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Staffer Told Ted Cruz He Thought a Reporter Was Nice. The GOP Candidate Responded With Harsh Advice
The Blaze ^ | Jul. 2, 2015 6:15pm | Erica Ritz

Posted on 07/02/2015 8:52:45 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

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To: SoConPubbie

got a new tagline from Cruz......lol


21 posted on 07/02/2015 9:08:08 PM PDT by Cold Heat ("In the last several elections we have not won the argument. We have not even made the argument.")
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To: Moonman62

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Its the “Girl Scouts” amnesty agenda.
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22 posted on 07/02/2015 9:08:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Moonman62

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Its the “Sierra Club” amnesty agenda.
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23 posted on 07/02/2015 9:09:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SoConPubbie

Outstanding and right on.


24 posted on 07/02/2015 9:10:30 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Moonman62

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Its the “United Way” amnesty agenda.
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25 posted on 07/02/2015 9:10:42 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Moonman62

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Its the “Combined Health Agency Drive” amnesty agenda.
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26 posted on 07/02/2015 9:11:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SoConPubbie

Ugh. Reality is harsh—life sucks and is by no means “fair”. The sooner you come to terms with the fact that people look out for their own interests, the better off you will be. I learned this at a very young age. There are many people, decades older than I, who refuse to confront this truth. Beck is obviously one of them. Politics is a cutthroat business.


27 posted on 07/02/2015 9:14:17 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, for You will answer me" -Psalms 86:7)
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To: SoConPubbie
Cruz said he finds it amusing that, even though his father was imprisoned in Cuba for supporting Castro

His father SUPPORTED Castro?...That's disturbing.

I thought he opposed Castro.

28 posted on 07/02/2015 9:18:45 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
His father SUPPORTED Castro?...That's disturbing.

I thought he opposed Castro.


A little history lesson concerning Bautista and Castro:
At 17, Rafael Cruz led a group of insurgents staging urban sabotage against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cruz was eventually jailed and tortured, and upon his release wanted the underground to help him personally reach Castro's camp in the Sierra Maestra highlands.

"My dad asked if he could join Castro in the mountains and keep fighting," the firebrand Republican presidential candidate writes in his book, "A Time For Truth," which is being released Tuesday. "But he was told there was no way to get to the rebels."

Instead, the elder Cruz bribed his way to a Cuban exit visa and headed to the University of Texas.

He returned home shortly after Castro seized power in 1959 but, Ted Cruz writes, was appalled to see Castro had "declared to the world that he was a communist." Castro didn't formally call his revolution socialist until the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.

29 posted on 07/02/2015 9:23:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: tumblindice

That’s the best analogy I’ve heard, and I believe that’s exactly what’s happening.
The left isn’t paying attention to anyone but Trump right now.

Without the media prop, anyone notice Jeb isn’t in the top 3 in IA.
I still say Jeb loses IA, I thought he might win NH but now I think Trump may take it. I also think Jeb loses SC. Maybe Cruz can pull SC, he’s not going to have Haley’s help. Jeb loses FL to Rubio. Jeb goes home to figure out what happened cause he’s toast.


30 posted on 07/02/2015 9:24:19 PM PDT by rikkir (Anyone still believe the 8/08 Atlantic cover wasn't 100% accurate?)
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To: Gene Eric

“Yuppers... The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.”

The fourth estate is a fifth column.


31 posted on 07/02/2015 9:25:13 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Nothing is sometimes the right thing to do, and always a wise thing to say.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Castro did NOT show his true colors in the early days.

He came out as a Marxist only after defeating the Batista regime.


32 posted on 07/02/2015 9:25:14 PM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I think that was transcribed incorrectly.


33 posted on 07/02/2015 9:26:23 PM PDT by rikkir (Anyone still believe the 8/08 Atlantic cover wasn't 100% accurate?)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
The sins of the father only apply to Republicans. Sen Albert Arnold Gore Sr (D-TEN) was the leading voice against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

I'll stick with rooting for Ted Cruz, not his father. My dad holds more that a few ideas that I'm not exactly fully behind. So do plenty of FReepers. That doesn't mean that he, or they, wouldn't be better candidates than Hillary or Bernie.

34 posted on 07/02/2015 9:26:27 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: SoConPubbie

If Ted Cruz does not become the GOP nominee in 2016, it will be the tragedy of the Century.


35 posted on 07/02/2015 9:27:15 PM PDT by Din Maker (GOP Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico for VP)
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To: rikkir

Jebbie can team up with Perry and heal the TX breach between the families.


36 posted on 07/02/2015 9:30:59 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Teacher317

The senior Cruz today is not the Cruz of 1957.


37 posted on 07/02/2015 9:31:40 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Teacher317; ROCKLOBSTER; rikkir; Bobalu
A more detailed history of the Dictator Bautista and then the initial role that Castro played in Cuba's history:

Batista initially rose to power as part of the 1933 "Revolt of the Sergeants" that overthrew the authoritarian rule of Gerardo Machado. Batista then appointed himself chief of the armed forces, with the rank of colonel, and effectively controlled the five-member Presidency. He maintained this control through a string of puppet presidents until 1940, when he was himself elected President of Cuba on a populist platform.[2][3] He then instated the 1940 Constitution of Cuba, considered progressive for its time,[4] and served until 1944. After finishing his term he lived in the United States, returning to Cuba to run for president in 1952. Facing certain electoral defeat, he led a military coup that preempted the election.

Back in power, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans.[5] Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large multinational American corporations that had invested considerable amounts of money in Cuba.[5][6] To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace—which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations—Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his anti-Communist secret police to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions; ultimately killing anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 people.[7][8] For several years until 1959, the Batista government received financial, military, and logistical support from the United States.[9]

Catalyzing the resistance to such tactics, for two years (December 1956 – December 1958) Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement and other nationalist rebelling elements led an urban and rural-based guerrilla uprising against Batista's government, which culminated in his eventual defeat by rebels under the command of Che Guevara at the Battle of Santa Clara on New Year's Day 1959. Batista immediately fled the island with an amassed personal fortune to the Dominican Republic, where strongman and previous military ally Rafael Trujillo held power. Batista eventually found political asylum in Oliveira Salazar's Portugal, where he lived until dying of a heart attack on August 6, 1973, near Marbella, Spain.[10]

38 posted on 07/02/2015 9:31:52 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

This week I bought Ted’s new Book and I Contributed to his Campaign.

Next week, I read his Book and Contribute to his Campaign.


39 posted on 07/02/2015 9:32:14 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Erections have Consequences, just ask Obama's Parents. Oh wait, they're Dead.)
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To: Politicalkiddo
The sooner you come to terms with the fact that people look out for their own interests, the better off you will be. I learned this at a very young age. There are many people, decades older than I, who refuse to confront this truth

You are too wise for the American people to understand.

40 posted on 07/02/2015 9:32:38 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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