Posted on 01/08/2016 12:06:41 PM PST by VinL
Under assault from Donald Trump, Ted Cruz offered something of a thinly veiled contrast Friday....
Cruz, in the middle of an intense 28-county bus tour, has been arguing that he is out working the GOP field on the ground as they rely on "slick Hollywood TV ads."
Asked by reporters if he had much faith in the ground game of a Trump, Cruz mocked his opulence.
"I feel confident that I'm never going to have a plane with my name on it," he said at a church. "How do you run a grassroots campaign? It's very time intensive. It's labor intensive. You don't do it sitting back in the easy chair. You don't do it from a TV studio in Manhattan."
Cruz has consistently poked fun at Trump's wealth, telling a late night host that he would like Trump to write his campaign a large check and joking in a GOP debate that the New York builder should personally pay for a wall on the Mexico border.
However, the jokes at Trump's expense come after the billionaire businessman's has spent significant airtime ribbing Cruz over his Canadian birthplace and whether it jeopardizes his eligibility to be president. Constitutional scholars have said Cruz's citizenship will not be an issue.
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Please. He was responding to a question about how Trump was running his campaign. How can you do that without referencing his advantage in money?
It’s also anti-American! Maybe there is a thing to that Canadian birther movement?-)
nope , but if you are smart you might get to ride in his quite often
Ted is looking at a golden opportunity . Don’t blow it
FR used to call it class envy.
Yes that is true, I’ve commented on it too.
Cruz is laughing at Anita Hill Trump-—
“...I’ll never have ‘a plane with my name on it’...”
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Not so long ago, a reply like that would have been categorized as class envy.
Wasn’t there another article on FR today about how Trump will never win because he likes to sleep in his own bed?
That is dumb too.
Oh, puhleeeeeze. He made a joke.
Kook post of the day.
LOL...he just knows how to fight.
Kind of stupid on Cruz’s part, if you ask me. Trump has hardly been hiding in a Manhattan TV studio. He’s held meetings with enthusiastic audiences all over the country, and these are his first ads. And as I recall, he doesn’t even appear in this one. So how does this have him hiding in a studio? Or how does it make Trump a “sissy”?
The word “mocking” is the journalist’s characterization and not a quote from Cruz.
Journalists don’t usually characterize words from a conservative accurately...
“Cruz will dominate Iowa...”
And get trucked in the general.
Oh come on; let them fight with each other a bit.
Pretty mild so far.
I want my own plane and my name on it. I know I have to work very hard and make my company IPO.
There are plenty of important issues that Cruz can hammer on. Pointing out that Trump is successful as a businessman just smacks of classism. Something you would expect to hear from a socialist.
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