Discussion for article #244077
He’ll say whatever he deems expedient at the moment. Another serial liar.
And who’s going to tell Kim Davis?
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Who will tell Kimmi? Her fourth husband?
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Cruz is lying. Maybe he’ll have his little girls do another attack ad since he successfully trolled the WashPost into a walk-back for prime demo publicity.
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Cruz: I can no longer stand with Kim Davis.
Truth be known, Republican officeholders really don’t care about the social issues. They just use social issues to get the teavangelicals to the polls. Nancy Reagan famously said, “WE don’t give a damn about the right-to-lifers.” When Nancy said we, she never meant herself and her couturier, either.
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The headline is quite misleading. It should be:
“Ted Cruz Reportedly Tells Educated, NEW YORK, Donors (who may be gay themselves) Fighting Gay Marriage Isn’t A Top Priority.”
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i take your point but I am fairly certain a small but significant number of them - Santorum and Huckabee, for instance - do give a damn about hating the gays.
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“I would say defending the Constitution is a top priority
…and went on to say that as soon as he gets finished with “My Pet Goat” it’s a priority to read the Constitution…but he’s having some problem with the big words on the book cover, so it might be a bit.
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He’ll say whatever he deems expedient at the moment. Another serial liar.
And who’s going to tell Kim Davis?
her new boyfriend mike huckabuck.
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…and they are ex-officeholders. The fringe might get elected, but they are rarely re-elected.
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Complete bullshit answer from Cruz. All he did was redefine “fighting gay marriage” as “defending the constitution” and “defending religious liberty.” And the whole point of the Supreme Court decision is that gay Americans shouldn’t have to navigate their rights based on 50 different standards in different states. If the person asking the question bought his answer, then they are deluded.
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In the early 90s my sister was living in Dallas and dating a very ambitious republican judge/poltician. He not only looked a bit like Ted Cruz – he took many of the same public stances. When I went to Texas for a visit and first met him, apparently my sister had warned him that I was a liberal. He picked me up from the airport in his white caddy and one of the first things out of his mouth was “just between you and me, a woman’s body is her own business.” In public, he was a staunch pro-lifer. I really don’t know if he believed ANYTHING. He just was another sociopathic politician who’s only ethos was his own ambition. He wanted the approval of the prevailing powers so he parroted the party line. He wanted my sister so he said what he thought he needed to say to win my approval. The guy was eventually forced out of office because a former girlfriend accused him of assault. Charges were never filed, but it killed his political career. And thankfully my sister left him.
ADD: I just looked the guy up. He has a law practice that specializes in WHITE COLLAR criminal, domestic violence and drunk driving defense. And he takes credit cards!
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States’ Rights! Let Cruz be president of those states where he gets the most votes, and Hillary will be president everywhere else.
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“So would you say it’s like a top-three priority for you — fighting gay marriage?”
“No,” Cruz replied. “I would say defending the Constitution is a top priority. And that cuts across the whole spectrum — whether it’s defending [the] First Amendment, defending religious liberty.
Carnival immediately loses 13% of his voters.
that was tried when Abe Lincoln was the Republican and Jefferson Davis was the Democrat… it didn’t end well…
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…who are polling at what, a combined 1%?
Campaign managers and the pols themselves realize that the gay marriage issue has been lost. The demographics on that issue have shifted, so its no longer has big enough pull to be successfully used as a wedge anymore.
Sure, there is still an angry minority out there that want to hate on The Gay. And when speaking to them, they will gladly nod their head and agree. Or give vague answers like this one. But its never going to be a main part of anybody’s platform again…not like W. running on a Constitutional Amendment in 2004(which even he promptly dropped after getting elected…proving it was just for show).
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That is my point–Cruz’s idea that the US Constitutional right to marriage can be different in different states is nothing but an invitation to the fracture of the Union.
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Alberta Rafael can read the polling.
http://news.yahoo.com/poll-shows-christians-america-really-203719289.html
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Sounds like he thinks it should be a state’s rights issue, which is absurd. I don’t see how this answer consoles the questioner at this event.
And what is this about, and I’m paraphrasing, I agree with you on almost everything except gay marriage? So you agree with Cruz on immigration, on affirmative action, on Obama bring a Kenyan Muslum, etc.?
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