It's time for a Ted Cruz thread.

It means Trump is the Republican candidate for President of the United States of America. And that we're now right square in the middle of the Mirror Universe with little hope of return.

ANd the GOP as we have known it is dead.
If Trump wins,IMHO he will be such a disaster as will take the GOP decades to recover from. Of course,sadly,so will the United Stated and the rest of the world.
If he loses,The GOP might well fall apart anyway.
IMHO the GOP is screwed.It is just when it will actually happen.
 
Nate Silver is suggesting that in the end, some moderate Republcians decided that Trump was the lesser of two evils.
I can almost see that POV,that Trump is a con man who will say and do anything to be elected, but that Cruz actually believed the crap he was spouting, and in the end a con man is less dangerous than a fanatic.They could well be wrong,but I can see that POV.


Thanks, that gave me a good laugh!

This, not so much: Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton.

And now I'm back to feeling like I stepped into the Twilight Zone. Even though I 'knew' it was coming, I'm actually simultaneously stunned, amused and terrified and I don't know what else and I think I need to call my Mom.
 
I'm a liberal, and I think that too. Trump is an imbecilic loon. Cruz is a smart religious extremist loon. Trump, if anything, is probably the more electable of the two.

Not to mention the less dangerous of the two.

ETA: I see that others have beat me to the punch.
 
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The two Rafaels are no doubt already working on Cruz vs Clinton in 2020.
I think this will have played a large part in the decision to drop out, Cruz can wait out an election or two, clinging on and fighting at the convention would have perhaps soured his relationship with even more Republicans so why spend political capital for a fight he would have lost.
 
I don't understand how this could happen. I had it on good authority (Glenn Beck) that Ted Cruz was endorsed by God. GOD!
 
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I like how Cruz was endorsed by Mike Pence, while Trump was endorsed by Bob Knight (and Gene Keady and Lou Holtz). Shows where Mike Pence stands in terms of popularity.
 
I think this will have played a large part in the decision to drop out, Cruz can wait out an election or two, clinging on and fighting at the convention would have perhaps soured his relationship with even more Republicans so why spend political capital for a fight he would have lost.

Yeah. Unlike Clinton, Sanders, or Trump he's young enough to wait a while. In the meantime he can go on destroying the Senate.

I don't understand how this could happen. I had it on good authority (Glenn Beck) that Ted Cruz was endorsed by God. GOD!
And the authority of Cruz's own father, as well. If I was feeling really masochistic I guess I could go see what Glenny is saying today. Probably won't take long for him to think Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
 
Are you referring to Gramm-Leach-Bliley here? As far as I can tell, it basically only served to remove barriers previously imposed, i.e., reduce government intervention. On the face of it, that's pretty libertarian - I don't recall many libertarians arguing that government should actively intervene to prevent consolidation, so removing that intervention seems like a move in the direction of libertarianism.

So I suppose you must be arguing that passing that act was not libertarian because of other regulations that still exist, thus making it "corporatist" rather than "libertarian"? But then you kind of get into the issue that few things if any would constitute moves toward libertarianism, because in the current business climate, whatever the cause, big business holds a tremendous amount of power, and just about any de-regulation would allow them to exercise more of that power.

It seems to me then that it would be hard to make a more libertarian society, by this line of reasoning, with anything short of some kind of "revolution from above" to even out the playing field, but that in itself would be pretty un-libertarian.

Whatever that analysis brings, as far as I can tell, the GLBA was passed based on the belief that it would increase competition and "modernize" finance by removing government barriers.

One of the key provisions of GLBA was preventing the CFTC from regulating derivatives in the first place.

Brooksley Borne was prescient when she tried to cut that madness off at the knees in 98-99.
 
He might have been dead serious, too. He was already deep in with the Christian dominionists and free-market quasi-libertarian folks seeking world domination at that age. It's what he was raised to do.

Reminds me of the attitude on display in the documentary "Casino Jack" (about Jack Abramoff).
 

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