No Cruz failed that test. We are suppose to trust “Ted Cruz the Principled” to be the “Strongest Constitutional Conservative”? But when an easy slam dunk issue like the Chicago riots presented Ted Cruz plays politics instead like a standard issue linguine spine GOPE politician. If he is willing to cave to the false media meme rather then unreservedly defend the Constitutional Principals of Free Speech and Free Assembly, what else is he willing to cave on when the pressure is on?
You Trump types think that by repeating a lie often enough it will eventually be believed - the stock-in-trade of the con man. Maybe you are right, but it’s still a low-life tactic.
Aside from the fact that the supposed “Constitutional conservative” is not eligible under that Constitution.
No one born a Cuban/Canadian/American can be a natural born citizen.
I can’t believe how wrong Cruz read that. He’s supposed to be so brilliant, he should have known how waffling and saying Trump bore responsibility would work under the laws of cause and effect. It’s actually stunning to me.
And Trump’s moved on to a message of the republican party embracing the movement of people into the party. That was a major theme at the last debate and at his rallies and pressers. He’s left all other candidates in the dust as usual. He’s always a few levels above and steps ahead. We are so not used to that most don’t even see it - including the other republican candidates. They are stuck fighting last week’s battle not even recognizing the battle field changed. That’s how to lose the war. That is precisely what Trump means when he talks about flexibility and adaptability. And so many don’t recognize it for what it is.
And that is exactly what it is, a false media meme. Cruz placed the responsibility on the violence squarely on the protesters.
And then tonight, as violence broke out, the rally was canceled all together. Now, the responsibility for that lies with protesters who took violence into their own hands.
The false theme is that Cruz didn't blame the protesters. But since the lie has been repeated enough times, people believe it...At this point, they must want to believe it. Not sure what purpose it serves, but they believe it.
I would love to sit on FR all day and correct this over and over and over and over. But I have to get some work done.
Sen Cruz didn’t fall for a false meme. He pointed out that when Trump had the opportunity to be Presidential, he was not. Now ever Trump has walked back his comments about paying that 78 year old criminal’s legal bills. So that it would appear that even Trump agrees with Sen Cruz.
I am not as staunch a Cruz supporter as I was; still the whole “he backed the left” narrative is not one of the things that has put me off about him. Read what he said, the WHOLE statement without the Trump colored glasses on and you’ll see he spoke the truth. People want him to condemn the left while turning a blind eye to what Trump has advocated. They bitch about him for not being “principled”, then turn around and bitch about him when he is.