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Title: Ted Cruz to announce presidential bid Monday (ready for Hillary)
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Published: Mar 22, 2015
Author: Theodore Schleifer
Post Date: 2015-03-22 06:06:29 by Hondo68
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Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce Monday that he will run for president of the United States, accelerating his already rapid three-year rise from a tea party insurgent in Texas into a divisive political force in Washington. Cruz will launch a presidential bid outright rather than form an exploratory committee, said senior advisers with direct knowledge of his plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made yet. They say he is done exploring and is now ready to become the first Republican presidential candidate. The senator is scheduled to speak Monday at a convocation ceremony at Liberty University in Virginia, where he is expected to declare his campaign for the presidency. Over the course of the primary campaign, Cruz will aim to raise between $40 million and $50 million, according to advisers, and dominate with the same tea party voters who supported his underdog Senate campaign in 2012. But the key to victory, Cruz advisers believe, is to be the second choice of enough voters in the party's libertarian and social conservative wings to cobble together a coalition to defeat the chosen candidate of the Republican establishment. The firebrand Texan may have few Senate colleagues who will back his White House bid, but his appeal to his party's base who vote disproportionately in Republican primaries could make him competitive in Iowa and beyond. Yet critics of Cruz argue that he will have trouble raising high-dollar donations from traditional contributors, will land few endorsements from the nation's political establishment and be unable to escape comparisons to President Barack Obama, who also ran for president in his first Senate term. And if he advances to a general election, Cruz trails likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton solidly in early public opinion polls. "I don't consider him a mainstream candidate, and usually to win you've got to be inside the 45-yard lines," said Greg Valliere, a political adviser to Wall Street firms who believes that if Cruz did earn the nomination, he would not win more than a dozen states in the general election. "The enthusiasm for him will be tremendous in maybe a third of the party, but another third of the party will be strongly opposed and another third of the party will be wary." 'Mushy middle' Senior advisers say Cruz will run as an unabashed conservative eager to mobilize like-minded voters who cannot stomach the choice of the "mushy middle" that he has ridiculed on the stump over the past two months in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. "Ted is exactly where most Republican voters are," said Mike Needham, who heads the conservative advocacy group Heritage Action for America. "Most people go to Washington and get co-opted. And Ted clearly is somebody that hasn't been." Upon arriving in Washington, D.C., Cruz discarded the expectation of deference that accompanies a freshman senator, launching frequent one-man stands to stymie congressional Democrats and Republicans alike. After Cruz led a shutdown of the federal government in October 2013 as part of an effort to defund the Affordable Care Act, conservative activists flocked to their new hero even as Republican leaders excoriated him. For Cruz, 44, Monday's planned announcement will culminate two years of open musing about running for president that began nearly the moment voters elected him to the Senate in 2012. A week after Election Day, as senator-elect, Cruz established a political action committee to back conservative candidates nationwide. During his first summer in Congress, he was already visiting Iowa. And over the past seven months, the Jobs, Growth and Freedom PAC has added a coterie of nationally experienced political operatives to the 2012 team of Texas strategists who engineered the surprise dethroning of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the Republican primary. Joining the team Monday will be Cruz's wife, Heidi, a managing director at Goldman Sachs in Houston, who will take leave from the firm and accompany her husband on the campaign trail. Those staffers have relocated to an Upper Kirby modern headquarters with empty offices reserved for soon-to-arrive senior staff and an empty deep pink and heart-red playroom reserved for their young children. About two dozen staffers now pace the sleek L-shaped, wraparound-windowed office that gives the finance team a prime view of U.S. 59. The senator's personal office is windowless. This new blood, led by campaign manager Jeff Roe, and old guard, led by 2012 chief strategist Jason Johnson, will converge to try and persuade primary voters to elect Cruz after nominating more moderate candidates in the past two presidential elections. "He's alienated from the dominant wing of the party," said Valliere. Cruz's senior advisers, however, see a path to victory that all but ignores that wing. To them, the Republican primaries are a series of single-elimination brackets where the four GOP leaders who best represent the party's libertarian, establishment, social conservative and tea party wings will survive as the field winnows. Cruz will vie for the support of the tea party electorate, his advisers say, but will fare well enough with social conservative and libertarian voters to assemble a powerful coalition. "Those guys who run for the middle have name ID, but they don't truly have one bracket they crush," said one adviser. Getting religious voters Forty percent of the electorate may vote for the establishment candidate, the advisers predict, but Cruz will "crush" with the 25 percent of voters who come from the tea party bracket. He will then peel some second-choice support from the 10 percent who consider themselves libertarians and from the rest of the voters who identify as social conservatives. Advisers to Cruz, the son of a pastor, believe he can make a special argument to these religious voters like the thousands of students he is expected to address at a basketball arena Monday at Liberty, a school founded by leader of the religious right Jerry Falwell. About half of the voters in the Iowa caucus this year are expected to be evangelical Christians. That theory - and those percentages - is described by some Republican hands as overly charitable to the element of the party that Cruz represents. Henry Olsen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank, said the Cruz campaign was dramatically underestimating the voting power of the liberals, moderates and establishment Republicans in a presidential primary. Olsen argued that about 70 percent of the party will choose the candidate who aligns with the left or the center. "They seem to like experience, they seem to like rhetorical modulation, they seem to like conservatism - but not in excess," Olsen explained. "Ted Cruz has nothing to say to the moderates." As soon as Cruz entered the U.S. Senate, he became perhaps its most unpopular member. House Speaker John Boehner - whose chamber Cruz has on occasion helped disrupt - has not minced words. Fellow Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain called him a "wacko bird." In September 2013, Cruz triggered a 16-day government shutdown when he pressured Congressional leadership not to fund the government unless it defunded President Barack Obama's signature health care law. For 21 hours, Cruz led a filibuster of the spending bill, reading "Green Eggs and Ham" on the Senate floor as part of an unsuccessful stand to defund Obamacare. "He burned a lot of bridges in 2013 and '14 in the Senate," Valliere said. "Regardless of how strident the people are when they first come to Washington, they are elected to legislate." Yet David Panton, who is the lead donor for a "super PAC" committed to raising $50 million to back a Cruz presidential bid, said that antipathy from Washington would matter little in a presidential primary not decided by denizens of the Capitol - or the "graybeards" as Cruz calls them - but by farmers in Iowa and veterans in South Carolina. "I know of no president who won because of who endorsed them, other than voters," he said. Cruz will also need to court the endorsements of donors, believing that he needs about $30 million to compete in the top tier. Some of Cruz's easiest money will be gathered from the donors who will host a kickoff reception for him on March 31 in Houston. Some of those local contributors have known Cruz since his childhood. Born in Canada to a father who, as the senator so-frequently tells it, escaped despotism in Cuba with $100 sewn into his underwear, Cruz moved to Houston at age 4. He became educated by the nation's elite: winning national championships as a debater at Princeton University; working as a primary law-review editor at Harvard Law School; clerking for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. "I thought he would make a great statesman in some capacity, so was it shocking to me that he ran for the Senate? No," said Panton, who was Cruz's debate partner at Princeton and the best man at his wedding. "Is it shocking to me that he may run for president? No." Experience questions Cruz made his fame in Texas as solicitor general under then-Attorney General Greg Abbott. Cruz defended the installation of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas Capitol, which brought headlines and fueled his political ambition. In 2009, he briefly considered running for attorney general, but quickly abandoned his bid. Three years later, a U.S. Senate seat opened up, with Dewhurst's name practically carved into it. Cruz, making his first run for political office, seized on the same anti-establishment fervor that had ousted Republicans perceived as too moderate in primaries two years prior. He defeated Dewhurst, who invested $25 million of his own money into the race. In Cruz's new campaign - like in that first one - he will be confronted with questions about his experience. This year, though, he will also need to rebuff comparisons to Obama. That has been an all-too-easy jab for Cruz's more experienced competitors to throw. After Monday's announcement, Cruz will not immediately embark on a roll-out tour because of obligations in the Senate, senior advisers said, but he is scheduled to appear in New Hampshire on Friday and in Iowa two weeks later. In late June, Cruz will unveil a new book: "A Time for Truth."
Poster Comment: A spoiler for Jeb Bush >> Hillary. He can't win, but he can screw up the primaries, the GOP nomination, and push Hillary to win. Senator will be first declared GOP candidate
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You mean like... a Denmark? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Denmark or a Sweden? http://www.government.se/sb/d/2853 or a New Zealand? I don't know about New Zealand,but Sweden and Denmark are well down the path to anarchy with all the African and Muslim immigrants they have been paying to move to their countries. If things don't change rapidly,they will bankrupt themselves from the immigrants breeding like rabbits and overtaking their social systems. How does the king get elected in a "democracy" like that anyhow? Like our presidents they are appointed by a ruling body of nobility.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I think the more accurate question is why would humanity a perfect creation of God choose to disobey God?
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
The devil made us do it?
We need to do away with our ruling class before they do away with us. They've been waging war against us, they need to reap what they've sown.
No argument there. It won't happen,though. Too many people suckling on the system and there is no way in hell they want to rock the boat. The people who are supporting the system are working too hard to keep their heads above water after paying taxes to support all the parasites in addition to their own families,and if it is MY opinion they are too busy to have even noticed what is happening.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Think of it even before the influence of the serpent. God made man and woman with free will. Some may ask why? Think in terms of marriage. Is it a loving marriage if one party "forces" the other to "love them?" Well most would say that is not really love because love is mutual. Both parties willingly love each other. We were given free will from the beginning to either love God or reject His love. God already had angels and other heavenly beings for specific purposes. With Adam and Eve He made them in His Image and Likeness. This included free will. When Adam and Eve decided to disobey God they rejected His love. The created being rejected the Hand of the Creator for something else they desired more. To be equal with Him.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
Throughout history I have found little evidence that God is concerned with loving anybody or interceding in the trivial affairs of mankind.
Little evidence? Does not sending His only begotten Son to us register as concern?
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
What proof is there that he did such a thing?
Written. And by testimony.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
How did this slithering beast enter into the realm of God and all creation, in the first place? Why did God place this beast here on the planet Earth? Didn't God know what he (himself) was doing? What does marriage have to do with the serpant or the devil? Marriage is all about procreation or in other words, the survival of mankind.
Try reading the book on this subject before the full motion 3D movie comes out.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
Written. And by testimony. Written by whom and by the hysterical influence upon the period?
I say, Giddy-up! Ted!! The establishment GOP/RNC hates him, the Left/DNC hates him -- just as in the case of Reagan. If I'm going down with this ship, let's take out best shot. The guy will be a Chris Kyle when it comes to rooting out and obliterating Idi Hussein's overt and hidden tyrannical policies. (who's your guy at this point in time, Hondo?)
Written. And by testimony. Both the written and eye-witness testimony is definitely there and legit. As well as all the prophecy. Who will rise to the challenge and become humble and wise? Who will reject it? Who has been "good enough"? No one. Who will stand by our naked side on Judgment Day? Jesus Christ or....no one? Who shall pass the Test? I think the Atheist/Agnostic contingent can't quite understand and come to grips with a God who allows evil, pain, and heartache to dwell in this world. At times even believers have to same qualms and wonder why it's so....But THIS world isn't Paradise. And who are we to question the Plan of the Almighty? His purpose? Truly beyond anyone's Pay Scale. God is Love. Satan is Evil. Choose wisely... That said, there are two courses of action -- study the word of God, find the answers, understand our gift of free will, faith, love, and grace. OR, reject the entire word of God, steadfastly refuse to understand His Word and Plan, and hate Him forever (and die a second time and forever, immersed in that same hate.)
Since Rafael Cruz is ineligible to be president of the USA.... Chuck Baldwin (again), or Rand Paul? Most decent people don't want the job. Too many scumbags in DC! Chuck's looking good with his recent rants against Franklin Graham's demands to OBEY "Clergy Response Team"/DHS authority! I might just write in Ron Paul if Rand continues to throw the base under the bus.
Pretty damn impressive... Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history. Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice. Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States Described as a 'superb' constitutional lawyer, the man's considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him answer the damn question. In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States. Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush- Cheney campaign. Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%... he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus. AWARDS: "America's Leading Lawyers for Business," Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) "50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America," National Law Journal (2008) "25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century," Texas Lawyer (2010) "20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise," Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch... Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I'm all in. http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot .com/2015/03/ted-cruz-to-declare-presidential.html
Affirmative action appointment, like Barack Obama. Hispanic Canadian is an extremely small minority in Texas.
Should I assume you grew up in a Christian home with education within that faith?
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
Answer your own question; I'm curious as to who you believe was exactly the source(s) of such "hysterical influence," and during which "period"?
That'd be a surprise to Cruz. You got a legit source to back up that claim? Chuck Baldwin (again), or Rand Paul? Baldwin hasn't a prayer (no pun intended.) Rand is a pandering statist who nose was so far up McConnell's azz, that the jaws-of-life is STILL working to pull it out. Most decent people don't want the job. Too many scumbags in DC! I agree, but somebody has to step up. Moreover, I don't regard Cruz as a scumbag; I believe he has a great amount of integrity. Chuck's looking good with his recent rants against Franklin Graham's demands to OBEY "Clergy Response Team"/DHS authority! It's not really relevant as a Presidential candidate, is it? I might just write in Ron Paul if Rand continues to throw the base under the bus. As a final resort, ANYBODY but a Commie-Dem is preferable.
McCain likes him.... the kiss of death? He might be able to get the GOP nomination with McCain's foreign policy, but he'll lose the general because of it, IMO. Will the Republicans lose their third election in a row due to insane necon foreign policy? "He's a viable candidate," said McCain, of Arizona. Kirk responded to a Cruz candidacy by saying "the more the merrier." Kirk said he is not yet supporting a candidate. McCain said he is supporting Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who also is considering a 2016 White House bid. The Arizona senator, who lost the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama, said Cruz "is a very valuable member of the Senate Armed Services Committee" and is "very articulate."
Should I assume you grew up in a Christian home with education within that faith? Assume nothing.
Well it matters. I don't believe you are ignorant of the history of the Hebrew people and the writings through thousands of years which we call the Bible today.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
The period of abject ignorance in which rumour and hysteria were substitutes for disciplined reasoning and science. Some of it still persists today. People could be easily convinced and were susceptable to anything because they had nothing else of substance to go on.
Well it matters. I don't believe you are ignorant of the history of the Hebrew people and the writings through thousands of years which we call the Bible today. What you believe or don't believe is of no interest to me except when it become a chronic irritation and is destructive to life in present reality.
You have the freedom and right to be irritated. Present reality is the rejection of our founding father's morals is the cause of the ails and destruction today.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
If they follow it they will,and I don't see a world where they don't follow it. It's where the Goose lives that lays their Golden Eggs.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
"Reason" is NOT believing in a Universe and Life that's created itself from scratch. Intellectually, it's impossible. Scientifically it's impossible. This era of "rumor and hysteria" to which you refer supposedly displaced the "disciplined reason and science" of....the Roman Empire era of Caesar? Heavily documented history and multiple eyewitnesses are NOT "rumor." They are fact. Any "hysteria" seem to be generated from pseudo-science's mythical cult of a Godless "Darwinism," and "Secular Humanism" -- the gospels of moral relativism. As a keen eyewitness and observor of the last 50 years or so of pop culture, how would you say that's worked out for us since, oh, around 1963? At the peril of worshiping at the Altar of Man, hubris and narcissism has led directly to the current anarchy and chaos that has persisted and finally reigns here in this Republic.
Stain is only hedging his bet. He's a well known bi-polar opportunist. Heck -- he even dissed his own VP minutes after he flushed away victory. As to ANY policy, we can pretty much assume Cruz will NOT rubber stamp ANY of Stain's opinion. Remember -- Stain referred to Cruz as a "loony bird." I'm sure it's not been forgotten. Will the Republicans lose their third election in a row due to insane necon foreign policy? Let's be real -- the USCON and BoR have been getting flushed down the tubes. Let's address any neocon war policies afterward while we still have a USCON, BoR, and Republic, ok? It's not as though 0buma's "policies" of spending trillions and aiding the international Jihad helped secure the US interests in any case.
Short and sweet. And importantly, 100% spot on. What's been the #1 problem with our governance and culture? The lack of respect and agreement for ANY common standard of morals and ethics.
That's the point. There's an element out there saying they are true conservatives critical of EVERY GOP candidate. Yet silent on Hitlery's emails and Lizzy Pocahantus Warren. It's a Soros operation. Seen here on the pages of LF daily.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
Terribly, and predictably so because they go against the laws of human nature and the continuity of human existence. I am far from being a moral relativist. My mode of living as a psychoanalytic (in a modern sense),logical positivist realist, who subscribes to a modernized form of Bushido is far more demanding that anything you are accustomed to dealing with. It makes demands that would break your back.
Why did it need to be created? Why couldn't it always have been here?
I can accept that. But even you must concede that the problem has arisen and proliferated as a result of an institutional gubmit sanctioned, militant atheist/anti-Christian movement promoted since the early 1960s. Ergo, secular humanism's ethics and morals have filled the void of previous Judeo-Christian standard bearer of ethics and morals. My mode of living as a psychoanalytic (in a modern sense),logical positivist realist, who subscribes to a modernized form of Bushido is far more demanding that anything you are accustomed to dealing with. Though I can accept and respect Bushido as a rigid form of self discipline, mind-control, and ethic, it obviously lacks the humility and discipline of accepting and receiving the word of the Spiritual One who is greater than we.
It is possible that Soros IS behind Rafael E. Cruz. IMO, the reason you're scared of Hillary, Warren, etc, is because the GOP candidates are so much like them, everyone's wondering if the GOP can come up with anything better? So far the answer is NO, they're largely clones of Obongo&Bush. It's not that Hitlery is so wonderful, it's that the Repub offerings are so mediocre. She's in the same category as Mitt Romney, rejected by the voters in '08... a loser. Run Ammon Bundy! He ripped out the tazer prongs, while giving Harry Reid the finger. Cruz is all hat, and no cattle.
Gee, I wonder how that happened?
Of course. The sixties saw the coming of age of a spoiled generation raised in an opulance that had never been seen in the history of mankind by parents who vowed their kids would never have to work like they did and then were guided by Howdy Doody and Beach Blanket Bingo movies. What would you expect to be the result of this, a society of responsible serious adults? What we wound up with is a society of mindless eternal teenagers following immediate impulse gratification 50 years later.
No Cruz is nowhere near the likes of false Pocahontas and Hitlery. Two enter the arena and one comes out. None of the Bloggers-in- chief you recommend will even get close to the arena. It seems your approach is that of Nero. Let it all burn down. The neocons are done in both economy and the long wars. That is certain. It is a losing strategy and most of the GOP field knows it. Stay tuned.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
And just WTF do you think a democracy evolves into other than a
#49. To: buckeroo (#45)
So, why is there a devil in the first place ... God wants to play games with your mind?
#50. To: redleghunter (#49)
#51. To: sneakypete (#48)
Like our presidents they are appointed by a ruling body of nobility.
#52. To: nativist nationalist (#51)
We need to do away with our ruling class before they do away with us. They've been waging war against us, they need to reap what they've sown.
#53. To: buckeroo (#50)
The devil made us do it?
#54. To: redleghunter (#53)
We were given free will from the beginning to either love God or reject His love.
#55. To: rlk (#54)
Throughout history I have found little evidence that God is concerned with loving anybody or interceding in the trivial affairs of mankind
#56. To: redleghunter (#55)
Does not sending His only begotten Son to us register as concern?
#57. To: rlk (#56)
What proof is there that he did such a thing?
#58. To: redleghunter (#53)
Think of it even before the influence of the serpent.
God made man and woman with free will. Some may ask why?
Think in terms of marriage.
Is it a loving marriage if one party "forces" the other to "love them?" Well most would say that is not really love because love is mutual. Both parties willingly love each other. We were given free will from the beginning to either love God or reject His love. God already had angels and other heavenly beings for specific purposes. With Adam and Eve He made them in His Image and Likeness. This included free will. When Adam and Eve decided to disobey God they rejected His love. The created being rejected the Hand of the Creator for something else they desired more. To be equal with Him.
#59. To: buckeroo (#58)
How did this slithering beast enter into the realm of God and all creation, in the first place? Why did God place this beast here on the planet Earth? Didn't God know what he (himself) was doing?
#60. To: redleghunter (#57)
What proof is there that he did such a thing?
#61. To: hondo68 (#0)
#62. To: redleghunter (#57)
What proof is there that [God] did such a thing [as send His Son as ransom for man's Sins]?
#63. To: Liberator (#61)
(who's your guy at this point in time, Hondo?)
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#64. To: hondo68 (#63)
#65. To: A K A Stone, affirmative action Ted (#64)
the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#66. To: rlk (#60)
Written by whom and by the hysterical influence upon the period?
#67. To: rlk (#60)
Written by whom and by the hysterical influence upon the period?
#68. To: hondo68 (#63)
Since Rafael Cruz is ineligible to be president of the USA....
#69. To: Liberator, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#68)
somebody has to step up
McCain, Kirk weigh in on likely Ted Cruz presidential campaign
........ The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#70. To: redleghunter (#66)
Written by whom and by the hysterical influence upon the period?
#71. To: rlk (#70)
Assume nothing.
#72. To: Liberator (#67)
(Edited)
Answer your own question; I'm curious as to who you believe was exactly the source(s) of such "hysterical influence," and during which "period"?
#73. To: redleghunter (#71)
Assume nothing.
#74. To: rlk (#73)
What you believe or don't believe is of no interest to me except when it become a chronic irritation and is destructive to life in present reality.
#75. To: hondo68 (#69)
Will the Republicans lose their third election in a row due to insane necon foreign policy?
#76. To: hondo68 (#69)
Vote at grassfire.com
#77. To: rlk (#72)
(Edited)
The period of abject ignorance in which rumour and hysteria were substitutes for disciplined reasoning and science. Some of it still persists today.
#78. To: hondo68 (#69)
McCain likes him.... the kiss of death?
#79. To: redleghunter, rlk (#74)
Present reality is the rejection of our founding father's morals is the cause of the ails and destruction today.
#80. To: Liberator, out damned spot (#78)
It's not as though 0buma's "policies" of spending trillions and aiding the international Jihad helped secure the US interests in any case.
#81. To: Liberator (#77)
(Edited)
the gospels of moral relativism. As a keen eyewitness and observor of the last 50 years or so of pop culture, how would you say that's worked out for us since, oh, around 1963?
#82. To: Liberator (#77)
"Reason" is NOT believing in a Universe and Life that's created itself from scratch.
#83. To: rlk (#81)
(Edited)
I am far from being a moral relativist.
#84. To: redleghunter (#80)
(Edited)
It's a Soros operation. Seen here on the pages of LF daily.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#85. To: Liberator, rlk (#83)
Ergo, secular humanism's ethics and morals have filled the void of previous Judeo-Christian standard bearer of ethics and morals.
Which of these created things is just like the others?
#86. To: Liberator (#83)
But even you must concede that the problem has arisen and proliferated as a result of an institutional gubmit sanctioned, militant atheist/anti-Christian movement promoted since the early 1960s.
#87. To: hondo68 (#84)
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