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The Repeal Pledge: Another Reason to Support Ted Cruz

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 28th, 2012 at 03:04 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Today the United States Supreme Court left Obamacare in tact.

That means every Republican Primary left now matters even more significantly.

In Texas, Ted Cruz is in a runoff with David Dewhurst.

Only Ted Cruz has sided the repeal pledge pledging to repeal Obamacare. David Dewhurst has not. These differences matter. Go support Ted Cruz right now. We’ll need every vote we can muster in the Senate next year to repeal this thing and only Ted is on record willing to repeal Obamacare.

By the way, the Dewhurst campaign reached out and said they signed the repeal pledge on May 26th. I reached out to the repeal coalition and they can find no record of a Dewhurst signature until today . . . after Ted Cruz yet again made an issue out of it.

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  • cbartlett

    Dewhurst has tremendous name recognition and a LOT of money to put out trashy, very unfair ads about Ted. They are starting to show up everywhere this week because we are about one month out from the runoff election date. Voters that supported the fringe candidates in the primary last month primarily live in the big cities like Dallas/Ft Worth and Houston. They are the ones we really need to win. If you have any friends or relatives in Texas, please let them know that Ted is the true conservative that we need.

  • rickperryreport

    I really had no dog in this fight until one of the volunteers for Cruz called my friend Dan Moran a “deformed” veteran.

    Let’s step back a minute and think about this. Cruz expresses true conservative principles, and no doubt he will most likely be a warrior for the cause. However, Dewhurst has walked the talk, by basically working with the Republican majority in the Texas House and Senate to knock out a $27 billion budget deficit last year without a tax increase, or instituting another tax in Texas like an income tax.

    On that measure alone, Dewhurst walks the talk. Cruz probably would too, but he hasn’t had the depth of experience in government that Dewhurst has.

    Now, back to the drama with the Moran thing. I don’t have any experience with Cruz, so all I have to fall back on are anecdotal character judgements. One of them for me is, “who does the guy surround himself with?”

    Whoever that Cruz volunteer was, was apparently in pretty tight with the Cruz campaign. She tweeted that Moran was deformed from war wounds. Cruz didn’t really make a strong enough objection to what this worker said. At least in my judgement, for me, I couldn’t just move on.

    As Moran’s fellow Aggie and combat veteran, I just can’t forgive that to the point that I’d support Cruz over Dewhurst.

    And then, we get back to who talks (Cruz) vs who walks the talk (Dewhurst).

    Dewhurst did a good job as Lt. Guv. He’ll serve Texas well in the Senate too.

    Sorry, Erick. I’m all in for Dewhurst. I hope you understand my reasoning.

    Joe Hyde

  • tnguy

    Your protest appears to be from someone who’s part of his campaign, or just an avid Dewcrist supporter looking for an excuse to trash Cruz.

    Support for moderate republicans like Dewcrist is now a dead idea with me, and I hope, especially after today, it’s dead for most conservatives. Most everyone here knows that Dewcrist personifies the type of republican who will trip all over himself extending his hand across the aisle.

    I’m sure that pretty much every politician has had a volunteer or even an aide at one point or another say something offensive. Cruz, or any pol for that matter, should waste little or no time responding to or apologizing for things said by a volunteer.

    Weak. Very weak.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    and I’m still supporting Cruz and making another donation in response to your support of political correctness and your statement that “only kooks and nuts are supporting Cruz” and “screw the Tea Party” as you so eloquently stated in your comment to this article here.

    The woman apologized for her poor choice of words. Get over it.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I suspect this is an excuse and you were probably in the bag for him already.

    In fact how do we know this alleged Cruz volunteer wasn’t in fact a Dewhurst plant?

    Your post is low on evidence and high on ridiculousness. I mean for crying out loud your username suggests shilldom from the start.

  • gekster

    Perry doesn’t suppot Cruz, so he’s going to play tribble.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    was a constructive thing to do on a day when I feel a little helpless after the SCOTUS decision.

  • theevenger

    …how can I best allocate it? I donated $100 to Cruz last month. Should I do so again this month, or should I give it to someone else? Same question for the remaining donations before November.

  • runner12

    I plan on donating next to Cruz’s fund and subsequently the SCF.

    This SC ruling means political war and I am going to do my best to send Obummer packing.

  • TxCon

    For Ted Cruz. This race shouldn’t be close. Sadly, it will be.

  • rickperryreport

    Don’t believe me. It’s fairly cliche for Tea Party types to believe even the smallest disagreement has something to do with a larger conspiracy or some dishonesty.

    As for the Tea Party in general, I don’t think the movement has much to it. It’s empty conservatism. Or, to borrow an idea from Francis Schaeffer and what he said about modern Christianity. The Tea Party is Conservative Existentialism. (Existentialism as it pertains to Christianity explained here. http://thechristianwatershed.com/2008/04/08/existentialism-how-it-has-affected-modern-christianity/ The same thing is happening to conservatism.

    The Constitution is not a end in itself. Rather it is a means to and end.

    What that end is is what the Tea Party is missing. It is missing more than a rudder. There’s a giant hole in the boat!

    I am a plant for no one. But the paranoia surrounding my earlier heartfelt comments may just “plant” me into the garden.

  • rickperryreport

    ’nuff said.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    just as mine is to get all my Texas friends to vote for Cruz and to continue to donate to him, especially when he’s smeared by the likes of Dewhurst and his fanboys.

    By the way, this is not a good day to smear tea partiers either like you did in your other comment. Who do you think worked to help Scott Walker? Who do you think worked to elect Mourdock? Mike Lee? Rand Paul? Joe Walsh? You know, the ones who are actually voting conservative. If you don’t have anything nice to say…I’m sure you know the rest, bless your heart.

  • civil truth

    The article critiques the conviction that religious truth can only be experienced and that reason has not valid role to play. I don’t see that the Tea Party is banning conservative philosophy – indeed it’s rather bringing a renaissance of conservative reasoning to citizens – in favor of some non-rational agitation.

    And please stop playing the tease and state what “end” you think the Tea Party is missing. As far as I can tell, the Tea Party’s end is to reverse the accretion of power and coercion in the Federal government in line with our national covenantal documents, thereby increasing our freedoms.

  • PowerToThePeople

    to be so clever, you are failing miserably. The only thing you have shown yourself to be is a smart ass with a silly BS reason as to why you are voting for who you always planned to vote for.

  • avagreen

    I’ve run into him before when he invited me to not post on his forum, even though we were both supporters of Perry at the time. He’s just an opinionated supporter. That’s all.

    I support Cruz and the Tea Party, but I’m also a Perry supporter. Don’t let this guy muddy the water based upon his own biases.

  • avagreen

    nt

  • rickperryreport

    Of course you don’t see it. It requires more thought effort than most of us are willing to expend on internet bulletin boards.

    Schaeffer’s central thesis of “How Should We Then Live?” is the meaning for, and acknowledgement of “absolutes.” “Absolutes” are specifically defined, according to Schaeffer, by taking the leap of faith that the Bible is the revelation of a true God. Schaeffer argues that absent the absolutes, nothing can be judged as right or wrong.

    The critique of modern Christianity, in what he called “existential Christianity” was that the modern version of religion is relying upon the human experience of doing Christian things, listening to Christian sermons, and etc without accepting the prerequisite leap of faith to acknowledge those absolutes exist. That’s why Episcopal priests are marrying homosexual couples.

    Similarly, in the Tea Party movement, many participating are neo-Constitutionalists. they slept through Government 101, and now suddenly have found new experience in “believing the Consistution” without really understanding the reasons to do so.

    Put another way, and I guess more concrete for this example, the conservative movement of Goldwater and Buckley had, more or less, absolute beliefs. For example, William F. Buckley intellectually destroyed the Birchers and the rest of the La Rouche fringe and banished them from the movement. I see more fringe groups and opportunists at Tea Party rallies than I can be comfortable. The movement is all airspeed, no vector.

    How many Tea Party activists fell for Herman Cain? By what yardstick did we have to judge his “Constitutional credentials”? NONE! other than existential anecdotes spewed forth during Cain rallies.

  • popdaddy

    Dewhurst is cut from the mold of the classic DC moderate Rhino. His political career has been blessed by living in the shadow of Rick Perry and protecting Perry when absolutely necessary. He has joined the other major Texas Rhino House Speaker Joe Straus in appointing socialist democrats to committee chairs and manipulating legislation to thwart truly conservative bills from ever reaching a vote.
    Texas could have has a voter ID law five years ago (that?s three legislative sessions thank Goodness for our State Constitution) if Dewhurst had not torpedoed the bills passed in the House from reaching a Senate vote. Perry needed additional law and order cred in the 2011 session to build has resume for President so Dewhurst allowed a vote finally to pass the legislation way too late.
    Dewhurst would be no improvement from Kay Barley Republican, Texas deserves better. We need Ted Cruz in the Senate.

  • gekster

    Or are you just flinging crap at the wall.
    I’m curious as to these fringe groups you claim to know of.

  • gekster

    Think he moved to Texas and joined the Dewhurst campaign.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    I recall some of his earlier comments. And while it is indeed his right to vote for the candidate of his choice, I just don’t appreciate the smearing of a good man like Cruz. Reminds me of starz support of Lugar and the need to smear Mourdock.

    Glad to hear the confirmation you’re a Cruz fan!

  • rickperryreport

    Besides her, at the Nov 4, 2009 Houston Tea Party rally I saw… Birchers, La Rouchers, and everything in between. And eclectic group for sure. Apostle Claver delivered a pretty good speech, though. At the local Tea Party meeting, they usually devolve into fights over leadership and rules of order that make my blood boil. And then there are the Ron Paulers who allegedly took over the Abilene group and kicked out all of the Agenda 21 people. And please don’t get me started with Alex Jones (-;

  • rickperryreport

    Five years ago, I don’t believe there was a general disgust of the illegal alien problem in Texas like there is now. There wasn’t a strng enough political backing for such a law. Not my fault, I’ve been for it all along after witnessing widespread voter fraud on the border.

    Nonetheless, back then, Texas Republicans were and are always mindful of the Hispanic vote, as all politicians have to be. And if Cruz were running the state government, where would he be on the issue five years ago?

    You don’t know!

    Cruz is is a good man, but he doesn’t have a record to judge if he’ll really do what he promises.

    I think comparing Dewhurst to KBH is a bit of a stretch.

  • mikeymike143

    i think joe hyde is that mentally disturbed aggie that tea partiers in texas are always laughing about.

  • mikeymike143

    and then you come here and prove it.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    They want Obama out of office; they want conservatives in office. If you want to drum up votes for Dewhurst, tell folks why they should vote for him. Why is he more qualified than Ted Cruz; why should they support him.. I just don’t think insulting your friends or saying “Ted Cruz’s volunteer who Cruz never met called my friend a name.”

  • PowerToThePeople

    I am not sure of your agenda here, but so far all you have spewed on this site is pure stupidity.

    I am not a Tea Party member, but am friends with many Tea Party folks including the leaders of a few different groups within the Tea Party. There are kooks within some of the groups, there are even entire groups of the TP that are wackos. But the vast majority of them are normal hard working folks who are quite active within the republican party, who do not follow Ron Paul, who do not listen to Alex Jones, and who do not argue about rules of order at their meetings.

    I am pretty sure from looking at your comment, that you have either never been to a TP meeting or rally or went to one with the prior knowledge that they were one of the idiot groups simply to reinforce your preconceived notions about the TP. I also believe you are being quite dishonest on your assessment of the rally you claim to have attended considering everyone knows that rallies always attract the kooks since anyone can attend and usually the kooks set up their own area to spew their nonsense. Does not mean they were invited, wanted there, or really even a part of the real rally. You simply are acting like the left and trying to persuade everyone that the part you are dwelling on represented the whole. We do not buy it and we know you are full of BS.

    I am officially starting the clock on this loser, taking bets as to when the hammer falls. Who wants in? I say one week from today.

  • rickperryreport

    i have been respectful, and only expressed my opinion. If someone differs from you, is it in accordance with this site’s policy to condone name-calling and personal attacks?

  • runner12

    It shows a complete lack of class to attack Tea Partiers and those of us who support them on a day when we need to rally the troops more than ever. If you like Dewhurst over Cruz, fine. Articulate why he is a better conservative than Cruz ( and I must add good luck to you on that one /sarc).

    Do not come on and bash Cruz and your fellow Conservatives.

  • PowerToThePeople

    and you fit the fool description.

  • audax

    …so we cancel each other out.

  • mikeymike143

    and we here at redstate we laugh at fools. and you will now be the butt of jokes whenever you post here.

    of course, i have the feeling that you are used to being laughed at.

  • edintexas

    Did you already get your absentee ballot? I sent my application in the beginning of the month and haven’t seen my ballot yet, I’m out of state, and will be until late August, so made sure to send my application in quickly.

  • edintexas

    Smearing Ted has been the only Dewhurst campaigning I noted before the Primary. I didn’t really expect anything else, so just made multiple contributions to Ted’s campaign as money allowed (retired).

  • bk

    This piece gives pretty much the full story.

    Since you got the Perry/Dewhurst version in the comment you were replying to, here’s what an anti-Dewhurst person had to say about it.

  • justperhaps45

    Last night he suggested to a group of supporters that we give our max. and follow up by pursuading others to join. GIVE, VOLUNTEER, PURSUADE YOUR FRIENDS. He faces the deepest pockets in Texas and needs our help on every front. The one you pursuade may be the deciding vote.

    gawtp.com

  • justperhaps45

    Dewhurst and Straus name the most liberal members they can find to committees. That doesn’t sound moderate to me! They hang with the special interest and avoid the actual voters.

  • justperhaps45

    Dewhurst and Straus name the most liberal members they can find to committees. That doesn’t sound moderate to me! They hang with the special interest and avoid the actual voters.

  • franklinjr

    .

  • citizenkh

    on Dan Patrick’s radio show yesterday. For those unaware, Patrick is considered by ALL to the most conservative legislator in TX on ALL issues. He is a state senator.

    A friend called me to tell me about it AND I found a clip. Cruz truy comes of as clueless about how legislation passes through the TX legislature.

    ADDITIONALLY, we find that everything that Freedom Works, Club for Growth AND Jim DeMint are saying publicly about Dewhurst is either from their ignorance or lies “bigger than Dallas.”

  • rickperryreport

    …I see what kind of people huddle around a politician and make our own call as to for whom we’ll vote. I find the Cruz supporters crowd rude and annoying. I’m not about to join in on the party.

    P.S. I didn’t fall for Herman Cain, either. And the Cruz crowd much reminds me of the rude and annoying Herman Cain crowd.

    P.P.S. If you are really concerned about Obamacare, send your money to Romney, and don’t waste it on a third-tier senatorial candidate who won’t win.

  • commonsenseobserver

    To Richard Mourdock. We basically left him alone after retiring Lugar. Now we need to retire Joe Donnelly.

  • citizenkh

    The same thing happened here in Louisiana. ALL of the Tea Party groups are now officially rubber rooms.

    I was a founding member of the Baton Rouge Tea Party and even gave the first donation to support it financially. My person, family and property were physically threatened for my NOT being a 9/11 Troofer.
    All of the sane folks have since bugged out from what was a 4,000 member strong group which can barely muster 200 people.

    In the beginning a few members were able to get in front of cameras while in the background running their respective committees like Idi Amin and no one had a voice while protecting the Troofer. After getting the faces on local cameras, they have now gotten into GOP campaigns and staff positions of elected officials.

    A number of longtime (since the 60′s) conservatives (when it wasn’t cool) friends are solidly behind Dew. I trust there word over any wanna be expert posting or running an website or hosting a talk show.

  • citizenkh

    you really are coming off as unhinged as the rubber room TP groups over here in LA. One of which has supported “conservative” candidates on a for hire basis. OVER an actual Tea Party member and leader.

  • acat

    (nothing further)

  • rickperryreport

    The Tx Trib has the rundown: http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-congressional-election/cruz-and-patrick-angrily-debate-dewhurst-record/.

    The Dewhurst campaign posted the Dan Patrick Show interview audio on UTube. Meltdown begins at around the 3:30 mark:

    I think Dan Patrick was a “Tea Partier” too. Isn’t he? Or is there something I don’t know about in Dan Patrick’s past that now disinherits him from his conservative credentials?

  • citizenkh

    they are all over the place, like Ronulans.

    I was a Cruz supporter until I started paying attention and he has a LOT more than one whackjob supporting him.

  • citizenkh

    Joe.

  • rickperryreport

    citizenkh, thanks for helping me get the truth out there. I think your mention of the Dan Patrick interview and the audio of the interview says it all.

    Dewhurst walks the talk, Cruz just talks.

    A key takeaway is that Patrick was in the senate under Dewhurst’s Lt Guv tenure. Patrick says that Dewhurst supported every one of Patrick’s bills except that TSA thing. And Cruz can’t answer many of the charges he makes against the Republicans and Dewhurst in the state legislature.

  • rickperryreport

    Dewhurst in Oct 2011 expresses his opposition to in-state tuition for illegal aliens. He was “going Rogue on his buddy Rick Perry” when Perry was in the fight of his life trying to resurrect his presidential campaign.

  • ctpsb

    I actually thought Patrick held his own and it was a good, clean hard-nosed debate that actually solidified Cruz’s points. I’m actually OK when a credible conservative has a solid debate with one of my candidates as it makes my candidates positions clearer and helps me advocate better for them.

    The facts don’t change that 1.) Dewhurst appointed many moderates to committees, 2.) Dewhurst did try to pass a version of an income tax, 3.) Dewhurst did not sign a repeal Obamacare pledge until it became an issue the last couple of days. 4.) Dewhurst proposed budgest were always above the House version whether under Straus or Craddick. 5.) Dewhurst is fundraising with John Podesta a known mainly Democratic fundraiser.

    Actually Cruz does answer many of Patrick’s charges. Just because Patrick doesn’t agree with him doesn’t mean Cruz didn’t answer them. Besides Ted doesn’t need to be a Texas legislative parliamenterian to change the above and other facts.

  • ctpsb

    “ADDITIONALLY, we find that everything that Freedom Works, Club for Growth AND Jim DeMint are saying publicly about Dewhurst is either from their ignorance or lies ?bigger than Dallas.?”

    Here we go again — a grand, sweeping statment with no facts or evidence to back it up.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    I provided a link above to your comment that the only ones who support Cruz are kooks and nuts and screw the tea party. That may be respectful in your world, but it’s not in mine.

    And I’m still waiting on an answer to my question about all the good people the tea party has helped to elect. Like Scott Walker, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Rubio, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Mourdock, and many more. Capping those victories off with Cruz will be a real pleasure.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Heh.

  • citizenkh

    I have been hearing from those who have been working behind the scenes supporting and promoting conservative (on all issues) candidates for DECADES. The kind of people who turned Texas GOP and get a completely different story about Dewhurst than national bloggers (who don’t have a clue and likely being fed false info).

    In the beginning I heard lots positive about Cruz and nothing about Dewhurst. When the Ronulan types started their constant tweeting and facebook posts about shiite that just didn’t pass the smell test, I finally asked these same friends in Texas about the race and got FACTS.

    BTW, for all you who are wondering about the “Texas Economic Miracle” take it from someone who deals with manufacturing (not software and internet) daily, the single greatest accomplishment in Texas in the past several decades was Tort Reform. That is no small accomplishment. In 2008/2009, Houston was hit as hard or harder than most major cities. Tort Reform is in large WHY the Texas Economy is thriving.

    I doubt that you will get any trial lawyer who has made money (on either side of court cases) admit the importance of Tort Reform.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    any day of the week and twice on Sunday’s. If the only way Dewhurst can make headway is for his fanboys to smear the most conservative member of Congress, he’s worse than I thought.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    rickperryreport is lapping starznstripz and Debbie Wah Wah for WORST.SURROGATE.EVER

  • rickperryreport

    Good to hear first hand accounts of how tort reform in Texas benefits mfg biz. Most of my clients are in Texas because in Texas companies are buying goods and services, which is great for my business!

    I’m no surrogate for Dewhurst. My extent of knowing him personally was talking to him briefly at a hotel bar in Iowa. And we were in a crowd. I gave up working for political candidates when Perry dropped out. There’s no money in it (-;

    My investigation of the Cruz vs Dewhurst race began when I heard the comment made about Dan Moran. The closer I looked, the less I liked about the crowd surrounding Cruz.

    On the other hand, whatever specious particular complaint anyone has brought against Dewhurst and the Republicans in the Texas Legislature (Strauss, et al), hasn’t resonated with me because, like you pointed out, they all have done such a great job getting major programs through that have benefited the entire Texas economy. Like tort reform.

    For that, I think Dewhurst has earned a chance to defeat whatever democrat comes up against him for the us senate in november.

    One more thing: Dewhurst is an Air Force veteran. Veterans have to stick together, especially USAF vets (-;

  • rickperryreport

    Yes, I wrote that over at the Dallas Morning News.I just found out about the Moran thing and was a pretty hacked off. But I stand by it. It’s mostly true.

    I don’t think Cruz is a bad person, and I have not disparaged him in any way. In fact, I’m quite complimentary to anyone who shares my values.

    On RedState, I have respectfully pointed out what drew my ire (the people surrounding Cruz are not who I’d like to hand out with), and that Dewhurst walks the talk.

    Cruz doesn’t have the gravitas to be a senator yet. He’d be a great US congressman or state senator. Dewhurst has a record of governance that’s pretty good.

    I’m supporting Dewhurst for those reasons.

    Hate me. find out who I am and come over and start a fight in person. I don’t care.

    I bet a lot of lurkers here see that I am fairly reasonable and respectful in expressing this. For exhibit 1 of the kinds of people who are Cruz supporters, read some of the attacks against me. Not nice people, and anonymous cowards too.

    I like Demint too. But Demint is wrong on this one.

  • runner12

    Gravitas? We have a whole Congress full of some members with “gravitas” and they are the worst legislators in the country.

    Do you have any idea how elitist and shallow that sounds? That your primary critique of Cruz is that he does not have enough “gravitas”? I was not aware that elections are based on a mere personality contest when it came to Conservatives. For me, I look at substance, character, past record, and issues.

    You are making me more determined to give money to Cruz than ever.

  • acat

    And he calls the Cruz supporters deranged….

    Mew

  • runner12

    we may want to consider changing the definition of gravitas…

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    Are you for real?

    Let’s recap. You stand by your statement that only kooks and nuts support Cruz (your words, not mine). So Erick, me and the others who support Cruz, including the good people at FreedomWorks, CFG and all the others who have endorsed Cruz are “kooks and nuts.”

    Then there’s “screw the tea party.” Again, your words, and you have yet to respond to the fact that we have elected many wonderful conservatives which I named. And your attempts to lump the tea parties in with fringe groups is a mainstream media talking point that would be welcomed over at the ‘Kos. Feel free to come to any of our meetings or events anytime. We’re at RainyDayPatriots, or I can give you the names of at least a dozen more tea parties who are working hard to elect conservatives and GOTV.

    As you can see, I post under my real name, and I didn’t pick this “fight.” You did by your classless comments about the tea party and Cruz supporters, and now you want to whine about the responses. If you can’t take the heat, …

    Maybe you should google Dewhurst in the little box at the top right of the site and catch up on what many hear think of him. Oh, and I’m making another donation to Cruz. In your honor. Keep it up. You’re raising money for him.

  • runner12

    the volunteer from Cruz’ campaign is disengenuous, at best. bk cited an article downthread, which I read that details the incident you are referring to. While the woman made a horrible mistake in her choice of words, she did not do so to be cruel or heartless.

    It seemed that as a person who came from a military family, she felt that and ad in which Moran was in was exploiting the military angle to support Dewhurst. She evidently tweeted something out of emotion that was insensitive and rude. I have not seem the ad, so I do not know if there was any basis for her feeling at all. She may have read more into it than what was there, I don’t know.

    But the point is that the Cruz campaign re-iterated their respect for Moran, according to the article, and that basically what a volunteer tweets does not speak for his campaign ( which is true ).

    I might also add that the article I read seemed more favorable towards Dewhurst than Cruz, so this was a fairly unbiased reporting of the incident.

  • acat

    Sometimes, ya just gotta have some fun with this stuff.

    Mew

  • http://wingright.org bnuckols

    David Dewhurst has been making law and policy to fight ObamaTax since the law was being written. He had his own “pledge” – a petition – that garnered over a million signatures in 2010. Erick, It’s low to allow unopposed inaccuracies like this on your pages; worse to write it yourself.

    Did you hear Cruz accuse Patrick of taking questions from the Dewhurst campaign? How about the claim that the Legislators collude to pass the bill in one chamber in Session, and then in the other the next, but cheat to keep them from passing finally?

    How about arguing with Patrick over whether the Senator had endorsed Dewhurst (you would think a person would know these things). Then he claimed to have “observed” Patrick acting as “surrogate” for Dewhurst.

    Cruz treated me similarly – although he was quieter and could walk away from me – last November at the TFRW ?convention in Fort Worth when I was still a supporter asking him to cut back on the negative campaigning. He reacted with anger again at our County forum in February and then in New Braunfels, the weekend before the Primary. The last was not a quiet word in private so he couldn’t walk away. Oddly, he kept coming at me for twenty minutes although others had questions.

    I won’t put links to the articles on my blog unless asked to, but here’s a news report about his reaction to questioning by another woman in Fort Worth at the RPT convention. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/news_columnists/article/Social-issues-could-be-wedge-in-Senate-race-3632679.php

    This is not a “fighter.” he doesn’t know any way to answer even mild opposition other than by proving the other person absolutely wrong. He dramatically describes imagined conspiracies such as the ones above, and the notion he told about “Austin Republicans” getting together to make sure that “no one with a ‘z’ in his name is elected to State-wide office.”

  • gekster

    You friends with rickperryreport.
    Or are you him with a second account.

  • rickperryreport

    Bev–

    I always have enjoyed your blog. I’d like to expand on your MySanAntonio article link. It has to do with the veracity of Cruz’s claim to the conservative mantle, specifically on social issues (albeit social issues are not supposed to be a concern of a rudderless tea party movement, if it is by design “rudderless.” Big tent and all.):

    Yet Heinzman was berating Cruz precisely because she wasn’t buying his claim to conservatism, particularly on social issues. And to prove her point, she needled Cruz to return contributions from one person in particular: Peter Thiel.

    A billionaire hedge-fund manager in Silicon Valley, Thiel is also a gay libertarian who supports same-sex marriage.

    ?I understand that y’all are passionate for Dewhurst, and I appreciate your passion,? Cruz told her.

    ?I’m passionate for marriage,? Heinzman said.

    ?And when has Dewhurst ever stuck his neck out and supported … ?

    ?Absolutely,? she interrupted. ?He has a proven record. He voted (for) that family amendment.?

    ?I don’t disagree that he didn’t kill it,? Cruz said, apparently in reference to the Legislature’s passage in 2005 of an amendment banning same-sex marriage. ?Let me encourage you to read something.?

    ?I will encourage you to send back a quarter of a million dollars,? Heinzman said.

    Thiel contributed about $251,000 to Cruz’s 2009 bid for attorney general. (A former state solicitor general, Cruz dropped out when Greg Abbott decided to run for re-election.)

    Thiel tossed more money into Cruz’s corner last year for the Senate race, $7,400 so far.

    Locking horns with Heinzman, Cruz seemed to assert the cash would not sway his opposition to same-sex marriage. [RPR's note: Yeah, right!]

    Source: MySanAntion.com (Express-News)

    Follow the money folks!

  • rickperryreport

    I’ll post a link to your blog about encountering Ted Cruz. It’s pretty humorous, especially the part about the hushed microphone.

    bnuckel’s blog

  • http://wingright.org bnuckols

    Members of FreeRepublic.com and met in Iowa when campaigning for Rick Perry – along with Lt Gov Dewhurst.
    However, I’m a big girl, read RedState on my own, have my own log in and everything.
    Gekster, do you, too, imagine conspiracies every time someone disagrees with you?
    Or is it projection as with Cruz’ accusation that Dewhurst and Patrick do what he actually did? Remember the text to Craig James before that debate, suggesting a question for James to ask Dewhurst?

  • audax

    Also, there is a place on the application where you can have all ballots sent to a particular address with an until date. I have had 31 Dec 2012 there for several years now. Think with overseas ballot there is also some new law they have to have the ballots out by so many days before the election. This was to help the service people in our military get to have their vote count by returning ballot in time.

  • runner12

    favors by posting something so ridiculous. First of all, it appears that the woman in question is combative and does not allow Cruz a word in edgewise.

    Secondly, do you think for one minute that Jim DeMint would endorse someone who did not support Traditional Marriage? Not a chance. DeMint is probably the most solid social conservative in DC today.

    Thirdly, just because someone who is gay donates to Cruz’ campaign does not mean that Cruz does not support Traditional Marriage. I say that as someone who is a staunch social and fiscal conservative.

    I never knew TX politics could get so ugly.

  • rickperryreport

    She’s on the I-35 corridor in Texas and I’m in West Texas. I suppose you can google either one of us and find out more than you want to know. Who are you? Are you an unpaid, khaki-clad snotty-nosed trust baby playing politics as a volunteer social media marketer for the Cruz campaign?

  • rickperryreport

    … which one usually wins?

    ’nuff said.

  • acat

    (original list here)

    If you have no diaries and >90% of your comments are about your candidate, You know you?re a candi-bot. … check!

    If you spread the truth by spreading lies about the other guy, you might be a candi-bot. … check!

    If I already know what you?re going to post?just by seeing your username, you might be a candi-bot. … check!

    If the math you use to make the case for your candidate resembles something from the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, you?re probably a candi-bot. .. check!

    Mew

  • civil truth

    along with “innuendo” “guilt by association” “ad hominem” “smear”: you?re probably a candi-bot. .. check!

  • rickperryreport

    find any association between me and the Dewhurst campaign, as having worked in any capacity at all, paid or unpaid, in coordination, or proof that I have been in contact with any Dewhurst staffer, paid or unpaid, or if I have donated any money to the Dewhurst campaign, and I’ll send you via Paypal $1000 for you to donate to Cruz. If you can’t find any, you can Paypal me $1000 and I’ll donate it to Dewhurst. I’ll give you a day. Sound like a fair challenge? Put your money where your mouth is, cat.

  • acat

    Cheesy Chicken and Mushroom Risotto

    6 tbsp. butter
    1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts
    3 cups chicken broth
    – if using canned broth, look for low sodium!
    – if cooking gluten-free, *read the ingredients*!
    1 tsp. fresh basil
    1 1/3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
    2 green onions
    1 clove garlic
    1 1/2 cups uncooked rice
    1/4 lb. mushrooms, sliced

    Slice chicken into bite sized chunks.

    Mince garlic, onions, and basil.

    In a medium sized pot, melt 2 tablespoons butter. (some use a skillet, that works, a wok will work nicely also)

    Add chicken and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until pieces are browned, about 5 minutes.

    Remove chicken from skillet – do not remove grease/oil, that’s where the flavor is!

    Lower the heat to low-medium and add remaining butter, garlic, and rice to skillet and cook, stirring constantly until rice is lightly browned, about 7-10 minutes.

    Add mushrooms and green onion and turn heat back up to medium.

    Continue stirring until mushrooms are tender, about 5 minutes.

    Stir in chicken broth and basil.

    Bring to a boil, cover and simmer 15 minutes. (if your wok doesn’t have a lid .. well, maybe you should have used that medium sized pot)

    Carefully stir in chicken, don’t splash any liquid out!

    Continue simmering until chicken is heated through and rice is tender, about 5 minutes.

    Top with cheese to taste, and serve immediately.

    Serves 6.

  • acat

    If you’re truly independent, then you’re making Dewhurst look bad. Keep up the good work!

    If you’re *not* truly independent, then I hope you mentioned that when you registered for your account.

    Have a nice day.

    Mew

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    I have one if in arguing for your candidate on RedState you call Jim DeMint an uninformed, clueless dunderhead and the tea party a bunch of whack jobs, you need to go back to candi-bot 101 because even the Paultards are laughing at you…seriously are we sure rickperryreport isn’t really a clever Ted Cruz campaign plant?

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Mrs. Tnfriend hates mushrooms and onions but the rest of the recipe sounds right up her alley. I could do this one as a surprise…

  • rickperryreport

    Are you going to put your money where your mouth is, or retract? Is this a retraction?

    I ran the rickperryreport.com website last year and that’s where the handle comes from. I don’t know how to hack wordpress, so I can’t change it. Don’t want to change it. I still like rick perry too.

    Envy

    Ingredients

    • 1 1/2 oz silver tequila
    • 1/2 oz blue cura?ao
    • pineapple juice
    • maraschino cherry for garnish

    Preparation:

  • Pour the tequila into the glass of your choice.
  • Fill the glass with ice cubes.
  • Add the pineapple juice.
  • Stir well.
  • Top with blue cura?ao and stir lightly again.
  • Garnish with a cherry.
  • mikeymike143

    i will go with BOTH candi-bot and complete loser.

  • acat

    Dewhurst, now he’s another story.

    And you’re still a candi-bot.

    Mew

  • acat

    Add a bit more garlic and, if Mrs. Tnfriend’ is open to it, maybe some leeks. (much, much more mild flavor than onions)

    If leeks aren’t on the menu, then you’ll need to play with the spices… maybe adding a couple strips of finely diced bacon…

    Hmmm. Have to try that one of these days….

    Mew

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    I was running on the end of the month budget, but hey, my paycheck just hit direct deposit. Let’s make this one a little bigger, shall we? And it’s a twofer, in honor of both of you. Be back in just a minute.

  • gekster

    Well, no.
    Hard to do that from Michigan, but I have been in touch and have lent support to some Tea Parties in Texas for Cruz.

    But one thing I’m not is a maroon’

    If Dewhurst is so great, why do you and your friend spend more words tearing down Cruz as opposed to building up Dewhurst.
    I know the answer, there ain’t much to Dewhurst to build up.

    Look up the deffinition of tribble, you’ll be suprised.

  • PowerToThePeople

    the dumbest statement made on an adult or serious site. If you…bet a $1000……get a life loser!

    By the way, are you trying to impress with your moronic $1000 bet? If so, many of us on here have bigger car payments. I would suggest in the future young one, that you make the bet a real mans bet and not suggest a site such as paypal to be the go between.

    And I agree you do not work for Dewehurst, at least you do not now. If anyone were to hire a dumbass such as yourself to be their voice piece, they would be absolute morons. So either you are just an idiot or a fired mouthpiece. Either way, you are making Cruz a very happy man.

    Now run along, mommy has dinner ready. Put away your change jar, no one has any interest in your chump change.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    From Cruz2012:

    Here are the numbers. Overall, Cruz has 22,190 donors for his campaign, compared to only 3,023 for David Dewhurst. Indeed, Ted has more donors from the Greater Houston area (3,149) than David Dewhurst has in the entire State of Texas (3,023).

    And Cruz?s support is much broader: He has donors from 865 Texas cities, compared to only 235 for Dewhurst. Cruz also has the support of over 200 Texas Federation of Republican Women leaders, almost every single Tea Party leader in Texas, and has won more than 25 straw polls statewide by wide margins.

    While the big money lobbyists may go to Dewhurst, ordinary voters from all over Texas are embracing the Cruz campaign. The average donation to Ted Cruz is $168. The average donation to Dewhurst is $1,654. Ted has 26,688 donations under $100. David Dewhurst has 11.

    What the numbers show is a deep enthusiasm gap: David Dewhurst can claim a large war chest (especially when augmented by over $10 million from his own personal fortune), but those big-dollar donors represent only one voter apiece when it comes down to it on Election Day. Ted?s donors represent a grassroots army that is growing every day as more Texans learn about Ted?s proven record of fighting for conservative principles and winning on a national level.

    See site for more numbers.

    Which candidate is the candidate supported by grassroots voters in Texas?

    I’ll answer that. Ted Cruz 2012!

  • gekster

    Why more time spent bashing Cruz,
    as oppossed to building up Dewhurst.
    And like I also said below,
    there is nothing to Dewhurst to build up.

    And since this is the internet,
    I can claim to belong to a bunch of groups also,
    But I won’t.
    I can stand on my own.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Surely, given the good work, he has done for the Cruz campaign, Cruz is paying him. Otherwise, he is a worse candi-bot than the looniest of the Paultards.

  • rickperryreport

    First if you will not make the bet because you can the recipe cat want to blow hot air around. In Texas they call it all hat, no cattle.

    Second, if you’re paying $1000/mo. on a car note, may I suggest a few courses over here.

  • gekster

    And if you are a Rick Perry supporter, I wonder why I ever supported him myself, as I don’t support those who have kooks who follow a candidate, albeit a former candidate.

    Now where have I heard that before. ;)

  • rickperryreport

    If you’re from michigan, why do you care about who Texas elects for senate? Doesn’t michigan have some races you can get involved in? god knows there certainly aren’t enough republicans coming out of your state. instead of playing footsy with our senate race, why don’t you put that effort into fixing your own problems way up there?

  • windwaker24

    She is a avid Cruz supporter and makes no qualms about it.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    I was fortunate enough to meet and hear Ted Cruz speak at RSG03 last year.

    Here’s a link to the wonderful speech he gave.

    CruzAtRSG03

  • gekster

    Where ever men and women gather to support the cause of conservatism and freedom, no matter what state, it is my business.

    Where tribbles can only suport thier own candidate by slamming the opposition, it is my business.

    Where candibots distort the truth about thier own cnadidate for a positive spin,
    and distort the truth about the opposition for a negative spin,
    it is my business.

    Where tribbles run amuck on conservative websites,
    it is my business.

    Any more suggestions, maroon.
    And I am quite active in my regeon of the country as well.

    Maroon.

  • gekster

    I’m sure Henry Fonda would be proud.

  • vangoghssister

    I’d like to suggest substituting 1/2 to one cup of white wine for part of the chicken broth. Add it first, then chicken broth after.

    I love risotto, it’s not as difficult to make as it’s been made out to be, just a little time consuming.

    Yum! Must try your recipe soon!

  • acat

    I’ll have to try it that way.

    Mew

  • PowerToThePeople

    to the lying young one.

    What is this supposed to mean, I do not grasp your attempted use of the English Language:

    “because you can the recipe cat”

    Next, if you are going to attempt to be clever, at least make your links work. Nice try though! But to save you time, I have no need of any links, my finances are quite fine and I spend well within my budget. But I like nice cars and I drive them, hence, I must pay for them.

    As I stated above, run along young one. There are many reasons not to take your bet, worry is not one of them. Your existence is irrelevant to me, hence I could care less what you do, how much you lie, or anything else about you. And we have compassion here, we have no interest in taking the next 15 years worth of your allowances, so your chump change is safe.

    Did the babysitter make you a good bowl of oatmeal this morning? We want you to be happy, makes your silliness a bit less pathetic.

  • acat

    No wonder Dewhurst can’t afford good astroturf!

    Mew

  • runner12

    All you did was make a poor attempt at wit.

    I am beginning to think you must not care for Dewhurst at all, given that you are doing him more damage in the brief time you have posted than anyone could do in a year.

  • cbartlett

    And I also happen to be an Aggie. Not all of us Aggies are morons like rickperrysupporter. We do not need any more squishes like Dewhurst in the Senate! The grassroots support for Cruz is amazing. The big bucks opposition machine is going to make this an uphill battle but there are lots of warriors out here!

  • poorwilber

    That little anedote is suppose to sway opinion?

    In a red State like Texas, we don’t need another John McCain or Lindsay Graham representing Texas in the Senate.

    In reality, Dewhurst is an establishment Republican, part of the ruling class that needs to be purged from leadership. Leadership is not moving to the left and compromising core conservative principles. Instead, the left successfully moves politicians like Dewhurst closer to their position.

    Secondly, just because a politician has done some conservative things, doesn’t make them a bonefide conservative. If that were true, Obama could claim to be a conservative because he extended the Bush tax cuts. Oh wait, I think he did claim that, sorta.