In physics the “Theory of Everything” is a hypothetical single, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all physical aspects of the universe. As a metaphor for current political questions, particularly those surrounding Senator Ted Cruz, a similar precept exists.
There is a comment on one of the Cruz research threads which explains almost all the irreconcilables of Senator Ted Cruz behavior.
Now, the value in any given, albeit normally innocuous, comment can be easily overlooked. However, this comment actually stands up against all methods of deconstruction.
Our archive holds hundreds, if not tens of hundreds, of individual empirical data points of research into Ted Cruz’s action, behavior and specific instances of activity (2010-2016) which, if a comment explaining his motive is going to be considered inherently plausible, would need to be reconciled.
As stunning as it seems, this comment does exactly that:
Here’s a little inside baseball from someone who actually knows the truth: the GOPe dislikes Cruz NOT because he’s an outsider, but because he’s an INSIDER who decided the best way to advance himself was to bite the hand that fed him. Let’s just say I am very close to someone in the GOPe machine and I’ll leave it at that.
When Ted worked for Bush, he was angling for a bigger position than he got. He actually wanted to be the Attorney General.
He thought he had more pull than he actually did, more juice because of some of his Texas connections. His marriage to Heidi was supposed to solidify his position because she was actually held in higher regard than Ted within the Texas/GOPe sphere. He was seen by the insiders as over ambitious, an opinion that was only ENFORCED by his reach to be named AG.
So Ted decided since he knew the ins and outs of the GOPe (insofar as the GOP and Bushes were one and the same), and since he couldn’t advance any further within that sphere, that he would run against them.
He ran for Senate against a GOPe favorite and won. He hoped this would show the GOPe that he was a serious contender and that they would welcome him back into the fold. It backfired, mostly because of Ted’s outsider rhetoric.
Now Ted chose to run for POTUS, which on its surface was a slap in the face to Jeb Bush and the GOPe. In truth, it was an olive branch by Ted to the GOPe.
Why? Because he was there to split the conservative vote in order to help Jeb win. He was never supposed to be in this position, but if it got down to him and Jeb, the fact that Ted isn’t natural born was going to come out, forcing him to drop out, leaving Jeb and his millions in donor money as the last man standing.
Why do you think Jeb always spoke about winning without the base and losing the primaries to win the nomination? It all makes sense now, doesn’t it?
Trump was the wildcard they didn’t expect. Ted was sent to cozy up to him with a non-aggression pact, but Trump was no dummy. He kept the Canadian Ted thing in his back pocket to use when needed.
I could go on but bottom line, the GOPe is warming to Ted because he’s is not actually an enemy, but a prodigal son who tried to earn his way back into the fold by helping Bush.
♦ NOTE ♦ We first wrote of the Republican Party “splitter strategy” to elect Jeb Bush back in mid-2014 as a result of watching the October ’13 through February ’14 inside party discussions and meetings. No-one believed such a scheme was possible.
We established tripwires and watched.
After several significant triggerings….. In 2015 we again wrote about the entire coordinated GOPe Road Map and how the “splitter strategy” was coming into greater visibility with the candidates all aligned to play their distinctive role.
Yet again, no-one believed such a scheme was possible.
Lucianne Goldberg, together with her son Jonah Goldberg, NRO, and every politically-minded media outlet and their followers, openly mocked us at CTH for what they decried as a ridiculous political conspiracy theory.
They ridiculed, belittled, mocked and they laughed. Perhaps one day we will publish the emails we received.
However, this morning on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and FOX News, every set of political punditry spent several panels of discussion talking about the Republican “split-the-vote” plan, and the leadership within it who were designing and instructing the effort.
CTH is not hearing so much laughter any more.
But that’s not the point of writing this. Allow us, and more specifically me, to say with a similar level of previous strength and intent:
…That comment you just read is virtually guaranteed to be 100% accurate…
More disinfecting sunshine from Sundance. Thanks for posting this.
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Yes thanks for the post but…. this became blatantly obvious with the Neil Bush hire.
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Trump is brilliant, and I know he has done his research, or he would have never entered the race himself. His key to winning was so simple, it was brilliant, and the fact that it was heart felt , made it an obvious avenue to success. He needed to plug into the populous, and find out the common threads that “We The People” are most concerned about , and make them his platform ,without apology. He genuinely wants to save America from socialism and globalism. He genuinely is wanting to Make America Great Again, at a big financial cost to himself. He knew that if he could just establish himself as the only one looking after Americans, that Americans were angry and scared enough to rally to the cause. As a result, he was right, and we all are blessed that a true humanitarian and American Patriot, still exists, and that he took it upon himself to answer , what I believe to be, and whether he knows it or not, God’s calling for his life. It was for this moment, that God prepared him for. This story is so unlikely , in today’s society, but here it is playing out. We can consider ourselves blessed as a nation, that we have a God who looks after us , even before the need arises. Reminds me of the questioning verse in the Bible, “Lord, who am I that Thou art mindful of me?” Trust your instincts…..God is leveling the mountains on our behalf…..Vote Trump. He seems to be the only one running that understands the stakes…he is the only one looking like a possible “Gideon” for America and Christianity. Never in my life have I seen such an important election. It will decide our fate!
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Indeed. Now every talking headbot from famous to local now accepts and discusses Sundance’s splitter strategy. Of course they’ll never give him credit for decoding the GOPe master plan but we know the truth. Repeating someone’s ideas without attribution may be dishonest but it’s also huge compliment. They couldn’t come up with the idea by themselves so they just stole it because it was so good. GO SUNDANCE!!
GO TRUMP!!
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Dishonesty is the word engraved in the “secret badge” that members of the mainstream media and their associated or linked lackeys wear. At work, they wink to each other as a sign of mutual approval, but they cover it when they face a camera or leave their posts to go home. They know what they are doing and we know who they are. We do not trust them; we despise them . There is a good reason why Trump is winning despite their best efforts to tarnish him.
Let me be clear. I do not despise them because they act against Trump, as that would be their right in a free country. I despise them because of the miserable, underhanded way in which they do it. I regard them as liars, immoral sold-outs, and traitors.
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to despise them as traitors is justified, and a call to action.
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best part of this post is right here > “The best takeaway, is that Trump knows…. All Of It !”
Awesome. ;-)
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I have tried to tell this to the Cruz drones…. WHY is the establishment siding with Ted over Trump? If Cruz truly is an outsider, why are they not backing Trump instead? They can’t answer. They just say “Stopping Trump is so important that we need all hands on deck”
They refuse to realize they are being played like a fiddle. Ted will be thrown to the dogs at a convention in a heartbeat and Jeb! or Romney will be the nominee.
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“They can’t answer. They just say “Stopping Trump is so important that we need all hands on deck”
They are paid shills – check Cruz’s PR guy, runs online bots, is ex-CIA – which is why they write those generic lines and ignore your points.
People have to get the message out to actual voters (which is why I say that ads are important); online discussions with Cruzbots won’t make a big change, in my opinion.
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I also do NOT believe Cruz is getting as many votes as he has. In many states, I suspect the State GOP party is up to no good.
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Can’t happen unless rule 40b gets changed, which ain’t gonna happen without the rules committee approving it and sending it to the floor for a vote.
At which time there will be a walkout large enough to deny the convention a quorum. The result is a Mexican standoff which will be extremely bad optics for the party. The elite will be forced to withdraw the motion and let wheeling dealing take place among the delegates and candidates.
This only happens if Trump does not get 1237 before the convention. So y’all got a job to do. Jump to it.
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Sounds good until you realize that Trumps 1237 votes are not his supporters but are GOPe hacks who are supposed to raise their hands for him. They are most likely Jebbie fans, Or what ever breed you want to assign to hacks who voted for Mittens and McInsane.
Once they have fulfilled their statutory obligation, they will go back to being all in and all done for their GOPe masters.
If the rules committee put up for vote a proposal to allow delegates to vote their conscience, it would pass with a 99% vote followed by a first round vote that would give the nomination to either Jeb or Romney.
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IMHO I think Paul Ryan, he keeps saying he does not want to be president by that is what he said about speaker also.
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Or Rancid Prepuse. That stack of rotting meat is power crazed, ruthless, and with out conscience. He and Ryan make quite the pair.
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My answer to this question, Fourth of Juluau, is to ask how much money has the establishment spent to end Cruz’s run (even before Trump was last man standing – ie., in Iowa – where Cruz won – that should have triggered a stop Cruz campaign and it did not). The answer is zero dollars to fight Cruz. Always always always follow the money. All the dollars are anti-Trump.
Cruz has always been establishment – he’s just the red-headed step child variety. That does not recommend him to thoughtful people. When I became a chemist my Dad teased me that he knew lots of chemistry too – that he knew what the white stuff is on bird poop. I took the bait and said “Really? What is it?” He answered: “Bird poop, too”. That’s Cruz – he’s the white stuff on the top of the GOPe poop pile, he’s just poop, too.
(Sundance, I remember reading that comment as being the first point at which I took a long hard look at Cruz and found him wanting. It was revelatory. Those who know me from Lucianne, know that I made fun of them right back by saying that Sundance can explain the theory to you, but he cannot understand it FOR you. Then I posted an article by 538 which basically reinforced your theory. I grew very unpopular over there. Thanks for letting me post here.)
I also agree with Pete V – there are many paid shills (especially on Lucianne), and the intellectual quality is subpar – it’s not hard to trip them up. However they stick to it because they are paid to. Honestly nobody is that dumb. I disagree that is not worth discussing – because others read what you write and they can see who has the better argument – and that has changed a lot of minds. I cede no territory in this war.
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Welcome Carolina Kat! They sure don’t like US much at Lucianne anymore, and many of us (ALL of the originals, in fact) used to post over there.
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Lucianne is really becoming quite the street-walker, isn’t she? When your web traffic is down, something has to get the bills paid.
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You’re right about that, W2!
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At last the truth comes out about Lucianne. When I dropped out, never to click again, my life became much more peaceful and centered. Thanks, Sundance, for providing a refuge.
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Click back one more time and post this article. I would but was banned for breaking ‘parlor rules’ 6 months or so back responding back to a nasty poster basically calling trump and his supporters idiots (he was an early-adopter). Nasty poster continues to post and spew more nasty comments about Trump and his supporters….
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I too am one of the ‘banned’ at lucianne after 20 odd years or so. It’s been so long I can’t even remember. I posted under Trust No One. It was very odd my ban – I can’t for the life of me figure out why. I made a really innocuous comment and bam the hammer came down. Oh well, here I am now with al you other cast outs. 😀😀
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I’m sort of embarrassed to admit it now, but I used to read Lucianne diligently every day- thinking I had found a site that supported and amplified my thinking. I even gave financial support.
I still scroll down through the headlines today but rarely pop open a read. I scan to see what the ‘decepticons’ are squawking about and move on. My perception is ‘treehoused’ now.
Ironically, it was from Lucianne that I discovered CTH so if I hadn’t been a Lucianne reader I wouldn’t have found this wonderful site.
Almost as importantly, I rely on all of you- through your postings- to keep abreast of current developments, introduce me to new and interesting sites and to help keep my chin up when I sometimes become despondent over the size of the mountain before us.
Thank you, Sundance, and all of you ‘house keepers’ !!!
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Have the Cruz drones registered with the FAA?
But all I can say to this post is “wow”.
I’m glad the internet can bring sunlight
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I have tried also with fact after fact. Here is even more proof that T. Crud is a neocon NWO corporate shill – many people who support T. Crud are also concerned about this issue and have no idea he actually supports GMOs. The worst part, they don’t believe you if you tell them. Link below quote.
“No doubt the agricultural giants are now supporting Ted Cruz in precisely the same way the criminal central banksters do, too.
Via his wife, Ted Cruz also has ties to Goldman Sachs, an entity that carries out global economic arson and unbridled destruction that rivals the agricultural and chemical destruction of Monsanto and the biotech industry.
With these allies in his corner, Ted Cruz has become the establishment he once claimed he would dismantle.”
http://humansarefree.com/2016/03/ted-cruz-goes-all-in-for-monsanto-calls.html
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Guess who else has deep ties to Monsanto?
Yep, Pol Pot in a pantsuit herself.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/02/08/hillary-will-you-renounce-your-ties-to-monsanto/
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The ultimate irony to ““Stopping Trump is so important that we need all hands on deck”” 1/100 the energy used on Trump could have been used to effectively stop B.Hussien Obola on the Iran deal.
And 1/1000 of that energy would have effectively defeated Romney… err excuse me ObamaCare.
That says alot about the priorities of the GOPe!
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I did not see that comment, so thank you very much for making a seperate post about it. Despite it should be obvious, it was quite shocking to read it.
Btw, I found Lyin’ Ted’s theme music:
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I caught it….Big time. It resonated with me, and I was just heading back to forward it to friends. It rang like a bell. Sundance, thanks for amplifying, and I am heartened to know Donald has this input. Always something just a few degrees off with lucianne. Now the picture is becoming clearer by the day
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Wow. That song fits so perfectly into this topic. It’s really chilling when you think about it. It’s not just Cruz. This song could actually fit the entire GOP establishment. As Sundance put it so well, Trump knows what’s going on. He’s no idiot folks!
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yep
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“Lyin’ Ted” is about that. Trump has a plan. Wondering if Beck and Levin are conspirators or fools.
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Beck is a Deranged Clown and Howling Mad Mark Levin is just that, howling mad.
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Still someone needs to post this on Levin’s Facebook…for fun!
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Please do. I don’t use facebook.
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IMO, Beck, Levin, Likbaugh, and to a lesser extent Hannity could care less about the country and are simply concerned with about ratings and there bank accounts. They need to the GOP and the Dem division meme so they can continue to sow discord and ratings. Trump will unite and make us sovereign, bad for the saber rattling.
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You nailed it, benY. Given that’s the fact, why would anyone of moral character be interested in people like Beck or Levin, when all they are is just selfish greedy people?
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Beck Levin Media – BLM. They are simultaneously conspirators and fools
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Both Globalist ~! But Glen is the Deranged one & Levin has been Totally in on the “Constitutional Convention” & Plans for a “North american Union”~~~just like Ted & Heidi Cruz~!
To be completely honest, Glen has GONE from Pure SOUP to NUTS~~in this Case. At first, when he was on FOX it just seemed like Glen understood there was a “Shadow Government” but~ ~~ before Glen was OFF of FOX I KNEW~~that Glen had gone to the DARK Side. There has even been a big CHANGE since then. Now it is obvious Glen is Completely BONKERS.
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Beck is hoping for a “special” position within the Cruz White House LOL. I can’t help but wonder if Levin has been sucked in because of his association with his Fiancée Son’s position? He’s always had a far better reputation then Beck and there’s that Landmark Legal Foundation. Seems odd he would willingly be involved like this.
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Beck absolutely. Cruz was introduced to the national stage by beck. Prior to that, once leaving fox, he started convincing his viewers the type of man it would take to be the perfect conservative president. Combining a mix of Constitution, religion and morality.
Anyone watching him with eyes wide open, noticed a shift right before leaving fox and he progressively shifted his audience from studying history, playing political dot to dot, no more soros, agenda21 or talk of the UN.
Within a year and a half, he had convinced his audience to believe/agree with many things that were a 180 to what he had them believing/agreeing with 2 yrs prior.
He was prepping them for the perfect conservative president that he would introduce during his run in the Senate.
And then, as if by miracle, cruz appears with everything on the beck perfect candidate list. Hence, why you’ll often see ‘he’s the one we’ve been praying for!’ when dealling with their followers online. It’s straight out of beck’s psych ops he’s played on thier brains.
Beck has been, essentially, the main propaganda arm of this charade. If it seems like at times you’re dealing with childlike mentality or like someone so ill informed they must be living under a rock, it’s because you are doing just that. He has convinced many that other news sources are against them and cruz. It is really breathtaking how much power a conman radio host has over a group of people.
I had a lot of these pieces in place, but thought it was beck, on his own, created cruz, but I did realize that cruz was a hidden insider when I saw mcconnell’s lack of response to the mitch lied to me crap on the Senate floor knowing full well I had read his oped with ryan he was on board with TPP and he was only trying to correct the backlash from it.
What I couldn’t reconcile was the whole undercover gopE guy being tight with beck since beck has been a down with the gop/republican guy for so long.
Thanks to Sundance finding the mcconnell’s attorney’s PAC link a while back, all the pieces fit nicely into place by realizing beck was never anti gop, he was controlled opposition to introduce the ultimate outsider candidate.
As all of cruz’s Texas contacts and backers are being reveled it only confirms the entire theory that this has been a scheme that goes back for quite sometime and that beck really did go down to Texas to build hizself his own conservative obama, I just didn’t realize he had the blessings of the GOPe…at least, eventually.
Talk about conspiracy!
It’s awesome to get even more insight to help connect the dots and fill in the insider background with the posting above.
Many of you know I have held a special place in my heart filled with contempt for what this conman, beck, has done to a large and gullible group of America’s God loving patriots. I’ve spent the last few years trying to dissect and expose him to anyone I know who follows him. Guess I’m just grateful I’m enough of a skeptic and will do my own homework that I saw through him very early on, but have been sickened, stunned and mortified at the blind following he and cuz have.
They are playing a dangerous game with explioting a mix of people’s faith, patriotism and trust.
K, done with my rant. Carry on.
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“He was seen by the insiders as over ambitious, an opinion that was only ENFORCED by his reach to be named AG.”
Is it even possible for a politician to be over-ambitious? I can see that he may have been impatient. However, the TOE for Cruz has a high correlation with known facts. I would rate that theory as being pretty insightful. I do wonder about his “religious strategy.” I can’t imagine why Cruz would see that strategy as a foundation for political success in America. The current pop culture is beating the stuffing out of Christianity.
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Well, he is a United States Senator, so the “religious strategy” hasn’t hurt him yet politically. Now if you’re talking about a general election run for POTUS, then I foresee the limitations. But few politicians can afford to think that far in advance.
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The Bible has numerous passages dedicated to descriptions of those like ted.
And ALL of them are WARNINGS.
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LOL! Which is why Trump is winning! He thinks very long term and many steps ahead!
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But Ted was supposed to be so smart- a 3D chess player- debate champion, etc, etc.
His campaign strategy has been so bizarre I finally had to conclude that he was on a political career suicide mission, similar to Marco Rubio’s. Cruz never planned on winning in politics long term, but “big religion” is very, very lucrative. Just my guess.
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Ted Osteen? Teddy Hinn? Teddy Swaggart? I don’t know. He tried his Preacher Ted act in South Carolina and it bombed big time, and I think that loss led him to getting swept in the south. Why? I think southerners, more than any other Americans, have seen their share of fraudulent people who use the cloak of religion for monetary and political gain. The folks in South Carolina could tell he was a fraud huckster peddling his religious “faith” for votes and they saw right through the facade. The good people of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and elsewhere in the south saw the same thing and rejected Cruz. Thank goodness!
When Mr. Trump wraps up the nomination he owes an enormous thanks to the south. His wins there are providing the big margin he maintains over Cruz. Southerners rejected Cruz thoroughly and destroyed what he thought would be a firewall for him. Had the Lying Preacher won these states instead we would have a very different race today and probably with Cruz in a strong position to win the nomination. Just remember when you see Mr. Trump giving his acceptance speech in Cleveland (God willing the GOP doesn’t steal the nomination from him.) we have the south to thank from saving us from Ted Cruz.
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Is this the ‘South Rising Again?’ 😀
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After a little further thought I would like to amend my comment above. If you assume that Cruz was a splitter candidate as the TOE does then splitting the evangelical vote from the rest of the electorate makes logical sense. It would go a long way toward assuring a mainline GOP nominee.
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Sorry, but what’s TOE?
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Never mind figured it out.
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“Lyin’ Ted’s father Rafael has been meeting with hundreds of pastors all over the country for nearly two years, lining up their support (and that of their congregations) as part of the strategy to get Ted elected. Thus, Ted has to hold the Bible — he needs their support. Otherwise, all of his daddy’s hard work will be for naught.
And an “oh by the way”… I was a subscriber to Beck’s The Blaze TV (no longer) and Rafael frequently was on Glenn’s evening program with him. The Cruz men played Beck as they had this all planned out long ago. Ted’s ascension to the Senate was merely a stepping stone to bigger and better things. Always with a hidden plan in his back pocket. Lying’ Ted. Trump is right.
And I find it revolting that Beck and others are so enamored of Cruz that they willingly overlook the fundamental fact that he is Canadian born and not eligible according to the Originalist intention of the Constitution, something Lyin’ Ted professes adherence too.
“He lies!” — Donald J. Trump
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The American Presidency is searching for Donald J. Trump, and will probably find him. He’s the only one wearing Red, White and Blue and singing I’m Yankee Doodle Dandy, so he’s hard to miss.
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True, he’s always the only one wearing a real Republican red tie.
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It also explains why Jeb repeatedly said that Trump would never be the nominee even as Trump was stomping him in the polls and in the debates. Perhaps the plan now is that the GOPe gives the nomination to Romney and Romney selects Jeb as his running mate, with Lyin’ Ted and One-trick Kasich get kicked unceremoniously to the curb.
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See my comment at:
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/20/ted-cruz-motive-the-theory-of-everything-currently-political/comment-page-1/#comment-2288231
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If Romney wants to live long and prosper, he’d do well to think twice before having Bush as his running mate. Reagan was shot by Neil Bush’s family friend barely 2 months after the inauguration.
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What? I can’t find any account of this except on blogs.
Do you have a link to solid info?
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Will this one work for you?
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread184353/pg1
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Worst. Possible. Scenario.
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The second coming…..
of Crust
The true Profit of the inside’s outreach.
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The GOPe plans to scuttle Trump at the convention. Trump said he has a plan for this.
It just doesn’t matter. Trump has known about ALL the schemes for years.
Sit back and watch, vote, cheer and enjoy. Trump has it in hand.
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This makes perfect sense. I remember reading somehwere (Art of the Deal?) that Trump’s dad, Fred Trump was a personal friend and financial supporter of Goldwater. Remember all those conspiracy-related books published in the early 1960s, “None Dare Call it Treason,” “None Dare Call it Conspiracy, etc. Remember the Dan Smoot Report on TV? My dad read them all and I’ll bet the Trump household had the same kind of reading material too, Trump is his father’s son!
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Those were great books, and still relevant.
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All the kids had to shut up or leave the room when the grownups watched the weekly Dan Smoot Report. I believe he was a Mormon and his background was FBI
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A little Goldwater side note: this morning on MSNBC they were doing a walkthrough of goldwater’s old campaign headquarters and the reporter had interviewed Goldwater’s wife and son. Apparently his wife said that Goldwater would absolutely detest mr. Trump and that he would be screaming at the TV every time he came on if he were alive today.
He ended his report by stating that the wife was going to be voting for Clinton and Goldwater’s son would be voting for Rand Paul. How very disappointing.
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Goldwater got a little weird after his unsuccessful run for POTUS. I always wondered what happened to him. And what’s this about the son? Rand Paul. Does MSNBC know that Sen. Paul is no longer in the race?
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I have those ‘conspiracy’ books! I read those books! They are excellent revelations to the plans of the New World Order plotters and financiers.
I am sure Trump family members have “The Shadows of Power” by James Perloff in their home libraries. I HIGHLY recommend the book.
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To be married to Heidi Cruz, who is on leave from Goldman Sachs, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, makes it impossible for Ted Cruz to be an outsider.
I appreciate the full explanation of why Ted behaved the way he did. I thought at first it was idealism. Notice how concerned he seems about the border – now.
Prince Phillip, married to the Queen, is not a government outsider, and only a fool would consider it even possible.
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ITA. I was completely fooled by Cruz until the moment I found out where his wife worked. After that, the fact that he was an insider went without saying and he no longer had any potential support from me. As you say, it made outsider status an impossibility. The rest of the information revealed about him since then has just been confirmatory of both his identity as an insider and of his own severe duplicity — among other negative things. Nice to get the fuller picture from an insider, though.
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I remember when the bit about his wife’s job came out, a lot of people took pause but others hastily blew it off as nothing.
The pausers became Trump supporters, the it’s nothing crowd became Cruzbots/shills.
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Ha he’s also not an NBC. He’s Greek.
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Prince Phillip (and many before him) are the reasons why our Founding Fathers insisted on Natural Born as requirement to become President
Many royal families in Europe were not native to the areas they ran.
The British Royals at the time of the American Revolution were actually German. Queen Victoria had German ancestry, and her husband, Prince Albert, was wholly German (Victoria’s granddaughter, Princess Alix of Hesse… was the future Tsarina Alexandra of Russia). The current Queen, Elizabeth II heads the House of Windsor…which was originally House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha…
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Yes.
There is no way Heidi Cruz gets into the Council on Foreign Relations if Ted was such an “outsider”. CFR is not easy to join, and, you got to have some pull or lots of $$ (like Soros) to get in.
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Happy to see that, for once, the fact that Cruz is Constitutionally ineligible
makes its way into one of Sundance’s postings, even if it is through someone else’s analysis.
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” one ” of Sundance’s postings???? You mean this week?
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Not having seen the original post, I would guess the comment came from his wife.
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Allow me to take this one step further, CAREFULLY.
Think strategically, from Donald Trump’s perspective -and- coincidentally, from the GOPe’s perspective. Trump is holding all the cards to the nomination. The GOPe HAS TO keep John Kasich in the race.
If you were Trump, when would you pull out the ultimate removal hammer? Now, or, if 1,237 was not attained, at the convention? Ergo, the GOPe need Kasich to remain because they know what the hammer entails. If it were only Trump v Cruz, they’d be toast (tomorrow and throughout the remaining race into the convention).
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:) How many other states are like Ohio, where if the winner drops out the second place finisher gets his delegates?
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^This right here! Kasich’s only stayed in to try and win Ohio, since the math showed that it would be impossible for Trump (or anyone) to get to 1237 without Ohio and Florida. And he’s continuing to stay in to prevent Ohio’s 66 delegates from going to the 2nd place winner, Trump. However, the establishment didn’t account for Trump making up Ohio’s 66 delegates with his wins in Illinois, North Carolina, and Missouri. Now, Trump still has a path to 1237, and Kasich staying in is a hail mary to a brokered convention.
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“winner drops out the second place finisher gets his delegates”
Where did you get this information? Could you please post a link to the source. Thanks in advance.
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Actually I saw that here today by another commenter, now lost in the shuffle so I can’t point the finger. :) Looking on my own, here are some discussions of what happens. Note especially the “backdoor winner take all trigger” in the second article. This is a rule I hadn’t seen before. So these two both say the same thing, “it’s up to the state” where a dropout’s delegates go, and there are different possibilities by state. Some go to second place, some are reapportioned, some are unbound
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-race-to-the-us-presidential-nominations-how-delegates-are-selected/ar-BBqdEiR
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/a-glossary-of-national-convention-delegate-allocation/
But, I apologize, I can’t find the specific rule for Ohio (or the other states), maybe I’m not asking the search engine the right question. There is an opinion around that those who have “suspended” can direct their delegates because they haven’t really “dropped out,” it doesn’t seem like that is always the case. So we are left with two very pertinent questions, just what are the individual state rules about dropouts, and what are the rules about “suspended” campaigns. The statement of best timing that I referred to requires this knowledge to be accurate.
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All right, I found it. Was posted on the thread about Tatum video, by Pete V. It is in a tweet responding to Allahpundit tweet.
Allahpundit @allahpundit Mar 17
Allahpundit Retweeted Kabuto Bushi
Kasich already has enough dels to put Trump over the top based on projections of DT’s final del total
Allahpundit added,
Kabuto Bushi @PCBushi
@allahpundit As you’ve said, Kasich will probably make a deal with Trump. He wants as many delegates as possible to bargain with.
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Marcus Hawkins
@HawkinsUSA
@allahpundit Apparently per OH rules, if Kasich drops those 66 delegates are bound to the #2 vote getter on 1st ballot. Which is… Trump.
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Cruz suppresses Kasich, today he serves a purpose. Trump will drop the hammer on Cruz when he feels Kasich is so marginalized that delegates will laugh when his name is mentioned at the convention.
***Warning adult language
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I’m not too smart. Had to read that 3 times before I saw what you were saying. I was wondering yesterday why he hadn’t played that card yet. Now I see. Let Trump be Trump.
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Thank you for posting that. I needed to read the post several times (and the thread) to understand it. I love politics but I am the worst when it comes to seeing and understanding the angles.
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Me too – is this why Trump does not point out that Obama had to produce a (fake) Hawaill birth certificate to stop the Kenya birther questions, while even constitution loving Ted acknowledges he was born in Canada, American mom or not? Even Obama jokes about Canadian Ted.
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A friend of mine works for Trump’s campaign in my state. Way back when Trump signed the dastardly “plede” I was fretting to her that he may have made a mistake. She did not give details but she said “Trust Trump he knows what he is going”. I have not forgotten that and the more I see the more I believe “Trump knows what he is doing”.
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“Pledge” Cursed spell checker!!!!
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If rule 40b stands, and the atomic hammer strikes, Trump wins by acclamation. Kasich needs 7 more states.
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But everyone already knows about Cruz’s birth problems, because Trump brought it up in that debate. So, what hammer?
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Maybe Trump has proof
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Trump mentioned Cruz’ Natural Born Citizen question this past weekend at his rally in Salt Lake City. He’s bringing the issue forward.
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He still has to sue the bastard out of the ballot.
And given the judicial bureaucrats’ record on Soetoro,
there is no guarantee to find a judge willing to do his job.
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Trump has Judges
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ALL judges claimed all suits didn’t have standing–the only person with standing was a candidate–it’s on record several places.
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I’ll bet his good friend Chris knows one or two …
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Trump doesn’t need the courts. He has public opinion and a YUGE microphone. He just needs to keep pounding the ineligibility issue and tie it right in with “Lyin’ Ted” ‘s modus operandi.
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Bare with me, I’m thinking out loud here, but you wonderful people are such a great sounding board:
Could it be that Trump plans to take down two birds with the Natural Born Citizen stone?
If a court rules that Cruz cannot become President in the future because he’s not a Natural Born Citizen, could such a ruling also apply retroactively- that Obama should not have been President in the past for the same reason?
If Trump has proof that Cruz is not a Natural Born Citizen, could this explain why Cruz’s records have been sealed?
Could this be why Trump talks about 3,4, or possibly 5 upcoming vacancies on the Supreme Court in the near future? Because if Obama is proven to have held the presidency illegitimately, his Supreme Court picks are null and void? And so is Obamacare?
Help me out, lawyers. Is this wishful thinking? Like I said, just thinking out loud.
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Bingo! :) So is everything else he’s ever been involved with, executive orders and all. (Now if we could just get all the Cruz supporters to see why it’s so important that Trump wins, and why they need to start actually caring about the Constitution esp the NBC clause…)
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I think he can declare Soetoro a Usurper and all his actions null and void
only when in office as President.
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They are all whores. No way in the world does Kasich really want to be POTUS. He knows he doesn’t have the stamina nor the expertise. As you say, someone pulling the strings behind the curtain.
When to pull out the hammer re Cruz? I say sooner than later.
When offered two choices, it is human nature to navigate towards the strongest of the species.
In this case, Trump – physically and psychological stronger, notwithstanding his economic expertise. Trump argues well his case while Kasich seems weak and hesitant.
In the end, it is always the economy that rules.
The definition of WHORES: http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/20/video-john-kasich-claims-fake-mitt-romney-endorsement-utah/
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Are they actually smart enough to know what the hammer entails?
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‘Patience is a virile virtue; it does not mean lying down under affliction, but standing up under it and marching on.’
WALTER LOWRIE, The Church Standard, Dec. 8, 1906
Answer: Yes. They know. Don’t forget they are luxurious whores.
They sell their body to the highest paying customer.
They know they will make, as usual, backroom deals with Dems (aka Hillary) and get to keep their pockets filled.
Every politician has skeletons in its closet, except Trump of course. He’s been scrutinized to die for. No skeletons. That is their problem.
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Yup. Trump’s life has been an open book. There is no there there.
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All of it was headline news in the past….no reason to deny……such an advantage!
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Incredibly interesting and definitely explains Cruz’s establishment votes and his convoluted explanations about how he’s nevertheless the one true conservative. It didn’t compute for me and despite initially being interested in him I dumped him early on. In addition to reason there was a gut feeling about him just being off…way off.
However, if Ted was running to split the conservative vote for Jeb…who was he splitting it with? They didn’t know about Trump yet. Who were they anticipating was a threat to Jeb that Cruz could diffuse?
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Santorum, Huckabee, Perry?
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Ahh, clarification I needed. But is it OK if the rest of us vulgarians continue to hammer the eligibility issue?
I can honestly say I was a lone voice trying to educate people about obama, but now I’m happily surprised by how many people get it about Cruz.
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It is interesting the rumors that are flying out there as to whom the GOP wants to give the GOP ticket to at the Convention. So far I’ve heard the most rumors about it being Jeb, Romney, Ryan &/or Kasich.
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How long is Trump going to keep the Canadian Ted thing in his back pocket?
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Now I see your post SD, that makes good sense.
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That’s the Trump card. If Cruz gets a bunch of delegates, Trump can sue him and get those delegates, since he came in second in those contests.
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Yeah, I was assuming that should Cruz be taken out of the race, his delegates would become free agents.
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Well there’s this:
https://legiscan.com/TN/text/SB2625/2015
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And the elephant in the room is their elephant–Cruz is Canadian and shouldn’t have attained even Senatorship!!!
How’s that GOPe for idiocy??
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Idiocy and hypocrisy — they shouldn’t promote Cruz after they railed about Obama (the railing was correct, but then don’t turn around and do the same thing yourself).
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Trump tweeted earlier today that he’s hosting a Republican dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Can anyone surmise what that might be about? Does Trump say the jig is up and it’s time that the party unites behind him?
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I would love to be present at that. lol. gonna be interesting …
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I’ve heard the expression, “kick ass and take names”. I think this is the “take names” part.
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Here is Trump arriving at the Mar A Lago dinner in Palm Beach,
and tomorrow, he’s giving a bunch of Republicans and media a tour of the new Trump International DC, converted from the Old Post Office Building.
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Another peek at tonight’s festivities…only person I recognize besides Mr. Trump is Pam Bondi in pink:
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Thanks georgiafl for posting this. Very interesting that Pam Bondi is at his table. I also see Ben Carson there as well. The team is forming in front of our eyes.
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Which GOP is this? The Florida GOP? The GOPe? Or President Trump’s New GOP? lol
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This bit of video is very interesting. Running it with stops here and there perhaps someone can spot personages?
There are what look like SS guys to me walking nearer the cameras, and one bears a striking resemblance to Corey L. So I’ve been playing “where’s Corey?” with stills of it kinda like playing “where’s Waldo?” If the guy close to the camera isn’t Corey…remember Corey is NOT a tall man…maybe he is the guy who grabbed the collar of plaid-shirt protestor?
Other than that, it’s easy to see ranking Navy officers present.
Try it and see what y’all can find.
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^^this refers to the first video, in re: Corey^^
For his height estimate, compare to Donald @6’4″ in this photo:
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Meant compare to Eric…
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To be a fly on the wall. It just hit me. I’ve seen jokes here about Trump needing a food taster. At this dinner he’ll likely be serving Trump Steaks, Trump Water, Trump Wine…a food taster can’t hurt, but when you control your own food supply to the point of branding it, well that’s half the battle.
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It’s the traditional Lincoln Day Dinner – a formal banquet in the ballroom. After dinner and the usual speeches, it would be easy for an informal meeting with key people in a quiet room nearby.
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I hadn’t seen that comment, but I had read elsewhere from an alleged Insider the stuff about him and the Bush Admin. – but didn’t know he was trying to get “back” with them but that makes sense if he wants to continue for political ambitions.
I had wondered why after stating clearly when running for Senate that he believed that “natural born” meant from 2 citizen parents on US soil (and was reported on Fox News), and then do a complete turnaround when running for Pres. He knows it would come out, but obviiously he decided he’d go for it anyway – trusting his acting/attorney skills.
I always figured he had decided long ago to go for appearing as the firm Consitutional Conservative Tea Party type but didn’t know exactly why. What a mess. I hope it’s all exposed soon.
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This helps explain how Cruz thought he could get around the NBC clause- with the electoral college and the US House:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/cruz-tries-to-delay-texas-eligibility-lawsuit-until-hes-elected-then-congress-w-choose-prez/
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I thought what is now being described as “Ted’s job” in this election was actually Rubio’s job, no?
Personally, I think every single one of the 16 candidates [Trump is excluded] had made some kind of a dirty deal with members of the GOPe and probably made many more deals amongst themselves, but as politicians go, nobody is honest and they all got screwed by each other, and now that everything has backfired, they’re left with the mess they, themselves, have created.
There is only one person who will come out of this smelling like a rose, and I cannot wait for that day to come!
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I agree. The whole thing was a put up job. Carefully casted.
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Rubio was Jeb’s understudy, but it turned out he couldn’t make the sale, either.
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No honor among thieves
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Just curious, if anyone wants to take the time to answer. How do real-life Cruz supporters make the case for Ted Cruz as an outsider? When he’s been employed by the government and by various other political machinery since the 1990s. He could have the most amazing platform, he could have all the best intentions, but on what basis is he an outsider? I don’t know any Cruz supporters personally, or I’d ask them myself. Is this like a Rachel Dolezal/ Shaun King situation, where he “identifies” as an outsider and his supporters go along with it?
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Your closing sentence may well explain everything.
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Seems to me like most of the time Cruz’ supporters use as proof the fact that he said McConnell lied, and other senators don’t like him. There is no there, there, in the argument, it is faith-based.
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Exactly correct on the faith aspect. That’s why it’s difficult to reason with the supporters of cruz that view this as a religious movement rather than a political one. It’s as if you are questioning their faith or their God.
The other type that support cruz are much more open to reasonable arguments against cruz. They are the ‘anyone but an insider’ and they generally gravitate to cruz because Trump offendeds them in one way or another.
These are the ones you see either drop cruz over incidents like cruz’s response over Chicago or say they will vote cruz or Trump, but no one else.
The religious movement types want nothing to do with Trump in any way. VP, over clinton—NOTHING will convince them to move towards Trump. He is devil incarnate to them. Sad, really.
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“How do real-life Cruz supporters make the case for Ted Cruz as an outsider?”
Ted lies, says he’s an outsider. Ted’s dad tells pastors that Ted’s an outsider. Pastors herd lofo religious sheeple into the ditch.
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As a pro Cruz supporter, until about 1 month into Trump’s campaign. I started to wonder about some of Cruz’s lies. The information was sketchy and included Cruz’s “poison pill ” type retorts. Then I found CTH and had some real research material. My head started screaming liar, shill, globalist, no no no not a real christian and, as they would say, “I saw the light”. If you just listen to his words and his co conspirators like Levin, etc. you will never break free.
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I know one person who was going to vote for Cruz. He likes the constitutionalist part, thinks Cruz is smart (true), and hadn’t done any research. Most people are low-information voters…nothing against my friend, he’s not stupid or a blind holy rolller, or even Evangelical, just a newlywed with other things on his mind. I’d’ve worked on him, but he was out of town for his primary, so it didn’t matter.
Good news, he’ll vote for whoever is not Hillary on the presidential ballot.
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I think he claimed outsider status to get the Tea Party support when he ran for the senate.
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The Cruz supporters in my extended family seem to go by soundbites and aren’t interested in actual facts. They hear, on their religious radio stations, that he supports their values. I keep trying; finally researching and putting the facts together and sending it out family wide. We’ll see. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MPM_FTL9VbvBHHcXAzOL0w0O-4lhooPP1UVIhrJ-J0M/edit Feel free to use it or edit it to suit your purpose; it is all factual.
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Outstanding summary! I sure hope your loved ones read it closely and take it to heart.
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Having been taken by the “outsider” angle and working on his grassroots team here in Texas for his Senate run, I can address some of that.
Cruz DID grow up in Houston since age 4. He graduated High School here. All of his DC life is buried in the campaign rhetoric under “Ted went to college and clerked for SCOTUS justice” before returning to Texas to become Solicitor General. If he is confronted about working for Bush it is buried in that he worked out of the Houston campaign office – almost like it was a graduate school co-op program. To those of us that heard the anti-establishment rhetoric he mirrored from the TEA Party, and saw Sarah Palin campaigning, we instantly began to circle around to protect him from “RINO’s that were attacking” because they feared him. Ted is the school geek who has done good and no one can imagine him coming from a fundamentalist Christian school as being suspect in anything he says or does.
You would shocked at how many great, conservative grassroots TEA Party types have NO CLUE that Ted AUTHORED the Senate version of ObamaTrade or capitulated on Iran. There are so many Texas state conservative battles going on – it’s almost like Cruz only shows up at Thanksgiving Holiday or an ObamaCare (fake) filibuster – reconfirming the notion that he is ‘anti-establishment’.
It doesn’t hurt that there is a very narrow conservative media base that also is bamboozled – very good people by the way – who continue to think that Trump and his followers are the great unwashed trying to corrupt their golden boy. When the main conservative voices of Limbaugh, Levin and the like reaffirm it, there is really no compelling need to do the research themselves since we felt we knew Ted from his Dewhurst campaign for Senate. (Read: anybody who attacks Ted must be a secret establishment type just like David Dewhurst – who absolutely was the worst of the GOPe having John Podesta as a friend and rumors of his sexuality.)
Here is the kicker. I have friends….VERY CLOSE FRIENDS who helped start “True the Vote” here in Houston (the non-profit at the center of Lois Lerner’s problems) who spend hours and days going over the credentials of every judge, congressional candidate, school board member and dog catcher – including checking their past voting records, making sure they live in the district they are running for – and even verifying their citizenship. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE who were at the forefront of the VOTER ID movement nationally and here in Texas. And to a person, they take offense at ANYONE who challenges Ted’s NBC or citizenship status. The fact that the Levin’s and Ben Shapiro’s of the world reinforced the Alinsky ridicule of questioning Natural Born Citizen – works to Ted’s advantage. Most people would rather be called a liberal here in Texas than a “birther”. And like Obama, Cruz hangs it out in public for the whole world to see continuing the misdirection that to challenge his citizenship credentials are “not serious” or “not important.”
http://bit.ly/CruzMinor
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There are some people who utterly refuse to admit they’ve been bamboozled. Utterly.
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There’s a Biblical principle at play here: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The people who gave Cruz money, I think, will be among the last to see him for who he really is.
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Because they are shills who don’t want their little private gravy trains to stop rolling…or, in the case of their audiences: because all they listen to is Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, watch FOX, maybe read some of those “big blogs that count in the conservosphere” (who talk up the lesser shills). Most people are good hearted and believe that people want to help them (hint: these scumbags never did want to help anybody but themselves); most people want to belong to a group of like-minded people (that’s how the comments section keeps them in line); and they have been told they are part of a special group; that they are the smart ones, the righteous ones, the patriotic ones(and that’s when the sheep are truly corralled and penned for good: they’d walk away from their own families at that point rather than lose their identity, which is now to the group).
In short, programming, again. Have you noticed how some of those “important blogs” have kinda gone dark in the last couple of days, at least the level has been lower this weekend? There’s a reason for that: people are waking up and some of the sheep weren’t completely in the pen yet (and they are back to the drawing board to plot something new). It’s like a mass Charles Johnson Event…except on one particular site they aren’t posting pictures of bicycles, it’s food, pet, and book club posts (oh, and prepper posts, they are tough smart folks!). Oh, what cultured cheeky things they are!
Their anti-Trump snark and plotting is often now in the sidebars (which fyi: they seem to be up to something concerning Trump and Epstein…I don’t think there’s a dog there that hunts, but they will try that angle next…the ehem, lovely Megyn will likely be their opening gambit…seem to be focusing on that too…here’s to it biting them in the butts…again).
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That’s true. It might also be that they are beginning to see the futility in the election our delegate numbers. There will be some slapped in the face by Becks Mormon prophecy news as many of these people consider LDS to be a cult. Ted not rebuking it will NOT sit well.
I also wonder how distasteful it is to them to be denouncing Trump in chorus with Soros, BLM activists that they proofing claimed would wavy Trump.
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Its simple the power of talk radio. They built Cruz up as outsider and people ate it up. throw in some over zealous church rhetoric and now you got a cult.
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He got elected to the senate because Dewhurst, his opponent, was so totally terrible.
Plus Rafael Eduardo talked “tea party”, and Sarah Palin came down and endorsed.
My personal red flags started to go up when he started acting like – maybe – run for president – as a freshman senator. Then the Dallas Morning News broke the story that he was Canadian.
I still DO NOT understand how he won the primary here (Texas), I guess it goes to prove that most people are really not well informed.
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When he didn’t immediately renounce his ineligible status I finally quit giving him the benefit of the doubt. I’m not really sure how much fraud occurred but his grassroots army here is still very strong..
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Thanks guys, I appreciate all your answers. The comments on this forum in general seem very genuine, and non spammy. Rare. Thanks again. Cheers.
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I believe a majority of the Cruz supporters, though they will tell you otherwise, know he’s not an outsider, and they are fine with that because they don’t want an outsider.
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Once you start digging into his background, his outsider status makes absolutely no sense. Cruzbots can’t or won’t answer you when you point out how long and how deep Ted himself was in Bush’s employ. They stick their fingers in their ears when you bring up Heidi’s CFR position, never mind her assistant position to Robert Zoellick.
I love that Trump has been playing Teddy this entire time. He knows exactly what buttons to push with him, which got Cruz to expose his fraudulent friendly behavior long before he was ready to do so.
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Intelligent people who started connecting the dots are former Cruz supporters. We are now left with ones who are so invested in Cruz that they can’t change course. We are also left with more low information Cruz supporters who have fallen for his shtick. Those are the ones we reach when we call Cruz supporters on their ridiculous statements on FB, other sites and dorums, by stating facts and asking questions.
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One of my Twitter follows has taken to calling Cruzbots “Dominion cult members”, because all the sane Cruz supporters jumped on the TrumpTrain after Chicago and the ones left are deeply unhinged.
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Thanks for a great article. Hopefully people are starting to wake up. TRUMP is the only one who will build a wall. Cruz is a “me too” with his finger in the wind deciding where he stands. GO TRUMP! You’re our only hope.
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Oh, will you please print the Lucianne emails? Please? I’m begging.
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I’m willing to wait a little longer for maximum schadenfreudaliciousness.
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Well, we saw that coming a mile away. Same old stuff. Lather, Reince, Repriebus.
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I’m starting to think Wisconsin has some pretty serious stuff to answer for.
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The RNC’s only leverage is an open convention, which by June will be no leverage at all. This is why they are in the beginnings of negotiations with Trump now. Their only goal is to remain as the figureheads of the party in hopes of regaining control later. I am very curious to see how Mr. Trump responds. So very glad he ain’t no “tender woman”.
I believe it’s already checkmate. Trump knows it. The RNC knows it.
This is why we must stand unmoved by Soros and his minions. Our behavior is the only thing that can lose this for Trump. We are that important, and the attacks will only get worse.
Stand strong. We fight dominions and principalities. Ephesians 6!
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Hi Sundance! Great article as always! I just wanted to correct the idea of a Theory of Everything. It’s not even hypothetical. It’s a pipe dream, like a perpetual motion machine. There are three important discoveries in the 20th century that make a Theory of Everything impossible, even in principle:
Godel’s incompleteness theorem, which says we can never make a math theory that accounts for everything.
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which says we can’t know everything all of the time, and
Chaos theory, which says we cannot predict the long-term behavior of complex systems because there is no such thing as infinite precision (it is this one that makes the climate change stuff pure psycho-babble).
I bring this up:
For the general edification of your Readers, and
The atheists try to use the idea of a Theory of Everything to justify their atheism. If you know that its all bunk, then they can’t intimidate you. The irony, as you see, is that it is the very limits of science that discredit their intellectual over-reach.
Also, just to keep kind of on topic: Ted Cruz is a liar.
Thanks!
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Your comment is incorrect (because a unification of quantum field theory and general relativity would be a Theory of Everything).
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Everything said is up in the air because they are all “theories” right now and not “laws.” Besides, quantum physics break down when it comes to black holes so they cannot be used as a theory of everything.
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No, I’m sorry, that just isn’t true. Besides, you didn’t account for Godel or Poincare’s chaos theory.
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You could use Google, or Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Everything
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Keep striving.
Our purpose in life (humans) is to reach the edge of the universe.
God is there waiting, cheering us on. He’s also cheering for other sentient life, on other planets, and their goal is the same. To reach the edge of the universe.
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The attack strategy of Ted Cruz makes a lot more sense as well. He only went after Marco Rubio (right around the time Jeb found it in his strategic interest to attack Marco Rubio), and he went after Trump (trying to time his attack for an Iowa win).
Its what David DeAngelo calls “the Elusive Obvious”.
Ted Cruz was always way, way too smart to not see what Sundance saw…. that “prosletyzing” is not a winning electoral strategy. So why would a super smart but flexibly principled politician choose the “prosletyzing” strategy? The only answer is he never intended to win, just soak up votes.
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Of course, there’s always Occams’ Razor: “Ted Cruz was always way, way too smart”
Maybe he’s simply not that “smart,” but rather very adept at memorizing lines.
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I think you’re onto something. I got by in school and college quite well by having a very, very good memory. It wasn’t until later in life that I really learned how to think. I see that look on Ted’s face sometimes- when the memorized answers run out and he looks kind of blank.
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Cruz didn’t do as well as his masters would have liked “soaking up” evangelical votes. Trump is getting them, and others, in undreamt numbers.
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Hence, “for an intelligent guy he really isn’t all that smart”.
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If not for Trump, Cruz likely would have done far better w/ Evangelicals.
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The “Cruz is smart” meme really falls apart when he says THAT HE DID NOT KNOW he was Canadian :). I personally can see “reasonable doubt” that he is a US Citizen at birth. And given the shenanigans, he may – or may not – be a US citizen at this instance.
Oh the tangled web we weave ..
And yes, as somebody commented earlier “karma is a bitch” :)
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Isn’t it strange how little Ted Cruz knows or is aware of in his own campaign? I keep having deja vu… something about “I read about in the newspapers” hmmm. ;)
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Maybe Cruz taking the evangelical vote, dropping out then giving those delegates to Jeb was the reason Jeb said he’d win without the base. Itsn’t the ‘base’ considered more or less the evangleicals? That meant Jeb could go for the other republican votes and he wouldn’t have to bend to the ‘right’ of the party.
Amnesty, refugees, common core, obamacare all the wonderful Uniparty plots to destroy America could continue.
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Sundance’s visionary powers are already a matter of legend. NO hyperbole in that statement.
As for [Anti]National Review…. I feel ASHAMED to have read an trusted them for a couple of decades. Nixed my subscription months ago, with remorse for what a fool I was. Whatever one would say of them now would be too nice.
I may forgive some actors on the wrong side, after a while.
I will NEVER forgive the literal traitors from National Review. They have no morals, no scruples, no moral limitation.
They are literally worse than Huffington Post, literally worse than Salon, literally worse than The Nation.
Those sorry bastrds believe in the wrong thing. Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, Kevin “Whale Dung” Williamson etc. believe ONLY in “holy” bribes, in “sainted” sinecures, in WHOLESALE TREASON.
May God repay them according to their horrid moral standards, I will speak no more, though tempted.
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Well put and spot on. May NR crash and burn and good riddance to them.
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I canceled NR after the Dump Trump issue by the 22 gangbangers. It felt great, like not being constipated anymore.
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Well, don’t let HuffPo, Salon, or The Nation off so easily — they do the same things in reverse towards the average liberal. It’s all a racket.
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In Dante’s Inferno the deepest circle of hell is reserved for traitors.
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I do hope proof that Cruz is NOT a NBC comes out. I understand timing is everything and I am ok with that, but in the end, I WANT CRUZ EXPOSED for the fraud he is. Sorry, I just needed to get that off my chest.
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Just Google ‘Ted Cruz birth certificate’… and, there’s your proof.
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Its not that easy bob–Everyone knows that Cruz was born in Canada.
However it comes down what the real interpretation of the Native Born Law is. Since this is a US constitutional requirement for POTUS, its an interpretation that SCOTUS needs to make not single states.
If SCOTUS’s interpretation is that a child can legally be POTUS when not born on American soil with one or more Legal American parents, there are still the missing legal documents from the Cruz family Canadian years.
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k – Thanks, but I do actually have a full understanding of the issue. My point is simply that sufficient “proof” already exists. Adjudication is another matter.
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Have you seen this video that I posted several threads back
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Except the records are sealed, and the indications are that the father, which we know was a cuban citizen, bu tthe mother also denounced American citizenship, which makes him Canadian. The records to prove that either way have been sealed by slimy Cruz. He can clear this up immediately if he would unseal those records. The fact he refuses, in my mind, means he is ineligible.
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benY ==I agree–
There is no question as to whether Cruz’s mother Eleanor Elizabeth (Darragh) Wilson was born in America.
The question now is the clear clarification of the Native Born Law which only SCOTUS can do. Does one have to be born on US soil like the Obama people were using when fighting to prove Obama was born in Hawaii and not Kenya?
For every Constitutional expert that says Cruz is eligible, there are just as many Constitutional experts that say Cruz is not eligible. The ones that say that Cruz is ineligible say he has to be born on US soil.
Cruz should have cleared all this up long ago including his dual citizenship. With less than 10 months until the general election it’s a bit late for Cruz to be playing with SCOTUS for a clarification of the Native born law.
Missing papers from the Canada years are;
Cruz’s CRBA papers. If you are a U.S. citizen and the parent of a child born outside of the United States, you will need to document your child’s U.S. citizenship with a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA).
It appears no one has brought forward the American tax records of Eleanor
Elizabeth (Darragh) Wilson. As an American adult, you have to file American tax papers no matter where you work in the world.
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The ones that say that Cruz is ineligible say he has to be born on US soil.
So does SCOTUS, unless naturalized citizens have magically become natural born, even though a child born abroad is not entitled–as a Constitutional matter–to citizenship by virtue of his birth. The only avenue for anyone born abroad to be a citizen is by naturalization, either by treaty or by authority of Congress, regardless of parental citizenship.
Ted is a naturalized citizen by an act of Congress, provided the U.S. parent(s) meets statutory requirements and when all other registry and application requirements are satisfied and accepted, retroactive to the date of his birth. The citizenship of a child born abroad to U.S. citizens abroad is not automatic.
Below is from Flores-Villar v. U.S., (2010) strangely written by Neil Katyal, when Acting Solicitor General, along with some of his closest DOJ buds, while accountable to the court and while arguing on behalf of the U.S.. Five years later in the Harvard Law Review article, he opined the exact opposite about Ted Cruz’s eligibility, when accountable to…a mystery client?
The fact that Congress has enacted a law under which some foreign
born individuals acquire U.S. citizenship at birth by virtue
of a parent’s citizenship does not mean that such
individuals are not naturalized citizens for purposes of
the Constitution. As explained above, when Congress
enacts rules to govern acquisition of citizenship, it acts
pursuant to its constitutional authority to establish a
uniform rule of naturalization. See Miller, 523 U.S. at
434 n.11 (opinion of Stevens, J.) (“ Though petitioner
claims to be a citizen from birth, * * * citizenship does
not pass by descent. * * * Thus she must still meet the
statutory requirements set by Congress for citizenship.”);
see also id. at 453 (Scalia, J., concurring in the
judgment) (“Petitioner, having been born outside the
territory of the United States, is an alien as far as the
Constitution is concerned.”); cf. Nguyen, 533 U.S. at 72
(acquisition of citizenship through an unmarried citizen
father “is a naturalization,” even though it “is retroactive
to the date of birth”).5</>
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I agree totally but the Cruz people and supporters say differently.
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You’re right, of course, but if they don’t like the truth, they need to argue with SCOTUS about the consistent legal concepts of jurisdiction and the natural rights (and limitations) of sovereignty. No nation can claim something existing within or originating on foreign soil as natural to its jurisdiction. No one born abroad, regardless of parentage, is born within this country’s jurisdiction. As Flores-Villar argues, with consistent SCOTUS rulings as precedent, the only way any person born outside U.S. jurisdiction can become a citizen is through Congress’ authority to establish a uniform rule of naturalization. That person is a naturalized citizen, regardless of whether the naturalization occurred retroactive to the day of birth or after the person became an adult and chose to immigrate to the U.S. and become a citizen.
The meme that Cruz isn’t naturalized because he didn’t file paperwork or go through the naturalization process is not just ridiculous, it’s untrue. His parents had to meet all the legal requirements, then submit to a process to recognize that all those requirements, including the paperwork, were acceptable before Cruz was recognized as a citizen. It’s not like there’s a born-abroad citizenship fairy that drops down at the moment of birth and sprinkles red, white and blue stars on the kid. There’s not an automatic magic anointment to citizenship. It’s still a naturalization process and he wasn’t a citizen until the process was complete.
Naturalized citizens have the same rights and privileges as a natural born citizen. There is no right to be president. It’s a job qualification the same as any other job requirement. Requiring the president to be natural born in order to check foreign influence and to prevent the conflicts of dual allegiance is simply a national security measure, the same as multiple other security measures required to serve in sensitive positions. It’s common sense.
If Cruz’s supporters like living in fairy tales, it’s their choice, but it doesn’t make it true. Frustrating, isn’t it?
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Hey what I hate is the Cruz supporers that say “Obama did it. Obama was not born on American soil so Cruz can do it too.” (gotten this statement, or seen this statement from several dozen Cruz supporters).
When its a response to me I tell them that that means you have no respect for our American Constitution and that .”One wrong does not justify another”‘:
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Then they don’t care about the Constitution or about the morals and principles of right v. wrong. You’re absolutely right that two wrongs don’t make a right. This may be one those “shake the dust off your feet” kind of things.
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That’s another thing. How the H3ll have we allowed people to run for President who seal different records? Did it start with HCR’s college thesis? Sealed records should be an immediate ban on running for any kind of office.
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I have a reply comment to BenY in moderation…TY
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I keep repeating this, but IMHO, the whole natural born is a smoke screen. It accepts the premise that he was a citizen at birth. There is a good probability and plausible narrative that momsy Cruz renounced her US citizenship before baby Ted was born.
The NBC discussion ASSUMES that he was a citizen at birth. I say, check your premises, and unseal those records !
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Just me–what I find the strangest is Cruz’s lying and the sealing of his records about it all along the way with so few looking at it. On top of an interpretation being needed from SCOTUS, there is also all the missing Cruz family Canadian records from that time.
What one can find seems to indicate that both parents were Canadians at the time of Cruz’s birth with no intentions of their child being an American citizen. (Notice I say indicate, because the people investing are only going on records that they have and have not been able to find)>
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Imagine how much leverage you would have if you had proof he wasn’t a NBC.
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You are not alone
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So not only are Cruz supporters being used by the GOPe, but they are being used by Cruz himself.
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Zombies…. that will resist waking up, because they would know they have been duped.
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I’ve been out of the “Evangelical Movement” for almost a decade now as far as physically present. I was pretty close to people “in the know.”
And even after realizing that things were wrong, it took me until last year to acknowledge just how badly I’d been manipulated and wronged.
And I consider myself a pretty well-educated well-rounded person.
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This may surprise people but it is more likely to be swindled as an intelligent person than a unintelligent person. For one reason, intelligent people are more likely to be open to new ideas or concepts and that’s what the swindler is counting on.
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Evangelicals are not the ones going for him.
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There are many of the diehards that are still there. They believe in this man and he is the head of ALL of them. He was Kenneth Hagin’s “son in the faith.”
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Ken Copeland also prayed over trump with Paula White and others. I like Copeland for the record.
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Copeland is a little bit more specific with this one flat out saying he believed Ted was “the one.”
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Thanks. do you know when that was? I’m wondering if that was before or after the Paula Jones meeting.
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It was this years’ ministers conference. I wouldn’t have been bothered if it were prayer. It was the false prophesying that made my stomach roll.
And just to be clear, I wasn’t always anti-Copeland. I’ve been to the SWBC, sent offerings over the years, watched the show daily, and read every magazine from cover to cover.
http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/02/09/ted-cruz-endorsed-by-his-father-at-a-kenneth-copeland-conference/
http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/02/09/ted-cruz-endorsed-by-his-father-at-a-kenneth-copeland-conference/
http://christiannews.net/2016/02/09/kenneth-copeland-says-ted-cruz-called-and-anointed-for-presidency-at-conference-with-raphael-cruz/
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Yeah – me too. KCM has been integral in my Christian growth – especially my faith life a long time ago. That’s kinda sad.
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For some reason, Cruz supporters don’t like it when I call them “sincere manipulable militants” and post that article. No idea why…
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That’s how it works. We’ve all been there in the last 20 years.
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The only question I have for Sundance is if Cruz was in on the splitter strategy, then who was it designed to stop? I thought the splitter strategy was designed specifically to stop a Cruz type candidate on the right from consolidating the conservative vote. If Cruz was not that candidate, then who was? Scott Walker?
The beauty of Trump is that he didn’t attack from the right. Trump strongest support has come from moderates and somewhat conservative voters. In other words, Trump came from a direction the GOPe was not prepared for. Taking this further, Trump is the 2008 Mitt Romney without the “Mormon problem.” Believe it or not, in 2008, Romney was an insurgent against McCain. He too was able to appeal across the ideological spectrum of Moderates, Somewhat conservative and very conservative as Trump. The key difference is Romney (who was strongest against illegal immigration) did not enjoy the same success among evangelicals in the South (and non-college grads) as Trump has in this race. Mike Huckabee won evangelicals but Huckabee was undermined by a splitter in Fred Thompson in the key South Carolina primary that he narrowly lost to McCain.
In 2012, I believe Newt Gingrich played the role of splitter for Romney. When the race could have been won by Gingrich in FL he retrenched and allowed Romney to win. Then he stayed in the race long enough to deny Santorum (who ran as a blue collar conservative) key wins in states like MI, IL and OH that went to Romney in close contests.
So again if Cruz is splitter, who was the person the GOPe was trying to keep from consolidating the Right?
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The answer is a hypothetical grassroots candidate who unfortunately for the GOPe turned out to be not some easily beatable (through their usual methods — see Chris McDaniel in Missippi) but the self-funding billionaire genius and grand wizard persuader, Donald Trump.
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The premise is flawed. As was mine initially.
In my original mindset – The splitter strategy was always intended to do something (elect Jeb), and not do something (allow the nomination of someone else).
However, I now accept I was wrong. There was no alternate intent.
The intent of the splitter strategy was to elect Jeb. FULL-STOP.
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Interesting and perhaps this new realization explains the outright arrogance of Jeb Bush when he said he was willing to lose the primary to win the general election. In other words, he was not going to care what issues primary conservative base voters cared about. He was simply going to run a “general” election campaign from the start because the splitter strategy had no one to guard against since Cruz was a willing participant.
I only asked about Walker because, I admittedly was a Walker supporter before I supported Trump. Walker was clearly a top tier contender, outside of Washington, with conservative cred. Now seeing the race for what it has become, it’s clear to me that Jeb Bush would have simply outspent Walker in NH and essentially end Walker’s bid in SC. I still believe in a Trump-less race, Cruz was more likely to win IA than Walker and thus would have been Jeb’s primary opponent along with Rubio. I never believed Rubio has a shot at the nomination, but it’s clear that Rubio would have aided Jeb Bush to secure FL over Cruz and effectively end the nomination fight March 15th, even if Kasich still won OH.
It’s amazing what Donald Trump has accomplished, but we still got to get through April to finish the remnants off!
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How did Romney have a stronger position on illegal immigration than Trump? Trump is calling for a deportation plan to remove all illegals and remove all anchor babies. I don’t believe Romney ever came close to touching this and he wasn’t going to anyways.
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I never said Romney had a stronger position than Trump. I said at the time, Romney had the strongest immigration position in the GOP field that year.
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Which I think is why Ann Coulter got behind Romney last time. Immigration has been her key issue for years.
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Ben Carson?
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Ted Cruz thinks he is the new Madhi.
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Ted’s creepy religion is indeed strikingly similar to Islam.
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They have the same outcome.
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“Depart from me, I never knew you.”
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still a better choice then Trump .
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Still living in a dream world!
One of these days you will become an adult, child.
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If you’ll go to Lucianne.com they’ll make you a beloved moderator, dear.
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And say hi to Miss Molly and StrmCenter when you get there. They are as mind numbingly stupid as you.
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this has got to be a misfire,
An unfortunate friendly fire incident.
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Ain’t that the truth, lol!
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Gosh, nice try, Kathy M. Oh, I did notice all those busTED flames on your FB page you linked to. As well as the article from RedState. Your research must be “breath taking.”
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Do you need directions because obviously you have taken a wrong turn and ended up here.
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Kathy, you’re here because you know something isn’t quite right. Keep reading, watching, and listening.
You want the same thing we want, A strong America.
When you’re ready.We’ll be here to welcome you into the fold. I promise, no one here will ridicule you for being fooled by ted cruz, and the evil monster that currently runs our political system.
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Ummm…… no.
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Kathy M. : The big question might be “Better for whom?” You’ll have to pardon my disbelief in Ted being better for the average American. I’ve got what I think are good reasons for my disbelief; do you have similar reasons for your belief? Let’s hear them, shall we?
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Awwww aren’t you precious. The Matrix must have glitched on you and you saw the cat walk by twice. You know something is wrong but like Cypher, you want to believe the steak is real.
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The correct word, Kathy, is “than”.
Perhaps you have other errors in your thinking?
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This list that describes Cruz should look familiar: it also described Obama in 2008.
Harvard educated.
First term Senator.
Poor attendance in Senate.
Considered a “Constitutional scholar”.
Constantly lectures everyone when he talks .
Believes he’s smarter than everyone else in the room.
Zero leadership abilities.
Career lawyer/politician with no private sector experience.
Raised by parents and family with zero loyalty to this country.
Questionable eligibility.
Records sealed to prevent investigation of said questionable eligibility.
No friends from previous times of his life with positive things to say about him.
Sleazeball tactics to win elections.
So take your Obama clone, give him a career that started with the Bushes where he worked very hard for the Bushes, a globalist wife who pushed the idea of a North American Union that he met while working for the Bushes, and a bunch of friends like Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Neil Bush, Carly Fiorina, and Nimrata Randhawa Haley.
The idea that he’s an outsider is ludicrous. If anything, I think he’s a globalist joke on “true conservatives”. He’s definitely useful to them as the “vent vote” target, but he’s also their chance to have a bit of fun at the expense of the people they’re duping.
They’re laughing, knowing that they took the very person that was hated in 2008, changed him from a Kenyan to a Canadian born to a Cuban communist, slapped an “R” next to his name, and that person is now a “true conservative” and an “outsider” simply because he tells people he is.
The globalists are horrible people, but they know how to play a whopper of a joke when they choose to.
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I’m sure leftists are having a good laugh too. “Wait, you hated Obama so much that so you picked a Canadian-born Cuban clone of him to be your leader? AHAHAHAHA.”
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One reason I think Trump and Putin will get along is both are populists and both are nationalists and both are masters of Timing. They have patience for their strategic moves. Tactically, they play a different game. Trump is reactive. Of course, he is in a different situation, needing to knock off challengers in the race to the top. Putin is already positioned at the top where he plays. But he also has a different tactical maxim: strike first. Donald prefers to counter-punch.
However, in the strategic arena, Trump is a long term planner who has Intel that he uses when the Timing is perfect. So far, he has not been out-maneuvered, just as Putin has not been.
When they match up on international matters, they will find great points of convergence and global array of common enemies. These two men have a lot in common. Both are huge achievers. Both have countries they must turn around and grow economically. Both have high energy. And neither thinks the other is a competitor for anything that matters to his country. It will be the first time in our lifetimes when ideology is null and fear won’t be a driving force.
If both continue on their present path, Putin running for one more six year term in 2018 and Trump doing two terms, they would both retire after 2024. Convergence. Synchronicity.
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Awesome~!!!!!!
Trump + Putin, does not equal 2.
Trump + Putin > Central Banks.
[Trump + American citizens] + [Putin + Russian citizens] = The great awakening
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There can be no doubt that Trump & Putin have mutual respect and upon gaining the Presidency, there will be strategies & alliances between the US & Russia based on the many mutual interests.
There can also be no doubt that President Trump will be busy forming relationships with every world leader of note.
I suspect the long line of visitors to Camp David will become the focus of much media attention throughout a Trump Presidency…and world stability will be all the better for it.
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The strong anti Putin media blitz among conservatives like Joel Rosenberg suddenly makes more sense note. Few realize it was Putin who stopped the global warming BS from taking hold so I could ram through cap and trade.
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That is very astute analysis.
I wish Cruzers would wake up and see this. Unfortunately when I post anything on Twitter about Cruz they all swarm my timeline in a collective freakout. ‘He’s the only constitutional conservative!’ they say. It’s ridiculous. How do we get them to see the light?
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Usually, you will never change them. Ask them how a conservative can push through TPA, guaranteeing TPP, and the Iran deal. Don;t get into the weeds just state that no conservative would vote for those disastrous bills which are sure to destroy our economy and sovereignty.
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I got one die-hard Cruz supporter (who knows I support Trump) to agree that you cannot be FOR open borders AND be a conservative.
I then told her that any candidate that has taken money from individuals or groups who advocate for open borders is crossed off my list.
Bread crumbs…
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I think he’s got Mark Levin’s support because they both strongly favor a Constitutional Convention. Can you think of ANYONE you would trust to tinker with our precious constitution?
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One has to realize that many of Cruz’s most diehard supporters not only have called for a Constitutional Convention (which would likely destroy the Constitution) but have also talked up the whole “split the country, secession” idea…which would pitch the country into civil war, and even if it could be done peacefully (ha!) would create a situation where all the little non-U.S. American entities could be more easily gobbled up by whoever wanted to take them.
In this some of the liberals I know have been very correct: how is this not destroying America?
Why they are so full throated for both is anyone’s guess — I tend to chalk it up to monumental hubris plus a distinct lack of ethical consideration for one’s fellow man.
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plus a disgusting lack of historical knowledge
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Today I had one Freeper say that he wants Cruz because Cruz is the only one who will return us to the gold standard. Another Freeper quoted Abraham Lincoln on why he bypassed the constitution during the Civil War and said electing Cruz is just as important because of the judges POTUS Cruz will nominate. I replied basically saying that Cruz can’t be trusted because of his votes and added that he is going against his own stated belief of what makes a natural born citizen. No reply.
I posted something at Lucianne yesterday and got about 500 or so likes – it was an almost defiant (for Lucianne’s crowd) comment on why Trump needs to be POTUS.
Maybe sometimes we can get through to people.
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Keep trying! I think the editorial policy there is more convincing to Trump support because it is so blatantly unfair. Good for you!
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The chickens have come to roost for Lyin’ Ted. He is a willing splitter for the GOPe and career political climber. He knows he has no chance to win the nomination let alone a general election. Senator Jeff Sessions rightly endorsed Donald Trump because Cruz’s positions on immigration and especially trade only changed after Donald Trump made a splash with these issues. Cruz is simply inauthentic and fooling his supporters… but not anyone who reads this blog.
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Cruz’s votes and actions and facts of birth don’t match his claims of Constitutional Conservative.
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Backing Cruz makes liars out of both Beck and Levin as well.
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…………..and Rush, also.
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Key to me is how little MSM attention…and even talk radio,,,the Sessions endorsement of Trump garnered. It’s a tell.
Also, that Trump was the only candidate to submit his responses to the five questions on the Sessions test. The others ALL want to obfuscate w/ BS rhetoric.
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I know. For me the Sessions endorsement was a shockwave that should have shook the American political press but it was totally downplayed. It just shows that this great man has confidence that Donald is authentic on his economic nationalism and immigration positions (which Sessions helped craft).
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As with many other observations made by Trump, calling Cruz a liar goes a lot deeper than at first understood.
Trump makes an observation, and then events, revelations, circumstances and behavior shows how true and how deep his simple observation was when he made it.
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Trump’s a genius at finding the soft spot and then hammering it home.
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Yes, he is really good at that.
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Which makes me wonder what will the Big Lie Hammer be? And when will he use it?
I just have a sneaking suspicion that Trump has more than the NBC issue and that’s why he is pounding in the ‘He Lleyeeyesss’. He’s got Something!
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Trump only plays to win. My gut feeling is that Trump, unbeknownst to Cruz, has controlled him from day one. I still say Trump is aligned with Mercer and Cruz will be taken out at the appropriate moment. All the tools afforded Cruz through Mercer, Cambridge Analytic, Breitbart.com, etc. can simultaneously be used for or against Cruz to pump up or take down. Trump is way too smart to leave anything to chance.
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Well if Trump is NOT aligned with Mercer, that means Breitbart has been co-opted by the GOPe as a tool to channel populist rage. Makes you view the recent shakeup with the Michelle Fields thing in a different light. I think there’s a geniune split among the ranks of Breitbart writers… populists vs. paid GOPe operatives.
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Don’t forget Bannon produced the great Palin documentary Undefeated. Pain and he are close. Not sure if Mercer doesn’t have as much say in his own entity our what…
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That would be brilliant! It never even occurred to me.
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Mr. Trump’s tax policy takes a major tax benefit away from “hedge fund guys”, so I don’t think Mercer likes him. Soros also runs hedge funds.
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Wow, getting passed over for a position you were gunning for? Money from titanic corporate backers controlling politics from behind the scenes? Sounds like a hit Netflix series.
And as I’ve said before and maintain, this election season has already been more interesting than the entire run of House of Cards can ever hope to be. And the best part is, it’s real, and an actual hero is the protagonist.
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Kevin–Sometimes I feel like it is one of the new TV shows on TV.
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I’ve been GLUED to this election. Can’t read enough, can’t learn enough, can’t get enough of Trump. The hope we’ve all been starved for has been so long in coming!
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Part those of us who lived the 50s, 60s & 70s are so done with the tearing down of America. Its so refreshing to hear someone that cares about America & legal Americans.
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The thing we have on our side is that developments to date have proven that GOPe is simply incompetent and stupid. They have mucked this entire anti-Trump campaign from the get-go. No wonder they couldn’t govern. They’re just morons.
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Arrogance has been enough until now. On Fox, Pat Caudell just said said the electorate/Trump are coming for the political class in a Jacksonian Revolution.
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Yes, I heard that. REALLY, REALLY liked that statement!!!!!
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Excellent Sundance. Absolutely great insight and information. Explains what has been evolving. Also jibes with what we know of Cruz’s super ego.
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I think Trump has been planning this for a long time.
I also believe Trump acquired Ted’s immigration records long before Ted had them sealed..
And I think he has a big surprise for the GOP establishment when the time is right.
The Trump Train is unstoppable .
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Trump spent $1,000,000 on oppo research when he considered running in 2012.
Additionally, every Republican of note has been trooping to his office to kiss up and beg for money over the past 30 years. I wouldn’t be surprised if his files are more thorough as J. Edgar Hoover’s.
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Including the Democrats such as Hillary who he gave money too. It’s amazing how many people don’t see those donations as strategic intelligence buys.
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When you consider how the Trump Organization has systematically bought every domain name with Trump in it, or that could be linked to Trump in some way, that shows great foresight. They own thousands of domains to keep their name safe.
Likewise no doubt the die was cast in 2012 (at the latest) when “Make America Great Again” was trademarked. By then Cruz and all the other current players were on the scene and Trump could have assessed every one’s weak spot.
This sealed record thing I think is a red herring. Most vital statistics records are sealed. I think the real damaging material might be voting records or other association records, or even… new citizen announcements. That’s public record here, has anyone looked in Canada? If Cruz’ mother was a Canadian citizen that’s the end of the story. The only reason to go to court would be to show proof in discovery and that would be it, no need to get into the woods with questions of what is a NBC.
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Sundance, good analysis there. I also think that Ted is still not the favorite of the establishment. For now though, the first step for the establishment is to stop Trump. This is why even Lindsey supported Ted now to take away the magic number from Trump. Once thats done and this whole thing goes to the convention, then they will be able to take things away from Ted as well and pick someone they favor. This is what I think the strategy is, so Ted is just a bay leaf for now so they can use and throw away at the convention!
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Feed de dog and make her sweat.
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As far as the hammer, lets remember that Trump is a worldwide businessman. He has connections in Canada as well, owns a luxury hotel in Toronto, etc. Lets not discount the value of Canadian records…. Ted’s mother becoming a citizen and thus renouncing her U.S. citizenship, things of that nature.
Remember after one the primaries Trump called for Rubio to drop out and said he’d love to take Ted one-on-one. Damn right he would. He’s got something.
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There is something on the NBC requirement about the citizen parent needing to be resident for 10 years in the US after the age of 14. Cruz’s citizen mother met her 1st husband in Texas and moved to England for a number of years, returned to the US and married Cuban citizen Cruz and moved to Canada for approx 6 years. I suspect she didn’t reside in the US long enough to satisfy the 10 year residency requirement.
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There are a lot of unknowns where Cruz’s background is concerned. Just like O.
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I am most intrigued by this reported meeting, soon to take place, between Trump and a group of high-ranking Republicans at Trump’s attorney’s office i. e. on his turf.
I am convinced that Trump has been meticulously planning this run for decades. I am convinced he has assembled a core group of like-minded and accomplished individuals who understand what has been happening to the country, and who plan to save it. As evidence, look at Trump’s visible endorsements — Carl Icahn, Sheriff Joe, Senator Sessions, Franklin Graham, etc. Quality. These are the ones we see now, but there are many others, Trump has said so. Among them, I would guess, are many former high-ranking military officers pushed out by Obama.
Trump has played at the highest levels of the world stage for decades. Do you think he may not have moles everywhere? May he not know the dirtiest of his opponents’ secrets?. And as for his dirty secrets, apparently he has none, or surely they would already have been outed. Leverage.
I would like to believe that this little meeting is to let these GOPe’s know “just how the cow ate the cabbage,” as my husband would put it — a meeting which will put an end to their flailing around fwith threats of a brokered convention or a third party run.
We can hope, can we not?
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Oh, oh “fwith threats” — those must be the worse kind. Little spelling error there. Hah!
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I like your thinking here. Leverage is what makes Trump tick. He’s been accumulating it for a long time, and he knows how/when to use it – better than anyone.
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Earlier today Dan Scarvino posted a 30 second video on Twitter of Trump entering the banquet room at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. He got a standing ovation from a roomful of what appeared to be wealthy, well coiffed Republican. Pretty easy to invite them all to Palm Beach and have a quiet meeting after a round of golf.
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I have been thinking about the meeting at Trump tower with Reince when Trump signed the “pledge”. That meeting was on Trump’s turf. What did Trump say to Reincey…I wonder…
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OK this is crazy but could Trump have turned Reince and now he is a double agent for him? How badass would that be? Reince plays along making the GOPe think that they have him, he is doing their bidding. In reality, he has been feeding all sorts of intelligence back to Trump.
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I don’t think Trump turned him. I just think Trump has “something” that is very damaging to the GOPe Inc and Reince knows it. Notice Reince still goes around and claims the winner of the primary process will be the nominee. He knows when they try this sh!!te on Trump they will be blasted to smittereens. Then again maybe he also recognizes the nasty perverse weasels that they are which is why he keeps prevaricating.
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I know we all wait, sometimes with little patience, for Mr. Trump to make his next move like with Rafael’s legal status and then I saw this and it made me smile.
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“He ran for Senate against a GOPe favorite and won. He hoped this would show the GOPe that he was a serious contender and that they would welcome him back into the fold.”
This is the last piece of the puzzle for me. Cruz ran for Texas Senator against Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, the handpicked RINO candidate supported by the Bushes and Karl Rove. I always assumed that Cruz’s opposition to Dewhurst meant he could not be GOPe. I have never seen it explained before today, but the idea that he was trying to get back into favor with the Bushes now makes perfect sense. And with Neil Bush now on Cruz’s finance team, it looks like he succeeded.
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Good catch!
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Okay, I guess I’m really slow but I don’t understand how running against the Bushes hand picked man would get him back in their favor? What the heck am I missing?
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Although this is only an opinion piece it connects a huge slew of dots from the Iowa primary forward. It most likely needs some filler with some other type of backup, but it is a very good thinking piece.
In My Humble Opinion
Friday, 11 March 2016
Why Ted must be defeated
http://rajanlaadnews.blogspot.com/2016/03/why-ted-must-be-defeated.html
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Wow. This is amazing stuff.
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Let’s not forget that JEB BUSH only SUSPENDED his campaign. He didn’t quit the race.
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So did the rest of them. No one officially dropped out.
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One of the main reasons they suspend instead of quit is because if they quit they give up the control of their delegates. If they only suspend their campaign they can control the delegates at the convention and also use them as negotiating power with a presumptive nominee.
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Right, that is why I said it. They can also continue to fund raise. At least their PAC’s can.
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By suspending but not ending, they can continue to raise money and spend it.
That’s the real reason they do it.
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Earlier I felt I had seen a man before somewhere, whose photo was posted by Howie, as a Crudzbot.
I had been following Bush campaign when it was active, and watching photos for numbers of people appearing at his rallies, all were small even laughably so.
Interestingly, every photo a week or two ago showed small numbers and the mini-crowd was always blurred out of focus. Today, looking on search engine for “photos of Jeb rallies” (attempting to find the man in Howies photo) I was surprised.
There seems to be photoshopped images of large crowds which were not there two weeks ago.
Something going on.
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Jeb Bush’s official FB and Twitter are dead (no activity) since February 21.
Rubio tweets once a day. Others that dropped out are also active on social media.
Jeb, nothing.
Jeb’s Twitter has .5+ million followers. He vaporized… gone. Not normal.
Is it possible RNC wants us to forget ‘low energy’ Jeb AND is busy prepping Jeb back to life?
Something wrong.
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Well, I tried and only got photos from here. Try “Photos of Jeb Bush rallies” and you’ll see a bunch and click more for more. Doesn’t look suspicious to me. There’s one with a huge(r) crowd but that was from FL when Dubya showed up with Jeb.
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that was in SC I think
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Watch for Walker to renter for Wisconsin, etc.
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So did Carson Christie and Fiorina
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I posted this in the Brandon Tatum thread, but I think it applies here, too.
Right out of high school, I worked for a company called Arbitron and our branch of the company watched television commercials from all the markets in the US. My shift watched Cleveland and Minneapolis and I mostly did Minneapolis.
We had a book with a five digit number that corresponded to each advertiser. McDonald’s is one I still remember 30 years later: 22542.
So, we would receive video tapes with broadcasts from all the local stations in a given market. Our job was to fast forward through the shows and log every commercial break. We needed to account for what time the break occurred and what advertising was contained in the break. Public service announcements, like an ad for the Army, were simply marked PSA.
So, we would create a log. The purpose of the log was for advertisers to make sure that they received the airtime they paid for.
Back then there were two electronic superstore companies like Best Buy and Circuit City. One was named Fretter and I don’t remember the other one. I just looked it up on Wiki and it was Silo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fretter
Anyway, to the everyday TV watcher, it seemed like these companies were in competition with one another. In reality, they were owned by the same company. The consumer believed they were being presented with options when in actuality, they were not.
That is what the GOPe was doing before Mr. Trump got in the race.
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Great analogy, thank you!
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Like.
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I worked for a major brewing company.
It brewed the most popular brands of beer of which one was a well-known German beer.
It owned the rights to the German brewery.
People didn’t know there were only two major brewers that made all these beers.
Reminds me of the electoral process.
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Very similar. We are led to believe we have choices when in reality we do not.
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Mr. Trump is a Choice, not an Echo.
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Similarly, I know from having worked summers as a teen in food processing plants, that different brands of fruits and vegetables are often the same product with different labels. Same with frozen french fries and instant mashed potatoes.
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And they still are by using Cruz and making people think he’s an outsider. Then, when they finally rally around him to usurp Trump at the convention, they are actually pushing another Bush globalist neocon.
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oh man fretter. the catchiest ads of all time, i’ll never forget them when i was a kid in the eighties. you from michigan roxanne?
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No, I’m not from Michigan. When I worked in advertising our markets were Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, and lots of other smaller markets like Dayton, OH and Springfield, IL.
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just wondering with fretter, they spread out but both those companies were detroit based
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“Suspending” a campaign allows a candidate to publicly withdraw from a race while preserving the ability to raise funds beyond what’s needed to retire debt. This may include the ability to continue to receive federal matching funds, if the candidate has previously qualified for them.
When candidates announce they are dropping out or ending their campaigns, they may then only raise money to retire any remaining campaign debts or to pay for other costs related to shutting down a campaign committee. They may not continue to amass warchests beyond that if they drop out.
However, if a candidate “suspends” his campaign but doesn’t officially end his candidacy, federal law does not specifically prohibit that candidate from continuing to raise funds for purposes other debt retirement. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/10/what-does-suspending-mean-2/
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When suspending, doesn’t the candidate keep control of his delegates and can use them as bartering chips? If you end your campaign are those delegates released?
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Wow
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What do you want to bet that the old post office property has a discreet VIP entrance.
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Well that would explain in part Matt Walsh’s calling for a blacklist of all conservative Trump supporters. (Whether he actually called specifically for a blacklist or not, you can judge for yourself if you want to increase the Blaze’s internet traffic.) Makes me wonder though if some cards are going to be sent out to conservatives nationwide like Cruz sent in Iowa, with a C-F rating of how “conservative” they are.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/18/gop-smart-set-plots-blacklist-of-trump-supporters/
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/lets-remember-the-cowardly-conservative-leaders-who-betrayed-us-for-trump/
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George Will on Fox News Sunday has taken to calling ‘blacklisted/cowardly Conservatives’ Vichy Republicans! What a slimy little simp he is.
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That’s hilarious how the outsiders who support Trump have now somehow magically become the ally of McConnell, who was the previous definition of “Vichy Republican”, and who also hates Trump as well as his supporters. I do not think that term means what George thinks it means.
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Isn’t old George using a Leftist tactic there? Hijacking a synonym for traitor to describe the majority of (new & old) Republican voters? No wonder even O’Reilly hates that guy!
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So Amanda Carpenter and Matt Walsh can put them on their Black List?
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Bottom line….he would be great for this country following the Constitution and picking probably 3 justices who would follow the “dead” Constitution…as opposed to a living document. Elect Ted.
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Ummmm, no.
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Well said!
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Yeah………., no.
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If he doesn’t know what a natural born citizen is…nope, don’t want him anywhere in the U.S. government. He has blown his credibility.
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Well, that could be all well and good…if Ted weren’t a pathological liar and probably psychopath.
As it stands the evidence suggests…no.
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Plus this petty observation………WHO is this man’s tailor? Look at the sleeves on that jacket, and the shoulders. Maybe he is going after the sympathy vote. Generally, he just looks greasy, and not just in this picture.
OK, I said it was petty……………………..but true.
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it looks like he borrowed an extra coat of Trump’s.
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He will select the justices his puppet masters instruct him to. Period.
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No. Ted is a great technician for the constitution………and yes very conservative . I nominate him for the Supreme Court of the land, I have nothing against him or many others who try to be conservative , but we need a true fearless point man who can keep
the dialog loud and strong. One can even pray that Trump’s accomplishments include term limits for senators and congressmen.
True leadership comes seldom in politics , I pray we recognize it and put it to work.
Hell, what is there to lose ?
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Ted won;t do that. Didn’t you read this article?
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Like John Roberts?
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Ted is dead. ’nuff said!
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Ted has the second most amount of delegates, nothing dead about that
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The Only One that WILL Follow the Constitution as it was Written in Donald Trmp~! Ted Cruz is a Complete Globalist with Deep Ties to the Bush Cabal~! Ted Cruz~~~ is also So Constitutionally Ineligible there is No Need for a Supreme Court Decision. at Best Ted is Naturalized~~there is absolutely No Way he is Natural Born~! Was Born In Canada with a Canadian Birth Certificate & his Dad was Not a Citizen when he was Born.
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Is there an open record of Ted applying for, and receiving, US citizenship when he dropped Canadian citizenship? Canada did not have dual citizenship when Ted was born.
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Stop with the ineligible argument already. His mother was a US citizen thus he was a US citizen at birth. The courts have dismissed every one of these ridiculous law suits that have been filed. Stop trying to repeat the lie enough times to make it reality. And I say this as a relatively new (since last month) Trump supporter.
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Ted has to make the Constitution a “living document” to see himself as eligible to even run.
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Is this what ‘trolling’ is?
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#LyingTed is #INELIGIBLE! He LIES all the time! He knows he’s #INELIGIBLE and he’s got you #fooled!
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Why would you elect a Bush crony who is just another globalist neocon? I think you may be falling for the line that Ted is selling. Some simple homework will tell you that he’s nothing but the third term of George W. Bush.
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Yeah, i’d just go full accelerationism and vote Hillary if it ever came down to those two, in fact i’d sooner slash my wrists than cast a vote for that disgusting rat Cruz.
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http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=11511
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Ted Cruz people were also blocking the road.
Yes, I know “rumor”.
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Is anyone here really surprised? I am not after all he did say he would do “whatever it takes” to win after what he did in Iowa to Ben Carson.
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Via Trump supporter:
Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/politics/before-rise-as-outsider-ted-cruz-played-inside-role-in-2000-recount.html?_r=0
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Thank you Sundance for this article. I really appreciate it especially since I am rather new at understanding the meaning of things political. This I regrettably owe to the fact that for the last 15 years I have been listening to the so-called “conservative” media like Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. I took their meaning of conservatism as being true and had no real point of reference to which their meaning could be compared.
This blinded me until I came to this website.
I never really liked Lying Ted. I couldn’t put my finger on it. For one, he never convinced me that he was a true outsider. Second, I always thought that since he “shut down” the government that he couldn’t possibly shake that of if he were ever to face off against HRC.
I didn’t like him because he comes across as terribly rehearsed and forced (tries too hard) and didn’t like something about him physically. That may sound shallow but there is something to be said about his facial contortions/expressions. Something’s off.
What most bothered me was the issue of his Canadian birth and dual citizenship. Which came to light when he decided to run for POTUS.
Trump will get the 1237. He will unleash on Lying Canadian Ted and dismantle him with a crushing blow LCTed won’t know which way is up. I am confident Trump has all the information he needs to go about taking care of LCTed.
LCTed’s unbridled ambitions should get him lagging second place in this race. Maybe his delegates will end up with Trump. Is that possible?
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It is your “repulsion instinct” telling you that CruzTed is just another Globalist Hell Hound!!
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Amazing. Your experience with Rush and Fox…same here. You listened for 15 years…I got addicted to talk radio after 9/11…15 years.
The Conservative Treehouse (<<<if anybody deserves a Pulitzer<<<) and contributors to their excellent comment section slapped the blinders off my thick skull. Rush disappointed me the most. I felt so fooled.
However, when you get that moment of clarity that rushes over you when you realize that you KNOW that what you’re reading and watching at CTH is the truth. SMACK! There’s no denying it. Everything just falls so perfectly into place…like the last handful of pieces of a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle revealing the complete picture. I literally got a full body chill…followed quickly by feelings of disgust…and worse!
I remember Ted Cruz looking more natural a few years back. But, about a year ago, I saw Ted in an interview on cable news. Instantly, I noticed the choreographed body language, hand movements, head position, speech. Yuck! It just feels so fake. I don’t know what it is. When I look at Ted, one word comes to mind every time. Snake!
That’s alright. I will be voting by absentee ballot in New York…Donald J. Trump. It seems impossible to me that Mr. Trump has exposed so much just per happenstance. I think Mr. Trump’s been collecting intel for decades…even took a job behind enemy lines at NBC. It seems that everything that I read at the CTH just reinforces my intuition.
Mr. Trump is unveiling his Masterpiece. Oh! What a beauty it is.
Btw, it seems Mr. Trump is a fan of the CTH. I wonder…? Mr. Trump always says that he wants to surround himself with the best and brightest people. Could it be that there is something that Sundance is not telling us? Hmmm….
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Seeing the light is quite an experience. I can’t compare it to when I was saved, but it ranks up there as far as the immense sense of liberation and gaining a more complete understanding about what is going on in our country.
I was not only consuming the information offered in talk-shows and TV shows, but also I bought the entire world view. And whatever GWB did in foreign policy I tended to not question as I should have. Mainly because I had no clue. I was deceived.
It was my husband who told me about this website, and specifically made me read an article on the splitter strategy and the UniParty/globalist agenda Sundance had published back in the Fall.
I had an eye-opening experience and after that I questioned EVERYTHING.
Every time I listened to Rush, I put his assessment and message and pontification through my new-found understanding and little by little I began to purge my ears from Rush et al. I’m happier.
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Also, I particularly reject the overt spiritual manipulation Lying Canadian Ted engineered to sway voters to his side from among the “evangelicals,” whatever that means.
Loathsome!
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Trump’s plane was sitting on Southern Blvd. today. Against the backdrop of PBI, it looked tiny. It made me realize how courageous this campaign is. This is just one man, folks, fighting a machine infinitely bigger than he is. Takes real guts to attempt something this audacious.
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REAL audacity… and I hate that I now associate the word with our currently-installed dictator-in-chief.
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I know what you mean, but the word ‘audacity’ is really a great word and it fits Trump perfectly!
From now on ‘audacity’ is in play.
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Audacity as a descriptor is double-speak. Trump tries to be single-meaning and straight speaking.
I won’t be using “audacity.” I like words that have clear meanings and not two entirely opposing definitions. Choose a better. Look at synonyms of definition #1.
au·dac·i·ty
[ôˈdasədē]
NOUN
1)the willingness to take bold risks:
“her audacity came in handy during our most recent emergency”
synonyms: boldness · daring · fearlessness · intrepidity · bravery ·
courage · heroism · pluck · grit · recklessness · spirit · mettle · guts · gutsiness · spunk · moxie
2)rude or disrespectful behavior; impudence:
“she had the audacity to pick up the receiver and ask me to hang up”
synonyms: impudence · impertinence · insolence · presumption · [more]
I will NOT call Donald Trump by an adjective that can be construed to mean: rude or disrespectful behavior;
synonyms: impudence · impertinence · insolence · presumption ·
cheek · bad manners · effrontery · nerve · gall · defiance · temerity · chutzpah · sass
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The PC police already deems his audacity as a negative, but that is because Trump doesn’t play their game, and their pejoratives don’t affect him so as to change him.
I don’t have a problem if audacity is used to criticize him due to his doing away with PC culture audaciously! :)
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It was obviously the second definition that Ayers and Comrade o had in mind when titling their fictional biography, as they certainly intended to leave Americans with no hope whatsoever.
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Absolutely! I’m fond of that word too, time to “re-program” myself. :)
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Audacity has far too many negative connotations of our current “dear leader’s” second book!
IMHO: Courageuos as in brave is more fitting.
Donald is derived from Celtic “world” or “power”.
Donald the Powerful Courageous Warrior.
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Trump’s audacity will be “Governmental Turnaround” to once again serve the people as Masters of the Government, without the Waste, Fraud and Corruption … Not to mention the Bloodsucking Globalist Leeches.
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Regarding Obama, a perfect word to substitute for audacity would be “quisling.”
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Wow, great history behind that word. Thanks for the head’s up! :)
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Reclaim “audacity” from obama or just use promote a semi-synonym like “temerity”? I’m not sure which is the better course of action :)
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I vote for reclaiming audacity (though “temerity” also has a nice ring to it), because I like it and it’s not the word’s fault Obama’s ghost writer used it in the title of his obnoxious book. ;)
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Perhaps those who think DJT has an outsized ego should take your words to heart and realize that some of what looks like ego may just possibly be courage!
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And respect and confidence in his own abilities.
We do not say a world class athlete has an outsized ego do we?
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And that is why my respect for him grows more each passing day.
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Hes fighting the new world order.For us.Not anybody else just us.We the people are behind him and that’s the only reason Trump does it.The day we give in he will.So never give in
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Would you mind telling us what city Southern Blvd. is in?
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West Palm beach. PBI is Palm Beach international airport. Where Trump lives
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Now it makes sense that they call Cruz “anti establishment/outsider” when he’s really not. They wanted to turn him into a splitter for the “anti establishment” vote aka Trump. Meanwhile he’s in with them thicker than anyone and clearly more controlled than any other candidate. His supporters have been tricked big time.
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Ted Cruz now calling his voters Anti Science Zealots
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/ted-cruz-now-calling-his-voters-anti.html
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Lyin’ Ted and his pal Mike Lee want to bring homeschooling under federal control:
http://www.voicesofliberty.com/article/ted-cruz-federalize-homeschooling/
This Cruz snake is anti-family.
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I’d suggest anyone that has homeschooling friends, forward that link on. Homeschoolers are a fierce lot when it comes to laws having to do how homeschooling can be done.
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I agree, I don’t homeschool but I wish I could, and I would hate to see it messed with.
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OMG what a terrible idea! Get the federal government OUT of education period. This is an obvious expression of NWO intent to bring all child rearing under control. The promise of federal funds is like an offer free heroin.
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Wow, really cool.
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I know it’s a stretch, but at it’s root this thread is calling into question a key component of Ted Cruz’ persona, his authenticity.
I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU SOME REAL AUTHENTICITY!
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Bless Barron Trump on his Birthday. What an adorable little boy and how much he resembles his terrific dad.
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Hmmm….if “they” know what the info that Trump has on them to use as a “hammer” if necessary (treated unfairly), wouldn’t they not want to have this threatened contested convention or change of rules, etc.? Perhaps they’re using this threat in hopes of getting more delegates syphoned off Trump – by people thinking, as Romney said, that if they could get enough, then they could “legitimately” have a contested convention?
When in reality, if it is “close” as Trump has said, they have no intention to pursue it out of fear of being exposed by him about something?
That would include any other obvious stunts to steal it. Maybe that’s why Trump is pretty confident about it all. Don’t know – I guess we shall see.
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As someone commented a while back, Mr. Trump has spent a lot of times with these politicians at dinners and parties for many years. He does not drink and have great memory.
Here’s an interesting comment by him from the snarky article by Maureen Dowd:
“All of these politicians have said far worse than that,” Trump said, “drunk, standing in a corner.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/sunday/will-trump-be-dumped.html?_r=0
Heh heh.
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Nice catch!
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I saw him on the local news around half an hour ago, it looked like he was holding a rally in front of a public park bathroom. I could be wrong though, it might have been the outside of a high school cafeteria.
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Haha!
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Wasn’t Tom Cotton at the anti Trump meeting in Sea Island, Georgia?
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Wow, the heroin epidemic is getting really bad. Time to build that wall.
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Lol
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Why yes, yes he was.
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Why would Trump meet with him. He was on the list of the Anti-Trump meeting that occurred not too long ago. What is up with this?
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Mr. Trump is doing what we’re supporting him to do: make deals to Make American Great Again.
A good President needs to make deals with Congress which will still be full of politicians so it’s time he get started at least on the GOPe side since only the delusional ones won’t deal with him after the March 15th primaries.
The more parts of the GOPe network he can convince to work with him, the better it will be for everyone except the Democrats. Mr. Trump won’t have to keep spending so much of his own money fighting them since the GOPe can still cause problems for him like in Wisconsin. Mr. Trump can’t waive a magic wand and make people like Paul Ryan and Tom Cotton go away or do what he wants so he has to work with them and come up with deals that they can accept while Mr. Trump gets most of what he wants. The Art of the Deal.
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We don’t know what went down at that meeting except Trump was the hot topic. However, they hold it every year, and it is a big deal to be invited. I will keep an open mind about Tom Cotton.
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Can’t say I’ll keep an open mind about Cotton but Trump is meeting with another group before his AIPAC speech which includes Cotton so maybe Trump can handle him. My keeping an open mind about any of them is gone until they prove unequivocally they are on our side.
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he sure was, and I emailed him a piece of my mind just the other day. Phony. I hate phonies.
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It’s hard to know who’s on Trumps side at this particular time in the race.
But you can be sure he has a lot of supporters on the inside and he knows exactly who the enemy is and what their plans are.
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Right ~~ “Tony”~~TRUMP Knows Better than anyone WHO his Enemies are~!
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You’re right, NH, and people are leaving nasty messages on his FB page about attending that meeting.
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Puts this in perspective, too. Before Cruz ran his Senate race as an “outsider”, he went to George W. Bush for approval:
“In a never-before-reported meeting in Bush’s Dallas office, Cruz began to outline his 2012 campaign playbook for the former president, according to people familiar with the conversation. Cruz explained how he would consolidate conservatives yearning for a political outsider, how he would outflank the front-runner on the right, how he would proudly carry the mantle of the ascendant tea party to victory over entrenched elites.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/ted-cruz-2016-establishment-george-bush-213561
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Hate to say it but I can’t help the sense of betrayal and disgust feel for our political class.. Told several of Cruz supporter, former friends, back in November that he is ineligible and if he does become the nominee the DNC will have him dismissed due to his ineligibility.. The RNC response will be, “oh well here’s Jeb”.. They will not fight or whimper, they know he is ineligible and don’t care for he is just a mere sacrificial goat.. This will leave a choice between the over sized child and the harlot of Babalon. When Trump wins 0bamba will declare marshal law, a Trump candidacy will destroy the UniParty and that is something neither half will let go unchallenged..
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The Furher will be declared “under arrest”, and, with MP’s on tow…..Trump will order him arrested on the spot!
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Pardon me if this has been featured here, but this is the brutal Ted Cruz. He took a case to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep a man guilty of stealing a calculator from a Walmart in Texas in prison for 16 years. The maximum sentence that was applicable for the offense, for a non-repeat offender, was 2 years. The man should have fallen under that sentencing guideline, but an error was apparently made. When the criminal discovered that, he sought to be released according to law. But Texas would not relent. The man appealed, Ted argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the justices asked Ted if Texas has a law against admitting the state made a mistake. The man finally won his release after 6 years. Principled, Christian Ted at his finest:
I tend to write long comments. In order to give more expression to them, I started a simple blog. An entry I just made is on the Illusion of Inclusion that is the Republican primary, an excerpt from and link to a relevant Pat Buchanan article, and some motivational Trump Supporter video links to YouTube.
https://drartaud.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/wedge-issues/
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Well we know the absolute minimum sentence for Felito once he gets to Gitmo=16 years.
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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For the military, just once.
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I listen to Shortwave Radio. There’s an Android App for shows and times. The shows are all in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
So I see UTC times, local times in the 12 hour format, local times in the 24 hour format (and unless I’m mistaken, 24 hour format and UTC times are written without the colon. If my local 1:00 PM it’s 1300 in 24hr format and 1800 UTC (if my area is on standard time) or 1700 (if my area is on Daylight Savings Time).
The beauty of the UTC show times is that once I’m aware of the 5 hour difference, or 4 hour when my local time is on Daylight Savings Time, I mentally consider when I’d need to tune-in.
This is probably rehash for you, but your joke about 24 hour time piqued my interest.
Best regards.
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Oh, it’ll be two birds with one stone!
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And someone will have to eat crowz
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Of course he is!
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The delegates math won’t work at all for Lying Cruz and Amnesty Kasich if the current trend continues when New York holds its primary. Of course we’ve all seen that Lying Cruz is not a dealmaker type anyway.
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The Republican nomination comes by delegates, if Trump doesn’t get 1,237, where will the extra ones going to come from? Ben Carson had like 8, don’t know if Chris Christie even has 1.
It’s either Rubio or Cruz, need be real here, VP is the sweetener.
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NOPE!
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Neither Rubio nor Cruz is eligible for the presidency or the vice presidency.
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And what promises has Cruz kept to our veterans? He makes me sick.
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Sorry – that was written poorly. My brain is not functioning properly today. :)
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Reblogged this on Exposing Modern Mugwumps.
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So it sounds like “Christian” Ted Cruz is willing to stoop to any low to secure the nomination.
The deal making between Kasich, Rubio, and Cruz is probably one of long standing and not just a recent proposition from Kasich. They will be “playing by the rules”, using the “brokered convention” orchestrated by Romney and the Bushes and their globalist partners.
If the electorate is willing to accept this, then we deserve what we will get.
BTW: how about those of us with Blaze subscriptions cancel them and also call our cable providers and complain about the network being included. Perhaps we can call radio stations and complain about hostile radio hosts also. These guys would be far less annoying if they had less money to create the New World Order with.
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I’ve canceled my Blaze email newsletter subscriptions at least! Never gave Beck my money, and not supporting his advertising anymore.
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Does anyone know why Cruz had his birth records sealed ?……..the legal basis used to seal them? I would think that it would not be an easy thing to do and there would have to be some legal basis for it?
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The legal basis is apparently Right to Privacy. You can’t just get someone’s birth records without their permission or unless you are closely related to them.
Lying Cruz has selectively release some documents but refuses to release any more. It’s a clear case of if he does not have anything to hide then why not release everything in the file…
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As far as I’m concerned if your running for president of the United States you should not be allowed to have personal sealed records concerning your eligibility for president, especially since a majority of the American public don’t have a clue what this is about. Gotta thank our now Marxist educational system for that.
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Hollywood could write a script depicting Rafael E. Cruz’s life.
The casting director would choose Barack Hussein Obama to play the role of Cruz. Why Obama, you ask? Obama is a natural replacement for Cruz.
1. Serial liar. Practices taqiyya daily.
2. Father a foreign citizen.
3. Mother a purported U.S. citizen.
4. Hides his background documentation.
5. What little background data that has been released is obfuscated.
6. Purports to know the U.S. Constitution.
7. Plays catch-me if you can with religion.
8. Highly possible that he is an undocumented alien. No documentation to prove one way or the other.
9. Constitutionally ineligible for the office of the POTUS.
10. Oh, did I mention that he lies?
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I want to make an additional suggestion here. There is another benefit that the GOPe might have expected to accomplish through using Cruz (and maybe Rubio, too) in the splitter strategy. If Trump had never entered the race, Cruz would have likely courted and won the majority of evangelicals, tea-party, strict conservative types within the GOP party. Cruz would likely not have garnered the 1237 delegates but he might have been the front-runner among the other splitters at the convention. Using Ted’s questionable citizenship at the last minute to deny him the nomination would have probably softened many traditional conservatives’ views toward immigration laws (open borders, amnesty, etc. )Those pesky Christian conservatives, after all, are really the only demographic/political group in the country who ever stand in the globalists’ way, right? I can’t think of a better way to soften them toward globalists’ ideas (open borders) than to deny their beloved anointed one his POTUS eligibility bc of silly little (immigration-related) laws.
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I also want to add that I am one of those pesky conservative-evangelical types who probably would have supported Cruz –at least to a point–if Trump hadn’t entered the race AND if I hadn’t landed here at the Treehouse by accident in December 2014. I feel that we are changing the direction of this country and in many ways, it IS a revolution. Sun dance, you are our Ben Franklin.
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Our memories are short. Rush and Levin pined over Walker. Once Trump entered the building, Walkers ideas seemed small and very establishment.
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Well this didn’t appear where it was intended.
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I’m not gonna lie, I believed the narrative that Cruz was an outsider at one point. Never preferred him to Trump, but I used to think, if we had to get stuck with Ted it won’t be so bad. Now I see he could have been even more cozy with the Bush clan than Rubio was.
At this point, there’s a couple of things I’m wondering. 1: What is Trump waiting for to sue Cruz for ineligibility, and 2: What is the FBI waiting for to indict Hillary?
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It would appear that everyone, including the GOPe, has overlooked the ultimate insider, complete with his own political machine – John Kasich. Ohio is the embodiment of the Uniparty. Ohio is Kasich’s own little fiefdom, and Kasich’s hubris and massive ego is often overlooked with his “ah shucks, folks” blather. Look how confident he was at winning Ohio, and how confident he is about a contested convention. Watching the goings-on locally on the North Coast, Kasich has reason to be confident. It is not beyond him to attempt to become the new kingmaker. And Kasich has hired the guy who was delegate dealmaker for Gerald Ford at the 1976 convention (WEWS).
The good news is it would appear Mr. Trump knows about Ohio, Kasich in particular. And there is so so much on Kasich and Kasich’s Uniparty that has yet to be brought out. And Mr. Trump is definitely not playing by the Kasich/Uniparty rules.
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Even though Trump is calling for unity of the party he hasn’t let up on Cruz. I don’t think anyone at this point thinks Trump wants Cruz for VP although this is what Cruz supporters and some others are defining as unity. Kasich is also dead as VP probably always was. He actually believes everything Jeb did, amnesty, common core, big government (Obamacare).
Carson the idiot is now trying to backtrack on his insane comments of why he supports Trump. His revenge has backfired big time. He did a pretty good job in a recent interview avoiding what he said and continuing with a new spin about him and Trump being outsiders. So thankful he’s no longer a presidential candidate.
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Here’s the scoop! My brother – born in Canada 1940 to an American father. Dad registered him with the American consolate immediately after birth. He never voted in Canada because he would have lost his US citizenship. He moved to the US at age 21 and was listed for the draft. He is not NBC – only naturalized.
My situation – I was born in Michigan, am a NBC with a father that was a naturalized citizen of the US. They moved to Canada when I was 2mo. I could not vote in Canada or I would have lost my US status. Around the end of the 70’s Canada introduced dual citizenship which I took in 1986. I could not vote in the US – didn’t have an address.
Now explain to me how did Mrs. Cruz vote in Canadian elections before the birth of her son, and not lose her birth right to the US.
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In sundance’s first link in the post by Gail Combs: March 20, 2016 at 8:19 am
Combs posts Cruz’s mother renounced US citizenship and later used her US birth certificate to re-enter the US (under false pretense if she had renounced her citizenship because the birth certificate is used at the border to establish citizenship for Americans entering the USA, only)
Some news sites state the mother did not renounce her US citizenship, however if she was a Canadian citizen at that time, she had to have renounced her US citizenship
http://northamericanlawcenter.org/ted-cruz-not-legal-u-s-citizen-at-all/#.Vu23JHqJk2H
I heard a Canadian social security number, is a public record in Canada. The Canadian ctiizenship of the mother should be verifiable. But the trail of the mother is murky. People cannot verify her US birth record. Is that why Cruz hides behind double talk?
Cruz = Obama. In lieu of truth, live a lie so big it becomes incredible. People cannot conceive anyone would attempt to hoax them at that level, so they turn on the accusers.
In 2013 Salon wrote an excellent summary of the Cruz birth mystery
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/20/ted_cruzs_origins_continue_to_haunt_him/.
The MSM no longer goes there, because now they need Cruz to destroy Trump. With his nebulous citizenship, Cruz has everything to gain with amnesty and open borders. Does the establishment hold the goods on Cruz, like they do Obama?. Some of his paper trail is owned by the Canadian government which therefore also may hold some control over Mr Cruz.
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Thank you, Sundance. This thread has been wonderful to read. But, I’ve come away with a sick feeling about what Glenn Beck may have meant when he said that Scalia had to die so that Ted Cruz could become president. We assume Justice Scalia would have voted in an eligibility case before the Supreme Court to uphold the original meaning of Natural Born Citizen. Ted Cruz and Beck have to know this eligibility issue is Cruz’ Achilles heel. They must now think they have a clearer path in a Supreme Court ruling. What an evil heart.
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