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Ted Cruz: "By Far the Best Viable Candidate"

Posted by $ bigjim 9 years ago to Politics
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This is an excellent analysis of Ted Cruz's positions.

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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    not with this group you can't ....too many asses unless they are actually left wing socialist fascist roaders or anti-constitutional wreckers.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    You are wasting your time and energy. If you wanted this turned into a Republican only forum then at least cut to the chase and do so. This constant niggling over degrees of how fine is a pont mean nothing. Your only job is elect a memvber of the right wing of the left. The rest is bull shit. Including constitutional references. Tha twhich you abandoned long ago.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    It's a case of stop arguing over the non essentials and get with the program. IF you support Cruz as the antidote to Trump/Clinton/Sanders the rest of the discussion is bull shit. What counts and the only thing that counts is electing your chosen hero.

    If not then here we go for another four of the left wing socialist fascist flavor.

    Get it? You agreed to support the lesser of... so get out there and do it. As for the rest of it ...shut up and start digging trenches.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    As for me I don't care. All you are arguing about is to choose or not choose the lesser of four evils. Since that IS the case the rest is bull shit. Quibbling about that which matters had it's place and neither recognized nor supported. It was ignored. So shut up and get with the program. Nobody gives a good damn about your finely tuned feelings on this or that anymore. You choose to shit can all of that crap when you chose to vote for a Republican AKA the right wing of the left wing.

    So here's what you do. Form ranks and anti TrumpClintonSanders front. In the end if you are brave enough which I suspect you are not...in the end you may get Cruz in office. IF Cruz gets his head out of his ass and moves to gain a ton of votes from the disenfranchised 46% He won't get it picking another RINO for VP etc. Somehow I don't think 'Cruz will get his head out of his ass.

    Anything less means the LEFT wins with either Trump, Clinton or Sanders. Try not to fuck it up again.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree. Johnson needs to make a concise statement for the record if he wants more than 5%.
    OTOH, it probably won't matter until he is banging on the door of the presidency. Then the media will use it against him.
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  • Posted by $ bigjim 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Jon Stuart is a comedian. I don't support comedians. I either laugh or don't laugh at them.

    You have it backwards. The first amendment constrains the government from establishing a state religion. It does not constrain the people at all! People are free, in this country, to have any religion, or no religion, at all.

    The constitution and the bill of rights were written to constrain the federal government. Not the citizens!
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, then you support Jon Stewart's argument that atheism is not a religion. Ok. In any case "faith" in anything may not be instituted in government due to the lovely, first Ammendment, since "faith" in anything is religion. The progressive weenies and I agree on this.
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  • Posted by $ bigjim 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    But those steps to "enlightenment" are of a personal nature. Not the job of government. And it is certainly not a right for anyone to be guaranteed the freedom from "the burden of faith."
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    A right to an abortion does seem a bit odd. I am not sure its a 'right" at all. One could argue I suppose that once a fetus becomes a self sustaining baby, IT has a right to exist and not be killed. I am not a woman, and really am not the one to weigh in on this one. Cruz is definitely a bit heavy on the religion stuff, so I would expect he would lean towards the religious view of this and other things.

    Gays, women, straights, blacks, orientals, etc in the military seems to be a military decision to fight the wars best. If the president says anything at all on this, it should be that the purpose of the military is to defend and the best defense is what they should be looking it. Weighing in on gays seems to be beside the point, although again, I think his religious leanings are coming into play
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Nope, it is me too. Prepositions are so trying, and being free from the burden of faith is the first step to enlightenment.
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  • Posted by $ bigjim 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I've never understood where a "right" to an abortion comes from. Thin air apparently in the Roe v Wade decision. He thinks that abortion should be a decision left to the states, and not the federal government. It remains to be seen if he bases that on religion.

    Not sure about his stance on gays in the military. That's such a stupid issue anyway.
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  • Posted by $ bigjim 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    There is a BIG difference! Nowhere in the constitution is there a delineated freedom "from" religion. Unfortunately, it's not just progressives and liberals who believe they should be free from religion.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    To be honest, they say so many things that its hard to actually pin them down. I heard the issue of the gays in the military and the same sex marriage in one of the debates. He is pro life, but I cant say whether he would use the office of president to affect that much. I do think that if the idea of preventing abortion gained traction, he would be right there pushing it and his push would be for religious reasons, not human rights reasons.
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  • Posted by $ bigjim 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I apologize, jabuttrick. The comment on gays in the military was made by another user in this thread. My mistake.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    This assertion has already been tested, and failed. Cruz is eligible, and being born in the US is wholly irrelevant to having good ideas for small government.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    First Ammendment. In this case, Freedom of (= "from") religion. The rest of the bill of rights is a weak guideline to those pukes that never fought anyone for any freedom, but have learned that a well-spoken minority can control the hordes of lemmings with a few well-placed cattle-prod words.
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  • Posted by jabuttrick 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks for all your help. By the way, I said nothing about gays. Is that another area where Cruz' opinion is informed by religion?
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  • Posted by $ bigjim 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Not sure I understood your comment correctly, Thoritsu. What is the one freedom that progressives support?
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  • Posted by blegg1 9 years ago
    How is someone who is constitutionally enilgible !!!!!!!!!!!!! uphold the constitution? Would that not be the definition of oxymoronic, or at least hipocritical? Things in life are really quite simple. Jesus hates hipocracy.
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  • Posted by $ bigjim 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm sorry. I missed the example. I saw you mention a subject but not provide any evidence to back it up. And said you think that's what he wants. You should make the effort to inform yourself on your opinions about someone. I didn't bring up abortion and gays. You did. I said I would inform myself.

    I provided an article by a credible author that outlined detailed analysis of Cruz's positions. I'm not sure that you read it.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years ago
    I agree. Love flat rate tax, corporate tax and small government stances. Hate his religious views, but even if they affect Congress, they won't stand SCOTUS, once O-dingbat gets done stacking it, the one freedom numb progressives support.
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  • Posted by jabuttrick 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I thought you might know because you have explicitly taken the affirmative position that Cruz would not "force his religious views on anyone politically" and then asked for an example to the contrary. I gave one. You now claim ignorance and improperly attempt to shift the burden to me.
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