Certainly not everything Trump says is wrong, or bad. Some things he says are fine.

It’s a matter of way too many things that ARE wrong, or bad, or both, and a matter of character.

It brings into question Rex’s honesty. Perhaps it was a honest error, perhaps not.

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, this time.

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Heidi Cruz, in an addendum to the report wrote:
I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed at building a safer and more prosperous North America. (p.33) What’s good for Goldman Sachs and North America isn’t necessarily good for the United States.

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He didn’t include the last sentence in quotes. I made the same mistake as you did, assuming that it was being cited as a statement either she or the report made, but it was JurassiCon Rex’s editorial comment after the quote and page reference.

Let me deal with your objections to Cruz from inconsequential to most troublesome.

“Crazy Glenn Beck supports Cruz as the anointed one.”

That’s a knock on Beck not Cruz.

“Ted Cruz’ campaign chairman, Chad Sweet, is a former CIA officer; also worked for Goldman Sachs.”

A ‘former’ CIA officer and ‘former’ employee at Goldman Sachs. Well, there you go, that proves it! (sarc off)

“Cruz voted for cloture on TPA, (trans pacific partnership agreement)”

What counts is the bottom line and Cruz reversed himself on that bill.

“Heidi Cruz, in an addendum to the report wrote:
I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed at building a safer and more prosperous North America. (p.33) What’s good for Goldman Sachs and North America isn’t necessarily good for the United States.”

“On pages 33-34 of CFR’s “Building a North American Community,” Heidi Cruz wrote a paragraph included under “Additional and Dissenting Views” that contended economic investment must be led by the private sector rather than government:

“I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed at building a safer and more prosperous North America. Economic prosperity and a world safe from terrorism and other security threats are no doubt inextricably linked. While governments play an invaluable role in both regards, we must emphasize the imperative that economic investment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is no force proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital, and producing results like financial markets and profit-making businesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a higher living standard for the poorest among us — truly the measure of our success. As such, investment funds and financing mechanisms should be deemed attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be developed in conjunction with market participants.”

Nowhere in that passage is there; “What’s good for Goldman Sachs and North America isn’t necessarily good for the United States.” which means it was cut and pasted together and taken out of context. Leading the reader to a preordained conclusion.

The article contains important information that puts the lie to the charge that Cruz is unduly influenced by Goldman Sachs;

“The national spokesman for Cruz’s presidential campaign, Rick Tyler, emphasized in a response to WND that the senator has never been a member of CFR and harshly criticized the organization during his 2012 U.S. Senate campaign as a threat to U.S. sovereignty, even though his wife was a member at the time.

Tyler noted that at a campaign event in Tyler, Texas, in 2011, Cruz called CFR “a pernicious nest of snakes” that is “working to undermine our sovereignty.”

Tyler explained that Heidi Cruz, then an energy investment banker for Merrill Lynch in Houston, served as a CFR term member.

Her term expired in 2011, Tyler said, and she was one of 31 members assigned to the task force that produced the “Building a North American Community” report.

“Her contribution to the report was narrowly focused on economic issues,” Tyler told WND. “She said as much in her dissenting view included in the report.”

“In a video interview with independent journalist Derrick Broze in 2011, Cruz responded to “the opponents in this race who have taken to attacking my wife.”

He pointed out she was one among thousands of term members of the CFR for a brief period, joining it “as one of the few conservatives” after stepping down from the Bush administration, “trying to push for conservative outcomes.”

He [Cruz] mentioned former U.N. ambassador John Bolton is a member.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/ted-cruz-again-battles-globalist-charge-against-wife/#KYBXLJl0qKGopKvi.99

Given all of this, I find the evidence strongly supports the dismissal of that charge against Cruz.

We finally get to the most serious charge; Cruz’s Amendment Cruz 5 — “to substantially increase legal immigration” That proposed to increase H1-b visas 500%

In the link you provide, Cruz states that his rationale for offering the amendment is the assertion that there is a “serious shortage of stem workers in the united states”. Cruz was not alone in believing that myth. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, US News and World Report, Forbes and many others accepted that myth until it was disproved. To show how confused was the issue, US News and World Report ran two opposing articles, on the same day totally contradicting each other.

“Short on STEM Talent” (claiming the shortage to be real) and “STEM Grads Are at a Loss” “Overall, U.S. colleges produce twice the number of STEM graduates annually as find jobs in those fields.”

From Ted Cruz’s website; “CRUZ IMMIGRATION PLAN”

“Suspend the issuance of all H-1B visas for 180 days to complete a comprehensive investigation and audit of pervasive allegations of abuse of the program: Initiate an immediate 180-day investigation and audit of the H-1B visa program and enact fundamental reforms of this program to ensure that it protects American workers. In recent months, more and more reports have become public of companies replacing American workers with cheaper foreign workers, contrary to the stated intent of the H-1B visa program. This will stop, and the H1-B program will be suspended until we can be certain that the program is no longer being abused.”

If after all of this, you still assume it all to be a cynical political ploy, then you’ve closed your mind to objective consideration and have raised dogmatism in its place.

I find Mr. Dinosaur a bit too much, and too much into the trump cult, and willing, if not anxious, to drink the anti Cruz kool-aid. However, I do not read him as wearing an Alex Jones aluminum foil hat.

I read him as old, cranky, p*ssed off, and desperately seeking a champion. Minus the desperately part, I can identify.

No SilyConWrecks is death on bankers, lawyers, immigrants, non-Anglo-Saxons, conservatives, liberals, Goldman Sacs employees, the Tri Lateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, … well you get the picture.