Comments on: Cruz as Lucifer: not that it matters…

By: bikermailman

bikermailman — Sun, 01 May 2016 15:36:37 +0000

An interesting aside: What contemporary belief system do we know to be associated with the morning star? I didn’t know the history of the word Lucifer, and when reading that, it sort of jumped out at me.

By: blert

blert — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 01:25:31 +0000

Neo…

Ted Cruz may go off in history rather like John Brown.

A man too true — too painfully true — to be tolerated.

( Setting aside the fact that Brown jumped the shark at Harper’s Ferry. )

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 19:25:45 +0000

expat:

Agreed.

That’s always a hard one for people to accept.

Cruz is exceedingly smart, but I don’t think he is going to pull this one out of the fire.

By: expat

expat — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:44:53 +0000

neo,
Can I add a 4th point to your list? (4) Cruz is smarter than they are.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:40:37 +0000

K-E:

Trump, on the other hand, stabs people in the back repeatedly, and in full public view, so it doesn’t have to be deduced from rumors and innuendos that that’s what he’s doing.

I have read loads about Cruz v. Carson in Iowa and I am convinced there’s no there there.

Trump’s backstabbing—or perhaps it’s frontstabbing, since it’s relatively open—is frequent and goes back decades. It is a very strong part of his personality.

People hate Cruz because (1) he’s not warm and fuzzy (2) he hasn’t sucked up to enough people (3) things like calling McConnell a “liar,” the shutdown, etc.. He threatens the gravy train.

By: K-E

K-E — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:25:46 +0000

You may want to watch the video of this interview with a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter to know why Boehner and other despise Cruz so much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOP3a3E2vT4

Interestingly enough, I do take this assessment as fact because we have now seen two obvious ‘stab in the back’ moments with Cruz and his campaign.

1) The lie about Carson in Iowa. It was real. It happened. Cruz claimed he knew nothing about it, but his campaign manager orchestrated it. Never fired the guy.

2) The lie Cruz just told about not having an alliance with Kasich, even though everyone read the simultaneous and similarly-worded press releases last Sunday night.

This is not the kind of person I want. Back stabber. Manipulator. Liar. It goes against everything Cruz claims to be. It was one of the reasons early on (Iowa moment) that I started to reassess Cruz on my list of possibilities.

By: Big Maq

Big Maq — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 01:11:08 +0000

“in a logical world, that would be the kiss of death for Trump among his GOPe-establishment-hating supporters.”

With the Trumpistas and the MSM, it is a “heads” they win, tails we lose” world.

Logic doesn’t hold water in that one.

Strangely, it is some of the very thing these people were complaining about in 2008, against the Dems and their voters, along with the MSM.

By: parker

parker — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:33:54 +0000

MJR,

Wow. It reads like something from the Onion.

By: M J R

M J R — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:09:00 +0000

(I absent-mindedly omitted the attribution in my 7:59 pm comment, “Satanists are furious that Boehner compared Ted Cruz to the Dark Lord”; here it is, a little belatedly.)

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/satanists-are-furious-that-boehner-compared-ted-cruz-to-the-dark-lord/

By: parker

parker — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:03:30 +0000

John F,

I well remember Jim Jones. I made the sarcastic remark because djt is leading a cult, fortunately there will be no kool-aid lines in Guyana. (They think it borders Tanzania.)