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Team Cruz defends scheme to stop Trump at brokered convention: “It’s not cheating”
http://www.mofopolitics.com ^ | Dec. 12, 2015

Posted on 12/12/2015 1:47:07 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal

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To: C. Edmund Wright

Going to look it up; thank you.


41 posted on 12/12/2015 2:12:24 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: Eddie01

Exactly. If we are too stupid to not see it as a set-up, I guess we will get what we deserve.


42 posted on 12/12/2015 2:12:28 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: FourPeas

Question to Trump: Do you think XXX has good judgment?

Trump to Questioner: No.

Question to Cruz: Do you think XXX has good judgment?

Cruz to Questioner: “Both of them I like and respect,” said Mr. Cruz, according to an audio recording of his comments provided by one attendee. “I don’t believe either one of them is going to be our president.”

But he added, “You look at Paris, you look at San Bernardino, it’s given a seriousness to this race, that people are looking for: Who is prepared to be a commander in chief? Who understands the threats we face?”

He went on: “Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button? Now that’s a question of strength, but it’s also a question of judgment. And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of them”.

And therein is why Trump is a President for the times and Cruz would be great staying in the Senate or on SCOTUS. We don’t have time for blah, blah, blah...


43 posted on 12/12/2015 2:14:04 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: Salamander

Exactly. And that illustrates the problem with PACs Trump pointed out, PACs are not beholden to the candidates they support. That is why Trump sent cease and desist letters to the ones pretending to support him. In addition to that problem they can absorb all the money they collect as administrative costs, like the one that collected 6 million and spent like 100k on the candidate.


44 posted on 12/12/2015 2:15:19 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: Tucker39

To me, Trump is for gamblers. You may win big and you may lose big. Cruz is much safer.

Still, I’m not bashing Trump people. Every individual must choose for himself/herself. Mostly we are fighting for the same principles. We have to remind ourselves that we are a nation of laws, not men. It is the ideas that matter. If only everyone would remember that we could avoid a lot of personality wars.


45 posted on 12/12/2015 2:15:26 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Dave W; All
You obviously don't understand the rules and don't care to. The ignorance on this website is amazing.
Worth repeating:

You obviously don't understand the rules and don't care to. The ignorance on this website is amazing.

There was a time when brokered conventions occurred more often. They are a legitimate part of the political process. In order to secure the nomination before the convention, a candidate must have won a majority of the delegate votes, not just a plurality.
46 posted on 12/12/2015 2:16:29 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: dynoman

Our system is sorely effed up.


47 posted on 12/12/2015 2:17:20 PM PST by Salamander (It's your world, but it's my street....)
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To: nopardons; All

This is why Trump is brilliant to tell the pacs that used his name to STOP! He doesn’t need the cover of his cronies using a PaC to do the dirty work like the others are doing. Everyone knows they LOVE their dirty pacs or they’d tell them to STOP like Trump did.

Detractors piss and moan about Trumps honest, un PC words, while the other candidates let their pacs do their talking!
It’s cover, so they can say what they want about Trump and never have to answer to it. Trump is the ONLY candidate being any where near REAL in this race.

THIS is the power/$ structure that Trump wants to bring down and if it isn’t stopped now, we have just had our last real election.


48 posted on 12/12/2015 2:18:03 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Hmmm...Was this Cruz super PAC the same super PAC which funneled $500,000 from Cruz’s super PAC to Fiorina’s super PAC?


49 posted on 12/12/2015 2:18:15 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: EveningStar

It may not be technically cheating, but given the national climate, it will guarantee a general election loss, imo.


50 posted on 12/12/2015 2:19:33 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: CatherineofAragon
O-M-G..............that is THE biggest LIE you've EVER told !

I was hardly ever posting to FR, in '11 ( heck, I don't even think I posted ANYTHING here in '11 ) and what you claim I "said" doesn't even sound like me!

Funny, as in peculiar, how glibly you lie, smear, impugn, and imagine that you will be believed.

51 posted on 12/12/2015 2:20:16 PM PST by nopardons
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To: AuntB

Hmmm...Was this Cruz super PAC the same super PAC which funneled $500,000 from Cruz’s super PAC to Fiorina’s super PAC?


52 posted on 12/12/2015 2:20:19 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: VanDeKoik

It does look like some folks are desperate to start a war. No doubt, at some point, any differences on policy will be pointed out, but putting words into a candidate’s mouth that he didn’t say is as dishonest as it gets. Cruz is not allowed any contact with a Pac and he did not say this as the headline claims.


53 posted on 12/12/2015 2:21:08 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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To: CatherineofAragon

That is a complete and utter LIE !


54 posted on 12/12/2015 2:22:11 PM PST by nopardons
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To: AuntB

Trump is smart and a loyal American. That’s great and what I like about him. I would not go so far as to call him brilliant. He is a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants guy. He is smart and adaptable enough to pull it off. I reserve “brilliant” for the truly wise. Smart is good. Wise is better.


55 posted on 12/12/2015 2:22:26 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: FourPeas

Q: Does Trump have judgment?

A: He said we should not go into Iraq.

What has going into Iraq gotten us?

We’ve lost thousands of American lives, we’ve blown $2 Trillion on it so far; and have accomplished nothing of real value. And ISIS is using all the best equipment we left for the Iraqis; who ran off and abandoned it when the first gun went off.


56 posted on 12/12/2015 2:23:04 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: ripnbang

Right. lol


57 posted on 12/12/2015 2:23:44 PM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
THIS IS A COMPLETE LIE !
58 posted on 12/12/2015 2:24:08 PM PST by nopardons
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To: conservativejoy

The big money PAC insider$ which own the professional politicians don’t have any contact with the politicians?

And you believe this?


59 posted on 12/12/2015 2:24:18 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: AuntB

I concur.


60 posted on 12/12/2015 2:26:02 PM PST by nopardons
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