I hate wasting my time. I really
do. The people who support Trump are divided up into two categories. White Supremacist
Nationalists, who won’t listen to reason, and people who would consider other
candidates, but feel that Trump is inevitable and so they want to get on the
right side of history… even though there is nothing Right, or Conservative
about Trump. No facts about Trump, no matter how damming, will ever change the
minds of the former, but I write in hopes of swaying the latter, but odds are
that is a waste of time, but alas, here we go.
The facts are not on Trump’s or
Rubio’s side. Trump is a bomb thrower. That’s his style, that’s his thing.
Nothing he says ever survives a fact checker, and his opinions are more fluid
than our water supply. Those that try to pin him down on issues get attacked,
and his Jerry Springer watching fans love him for it. With regard to Rubio, he
is a candidate in decline, so naturally he is lobbing bombs any which way he can
(Metaphorically… isn’t it sad we have to spell that out on the Internet? It’s
sick that we live in a culture that can’t even use the term “literally” correctly,
but never understands speaking in metaphor… but I digress.)
Last night’s debate was
absolutely disgusting because of those two. Naturally, Fox won’t call out
Rubio, so I will. Both Rubio and Trump were acting like petulant children,
screaming, “liar, liar, liar,” when Ted Cruz tried to bring their record to the
forefront. Trump, especially, may not like it, but where Reagan spent twenty
years as a hardline Conservative activist, Donald Trump has spent the last
twenty years all over the ideological map. Which is why looking at what he is
saying right now is so important…
because virtually none of it is Conservative. Nevertheless, when Ted Cruz tried
to point out some of the ways that Trump deviates from Conservatism, he was met
by a barrage of, “liar! Liar! Liar!” But #factsmatter, and they are stubborn
things. Said differently, Cruz tried to stay on policy, and Trump responded
with personal attacks. But lets look at the facts, shall we?
Ted Cruz tried to point out that The
Donald has previously defended Planned Parenthood. Note: Cruz said nothing of
abortion. Trump always tries to separate the two into different things, but
with PP, you really can’t. Still, Cruz said nothing of abortion, he cited Trump’s
previous defense of PP and Trump went ballistic. Incidentally, within the mix,
Trump does say, “they do many
wonderful things for women’s healthcare,” a common line by liberals in defense
of the abortion mill. By saying that, Trump actually cedes the point to Cruz,
but of course, keeps calling him “liar, liar, liar.” But Ted Cruz is right.
Trump has previously stood up for Planned Parenthood.
Not only that, but Planned
Parenthood has defended him, saying “Donald Trump
seems to have realized that banning all abortions, shutting down the
government, and defunding Planned Parenthood are extreme positions that are way
too far outside the mainstream for even him to take. We hope that the rest of
the GOP field will wake up and reconsider their extreme and unpopular positions
on defunding preventive care, abortion bans, and the other economic issues that
women and their families care about.” -1 Whose the liar now?
But
even in that mix, Trump says that Planned Parenthood does “wonderful things,”
during the debate. Ted Cruz tried to simmer down the tone of the debate by
saying, “you and I disagree with that…” and then tried to tie it all together
by pointing out that, based on Trump’s record, Trump will appoint liberals. Trump,
of course, spazzed out about that as well. But here again the record is very,
very, VERY CLEAR. Sorry, I just thought that since Trump supporters seem to
like a lot of shouting that if I shouted that last point they might pay
attention.
In
addition to defending PP previously, Trump has also stated he would appoint his
sister, a left wing activist judge, to the high court. Although he has since
backed off of that, suggesting he was only kidding.-2 Still, a Conservative
would never ever suggest such an appointment in the first place, even in jest.
To be fair, we can all lament Cruz’s backing of Justice Roberts, but we did not
know that Roberts would betray the trust we were placing in him at that time.
Roberts did not, in any way, telegraph his liberal leanings. This happens a
lot, sadly, like with Rubio on immigration… but we will get to that shortly. Trump
said his sister would make a phenomenal Supreme Court Justice. That fact should
be an indication of his judgement. In contrast, it’s unfair to hold Cruz
accountable for what we didn’t know
about what Justice Roberts, because Roberts, like many politicians, sold
himself as a Conservative. We could not have known what Roberts would have
done, but we do know what people like Trump’s sister will do, and with the
passing of Justice Scalia, now is not the time to joke around about Supreme
Court appointees. Again, and trying to be fair, Trump has since backed off
this, and now insists he’d appoint Conservative judges, but then they all say
that, so where in his record is the proof? They all say they are Conservative
during the primary, then they shift center, and sometimes center-left, in the
general or as President… a move Trump is already telegraphing.
Beginning at marker 1:36.
Ted
Cruz’s record, in contrast, is one of unyielding devotion to core principles.
He has a long history of standing up for Conservative principles. Thus, due to
his record, I trust him far, far more on this issue than Trump. I’d wager quite
a lot that a Cruz appointment would be on the lines of a Senator Mike Lee who, as
I recall, worked with Justice Alito, one of the most Conservative Justices out
there. How awesome would that be for Utah? Of course, it’s probable that Rubio
might do likewise, but that should tell us a lot about the better options we
have out there for SCOTUS appointments than what Trump has offered up so far.
Of
course Trump then brings up Carson gate. This nontroversy is getting beyond
annoying for a myriad of reasons. Most of all, because Cruz himself had
LITERALLY NOTHING TO DO WITH IT AT ALL! So let’s explain this AGAIN. Again,
sorry for the shouting, but Trump supporters are all so willfully deaf that you
have to shout to get their attention. Again. Facts matter, so a Carson staffer
talked to CNN and telegraphed that Carson was leaving the campaign trail. CNN
put out a series of tweets that this was odd, and then reported it on their channel.
Cruz
was in the middle of giving a speech at the time, but then his staffers start
getting the word out that it looks like Carson is out, and encouraging Carson
voters, who on principles should be natural ally to the Cruz camp, to come
caucus with them. Of course, there is no evidence at all that this swayed any
voters. In fact, Carson, who polling had coming it at 7% and 4th
place, actually over performed expectations, coming in with 9% of the vote.
At some
point CNN corrected themselves, and now completely deny any involvement with
the dissemination of this story… but we have them red handed, don’t we? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AQeIglpGU&feature=player_embedded
They can lie all they want, but that video is pretty damming.
At any
rate, Carson is angry because Cruz never got the record corrected. But we can
expect this sort of nonsense from people with no political experience, and its
why I am disinterested with people who have no political experience because I
have been with candidates as the voting begins, and I can tell you from firsthand
experience, CNN goes off, and all eyes on Cell Phones, Tablets, and Internet at
large are glued to whatever website is counting the vote. Once in a while the
candidate gives a morale boosting speech. We might snack a bit, but then it’s
back to watching the vote tallies come in. The idea that Cruz was involved in
any wrong doing here is an outright lie. Cruz knew nothing about this, and
apologized profusely and repeatedly when he found out about it, even though
there is ZERO evidence that Carson lost any votes at all because of it.
But isn’t
it interesting that Rubio gets involved here too, when his people were also
disseminating the same story? To his defense, knowing personally how crazy busy
things are behind the scenes on election day, Rubio probably doesn’t know. But
yeah, his people were doing the same thing. -3 I guarantee you that if Trump
had people on the ground they would have been disseminating that story too. For
Rubio to get indignant over this issue, which again, did not cost Carson one single solitary vote at all, when his
people were also involved, and then to attack Cruz over it and call him a liar
is disgustingly dishonest, and my vow to never ever vote for Trump under any
circumstances is about to be extended to Rubio as well. It is, in fact, Rubio,
so desperate to get away from scrutiny for his involvement with the gang of
eight that is willing to tell people anything to get elected. Deflect, distract,
deny. Is that the way of it with Rubio? Do we not deserve someone with more
honor?
It’s
also worth noting that Trump does not care one iota about Carson in reality.
Cruz pointed out quite rightfully, that it was, in fact, Trump running around
comparing Carson to a pedophile while Carson was leading in Iowa.-4 If anyone
did anything dirty to cause the collapse of Carson in Iowa it was Trump. Strange, then, that Carson would pursue
a course that can only benefit the candidate whose trash talk did bring him down. But I digress…
And
finally Gang of Eight. Cruz has admitted to playing the Senate games in order
to introduce a poison pill designed to kill the bill. Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee,
Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh have all supported Cruz’s claim that
this is what he was trying to do. Yes, he said what he had to say in order to
ensure that his amendment, which stripped
citizenship out of the bill, would pass. The hope was, of course, that if
the bill was inevitable, that he could at least make it less bad. Sometimes in
legislation that is all you can do. You may not be comfortable with some of the
games that go on in the legislative branch, but it is what it is. There can be
no doubt that the actions of Ted Cruz, Jess Sessions and Mike Lee stopped that
bill from succeeding. Cruz never supported amnesty. Ever. Period. Even Megyn
Kelly, who confronted Cruz with the heavily edited video that Rubio is passing
around, (which of course removes Cruz from the entire context of what was
happening at the time) even Megyn Kelly
was forced to admit, immediately after the debate, that Cruz had been telling
the truth. -5
http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/01/29/ted-cruz-support-amnesty-concedes-megyn-kelly-gopdebate/
So here
again, it is a point of fact that it
is RUBIO, not Cruz who has been lying about this. And just so that we are
clear, we Cruzers (note, I am a former Carsonite, as my record on this blog
clearly shows, but Carsongate flipped me over to Cruz) are angry with Fox News
because A) They refused to acknowledge Cruz as the winner in Iowa, making it
look as though Rubio had won. And 2, they are still allowing guest to
disseminate this myth spread by “say anything to win,” Rubio that Cruz flipped
on immigration as well, when in fact that is not the case at all, and it is
demonstrably, provably and categorically false. Fox can be as flippant as they
want that we all think they are in the tank for Rubio, but that is because they
flat out are. Denying it at this point is ridiculous.
Rubio,
in the meantime, was on record during his Senate campaign as being opposed to
amnesty. Rubio’s signature accomplishment in the Senate, however, was the gang
of eight amnesty package. Rubio should just apologize for it, own his mistake,
and quit trying to drag down the only person
in this race who can beat Trump with him.
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