mr. Cruz has won only three primaries outside his home state and trails me by two million votes—a gap that will soon explode even wider.
Mr. Cruz loses when people actually get to cast ballots.
Voter disenfranchisement is not merely part of the Cruz strategy—it is the Cruz strategy.
The great irony of this campaign is that the “Washington cartel” that Mr. Cruz rails against is the very group he is relying upon in his voter-nullification scheme.
My campaign strategy is to win with the voters.
Ted Cruz’s campaign strategy is to win despite them.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Trump news today. A bit of Bernie and Hillary. Internationalism/cosmopolitanism vs isolationism/nationalism.
Trump rescinds pledge to back Republican nominee; Cruz, Kasich refuse to commit support
Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would no longer honor his pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee for president, while fellow candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich refused to say whether they would back the party's pick.
All three GOP contenders appeared at a CNN town hall in Milwaukee one week before Wisconsin's April 5 primary.
Trump: ‘I Hate Proliferation’ But It Would Be Better if Japan, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea Had Nuclear Weapons
As usual, his syntax was a mess, but the points he made were that proliferation is irresistible and it would be better for America if Japan, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea got their own nukes and so could take care of their own defense needs, without us.
We are getting financially soaked, he said in substance, providing for the defense of far too many rich countries from which we get little or nothing back, including (for example) Germany.
And anyway we are not going to use nukes to defend all these folks.
All this is of a piece with his previous remarks about NATO being obsolete and a gyp benefiting Europe at America's expense.
This is Pat Buchanan's foreign policy and, no matter what he might say, it most certainly isn't Ronald Reagan's or, for that matter, Richard Nixon's.
It is the policy Antiwar.com has been recommending for decades.
It is the policy of people like Ron Paul and, if I am not mistaken, Rand Paul.
Pat Buchanan and those same others, most definitely including The Donald, oppose not only NATO and (of course) the UN but the EU and most volubly Europe's continuing policy of allowing rapid, mass immigration of Muslims and black Africans.
They used the Greek financial crisis against the EU and now support Brexit.
They say they support a Europe of the Nations, but it's not far from being just a Europe of the Skinheads.
Internationalists like most of the GOP and a bigger most of the Democratic Party see Buchananism as a path to chaos driven by the emergence of so many additional nuclear flash-points at wholly independent and uncoordinated centers of power, able to make local conflicts much worse and more dangerous globally.
They remain committed to the UN, to NATO, to the EU, and to the system of US alliances in the Far East and Oceania as essential elements of peace and order in a very disorderly and unpeaceful world.
Not to mention that the more independent and uncoordinated centers of power there are with nukes in their hands, the greater the chance of genuine horrific WMDs getting into the hands of Jihaders or other crazies.
(For similar reasons, by the way, it would clearly be contrary to the public safety for ever larger numbers of ordinary civilians to routinely go about carrying loaded firearms, ready and probably far too many of them itching for a shootout.)
I have myself from time to time been persuaded by the Buchananite view, but I have to admit that the presence in the race this year of somebody who seems, if genuinely committed to anything, genuinely committed to exactly that has, by making the thing more real, made it more stunning and even appalling.
[Update 12212016. I am far from agreeing with the above 3 paragraphs, now.]
MSNBC just now said Marco Rubio, officially out of the race, is making an unprecedented attempt to retain control of his delegates going into the convention.
Normally, his delegates would be redistributed among remaining candidates before the convention, so Trump would be helped toward getting a majority before the opening day.
It appears from the video that The Donald's campaign manager being charged with simple assault against a journalist is both bogus and politically motivated, and all his enemies are using that incident to raise the level of alarm in the public mind about Trump and his candidacy.
Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would no longer honor his pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee for president, while fellow candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich refused to say whether they would back the party's pick.
All three GOP contenders appeared at a CNN town hall in Milwaukee one week before Wisconsin's April 5 primary.
Trump: ‘I Hate Proliferation’ But It Would Be Better if Japan, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea Had Nuclear Weapons
As usual, his syntax was a mess, but the points he made were that proliferation is irresistible and it would be better for America if Japan, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea got their own nukes and so could take care of their own defense needs, without us.
We are getting financially soaked, he said in substance, providing for the defense of far too many rich countries from which we get little or nothing back, including (for example) Germany.
And anyway we are not going to use nukes to defend all these folks.
All this is of a piece with his previous remarks about NATO being obsolete and a gyp benefiting Europe at America's expense.
This is Pat Buchanan's foreign policy and, no matter what he might say, it most certainly isn't Ronald Reagan's or, for that matter, Richard Nixon's.
It is the policy Antiwar.com has been recommending for decades.
It is the policy of people like Ron Paul and, if I am not mistaken, Rand Paul.
Pat Buchanan and those same others, most definitely including The Donald, oppose not only NATO and (of course) the UN but the EU and most volubly Europe's continuing policy of allowing rapid, mass immigration of Muslims and black Africans.
They used the Greek financial crisis against the EU and now support Brexit.
They say they support a Europe of the Nations, but it's not far from being just a Europe of the Skinheads.
Internationalists like most of the GOP and a bigger most of the Democratic Party see Buchananism as a path to chaos driven by the emergence of so many additional nuclear flash-points at wholly independent and uncoordinated centers of power, able to make local conflicts much worse and more dangerous globally.
They remain committed to the UN, to NATO, to the EU, and to the system of US alliances in the Far East and Oceania as essential elements of peace and order in a very disorderly and unpeaceful world.
Not to mention that the more independent and uncoordinated centers of power there are with nukes in their hands, the greater the chance of genuine horrific WMDs getting into the hands of Jihaders or other crazies.
(For similar reasons, by the way, it would clearly be contrary to the public safety for ever larger numbers of ordinary civilians to routinely go about carrying loaded firearms, ready and probably far too many of them itching for a shootout.)
I have myself from time to time been persuaded by the Buchananite view, but I have to admit that the presence in the race this year of somebody who seems, if genuinely committed to anything, genuinely committed to exactly that has, by making the thing more real, made it more stunning and even appalling.
[Update 12212016. I am far from agreeing with the above 3 paragraphs, now.]
MSNBC just now said Marco Rubio, officially out of the race, is making an unprecedented attempt to retain control of his delegates going into the convention.
Normally, his delegates would be redistributed among remaining candidates before the convention, so Trump would be helped toward getting a majority before the opening day.
It appears from the video that The Donald's campaign manager being charged with simple assault against a journalist is both bogus and politically motivated, and all his enemies are using that incident to raise the level of alarm in the public mind about Trump and his candidacy.
Monday, March 28, 2016
Friday, March 25, 2016
Who would be worse, Cruz or Trump?
Cruz is out to destroy the whole heritage of a century of progressivism, in the interests of plutocracy but also of Christian clericalism.
Trump is not.
Cruz is a more committed ally of Israel.
Cruz is more serious and reliable in his announced aims, Trump being in large part a windbag and a fraud.
Both are ethnic cleansers.
I don't know who would do less well against a Democrat.
Each is frightening.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Cruz calls Trump a "sniveling coward" and a "train wreck" who will not be the Republican nominee.
The two are like wrestlers or boxers trying to pump up fans before a major fight.
Cruz forces slut-shaming Trump's wife?
She was a model and posed nude in something or other.
Cruz supporters have an ad out featuring a nude pic and saying that's the next First Lady if you put Trump in the White House.
Welcome to the campaign of 2016.
Cruz supporters have an ad out featuring a nude pic and saying that's the next First Lady if you put Trump in the White House.
Welcome to the campaign of 2016.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Crazy in the head
The list of bad things far more likely to happen to you than Muslim terrorism is very, very long, and none of it inspires such utter, batshit nonsense from journos, pundits, and politicians as a bit of high profile, downtown slaughter.
And the looniest of it all comes to you from the political right, where Cruz and Trump are outbidding each other in nutso.
US presidential candidates respond to attacks in Brussels
Perhaps it would help maintain a sense of proportion if politicians would knock off talking nonsense about us all being at war and speak of this as a crime issue, and by no means the most important in the world today.
Sure, in Syria, Iraq, and a number of other places, there is actual warfare.
But not in Europe and not in the Americas.
And whether or not ISIS is destroyed, governments can no more prevent terrorism than they can end rape and take back the night, as our radical feminist friends put it.
Phooey.
Another terror attack in Europe
Brussels attacks: 34 die in 2 explosions at Brussels Airport, 1 at subway station
TV now says 31 dead and more than 100 wounded, per some official at 1000 hrs EDT, mostly at the subway.
Cruz on Fox just now blamed "left wing moral relativism" and called for a halt in acceptance of Syrian refugees.
He attributed the attacks to a failed European immigration policy, blah, blah.
What a ghoul.
Trump has been bashing Democrats and the president and darkly insisting there are lots of people in America who hate us in the same way as the terrorists hate in Europe.
Hillary now making some degree of sense on MSNBC.
The guy who was picked up in Belgium just the other day has already admitted to police his network had been re-built since the November Paris attacks to include at least 30 cell members.
In Brussels the cops are finding lots of weapons and so on.
Obama to speak, I think.
Nobody has claimed responsibility but everybody is supposing this is an ISIS attack, including fans of ISIS living in Europe tweeting hurrahs.
I see in the morning's headlines that last night Trump blathered about the US needing to reconsider its role in NATO, where we are spending too much money on Europe's defense as Europeans spend too little.
In Brussels, a nuclear power plant has been evacuated of non-essential personnel, says the news.
Nobody knows what's up with that.
O speaking now in Cuba spoke briefly about the Brussels attacks and then moved into the speech he still had to give about Cuban-American relations.
As always, a very fine and responsible and presidential speech.
An excellent, extended, and vigorous defense of America and of American democracy and America's free market economy, urging the merits of these and the universal human rights they embody.
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Better for them, maybe; but not for us
Today's talking heads are entertaining the idea that Ted Cruz is the new hero of the Republican establishment, though they hate him and he hates them, who will save the Party and America from Donald Trump.
Ted Cruz also favors ethnic cleansing and is beloved of the same pundits and professional conservatives as The Donald.
(Ryan favors legal status for the 11 million, but not citizenship. Bernie favors "a path to citizenship.")
People like Pat Buchanan.
Cruz is a bomb-thrower who supported government shutdowns and defaults in the constant battles with president Obama.
Imagine a clone of The Donald who wants to destroy Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and every trace of the regulatory state.
Imagine the most radical conservative in the senate, sitting in the Oval Office.
But he will save control of the party for the conservatives, though he isn't Wall Street's preferred guy, or the moderates' preferred guy, by a long ways.
So they prefer him to Trump.
Kasich is not conservative enough for this Republican Party establishment and not radical enough for the Trump and Cruz loving base.
Though he's still plenty conservative enough to want to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Ted Cruz also favors ethnic cleansing and is beloved of the same pundits and professional conservatives as The Donald.
(Ryan favors legal status for the 11 million, but not citizenship. Bernie favors "a path to citizenship.")
People like Pat Buchanan.
Cruz is a bomb-thrower who supported government shutdowns and defaults in the constant battles with president Obama.
Imagine a clone of The Donald who wants to destroy Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and every trace of the regulatory state.
Imagine the most radical conservative in the senate, sitting in the Oval Office.
But he will save control of the party for the conservatives, though he isn't Wall Street's preferred guy, or the moderates' preferred guy, by a long ways.
So they prefer him to Trump.
Kasich is not conservative enough for this Republican Party establishment and not radical enough for the Trump and Cruz loving base.
Though he's still plenty conservative enough to want to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Frank Gaffney, loon
Think Trump's an Islamophobe? Meet Ted Cruz's national security adviser
The man is an absolute menace.
The man is an absolute menace.
Monday, March 14, 2016
Drudge highlights a link to this story
Is Drudge pro-Trump?
Is he anti-Evangelical?
Pro-gay rights?
Pastor Calls for Execution of Gays – Then Introduces Ted Cruz at Conference
In November Senator Ted Cruz appeared at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, where he courted the support of the conference’s organizer, Colorado-based pastor and radio host Kevin Swanson.
"Kevin Swanson: Yes, Romans Chapter 1 verse 32 the Apostle Paul does says that homosexuals are worthy of death. His words not mine! And I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! And I am not ashamed of the truth of the word of God. And I am willing to go to jail…
…Now my friends let me introduce to you the next candidate for the office of President of the United States, folks please make welcome Senator Ted Cruz."
Is he anti-Evangelical?
Pro-gay rights?
Pastor Calls for Execution of Gays – Then Introduces Ted Cruz at Conference
In November Senator Ted Cruz appeared at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, where he courted the support of the conference’s organizer, Colorado-based pastor and radio host Kevin Swanson.
"Kevin Swanson: Yes, Romans Chapter 1 verse 32 the Apostle Paul does says that homosexuals are worthy of death. His words not mine! And I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! And I am not ashamed of the truth of the word of God. And I am willing to go to jail…
…Now my friends let me introduce to you the next candidate for the office of President of the United States, folks please make welcome Senator Ted Cruz."
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