Will be interesting to see Beck and Trump interact.
Posted on 08/31/2015 4:11:01 PM PDT by VinL
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) has invited Donald Trump to attend a September 9 rally against the Iran deal, but other 2016 presidential candidates who want to join might not receive the same courtesy. “Two other presidential candidates called me — they didn’t call me directly, their top aides called me — asking if they can speak and I simply referred it to Ted Cruz. It’s really not appropriate for me to make that decision since they’re all competitors,” says Morton Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America, which is helping organize the rally at the U.S. Capitol, when reached for comment Monday.
Cruz announced that he had invited Trump to speak at the September 9 rally on Thursday, whereupon representatives from two of “the most prominent of the people running” asked Klein if they might also attend. Klein says he passed the requests to the senator and his senior staff. If Cruz declines to allow his other rivals to speak at the rally, it would be another indication that he’s attempting to cultivate a special relationship with Trump, presumably because he hopes to attract Trump’s supporters in the event the real-estate mogul flames out. It could also give oxygen to complaints that Cruz is willing to sacrifice party unity to boost his presidential prospects — an accusation that GOP critics have lodged against the Texas freshman almost since he took office.
The organizers haven’t yet decided on a final list of speakers, and the famously vindictive Trump could also influence the lineup. “There’s discussion internally in the Cruz camp about that, there’s discussion in the Trump camp, and the [activists] camp,” a Cruz campaign spokesman told NR on Friday. “There’s no consensus by anybody about what the agenda is going to be, and so we’re working on that right now.”?
Klein “personally would want more presidential speakers,” but the idea of the rally grew out of a meeting between Cruz and other activist groups — the Tea Party Patriots and the Center for Security Policy are also sponsoring the event — and so he will defer to Cruz’s decision. “I would be inclined, although I don’t know, to think that they would maybe not feel comfortable to bring another presidential candidate in,” he says.
In any case, the rally will not be devoid of hatchet-burying. Glenn Beck, perhaps Trump’s biggest critic in conservative media, will speak at the rally. “Just found out this minute that Beck has accepted,” Klein says. —
And what party unity is that? On, and pray tell, why are these two crashers, trying to gorilla their way into the spotlight...party unity???
Cruz and Trump, that's it----- maybe, allow Huckarino to deliver the invocation.
Fixed it.
It’s like wedding planning seating.
Heck Yeah!!!! This isn’t a party. It’s a race to become leader of the (mostly, thanks to the dictator obama) free world!!
Trump/Cruz.
I dont say vice versa because Trump is too vain to be VP. :)
Will be interesting to see Beck and Trump interact.
I’m guessing it would depend on which rivals ask.
“On, and pray tell, why are these two crashers, trying to gorilla their way into the spotlight...party unity???”
What if one of the crashers is Benjamin Carson? Would yo tell
him to go spoon a goose?
Screw party unity. There’s a war going on for it.
Actually, it tells you a lot about the other candidates .. they didn’t even call Cruz directly .. they called somebody else and asked if they could speak.
Doesn’t that truly show how cowardly they really are; too afraid to even speak to Cruz directly ..??
Just because they do not have the courage to speak to Cruz tells me that they should NOT BE ASKED TO JOIN.
As for Huckabee .. forget it. He’s done nothing but badmouth Cruz and Trump.
Just keep it Trump and Cruz .. THAT’S ALL WE NEED.
If you’re asking me-— I don’t express myself that way.
But yes, I would respectfully tell Dr. Carson that Cruz and Trump will be the only speakers.
Yep, we’re going to the mattresses.
Cruz came up with the idea, and now all the other candidates want a me-too invite.
Not only do they want to show up, they want equal time on the podium.
A number of them are nothing more than GOPe shills. The GOPe is apoplectic that they didn’t think of this, and the Cruz/Trump guys did.
I’ve got a little suggestion for the GOPe folks. There’s this big building with about 535 elected officials in it. See if you can get some action over there, instead of grandstanding when others do what you were too stupid to fugure out on your own.
Huckarino — that was a joke-— obviously failed. -:)
Better to invite Col. West. He delivered a barn burner at the New York anti-Iran Deal Rally.
Party unity?
Like Scozzafava? Like Murkowski? Like Cochran?
Seems like the party doesn't have any unity if one of the chosen ones are at stake. At that point, it's side with the enemy to make one of your own fall.
No, not even the Huckster. Party unity, Senator Cruz knows better than to turn his back on them.
For me, this is bigger than the election...Every one of them should be up there condemning Iran...
The GOPe shills can go pond sand.
Ted Cruz 'cautioned' yesterday in SEABROOK, N.H against misreading his plan that Trump join in an anti-Obama protest in Washington, D.C., as any indicator of a plan to team up on the 2016 ticket..................
“My focus is on winning the Republican nomination for president, and I’ll tell you, the energy and enthusiasm we’ve got right now is incredible. I could not be more encouraged,”... the Texas senator and self-styled “courageous conservative” told the Herald after packing historic Brown’s Lobster Pound with giddy supporters, who clawed their way over picnic tables filled with diners just to touch him.
But when asked if Trump’s front-runner bravado and take-no-prisoners headline hoarding was making it difficult for his message to rise above the din, Cruz’s stated.... “We’ll see you at the next stop,” he said, closing a car door.
Hasn’t there been other Stop Iran rallies around the country? Seems
these wannabe speakers could start one of these rallies and be the speaker.
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