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No More Deals [New Ted Cruz ad hitting Trump on his crony capitalist connections]
YouTube ^ | 1/30/2016 | Ted Cruz

Posted on 01/30/2016 10:34:20 PM PST by JediJones

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To: OhioBuckeye

Not true. Nice try though.


61 posted on 01/30/2016 11:12:29 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: Shortstop7

Cruz and Levin are not libs at heart. And they’re a LOT different from all those Fox News talking heads you mention. Cruz DID follow through on being a constitutional conservative. Show me where he turned into a liberal.

Again, if you think “isolationism” is conservative, it’s not. Conservatism means that Americans are free to trade with the rest of the world and are not locked out by the iron curtain of protectionism.


62 posted on 01/30/2016 11:13:31 PM PST by JediJones ("How stupid are the people of Iowa?" -Donald Trump, November 12, 2015)
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To: Thumper1960

I guess you’re the idiot for supporting Boehner, Ryan, McConnell, and Cantor.

Save your stabs at intelligence for someone who gives a shit what you think.


63 posted on 01/30/2016 11:13:39 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: JediJones

I have no idea why everyone is getting their panties in a twist over this.


64 posted on 01/30/2016 11:14:04 PM PST by OhioBuckeye ("Here sir, the people govern." - Alexander Hamilton)
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To: DoughtyOne

Well this is an imputation of power to him. It was given for some reason. Maybe he threatens to blackmail, or it might be a GOOD reason. But things don’t happen sans reason. We might not even know the full story till he’s out and people start telling tales.


65 posted on 01/30/2016 11:14:09 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: JediJones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deE-uW_x_yU

I see a way to reconcile these statements.


66 posted on 01/30/2016 11:14:32 PM PST by Psalm 144 (This primary is raw Americana. Tom Sawyer versus Sid!)
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To: OhioBuckeye; JediJones

Present both mailings, both envelopes and content, prior to patting yourselves on the back.


67 posted on 01/30/2016 11:14:56 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: JediJones
Democrats don't vote for Republicans in general elections. It's never going to happen, so don't base your candidate choice on that fantasy.

Once again you are showing your complete lack of historical knowledge... Reagan got a huge amount of crossover vote.

68 posted on 01/30/2016 11:15:07 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

FYI
Regarding Cruz and those mailers that the media has already seized upon...

This is what happens when you challenge the ethanol lobby.
The Cruz camp modeled the mailer in question on the Iowa GOP’s own 2014 mailer. Get-out-the-vote efforts aren’t always easy and sometimes reaching certain people who need to be reached is hard, especially in close races. Iowa’s Secretary of State (and Trump and ethanol mandate-supporter) Paul Pate attacked Cruz over it. Matt Schultz, former Iowa Secretary of State and Cruz’s Iowa State Chairman hit back at Pate, saying that such mailers designed specifically for people who don’t often vote are “routine”. (It’s all based on “The Victory Lab”, a book written in 2013 about the psychology of voting. Sometimes aggressive methods based on publicly available information move people. It doesn’t go out to everyone, it goes out to a certain small, subset of people who do not vote.
It works. Instead of “rock the vote”, it’s “nudge the vote”.)

The Iowa Republican establishment has a problem with Cruz doing it because of....ethanol. Cruz opposes the mandates and he stood on stage this past Thursday, looked the establishment ethanol lobby in square in the eye, and said “no more mandates”. He’s been saying it all primary cycle. They hate him for this. The Governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad condemns Cruz because of it. Branstad’s son is the head of an ethanol lobbyist group that has been stalking Cruz all over Iowa protesting him over it. They even thought about dressing as giant corn cobs and running after him. The reason that this mailer nontroversy wasn’t a story back in 2014 when the Iowa Republican establishment did it is because this time around they’re dealing with a candidate who has consistently said he will end their ethanol subsidies and they’re terrified of him so he must be defeated. They’ll partner with Trump (who supported an increase in the ethanol mandate) to do it, too.

Just like in the “Godfather”, you don’t ever take sides against the ethanol lobby.


69 posted on 01/30/2016 11:15:29 PM PST by Lucky9teen (God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning, and I believe God isn't done yet. TCruz)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Oh waaaaaa....I don’t like it. Make it go away.

Go to your safe place.


70 posted on 01/30/2016 11:16:07 PM PST by OhioBuckeye ("Here sir, the people govern." - Alexander Hamilton)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Why don’t we stick to talking about principles and policies and not about campaign marketing? Campaign marketing is a boring topic that few of us are experts in and which only affects our lives in a very minor way for about 2 days every other year.


71 posted on 01/30/2016 11:16:13 PM PST by JediJones ("How stupid are the people of Iowa?" -Donald Trump, November 12, 2015)
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To: JediJones

“It just seems like many Trump supporters have a myopic focus on isolationism. Unless they can find a candidate who says even nastier things about foreigners and makes them even bigger scapegoats for all our problems, they’re not going to switch.”

I am truly happy to see a Raphael Eduardo Hartpence supporter play the NWO card. Truly happy.


72 posted on 01/30/2016 11:16:54 PM PST by Psalm 144 (This primary is raw Americana. Tom Sawyer versus Sid!)
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To: OhioBuckeye

You are the one wailing that way; I am not.

I am saying show me the evidence. You are projecting. I think you have the weakness, even before you show the evidence.


73 posted on 01/30/2016 11:17:04 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: JediJones

Campaign marketing shows principles and they looked ugly here.


74 posted on 01/30/2016 11:17:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: fireman15

Those days are over. The modern Democrat is extremely partisan and loyal to their party brand beyond all reason.


75 posted on 01/30/2016 11:18:21 PM PST by JediJones ("How stupid are the people of Iowa?" -Donald Trump, November 12, 2015)
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To: Lucky9teen

I don’t care if it is the grandmothers and apple pie lobby.

You are playing the distraction game now.


76 posted on 01/30/2016 11:18:27 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And Mr. Trump is correct.


77 posted on 01/30/2016 11:19:52 PM PST by GeaugaRepublican (Angry yes, mad, no. "Let Trump Be Trump")
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To: Lucky9teen

“Nontroversy” is a great word!


78 posted on 01/30/2016 11:20:39 PM PST by JediJones ("How stupid are the people of Iowa?" -Donald Trump, November 12, 2015)
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To: GeaugaRepublican

Trump brings a can-do attitude.

Cruz brings a you-oughtta-do attitude.

Guess which one gets more followers.


79 posted on 01/30/2016 11:20:55 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: sagar

That’s because you Cruzies keep putting out the same tired junk that absolutely does not mean anything now. Old crap from years ago is big deal. Make America Safe is priority.

Cruz has done things recently that should cause him to suspend his taxpayer vacation.


80 posted on 01/30/2016 11:21:35 PM PST by napscoordinator
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