[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

Cruz hasnt always voted conservative. He voted for the tpp and several other sellouts. I'm on my phone right now, or else I would post up some links. He is far and away better than what we have, but one thing I put above all else is to live by your own words, and HIS own words disqualify him from running. Carson is highly intelligent, but I believe his intelligence is why he has problems speeking and conveying his thoughts. Still not sold on Fiorina, and Rubio is a double talking politician(aka obama with an R in front of his title). I like Paul, but not sure if he's ready, that and he doesnt stand a chance as he isn't an establishment canidate.

Hmmm... Well, Glen Beck earlier this week volunteered to host the final debate on his network. So far, Carly Fiorina, Donald J. Trump, Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have agreed to be part of it. To me, just the fact that those people have agreed to it makes me look closer at and with favor on them. Anyone that doesn't want to be part of it, to me, is hiding something or is afraid of the substantive questions that will be raised during it.
Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/11/05/...ntentcopy_link

Oh, I did a quick check, because I always thought that Cruz had voted against the TPP Bill. And sure enough, I found that he had voted Nay on it.
http://www.againstcronycapitalism.or...e-senate-list/ But then, doing further research, I found another site that says he did vote for it. So truthfully, at this time, I really don't know if he did or didn't.

But here's what I do know: Everyone, at some time or another, changes their mind about something, even things that they might have been violently opposed to in the past. Circumstances change, new information surfaces, morals change, etc etc etc. The reasons are not important really. What is important is that circumstance DO change, and to hold someone accountable to something they may have said several years ago is, to me, unrealistic. I swore that my daughter would not be allowed to get married before she was 25. Then she met Mike, they fell in love, he asked me for her hand in marriage and I "allowed" it, even though she was only 20 at the time. Well, they got married 6 months later, are still happily married, and in the fullness of time had 2 wonderful children that are now in college. I swore that I would not allow it. I changed my mind. Does that make me a bad person for going back on my word? I don't think it does. My point, as is rather obvious, is that people change their minds all the time. If Cruz said he was against something, and then years later changes his mind, who can say that it's for the good or the bad?.. We don't know WHY he did. I listen to the guy and I like him. His record in the Senate is (to me) a good constantly conservative one. He's disliked by members of his own party because of it, so that earns even more points in my ledger. The three I like the best are Cruz, Trump and Fiorina. All of them *may* be flawed in some places, but to my way of thinking they are all, hands down, better than the POS that is now sitting in the POTUS chair.