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5 reasons Ted Cruz is even more dangerous than Donald Trump
Monday, Jan 25, 2016 11:50 PM +1100
Both men are dangerous, but a Cruz presidency would set America back decades, warns the former secretary of labor
Robert Reich, ROBERTREICH.org
Ted Cruz(Credit: AP/Matt Rourke)
This piece originally appeared on Robert Reich's Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/
Five reasons Ted Cruz is even more dangerous than Donald Trump:
1. He’s more fanatical. Trump is a bully and bigot but doesn’t hew to any sharp ideological line. Cruz is a fierce ideologue: He denies the existence of man-made climate change, rejects same-sex marriage, wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, believes the 2nd amendment guarantees everyone a right to guns, doesn’t believe in a constitutional divide between church and state, favors the death penalty, opposes international agreements, embraces a confrontational foreign policy, rejects immigration reform, demands the repeal of “every blessed word of Obamacare,” and takes a strict “originalist” view of the meaning of the Constitution.
2. Cruz is a true believer. Trump has no firm principles except making money, getting attention, and gaining power. But Cruz really does detest the federal government, and has spent much of his life embracing radical right economic and political views. When Cruz said “we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation,” he wasn’t referring to jihadist terrorism but to Obamacare.
3. He’s Smarter. Trump is no slouch but he hasn’t given any indication of a sharp mind. Cruz is razer-sharp: It’s not just his degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law, along with an impressive record at Harvard, or even his winning arguments before the Supreme Court. For his entire adult life he’s been a fierce debater with an intensely-logical debater’s mind.
4. He’s more disciplined and strategic. Trump is all over the place, often winging it, saying whatever pops into his mind. Cruz hews to a clear script and a carefully crafted strategy. He plays the long game (as he’s shown in Iowa). Cruz’s legal career entailed a sustained use of the courts to achieve conservative ends, and he plots his moves carefully.
5. Cruz is a loner who’s willing to destroy institutions. Trump has spent his career using the federal government and making friends with big shots. Not Cruz. Most of his Republican colleagues in the Senate detest him. And Cruz is eager to destroy: He has repeatedly crossed to the other side of the Capitol and led House Republicans toward fiscal cliffs. In the Fall of 2013, Cruz’s strident opposition to Obamacare – including a 21-hour talking marathon — led in a significant way to the shutdown of the federal government.
Both men would be disasters for America, but Cruz would be the larger disaster.
What do you think?
VIDEO: National Review writer slams Trump, but says Cruz' rhetoric is 'defensible'
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/25/5_reasons_ted_cruz_is_even_more_dangerous_than_donald_trump_partner/
DrHarleyboy, get real .. lol, after you have told me exactly what of any of my ..
DrHarleyboy, your total fiction there re Obama and Hillary are lies, and as dumb as your delusion that Hillary is unelectable ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=122029199 ,
.. more .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=122070171
.. comes even close to the buffoonery of your "hatred and racist delusional world" personal projection of your Trump nomination (not an election) run on to the actual
reality of the Liberal world in which Sanders got more votes than Trump in NY, and more importantly on to the actual wider reality of Hillary trumping Trump
CNN/ORC poll: Clinton tops Trump on presidential traits
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director
Updated 2057 GMT (0457 HKT) March 25, 2016
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/24/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-cnn-poll-2016-election/
in every electable category imaginable. Trump supporters love him because he 'says it like it is' .. seriously? .. while his record of honesty is the worst
by far of all the candidates, and his commercial life has been little more than one of a hustling, exploitive huckster and bankruptcy bully boy.
Hmm, yeah, his use of 'public domain', Donald Trump’s history of eminent domain abuse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/19/donald-trumps-abuse-of-eminent-domain/
.. more .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=121730302
After you make it clear where the buffoonery in any of that is you can tell us where you specifically disagree with the content of that Robert Reich article.
Monday, Jan 25, 2016 11:50 PM +1100
Both men are dangerous, but a Cruz presidency would set America back decades, warns the former secretary of labor
Robert Reich, ROBERTREICH.org
Ted Cruz(Credit: AP/Matt Rourke)
This piece originally appeared on Robert Reich's Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/
Five reasons Ted Cruz is even more dangerous than Donald Trump:
1. He’s more fanatical. Trump is a bully and bigot but doesn’t hew to any sharp ideological line. Cruz is a fierce ideologue: He denies the existence of man-made climate change, rejects same-sex marriage, wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, believes the 2nd amendment guarantees everyone a right to guns, doesn’t believe in a constitutional divide between church and state, favors the death penalty, opposes international agreements, embraces a confrontational foreign policy, rejects immigration reform, demands the repeal of “every blessed word of Obamacare,” and takes a strict “originalist” view of the meaning of the Constitution.
2. Cruz is a true believer. Trump has no firm principles except making money, getting attention, and gaining power. But Cruz really does detest the federal government, and has spent much of his life embracing radical right economic and political views. When Cruz said “we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation,” he wasn’t referring to jihadist terrorism but to Obamacare.
3. He’s Smarter. Trump is no slouch but he hasn’t given any indication of a sharp mind. Cruz is razer-sharp: It’s not just his degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law, along with an impressive record at Harvard, or even his winning arguments before the Supreme Court. For his entire adult life he’s been a fierce debater with an intensely-logical debater’s mind.
4. He’s more disciplined and strategic. Trump is all over the place, often winging it, saying whatever pops into his mind. Cruz hews to a clear script and a carefully crafted strategy. He plays the long game (as he’s shown in Iowa). Cruz’s legal career entailed a sustained use of the courts to achieve conservative ends, and he plots his moves carefully.
5. Cruz is a loner who’s willing to destroy institutions. Trump has spent his career using the federal government and making friends with big shots. Not Cruz. Most of his Republican colleagues in the Senate detest him. And Cruz is eager to destroy: He has repeatedly crossed to the other side of the Capitol and led House Republicans toward fiscal cliffs. In the Fall of 2013, Cruz’s strident opposition to Obamacare – including a 21-hour talking marathon — led in a significant way to the shutdown of the federal government.
Both men would be disasters for America, but Cruz would be the larger disaster.
What do you think?
VIDEO: National Review writer slams Trump, but says Cruz' rhetoric is 'defensible'
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/25/5_reasons_ted_cruz_is_even_more_dangerous_than_donald_trump_partner/
DrHarleyboy, get real .. lol, after you have told me exactly what of any of my ..
DrHarleyboy, your total fiction there re Obama and Hillary are lies, and as dumb as your delusion that Hillary is unelectable ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=122029199 ,
.. more .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=122070171
.. comes even close to the buffoonery of your "hatred and racist delusional world" personal projection of your Trump nomination (not an election) run on to the actual
reality of the Liberal world in which Sanders got more votes than Trump in NY, and more importantly on to the actual wider reality of Hillary trumping Trump
CNN/ORC poll: Clinton tops Trump on presidential traits
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director
Updated 2057 GMT (0457 HKT) March 25, 2016
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/24/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-cnn-poll-2016-election/
in every electable category imaginable. Trump supporters love him because he 'says it like it is' .. seriously? .. while his record of honesty is the worst
by far of all the candidates, and his commercial life has been little more than one of a hustling, exploitive huckster and bankruptcy bully boy.
Hmm, yeah, his use of 'public domain', Donald Trump’s history of eminent domain abuse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/19/donald-trumps-abuse-of-eminent-domain/
.. more .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=121730302
After you make it clear where the buffoonery in any of that is you can tell us where you specifically disagree with the content of that Robert Reich article.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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