Comments on: Why I am not (yet) a Ted Cruz fan

By: Bookworm Room » The courage of our convictions — NOT

Bookworm Room » The courage of our convictions — NOT — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:07:12 +0000

[...] one of the comments to my earlier post about Ted Cruz, Mike Devx noted that Cruz is attractive because he has “the courage of his [...]

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:46:35 +0000

Mike, Neo linked that a few days ago, and I thought it was rather precise in its analysis of the issue at hand.

Too many people resist using propaganda and emotions because they think it is an evil weapon that only belongs to criminals and the Left. This is similar to the superstition the LEft has about guns. They think guns are by nature evil, that only criminals should use them, or at best, police and military authorized by the STATE to use evil doomsday weapons for the protection of the enlightened few. Until people recognize that a tool is a tool, that good or evil comes from how and who uses it, they will always be restrained by their own inner demons.

Why should the evil Left be only allowed the usage of emotions and propaganda? Why should only criminals be allowed the usage of weapons, knives, guns, and bats while citizens are not allowed anything for defense?

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:13:38 +0000

I wanted to provide this link: David Horowitz’ article from about three weeks ago, about why Republicans, and the GOP (and conservatives) are currently failing against the Democrats and the Statist left. Somehow I missed it back then in early February.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/02/david-horowitz-how-republicans-can-win.php

I think he’s spot on. Read what Mr. Horowitz has to say. I agree completely. I wonder what you will think.

I’m putting that comment here because Book’s post is about Ted Cruz, and he has one thing definitely right: He is FIGHTING. And more importantly, everyone KNOWS he’s fighting. He is demonstrating the courage of his convictions.

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:15:17 +0000

I’m not much of a shoe-ologist — it looked fine to me, too!

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:55:02 +0000

Oh, to edit one’s own stupidity! “get the heel over her ankle”? It looked fine to me during proofreading!

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:50:30 +0000

jj says: After fifty years of uncontested democrat control of the levers of education, low-information voters (we used to call them morons, remember?) is all we have.

Quote of the day! Thank you, jj.
And just where did this “low information voter” phrase come from? I never saw it prior to the last year or so.

> “You think he considers Pelosi smart enough to tie her own shoes?”
I think I remember this incident. Wasn’t Pelosi trying on a tennis shoe that was four sizes too small for her feet? She kept trying and trying to get the heel over her ankle and failing. ”Why do you keep trying?” the salesman asked. She looked at him with complete disdain. ”Because I must tie this shoe, to find out if I can wear it,” she said.

Or something like that.

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:16:11 +0000

“You think he considers Pelosi smart enough to tie her own shoes?”

Ironically, jj, there is evidence to suggest that she is not.

By: NancyB

NancyB — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:43:54 +0000

Ditto!

By: expat

expat — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:22:53 +0000

I wish this post would appear on every conservative blog. We tend to echo what society as a whole has been doing for years: If you don’t make it to the top, you don’t count.
No one person will have all the answers to our problems. We need a team that won’t take potshots at others, but will contribute ideas and approaches in a civilized way. We can observe all these people for a while and then settle on who is likely to be its best leader. We get too caught up on single issues and ignore the fact that a president has to function across a broad range of issues. We knock out good people because we disagree on some fringe pet cause. It has to stop.

By: jj

jj — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:25:34 +0000

I think the big issue is the one you only briefly mentioned, in passing. It doesn’t matter whether Cruz has a past or not, nor is the size of his ego meaningful. What matters – and it’s the only thing that does matter – is that he’s not a liberal democrat. No other reason is necessary for the media to dismantle him, and if he begins to look at all dangerous to an approved candidate or office-holder, they will do so. You’ll never get a read on the true number of the “legion of candidates who fail” – vs. how many of them are simply torn apart before they even get the opportunity to fail. Expecting anyone to show up as a candidate and rise above it is more or less a forlorn hope at this point. After fifty years of uncontested democrat control of the levers of education, low-information voters (we used to call them morons, remember?) is all we have.

Could there be a bigger collection of political and human debris than the democrat party? Who doesn’t know it? You think, to take one example, Brian Williams doesn’t know Harry Reid’s a dangerously stupid empty suit? Of course he does. You think he considers Pelosi smart enough to tie her own shoes? Of course not. He’s met them: dumb as he is himself he knows who they are. But he’ll defend them to his last breath while making fun of Rubio drinking water because they’re liberal democrats, and that’s all that matters. They think (if that’s the word) like he does. He considers himself a smart, well-educated fellow and all-around good citizen: how could anyone who espouses the same stuff he does not be an excellent candidate?

That’s what you’re up against. You aren’t necessarily choosing badly in the search for a new saviour who can do it: you have no way of knowing if anyone’s a good or bad choice. They won’t be allowed to survive long enough for you to find out if they begin to achieve any level of success at all.