01-09-2017, 04:32 PM
(01-09-2017, 03:54 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-09-2017, 01:48 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-07-2017, 05:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(01-07-2017, 05:03 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:(01-06-2017, 02:39 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Yeap.
I thought you were a Kasich kind of guy...
In his "defense" I think he was touting Cruz as the only available alternative to Trump, who was at that point leading him in a two-man race for the nomination.
I would not identify X_4AD_84 with Bill Maher, but I note that Maher made the same recommendation (after, of course, staging an upchuck before doing it).
Spot on.
In general, although I am nominally of The Right, I can't stand Theocons. Nonetheless, Cruz was not a Quisling of the Kremlin. Of the two horses who'd ultimately be the ones leading the race on the GOP side, he was the least worst.
It's not clear just how much Cruz is Religious Right, and how much he was just emphasizing that because he thought it was the right strategy to win the nomination. Certainly those of us who really examined his background found that he was pretty strictly libertarian - if minarchist - in his economic outlook.
Which just goes to show that, most of the time, libertarian and religious right are perfect allies and can combine easily in one candidate, and frequently do. Both are extremely authoritarian, and yet can convince people that they aren't.