Ted Cruz

Next week if I married a wealthy and 85-year-old widow you potentially could have a cynical reaction.  I’m not yet 54 and there would be suspicions I was out for money.  Donald Trump’s current wife is a much younger woman.  He’s old enough to be her father and then some...

Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz own the Mountain West.  Sanders shelled Hillary Clinton in Idaho and Utah.  Cruz has now won both states as well as Wyoming.  What gives in these places?  Following last night’s political brawls we delved into some theories...

A Rubio voter today accused me of sinking “Little Marco”. As if a guy on a small radio station in Idaho caused the candidate’s drowning in his home state of Florida! Rubio was a terrible campaigner. I’m not a fan of the Politico but it nailed the flaws in Rubio’s effort...

A debate about eligibility is raging beneath the controversies surrounding Donald Trump. Despite court rulings even many ardent admirers of Senator Ted Cruz believe he shouldn’t be President. The Texas Senator was born in Canada. Not that any of this is going to have an impact...

A guy I used to work with asked me a couple of weeks ago what I had against Donald Trump.  “C’mon, Bill, get with the program,” he urged.  My problem isn’t Trump.  It’s so many of his loyalists who can find no blemishes with their candidate...

Tuesday is going to be a historic day in American politics. If Donald Trump is stopped in his quest for the Republican nomination it’ll partly happen in Idaho. Tuesday morning I’ll be joined on Top Story by the Steves. Steve Millington is our regular Tuesday guest...

The Idaho primaries for the GOP and Constitution Party are one week away. It could all be over among Republicans after today, which is Super Tuesday. Sometimes jokingly called the SEC Primary because of the heavy dominance of southern states with football powerhouses...

Pollsters say Republican anger has reached a new zenith after the Nevada GOP Caucus.  Donald Trump scored his biggest victory yet and the number of voters claiming they're angry eclipsed previous caucus and primary states.  My show today had a theme about the anger and the cause...

BOISE, Id. (KMVT/KSVT) Republican presidential candidates are coming to Idaho. The Idaho Republican Party says Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have confirmed they will come to the Gem State in the near future.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is planning at least eight campaign events in Nevada leading up the state's caucuses.

There’s too much hyperventilating going on at National Review. Donald Trump may bring about the end of the Republican Party but for years I’ve been told Republican and conservative are two distinct words. Lincoln wasn’t a conservative in the same vein as Goldwater...

I was doing some pre-game reading today and it strikes me all the ink spilled daily on Donald Trump could fill a library. We’re at a point now where nothing any longer can be said that’s original to explain the rise of the real estate baron in American politics...

From the breathless whining files of “How dare the man!” Lefty is having a conniption fit after seeing the latest Ted Cruz commercial. I think it’s quite clever. It features well-dressed professionals with brief cases and some in high-heels crossing a river and then racing through a desert...

Some fellow wrote a lengthy academic piece a few years ago making a claim we vote for the candidate who comes across as nicest.  The media image of Ted Cruz is anything but nice.  He’s portrayed as shrill and mean-spirited.  As an admirer of Cruz and his great intellect I’d place him among my personal finalists in the Republican Party...

The fellas over at the mainstream media continue to peddle a myth that all Americans are victims.  Up early this morning I clicked on the Drudge Report and found a link from the Marxist New York Times, the bible of academic and American elitist liberalism...

There’s a wheezing old coot serving in one of Utah’s two U.S. Senate seats.  Onan Hatch, excuse me, Orrin Hatch long ago outlived his usefulness as a legislator.  I remember Onan had a towering reputation in the broadcast TV industry twenty years ago...

There may be a conspiracy in the U.S. Senate.  Republicans Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are both taking on their fellow Republican and Majority Leader.  Cruz Friday called Mitch McConnell a “liar”.  Scalawag can’t be far away.  Later in the day Paul announced he would use Senate rules to bypass McConnell in an effort to defund Planned Parenthood...

Out for a drive this week I tuned in to a public radio show hosted by Terry Gross.  The program is called Fresh Air and generally features a fawning Gross asking highly personal questions of guests.  Monday’s victim was a comedian who interviewed President Obama in the comedian’s garage for a podcast...

Is Rick Perry a secret globalist?  During the last presidential primary season I was hosting a radio show when a young libertarian telephoned and denounced Perry as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  At the time I was defending the then Governor of Texas for his forgetfulness during a debate...

I was reading newspaper headlines about prospective candidates for President and what’s clear is Lefty is already working hard at sowing doubts about Republicans.  Eighteen months from Election Day and as well socialists challenging Her Royal Highness Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRH HRC)...