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Cruz wins key Iowa endorsement (Bob Vander Plaats)
The Hill ^ | December 10, 2015 | Ben Kamisar

Posted on 12/10/2015 9:28:44 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: editor-surveyor

Aww, thanks.

When you folks give me compliments like that, it makes me happy.


41 posted on 12/10/2015 1:21:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Alamo-Girl; marron; xzins; TXnMA; YHAOS; trisham; metmom; Jacquerie; Publius; ...
The evangelical leader has endorsed each of the last two Iowa caucus winners, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.) and former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn.). Both are running in the 2016 election, but were passed over by Vander Plaats in favor of Cruz.

Good grief!!! The great Christian sage Vander Plaats has declared for Cruz in Iowa? Hooptie-doo! He has a track record of predicting losers -- the ones the Iowa caucus affirmed because of Vander Plaats' influence -- but who subsequently did not succeed in securing the GOP presidential nomination. If I were Cruz, I'd be worried about this endorsement....

Don't get me wrong. I really, really LIKE and ADMIRE Cruz. But not as much as I like and admire The Donald, right about now.

My GOP "dream ticket" would be Trump/Cruz. In that order. I regard this ticket as the best guarantor of our Constitutional liberties for the next sixteen years.

And I would be glad to defend that statement against "all comers" of a different point of view -- be they Democrats or Republicans.

Thank you so very much for your post, Cincinatus' Wife! Call it funny if you will, but it seems to me that, in so many ways, Donald Trump is our present-day Cincinatus....

42 posted on 12/10/2015 1:26:59 PM PST by betty boop (The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.)
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To: betty boop

Bumpity bump!


43 posted on 12/10/2015 1:28:26 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: betty boop

Thank you, betty boop. My heart was beginning to beat irregularly for a few minutes after reading the headline of this article.

While I began as a Cruz supporter, I am now a supporter of a Trump/Cruz ticket.


44 posted on 12/10/2015 1:31:29 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

To quote the Trumpites: This is YUGE! Ted Cruz WILL win Iowa.


45 posted on 12/10/2015 1:34:06 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: MinuteGal
You can't count. Huckabee and Santorum WON in Iowa, so he is 2 out of 2, to become 3 out of 3 in a couple of months.
46 posted on 12/10/2015 1:37:44 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
You're correct, of course. I was thinking that neither Huck or Santorum won anything in the long run and my words didn't come out correctly. Rest assured I can count perfectly, but sometimes my writing is not as perfect, lol.

Leni

47 posted on 12/10/2015 2:30:25 PM PST by MinuteGal ("I will stand with the Muslims if the political winds shift in an ugly direction" - Barack ObaMao)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Woo Hoo! Go Ted!


48 posted on 12/10/2015 2:43:39 PM PST by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: "Prepare for some serious 2016 house cleaning.")
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To: escapefromboston

Trump, asked about the investment firm Goldman Sachs, said he does view them as a force for good in the economy.

“They’re a fantastic firm, and they make money, but they put people to work, they raise tremendous amouts of capital...”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/trump-dem-debate-im-saying-myself-ka-ching-ka-ching-ka-ching

Trump in 2008 on the bank bailouts:
TRUMP: It could very well be.

The fact is, nobody knows what is going to happen. The day it is passed, maybe things go to hell anyway. Nobody really knows what is going to happen. But, psychologically, people want it to happen. And, if you have the right people running it — and that is the big question, but, if you have the right people running it, you can make a lot of money. You can take over companies, and, frankly, take big chunks of companies. If you loan this money the way Goldman Sachs perhaps used to loan money, or whatever, you would have — I think you could make some phenomenal deals.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/09/26/donald-trump-on-700-billion-bailout-plan.html


49 posted on 12/10/2015 3:51:34 PM PST by brothers4thID ("We've had way too many Republicans whose #1 virtue is "I get along great with Democrats".")
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To: editor-surveyor

Who here has been contacted?


50 posted on 12/10/2015 4:09:18 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: HarleyLady27

“Can’t you see what they are doing to Cruz? The GOPE and RINO base are using him, he’s not going to win the election...”

If Cruz wins Iowa, it will be because he’s EARNED it, with strong grass-roots organizing and REAL, GENUINE support. The media have largely ignored Cruz up until now and they are just as scared of him winning as they are of Trump.

I would also add that Cruz has a far better organization than Huckabee or Santorum ever did, and he has the ability to parlay an Iowa victory into significant delegate gains in subsequent states.

If the media and GOPe are really going to “use” him to try to take out Trump, they are playing with fire, because Cruz has true staying power and they will likely end up getting burned.


51 posted on 12/10/2015 4:30:11 PM PST by lquist1
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To: lquist1

Just remember, when you start to rise in the polls, people come after you...Cruz is not the GOPE and RINO base fair haired boy, Bush is....Cruz is being used by them, the same as all the other candidates...

Plus don’t forget they want a war between Trump and Cruz, and will do anything to get one...

I don’t really care if Cruz wins Iowa or not, but I hope you realize that he isn’t liked by only his voters the same as Trump....the ‘back room boys’ want Bush to run against Hillary to give her the White House, don’t forget that...


52 posted on 12/10/2015 4:36:07 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (TRUMP SUPPORTER 100% from day ONE!!!)
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To: Lumper20

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We have no way of knowing that.


53 posted on 12/10/2015 4:41:31 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: traderrob6

Yes, they must.

Many here are so low that they are stooping to criticizing Cruz because they don’t like his WIFE’S employer. Much better I suppose that his wife be a Eurotrash Bimbo like Trump’s.

Hank


54 posted on 12/10/2015 8:42:30 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball (Eat Hooterville Rutabagas!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Ask? I never have.


55 posted on 12/11/2015 8:23:44 AM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: Lumper20

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In have no idea what you;re talking about.

Do you?


56 posted on 12/11/2015 11:40:00 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Another clown. Read your post.


57 posted on 12/12/2015 8:38:14 AM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: editor-surveyor

Ask all on this site if any college has polled us. You claimed they are the most accurate of the polls.


58 posted on 12/12/2015 8:44:20 AM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: HarleyLady27

Just remember, when you start to rise in the polls, people come after you...

*************

I think we saw just a tad of that last night in the Iowa Trump rally.


59 posted on 12/12/2015 8:48:32 AM PST by deport
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To: Lumper20

It is not likely that anyone ever knows who is polling them, unless it isn’t really a poll at all, but an advertising scheme.


60 posted on 12/12/2015 10:29:26 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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