7 thoughts on “Ted Cruz”

1. Yawn. The guy sure doesn’t like Rand Paul. Since I am a Rand Paul supporter, I suppose I’ll have to make some comment about neo-con journalists calling Libertarians ‘dumb rubes’ for being sick of neo-cons and their global meddling.

   1. I am turned off by meddling but the Pax Americana has been pretty beneficial to our country and also the world.

   2. I don’t know. Ted Cruz seems to go out of his way not to get along with anyone else, which includes the Senior Senator from Texas John Cornyn.

      Blah, blah, RINO, Senator Cornyn, blah, blah, but if I remember correctly, Senator Cornyn was one of the few Republican voices standing up to President George W Bush during his go at imigration amnesty. You gotta pick your issues, and whereas Ted Cruz appeared to be a stalwart on amnesty, not only does he keep his distance from John Cornyn, Senator Cruz appears to be dipping his toe in the water regarding support for “immigration reform.”

      Rand Paul, on the other hand, was elected as a Tea Party-supported Republican, but he has gone to great lengths to cooperate with his senior senator Mitch McConnell. Yeah, yeah, Mr. McConnell is the Ur RINO and Republican sellout, but there is value to maintain some comity with senior people in your own state and your own party.

      But Senator Paul seems to be taking this accomodation and comity into pandering territory. I don’t think that Rand Paul is any different than John Ellis Bush in supporting amnesty — am I wrong?

      Rand Paul is also advancing the kind of Libertarian “Let’s Declare Victory in the War on Drugs and Go Home” stance, working on building bridges to minority citizens who are disproportionately in prison over the War on Drugs. I suppose one could build bridges and new coalitions over a Libertarian perspective on concerns about being at the receiving end of a muscular and perhaps out-of-control law-and-order system — police shootings, civil forfeitures, revenue-raising citations, choking a dude with asthma and high blood pressure for daring to violate city ordinances on selling cigarattes, etc.

      But there is a certain taint to the Ferguson and Baltimore protests that tapping into the police-out-of-control sentiment is being used as a cover for unabashed Anarchists and Marxists bent on wrecking the neighborhoods and cities they claim to want to save. Does the Junior Senator from Kentucky want to go anywhere near that?

2. Which is not to say I don’t find Ted Cruz interesting as my second tier choice. But the writer just completely turns me off. May be in retaliation I should post another link to a Rand Paul fundraiser.

3. Kind of an annoying article, though. The definition of intelligence is clear throughout: anyone who agrees with David Goldman. Cruz still has “lots to learn”: he doesn’t yet agree with David Goldman on every issue. The author ladles out insults freely to other conservative candidates who disagree with him on even more things.

   Alan Dershowitz’s praise means ten times more to me. (And definitely more useful if some liberal fool says He disagrees with me so he’s a moron.) And even there, I’m not _completely_ convinced that the only important feature of intelligence is the glibness and quickness and sharpness to handle oneself well in a law school class. Surely strongly correlated with intelligence, but other aspects might be even more valuable to me. I’m sure that lawyers think that lawyers are just the ones to run the country…

   1. Without agreeing or disagreeing with Goldman’s own views, I just thought it was an amusing line. And as I’ve often said, I think that people underestimate Ted Cruz at their peril.

   2. “Kind of an annoying article, though.”

      You must be new to reading David Goldman’s “Spengler” blog?

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