Posted on 01/19/2016 6:22:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
CONCORD, N.H. -- Donald Trump says Ted Cruz is a "nasty guy." The Texan's Senate colleagues agree. Yet here's the surprise from watching Cruz on the campaign trail: Ideology aside, he comes off as ... rather likable.
To watch Trump and Cruz campaign here is to witness the difference between a reality TV performer and a disciplined politician. With apologies to the artists, Trump is Jackson Pollock to Cruz's Rembrandt. One splatters paint with no coherent pattern, the other dabs with evident skill, albeit in notably dark tones.
Trump's riff of a stump speech is all poll numbers (terrific) and crowd sizes (record), interspersed with millimeter-deep detours into policy. Common Core is terrible; the border wall will be great; he knows how to negotiate trade deals.
At one point at Concord High School on Monday, Trump paused when interrupted by a loud, high-pitched yelp. "What was that, was that a dog?" he asked. "Hillary," an audience member shouted.
A more experienced politician -- a more politically correct one, Trump would say -- would have known to stand down. Not Trump. "Uh oh, it's Hillary," Trump repeated, laughing and smiling. "Aaah," shaking his head, "only in New Hampshire, huh?"(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
She can’t be serious. Just the contrast at the tea party even last weekend proves her wrong.
Propaganda.
Planet wishful thinking
What has Ruth been injecting, smoking, and/or ingesting?
WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP !
2nd Division are you on the Cruz payroll?
Are you a Trump staffer?
Are you a Trump staffer?
This really needed to contain a barf alert. Jackson Pollack to Rembrandt?
Right. That must be why Cruz attracts much larger crowds!
uh, he has admitted he is a bundler. He has disclosed that.
He likes to post threads. And he is good at it!
I was disgusted today when Michael Savage said that Cruz resembled a “vampire” and then asked if we wanted a vampire for president. He obviously got that from people posting pics of Grandpa Munster. I thought it was soooo funny that I changed channels.
You need to ask if one of Cruz sugar daddies like David Mercer the NYC Hedge Fund Billionaire / 6 Billion Dollar Tax cheat is pay-rolling him or the Goldman Sachs billionaire boys or Citibank gang.
Cruz is there puppet - ticket to getting out of 6 billion dollar IRS bills etc....
Cruz on the trail is pathetic. And I can prove it on video. Want to make me post them?
I’ve seen Rembrandt paintings,
and Sen. Goldman Sachs Cruz helping pass ObamaTRADE
for his wife and Goldman Sachs ... was no Rembrandt.
Yeah
The woman says what all Cruzers know. Your guy is a rude bully exactly like Bambi and you love for him.
I don’t expect America to elect him if by a slight chance he is nominated.
You fell in love but 70% of the gop has not.
If you cared about facts, his low info candidacy and how childishly spoiled he acts even you would reconsider. Not to mention a thousand flip flops, many in the last 6 months which you also ignore.
Article written by Ruth Marcus, uberlib columnist for the Washington Post, and major hater of Trump and almost major hater of Cruz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Marcus_%28journalist%29
https://twitter.com/RuthMarcus?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Please continue to post articles like these from uberlibs who work for uberlib outfits. I hereby call on all Freepers to suspend yourdisbelief just this once and believe every word published by an uber-lib website writen by uberlib Ruth Marcus.
It’s vital that we at FR uncritically accept the word of a kommie columnist from kommie WaPo.
On the other hand, there is an alternative, namely remember that only a few weeks ago, it was Trump who upset the whole apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda with illegal immigration and other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media has been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And we wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
Of course Michael Savage doesn't like Cruz. He's a Jerry Brown supporter.
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