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Ted Cruz on Trump: I'll never have 'a plane with my name on it'
CNN ^ | 1/9/16 | Theodore Schliefer

Posted on 01/08/2016 12:06:41 PM PST by VinL

Under assault from Donald Trump, Ted Cruz offered something of a thinly veiled contrast Friday....

Cruz, in the middle of an intense 28-county bus tour, has been arguing that he is out working the GOP field on the ground as they rely on "slick Hollywood TV ads."

Asked by reporters if he had much faith in the ground game of a Trump, Cruz mocked his opulence.

"I feel confident that I'm never going to have a plane with my name on it," he said at a church. "How do you run a grassroots campaign? It's very time intensive. It's labor intensive. You don't do it sitting back in the easy chair. You don't do it from a TV studio in Manhattan."

Cruz has consistently poked fun at Trump's wealth, telling a late night host that he would like Trump to write his campaign a large check and joking in a GOP debate that the New York builder should personally pay for a wall on the Mexico border.

However, the jokes at Trump's expense come after the billionaire businessman's has spent significant airtime ribbing Cruz over his Canadian birthplace and whether it jeopardizes his eligibility to be president. Constitutional scholars have said Cruz's citizenship will not be an issue.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; americanunionheidi; cfrheidi; cruz; dcwallstreetinsider; election2016; ezsleazylawyertalk; goldmansachscruz; lol; lowenergyted; m2t; newyork; nwoheidi; planeenvy; rabidcruztrolls; tedcruz; tedthegreatpretender; texas; trump
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To: VideoDoctor; All
Sorry, the syndrome is with people who are blind to the fact that their faith in Trump to deliver on his promises comes from the same essential source that says Knudsen's cheese or Kellogg's cereals are best!

The operative syndrome is with people who squeeze their eyes shut and jam their fingers in their ears so they may refuse to acknowledge the 26-year-long record of Donald Trump's demonstrated left-leaning moderate politics. I would bet dollars to donuts that there is a direct correlation between MSM consumption and degree of support for Trump -- the bigger the MSM consumption, the more likely to give Trump credibility.

If watching "The Apprentice" is supposed to be what smart Americans do to understand what a brilliant choice Trump is for America, then American presidential politics are now way beyond a joke.

Fellow conservatives, the time is now. Dump Trump. Choose Cruz.

161 posted on 01/08/2016 3:52:57 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: catfish1957

Sounds like CRuz is the one concerned about Trump's wealth.

CRuz: concern troll 2016

See how that works?

162 posted on 01/08/2016 3:56:57 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: jennychase

Sounds like CRuz is telling us he wants to remain a career politician and has no desire to receive an income the old fashioned way ... by actually earning it.


163 posted on 01/08/2016 3:59:17 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: firebrand

Lol!!


164 posted on 01/08/2016 4:00:28 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: PJBankard
Let’s start with the first. For Cruz to be a NBC,

For Cruz to be a NBC he would need to have been born in the United States to two parents who were each a citizen of the United States at the time of his birth. This would make him a citizen without necessity of statute--or--a "natural" citizen

Cruz is an American citizen by statute. And what the statute bestows, the statute can remove. This is why the Founders insisted that the POTUS be a natural citizen of the United States.

165 posted on 01/08/2016 4:15:19 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Finny; All
blind to the fact that their faith in Trump to deliver on his promises comes from the same essential source that says Knudsen's cheese or Kellogg's cereals are best!

NO! NO! NO! Favoring a rich businessman who does not need rich donors comes from decades of utter disappointment from electing career politicians who say one thing before election, then go back to serving their rich donors to get votes, and push the cheap labor express. Watch even Ted Cruz, arguably the most conservative career politician, pushing the cheap labor express here:

Path to Legal Status for Illegals

Cheap Foreign Workers on H1-B visa

Pushing TPP

166 posted on 01/08/2016 4:15:56 PM PST by entropy12 (Go Trump! Born in USA of 2 US Citizen Parents!! And not in pockets of ANY rich donors!!!!)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

I stand corrected.


167 posted on 01/08/2016 4:58:47 PM PST by PJBankard (It is better to be thought an idiot than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.)
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To: House Atreides

Waiting...


168 posted on 01/08/2016 5:09:55 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: VideoDoctor

I think it’s BVS, (Battered Voter Syndrome). Symptoms of BVS are getting repeatedly cheated and lied to by those in D.C. and enjoying it. Over and over. Most of the predators are lawyers turned politician types. The clear pattern of the symptoms vary from mild enjoyment to becoming hysterically protective of the predator fraud. All while they’re getting lied to, conned, deceived and robbed.


169 posted on 01/08/2016 5:17:03 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Finny
-Money cannot buy taste.-

But it will buy Cruz's vote.

170 posted on 01/08/2016 5:23:34 PM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: Finny

Sorry you don’t have collectibles of your success in your private den or office. I do. Maybe because you haven’t accomplished anything of note.


171 posted on 01/08/2016 5:27:20 PM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: Finny; entropy12
Look at the wall behind those two men in that picture. Electing Trump to the White House is monumentally stupid.

Speaking of monumentally stupid, this is what you're seeing Finny.


172 posted on 01/08/2016 5:51:55 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: jennychase
Good luck making an IPO happen. Cruz should not be jealous of someone else’s success. I just re-watched the Smithsonian special on Trump Force One. Enjoyed as much as the first time.
173 posted on 01/08/2016 8:17:41 PM PST by ironman
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To: PJBankard

That’s my call as well. This Trump/Cruz battle is as real a fight as celebrity wrestling.


174 posted on 01/08/2016 11:12:52 PM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: jennychase

If I say I don’t want my name on a plane it means I am a communist?


175 posted on 01/09/2016 12:14:44 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: VanDeKoik

Class envy has always been an issue here

If you’re not on fixed income you’re rich


176 posted on 01/09/2016 12:19:01 AM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: Finny

Then should Cruz remove his name from his bus?

Egotistical on airtrans and okay on ground trans

Gotcha


177 posted on 01/09/2016 5:50:06 AM PST by Gasshog (Newly discovered element Trumpamentium causes a Chain Reaction of Testicular Fortitude!!)
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To: Finny
Where'd you go Finny?


178 posted on 01/09/2016 10:13:11 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: House Atreides

Still waiting and crickets chirping. Are you an ad hominem one-trick-pony??


179 posted on 01/09/2016 7:17:05 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: House Atreides

Still nothing - except ad hominem??

Nice.


180 posted on 01/10/2016 6:48:36 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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