Trump: You Will Know that He has Gone Too Far When Ted Cruz Criticizes Him Directly

National Review ^ | 08/09/2015 | Rich Lowrey

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Look for endless attempts by the “fair” media to get Cruz to rebuke Trump.

They’ll try to put the squeeze on Cruz with a “Trump: you’re either for him or against him” meme.

You know it, I know it, and Ted Cruz knows it. Be interesting to see how he finesses it.

Something along the lines of “I am campaigning for the Republican nomination, and when the nominee is finally decided I will work for the election of that nominee. Until the nomination is decided I will not be shy about pointing out what I hope are the merits of my own candidacy. But I will do so not on your terms and not on Mr. Trump’s terms, but on my own terms.

Probably preceded by, “Hillary Clinton delenda est” - Hillary must be defeated.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Rich Lowery like the rest of the GOPe crowd just does not get it. They don’t get it and they never will.

[editor-surveyor]

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Just not intentionally.
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[cripplecreek]

You think Lowry and Megan jelly and Chris Wallace wouldn’t be doing this to Cruz the second trump isn’t there?

Right off the top, Cruz didn't get into an idiotic fight with the media. Plus Cruz mentally outguns the entire GOP field and media combined. They couldn't do this to Cruz because he is smart enough to avoid it and hasn't been a loudmouth celebutard for the last 30 years.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “Probably preceded by, “Hillary Clinton delenda est” - Hillary must be defeated.” <<
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Not likely from the Donald!
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[BillM]

He’s the debate champ. I trust his judgment. They won’t go there again.

[jpsb]

Trump has a lot of support from the left too. That support will not go to Cruz. Cruz simply can not win. The Uniparty will treat Cruz just as badly as they are treat Trunp. But Cruz does not have the resources, connections, experience or savvy that Trump has. Only after Trump destroys the Uniparty will only be safe for Cruz to run.

From another thread

"This is war and it's the war lots of conservatives have wanted but until now we have not had a real leader with the resources to fight (the uniparty). Trump may have a lot of warts, he not a "true conservative" and is not the best of speakers but he got all the right enemies and he fights. We have Cruz, Walker, Carly or whoever supporters hoping Trump gets taken down thinking their guy will inherent Trump's supporters. What they do not realize is only Trump can take on the uniparty with any chance of winning. He is the only one, if he goes down we will lose the country and there will never again be a conservative elected president. Yes Cruz is a great conservative, so what, he doesn't stand a chance against the Bush/Clinton/Wall St/K St/MSM gang. They can spend/bribe/donate billions to take down Cruz. Only Trump might be able to take them on. Trump is a long shot but he is our only lawful shot."

[jospehm20]

What does it say about those critics that Trump usually bests them using 7th grader tactics?

[Dr. Sivana]

The reality is that he never intended to garner the GOP nomination; he is happy to see Jeb grab that. His goal is to sliver off just enough invidious GOP voters to allow the dem candidate to pull a plurality in the general, so that they can do an Algore in the electoral college.

Doesn't work. That behaviour is for the Sidney Blumenthal's of the world. Trump is a manipulator, but he wouldn't be a tool. He hires tools. Since this run is not directly making him money, he is doing it out of ego. That doesn't mean he wishes the USA ill, or doesn't want to win, simply that he is driven by ego. Sometimes such men do useful things (Alexander the Great), sometimes not so much (too numerous to list).

The silliness of trying to macaca Trump out of the race is shows the stupidity of his enemies. A lot of good people are losing oxygen over this, but so is John Ellis Bush.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

It says that you and I have very different definitions of the term “bests.”

[Will88]

Trump had polling from the Clintons before he even stepped in.

Polling from the Clintons? What are you talking about? Provide some links and support for all these bizarre assertions.

[stanne]

Oh come on

They’ll go after Cruz as soon as trump is out

On gross spats with fox babes? No. Something else. Phooey

[Fester Chugabrew]

My “wide” admiration is reserved for Rosie.

[CA Conservative]

Widely admired Megyn Kelly? By whom? Readers of GQ?

You may not like her, but ratings don't lie. She has the highest rated show on any cable news network - actually beating both Hannity and O'Reilly. So SOMEONE likes her enough to keep watching her.

[TADSLOS]

Rule #1 is don’t get near your bangalore torpedo while it’s doing lane clearing for you.

[CodeToad]

“They won’t go there again.”

So, that was your first debate or do you simply not learn any lessons? They do this EEVRY debate and it has only gotten worse debate after debate. For year, decades actually, it has been said the candidates should avoid these liberal attack shows.

[stanne]

They will go after Cruz tooth and nail

And they will NOT go after the dems

Same can be said for Jeb or any other GOPe nominee

They will not go after dems

[9YearLurker]

Kurtz does fantastic work!

[jospehm20]

The link is to one of the articles I read about it at the time. I understood Cruz to say the he opposed TPA because of immigration concerns and the side deal for the EXIM bank, which McConnell did lie about. Maybe I read it wrong but I believe that is what this article says.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420181/cruz-now-no-tpa-andrew-c-mccarthy

[CA Conservative]

I think Cruz believes in the old Reagan credo of not saying anything bad about fellow Republicans.

Actually, Cruz seems fine with attacking the do-nothing Republicans in Congress. I just think he doesn't see any advantage in starting a war with any of the other presidential candidates at this point in time - he'd rather talk about issues instead of personalities.