WASHINGTON — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas invoked the redemptive story of his parents, both plagued by too much drinking, to show the role that faith has played in his life. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who took the stage as a video of a fetal ultrasound played for the crowd, said that liberty, virtue and God were intertwined, and he quoted Corinthians to make his point.
The two senators, who are both considering a run for the White House in 2016, spoke on Friday to the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of social conservatives that has been an important ticket punch for Republican presidential candidates.
“God bless the Values Voter Summit,” Mr. Cruz said. The senator seemed at ease as he paced back and forth onstage, much like his preacher father, Rafael, does when he headlines events for his son.
It was Mr. Cruz’s father and mother who were the subject of the senator’s highly personal revelation about alcohol abuse. Their drinking eventually led to their split.
“Both of my parents drank far too much. Both of them had serious problems with alcohol,” he said. “And when I was 3 years old my father decided he didn’t want to be married anymore. And he didn’t want a 3-year-old son. So he got on a plane and left.”
He’s the perfect candidate for the Tea party!
How about Cruz/Palin? Sounds perfect!
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Pope Francis @Pontifex Sep 27
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.
If Republicans are thinking of running with Cruz they must have the memory of a goldfish. The last Republican primary was a circus, filled as it was with far-right, divisive Tea Party candidates who wouldn’t have stood a chance in a general election. By the time Romney emerged as the frontrunner it was too late for him to run on his moderate record–he had to get more and more extreme until finally he got caught embracing the class warfare mentality of the far right, ultimately insulting half of all Americans as lazy, entitled welfare queens.
When will Republicans realize that they have to start appealing to all Americans, and that throwing red meat to the base as Cruz does isn’t going to do that?
I agree he could well be the perfect candidate!
His acknowledgement of difficult beginnings is hardly indicative of a man who places his “ambitions at the center,” rather, this is a man that has been humbled by his experience of God’s hand in his life.
A better example of a man who would put “his own ambitions at the center of his life” is currently residing in the White House. He is, after all, by his own estimation “the one” we’ve been “waiting for.” He is the candidate who ran for office for two years, utilizing extravagant staging and lighting effects and at times an echo chamber to make his voice sound heavenly. There are photos of him with a halo for heavens sake! And who could forget the Greek columns, see also here, in Denver at the convention in 2008? Pure grandiose ego!
The left does a lot of projecting!
Living as a Christian is a journey. Why all the hate Dewey?
Chris: “ultimately insulting half of all Americans as lazy, entitled welfare queens.”
Were these his words?
“When will Republicans realize that they have to start appealing to all Americans…”
When will Democrats realize that the point is not to try to please every person in America but to compete for the highest office in the land based on experience and ability to lead? This isn’t a popularity contest.
We are, unfortunately, living through the second four years of a man who presents himself as being able to deliver all things to all people. Its a sham, a ploy, and it has left us all much worse off than we would have been had we elected someone based on his credentials. The ENTIRE WORLD is worse off!
It is astounding that those who voted for and support leftist policy and this president can still aggressively criticize the right, ignoring completely your across the board failure. You should be hiding in a hole somewhere or apologizing for delivering and sustaining the current mess!
I want a candidate who supports our Constitution for the people to give them “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and not for their own personal gain.
I don’t want another president who was mentored by someone who dedicated his radical left-wing guide book to “Lucifer.”
I want someone who knows and understands our history and not someone who has helped rewrite it.
Beck at the Value Voters Summit.
Glenn Beck Calls for Remembering the ‘Story’ of American History — and the Right Kind of Revolution — to Restore the United States:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/27/glenn-beck-calls-for-remembering-the-story-of-american-history-and-the-right-kind-of-revolution/
Peggy I don’t want another president who was mentored by Alinsky or who believes activism is the main calling or goal of the presidency. I also don’t want another president who puts politics above his job as leader of the nation!
I’m looking first and foremost for a person with experience that knows how to lead! I don’t think its possible to unite or lead this country without firm understanding of our founding and history or without strong conviction of a higher power. We need someone who will appoint competent people to work with and under him too. We need good solid people who know what they’re doing.
Tina: “Were these his words?”
“Entitled” was, the rest is a paraphrase. If you don’t think he was invoking the welfare queen stereotype, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
Peggy, Saul Alinsky died when Barack Obama was eleven years old, and the two never met. When exactly did all this “mentoring” occur?
Cruz wins VVS poll. We can NOT let Democrats pick our candidates again. We lose every time.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/28/cruz-wins-values-voter-straw-poll-again-biden-finishes-ahead-christie/#.VChYcMZQ7kQ.email
By all means … you run him … with duct tape over that kisser … and you’re a shoo-in!
You’re right Chris, I misstated my intent. I should have said, Clinton was mentored by Alinsky and Obama was a follower/student of his works. He has in deeds and statements shown his desire to “fundamentally transform” American from the country it is to the one he wants it to be.
“Chapter 2 of Rules for Radicals, which says, “The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/02/bill_ayers_and_obama_both_quote_alinsky.html#ixzz3EfMZhAiI
Peggy here’s a good article that illustrates Alinsky’s influence in Obama’s life and politics:
Hillary sat at his feet also.
If the Republican’s can’t defeat the next democrat for president after all the damage that Obama has done they never will. This is a golden opportunity, you would think almost any reasonable republican could win this election. The GOP has no shortage of talent, but I wouldn’t mind if Romney took another shot at it. I think he would be a great president.
The Alinsky is just the te party Playbook Chris. They just follow the playbook.
So I like Cruz but what about Louie Gohmert? he would be allot of fun.
Gohmert 2016!
Chris think of the fun and Colbert and SNL! We need the material!
Follow the primaries with Brewing and feuding with caribou Barbie sitcom after!
Yep make the GOP send Cruz to the Ballot I say Perfect!!!!
But Romney eying it…it’s Ann’s turn to be Queen
Let’s have some fun around here! Comedy heals!
The Alinsky?
Yes, it’s somewhat true.
After decades of sleezy Alinsky inspired abuse conservatives are testing the waters and trying to learn effective ways to fight back against this lowest of the low forms of political participation. It’s difficult. Most conservatives, perhaps no conservative, would get on board with bringing a trumped up lawsuit against a business to intimidate and force them to lend money to people with bad credit or the inability to pay…Alinsky Democrat Barack Obama taught local Chicago activists to do EXACTLY that. Conservatives have not traditionally targeted left wing women for sleezy “jokes” the way Sarah Palin and her children were targeted…it frankly makes us sick. But we are learning that exposing the hypocrisy of liberals who target Palin, calling her the “C” word when they purport to be the champions of women and when they excuse and champion accused serial rapists.
The Alinsky method is the filthiest form of civic and political participation. Alinsky acolytets teach this underhanded slimeball tactic to the good citizens who depend on their leaders for guidance. SHAME! NOT VERY CHRISTIAN!
Fun? Sure we can meet your “fun” with fun of an equal nature. Is this what we really want to do with our time here? Oh well….
Lower than trolls…come on guys…slugs maybe?
Tina: “Most conservatives, perhaps no conservative, would get on board with bringing a trumped up lawsuit against a business to intimidate and force them to lend money to people with bad credit or the inability to pay…Alinsky Democrat Barack Obama taught local Chicago activists to do EXACTLY that.”
This is an abject lie. You do not understand how the CRA or other low-income lending operations actually work at all.
“Conservatives have not traditionally targeted left wing women for sleezy “jokes” the way Sarah Palin and her children were targeted…it frankly makes us sick.”
This is also a lie. Just yesterday I reminded you of Rush Limbaugh calling Chelsea Clinton the White House dog, making fat jokes about Michelle Obama, and calling Sandra Fluke a “slut” and asking her to post sex tapes online. I know you saw this, because you flat-out said you refused to respond to them.
Contrast with my response to you bringing up sexist attacks on conservative women, attacks which I condemned in no uncertain terms.
You insist that liberals condemn sexist attacks from members of their side, and then when liberals actually do that, you ignore it. You then refuse to condemn sexist attacks from your side. This is hypocrisy at its finest. You hold your opponents to a much higher standard than you hold yourself to.
“when they excuse and champion accused serial rapists.”
Key word is “accused.”
Ted Cruz is perfect Tea Party he stands for their goal.
Chris video on exactly what and who ted is. All Facts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsoqfAJO39M
They want to turn this into a religious nation and transfer wealth to the rich. They do not believe in everyone voting. They want to get rid of our political system. I call it TREASON.
The damage Bush did and this GOP congress which has shutdown to conspire against Obama?
Bush took a surplus budget into a huge deficit with tax cuts and wars!
Conservative policies do not work, they are not meant to work.
Perfect example Is Koch brothers home state of Kansas
Gov Sam Brownback has taken a surplus cut taxes and budgets for all public services. Perfect example of their policies.
Here were the projections:
The state could face a $910 million budget deficit when a proposed income and property tax reduction plan goes into full effect in 2018, according to a draft estimate obtained by The Eagle.
http://www.khi.org/weblogs/budget-blog/2012/nov/15/fy-2014-deficit/
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article1091248.html
Low and behold they have their deficit!
A very big deficit. States need taxes to run.
This is no mistake this is on purpose. The koch agenda is to bankrupt all states and cities to liquidate their assets to millionaires. No more tax dollars going to public services those will be privatized.
Will your taxes go away? No they will be turned into military for corporate profit and Subsidies for global corporations! Will they pay taxes? NO they are job creators our Kings!
Detroit was their test case. They were already in trouble.
So Run Mr Cruz who’s father has declared him the “Anointed One”
No better time than now for the public to see this exposed.
Too bad Tina you just do not say it instead of all this stuff
“Conservatives have not traditionally targeted left wing women for sleezy “jokes” the way Sarah Palin and her children were targeted…it frankly makes us sick.”
Perhaps you didn’t hear about the latest sexist right-wing joke which targeted female soldiers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=eric+bolling+%22boobs+on+the+ground%22&rlz=1C1TSNP_enUS487US487&oq=eric+bolling+%22boobs+on+the+ground%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2j69i61l3.4489j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=eric+bolling+sexist+pattern
Chris what I reference it is not an abject lie.
I know the good intention you see in it, even the good intentions that might have caused legislators to support it. But the law, The CRA, is not the issue.
At issue is the way the law was abused and manipulated by people trained (corrupted) by the Saul Alinsky method.
Now maybe you don’t see anything wrong with a group of activists marching themselves down to a bank, protesting in front of of for days on end and threatening the manager with a lawsuit if he doesn’t agree to loan money (pony up) but I find it deplorable.
None of us is entirled to a loan. People from all classes and races are turned down for loans all the time…BECAUSE THEY DO NOT QUALIFY…or because the project seems to risky! It is absolutely stupid for our government to force banks to make loans to anybody by lowering the standards.
Using intimidation and threats to force them should be considered criminal! Justify this:
If you recall in previous postings at PS Obama not only brought the lawsuit he trained the activists to do the intimidating and ACORN may be broken up but its organizers are still active players:
More here, here, and here.
“…This is also a lie. Just yesterday…”
I told you long ago, the left started this game. It does make me sick…it makes a lot of us sick. We used to suffer in silence and now we are fighting back. Tough beans…you a-holes wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.
Some of the things you mentioned were said. They are also taken out of context. When Rush said that about Chelsea Clinton he was talking about the ways that republican presidents and their children had been treated by the media and how Chelsea was off limits (And she was). He was illustrating the kind of thing that would be said of her IF she were the daughter of a Republican.
The hypocrisy of left fury over Rush is just too hilarios for words, anyway. Most of the time he either didn’t say what they think but is quoting a lefty or they leave out the salient part that would make his remarks understandable. The Fluke remark was over the top…he realized it and apologized…twice. Not good enough for the snide my-stuff-dont-stink hall monitor. Lah tee Dah!
Your party is the party of unending mean nasty slime ball remarks and false accusations, so just get off it Chris. Your whiney protestations are just more left targeting crap.
“Key word is “accused.”
Oh my how differently we hold our own…just quit ya little slug! You are a bore!
Illinoise Review:
Now he SHOULD have to ask permesso for every move!
“Some of the things you mentioned were said. They are also taken out of context. When Rush said that about Chelsea Clinton he was talking about the ways that republican presidents and their children had been treated by the media and how Chelsea was off limits (And she was). He was illustrating the kind of thing that would be said of her IF she were the daughter of a Republican.”
The above is evidence of a pathological liar. You literally just made up this justification right now, and yet you believe it with all your heart.
Amazing.
Chris: “The above is evidence of a pathological liar. You literally just made up this justification right now…”
Sorry to burst your euphoria bubble but I was watching when he made those remarks on his TV show…I saw the ENTIRE discussion!
You, on the other hand, are a petty little PC slug with nothing better to do than repeat the deceptive misrepresentations of the radical left destroyers. YOU CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THEM.
Rush Limbaugh is one of the few people on the planet to come along, gain a large following, and poke holes in the lies and ideology proffered by radical left progressives over decades and to expose those whose mission is to fundamentally transform our free republic and reform it to a single party rule socialist state.
HE POSES A THREAT
That is why, in the Alinsky tradition, the radicals monitor his show and look for single statements they can take out of context to use to try to destroy and silence him.
It hasn’t worked well. Too many left wing loud mouths have been demeaning republican women, children, organizations, and candidates through the decades…they are seen as the hypocrites they are!
So they shift to another Alinsky tactic, work to destroy his advertising! Slime…complete slime!
The dedicated radical left are destroyers! Their ideas are oppressive and tyrannical. They cannot compete fairly in the arena of ideas/politics; people who love freedom reject them! So as they couch their ideas in feel good solutions on the one hand they work to deceive the people about the competition on the other.
Chris you are nothing more than a tool for the radical left. Grow up…wake up…you are setting the bricks to destroy your country.
Tina again unnecessary attacks!
“You, on the other hand, are a petty little PC slug with nothing better to do than repeat the deceptive misrepresentations of the radical left destroyers. YOU CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THEM”
You call people liars when they tell the truth. You either do not watch these guys and just read the prepared propaganda or lie yourself in denial it happened.
It is easy to support your politicians by acknowledging they said it and supporting their view.
Calling people names and denying truth is a not a Democracy
Own your Politicians and do the research! I watch them see them do the stuff either live or on tape.
Name calling is not OK and you owe him an apology!
Failure to watch these people in a fake utopia by ignoring truth is dangerous to all people.
I will out any corrupt Politician regardless of Party – That is a true Patriot!
Liberals use their Saul Alinsky tools again to attack Fox News.
The Hit Job on Fox News:
“Veterans’ letter attacking Bolling, Gutfeld, hid liberal activists.
It was a hit job. Sixty veterans signing a much publicized “Open Letter to Fox News” — yet the signers were mysteriously never identified beyond the military branch in which they served.
No wonder. I have been through the list of sixty, and it is filled with Obama campaign workers, one ex-Obama White House aide, liberal activists, Democratic Party congressional candidates, Democratic Party state legislators, and more. The letter was sponsored by the Truman Project, a ten-year-old think tank with a focus on national security. Its board of directors includes Hunter Biden, the son of the Vice President. None of which was even whispered in the haughty “Open Letter” that was distributed to a media all too eager to go along with an attack on Fox News and two of the co-hosts on the Fox show The Five — Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld. Instead the letter was presented as a source of genuine outrage from average, non-partisan American veterans — while keeping the real identity of the signers secret.
And you wonder why Americans are cynical about politicians?
The Truman Project has quite deliberately and deceptively made this “Open Letter to Fox News” appear to the media and the wider public as if its signers are nothing more than outraged veterans. Nothing to see here more than that…just look, report it and move on. Which, in fact, is what all those “news” outlets above not to mention the wider social media did. Not a one of them published the backgrounds of the signers.
But in reality this snarky letter is filled with signers who have either worked directly in the Obama White House, have served in or have run for state or federal office as Democrats, or have worked as activists for various liberal causes.
What we have here in fact is a classic example of a left-wing hit job. No one, beginning with Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld, believes their off-the-cuff remarks on a live TV show were appropriate. Both men have apologized, Bolling twice. But this isn’t really about Eric Bolling or Greg Gutfeld. What this is really all about is a hardcore and on-going political effort to smear Fox News. This time as part of that “war on women” business liberals need to survive politically.
If in fact their partisan connections were listed, the letter would lose its news value. It would have been just another dog-bites-man, ho-hum press release, its rewritten title: Liberal Activists Attack Fox News. No news there.
This kind of partisan hackery has Americans fed up. Worse yet, the Truman Project used the American military as a pawn for its hackery. Too bad the rest of us are watching.”
http://spectator.org/articles/60523/hit-job-fox-news
Peggy, are you actually saying that veterans shouldn’t be outraged by Bolling’s demeaning comments toward female soldiers?
I don’t even understand what’s going on here lately. It’s like up had become down, right has become wrong. Things that are obviously immoral and unethical by any rational conservative or Christian standard are being defended with the type of piousness and fury I rarely see. And for what? For the sake of the “tribe?” Because these things are said by people you like?
You all know better than this.
Tina: “Sorry to burst your euphoria bubble but I was watching when he made those remarks on his TV show…I saw the ENTIRE discussion!”
Nothing has been “burst;” you’ve clearly forgotten what happened, and substituted your own version of reality in for what actually happened.
Rush claimed that the “white house dog” joke was the result of a technical error, and that the wrong picture was displayed. He then apologized profusely. He never claimed that he was making a larger point about attacks on Republican women and children (nor would such an attack on a Democrat woman or child be justified even if that WAS his point.)
Having discovered this, I am willing to accept his apology and explanation, and in the interest of intellectual honest I will not use this as an example of his history of misogyny again.
That doesn’t change the fact that there are many, many other examples of his misogyny out there.
Nor does it change the fact that you were being intellectually dishonest when you made up a justification for the “white house dog” incident that didn’t even match Rush’s own explanation, and then tried to use your typical “I WAS THERE, MAN” excuse for why I should just take your word for it (I still don’t understand why you believe this tactic is convincing–I think you are wrong about all kinds of things you are living through now, so why would this be any different?).
“Rush Limbaugh is one of the few people on the planet to come along, gain a large following, and poke holes in the lies and ideology proffered by radical left progressives over decades and to expose those whose mission is to fundamentally transform our free republic and reform it to a single party rule socialist state.”
Therefore, everything he says and does in service of the cause is righteous and good, and he deserves nothing but your full-throated support and defense no matter what he says and does.
“It hasn’t worked well. Too many left wing loud mouths have been demeaning republican women, children, organizations, and candidates through the decades…they are seen as the hypocrites they are!”
THEN CONDEMN ATTACKS ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN! ALL OF THEM!
Like I do.
I have said more times than I can count that sexist attacks are wrong regardless of whether the woman in question belongs to my party or not. You find yourself utterly incapable of doing that. You don’t think calling a woman a whore is sexist, you think calling a conservative woman a whore is sexist. That’s why you are outraged when a liberal uses this word to demean Malkin, but you have no problem when Rush uses it to demean liberal women. Your morality is entirely based on tribalism; if one is outside the tribe or perceived as a threat, the rules do not apply to them, and any and all attacks are justified. You are so hypocritical, railing against “Alinsky-style” personal attacks, but you are the number one fan of a guy who relies on almost nothing but personal attacks.
Your arguments are illogical and emotion-driven because they are not based on consistent principles, but on whether they help your party.
That is the definition of politically correct.
Dewey, thanks for the support. You know I don’t agree with everything you say, your writing style baffles me, and there have been times when I have called you out for something I thought was offensive. And I hope you do the same to me if I ever cross a line. That’s because I understand that belonging to the same political party and holding many of the same positions does not mean we have to support everything the other says and does–especially if one of us says or does something unethical.
I think the only reason Tina and Jack keep us around must be because they know that without us, this place is kind of a boring circle jerk. Without us, no one really debates or fact checks each other because solidarity is more important than honesty and ethics. I’ve seen the absolute worst behavior justified over the past few days, just because it comes from people the Republican party is sympathetic too. It’s overwhelming and frankly depressing to see a once great party fall to such extremes, and for the members to show no awareness of how radical and out of touch they’ve become. So while we have our disagreements and I will never be afraid to voice them, it’s good to know that someone else here sees it too and is willing to challenge them along with me.
Kudos Chris…”belonging to the same political party and holding many of the same positions does not mean we have to support everything the other says and does–especially if one of us says or does something unethical.”
No Chris, the point of my article, if you had read it, was the deceitful way the signers of the letter who were ALL members of the think tank Truman Project, associated with the Obama administration currently or in the past, or an elected democrat serving an office at the state level.
There wasn’t a single republican’s name on that list, nor did any of the signers indicate their current or past political connection.
Before you comment further on this, try reading the whole article by clicking on the link first and while you’re there how about reviewing the LONG list of names and their titles for the signers of the letter attacking Fox News.
#25 Chris: “That’s because I understand that belonging to the same political party and holding many of the same positions does not mean we have to support everything the other says and does–especially if one of us says or does something unethical.”
Looking forward to seeing you live up to your own statement. Especially when the “something unethical” is coming from your own party.
Peggy, I guess I just don’t understand why the political affiliation of the veterans matters as much as the content of the letter. Bolling and Gutfield were clearly in the wrong; if Republicans aren’t calling them out and Democrats are, how does that speak badly of Democrats? And how can the Spectator use terms like “smear,” “attack,” and “hit job” to describe justified criticism of clear wrong-doing?
Powerful wake-up call from a former democrat.
Must watch: Most powerful message of 2014 midterms:
“This short video may just be the most powerful message of the 2014 midterm election cycle. Lousiana State Senator Elbert Guillory, who made the courageous decision to switch from the Democrat party to the Republican, gives his reason why.”
http://allenbwest.com/2014/10/must-watch-powerful-message-2014-midterms-video/