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Offline Hoodat

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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2016, 12:54:40 am »
Quote from: libertybele on August 08, 2016, 11:45:51 pm
Seems to me that the GOPe has [McCaul] in the palm of their hands.

He got caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2016, 01:07:24 am »
Quote from: Bigun on August 09, 2016, 12:53:11 am
Run off??? Just a fair process would have been more than sufficient for that!


It is one thing to vote 17.... it is another for the one with less than 50% of that vote  to represent.

That is not deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That is rigged.
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2016, 01:11:27 am »
Quote from: Fantom on August 09, 2016, 01:07:24 am

It is one thing to vote 17.... it is another for the one with less than 50% of that vote  to represent.

That is not deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That is rigged.

Exactly my point! And when the delegates to the convention tried to stand up and correct the error they were run over completely!  Told to shut up and sit down and like it!  THAT is why I'm no longer a Republican!
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #28 on: August 09, 2016, 01:15:38 am »
Quote from: Bigun on August 09, 2016, 01:11:27 am
Exactly my point! And when the delegates to the convention tried to stand up and correct the error they were run over completely!  Told to shut up and sit down and like it!  THAT is why I'm no longer a Republican!

I am a freedom man. Very limited government. It is needed...like fire.

I'll cast my vote, and bear such arms as I may(should that time come), to advance that.
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #29 on: August 09, 2016, 03:47:32 am »
Quote from: skeeter on August 08, 2016, 11:51:51 pm
Any representative would see a senate seat as a promotion. And of course the GOPe would use all the resources at their disposal to replace Cruz with a establishment tool - to them a principled, high profile constitutionalist like Cruz is a loose cannon they cannot afford to allow to wander around in their sequestered privileged world saying and doing embarrassing things. Everything is at stake for them.

They will need to run a lot faster to get ahead of Ted Cruz.

I suspect within 6 months of any tRump Administration, the RNC/GOPe will be running for cover and trying everything in the book to erase their stinky self-serving ties with tRump from America's memory.
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #30 on: August 09, 2016, 03:56:51 am »
Uttering platitudes, in the end, he's just another Washington politician, low on actual concrete achievements, just words.
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #31 on: August 09, 2016, 04:01:35 am »
Quote from: TomSea on August 09, 2016, 03:56:51 am
Uttering platitudes, in the end, he's just another Washington politician, low on actual concrete achievements, just words.

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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #32 on: August 09, 2016, 04:15:03 am »
Quote from: TomSea on August 09, 2016, 03:56:51 am
Uttering platitudes, in the end, he's just another Washington politician, low on actual concrete achievements, just words.

The same can be said for Trump. I'm sorry. He did achieve one thing. He took a massive inheritance and a roladex of connections from his father and became a reality star.
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #33 on: August 09, 2016, 10:32:20 am »
Quote from: libertybele on August 09, 2016, 04:01:35 am
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All I've got to say to idiots who say Ted Cruz hasn't done anything in the Senate is, "What have the successful senators done?"
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #34 on: August 09, 2016, 12:58:31 pm »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on August 09, 2016, 10:32:20 am
All I've got to say to idiots who say Ted Cruz hasn't done anything in the Senate is, "What have the successful senators done?"

Obviously those that make such statements about Cruz haven't done a shred of research.  If they did, they would realize how foolish they look.  They are merely relying on the liberal MSM, Trump talking points and their own ignorance.
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #35 on: August 09, 2016, 01:16:09 pm »
Quote from: libertybele on August 09, 2016, 12:58:31 pm
Obviously those that make such statements about Cruz haven't done a shred of research.  If they did, they would realize how foolish they look.  They are merely relying on the liberal MSM, Trump talking points and their own ignorance.

I'm still a constitutional conservative who doesn't see government "doing things" as a good thing.

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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #36 on: August 09, 2016, 01:31:00 pm »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on August 09, 2016, 10:32:20 am
All I've got to say to idiots who say Ted Cruz hasn't done anything in the Senate is, "What have the successful senators done?"

Hillary did get a name change on a building...
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #37 on: August 09, 2016, 01:41:55 pm »
Quote from: Longmire on August 09, 2016, 12:52:08 am
Why would McCaul have to give up his House seat to run in the GOP primary against Cruz?

Is there a rule in Texas about that?

He could not run in the primary for both the House Seat and the Senate seat in the same election.

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/EL/htm/EL.141.htm

Sec. 141.033.  FILING APPLICATIONS FOR MORE THAN ONE OFFICE PROHIBITED.  (a)  A candidate may not file applications for a place on the ballot for two or more offices that:
(1)  are not permitted by law to be held by the same person;  and
(2)  are to be voted on at one or more elections held on the same day.
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Re: The Establishment floats another squish as Cruz challenger
« Reply #38 on: August 09, 2016, 02:19:18 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on August 09, 2016, 03:56:51 am
Uttering platitudes, in the end, he's just another Washington politician, low on actual concrete achievements, just words.

So you've given up on trying to sell your candidate and have taken to jut tossing stink bombs now?
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