Cruz: Trump afraid to defend his record

The Hill ^ | January 27, 2016, 07:52 am | Mark Hensch

[TBP]

No, he hasn’t.

[TBP]

Nobody is pretending, and you know that.

[silverleaf]

Cruz is an easy target

None of his colleagues even like him or work with him

Persuading 52% of the electorate he is a loser won’t be difficult

[Georgia Girl 2]

The smell of desperation is all over you Teddy. :-)

[driftdiver]

Of anyone in the Senate, Cruz is pretty close to being the only one fighting against that agenda.

But don’t let me interrupt your agenda of lies.

[Charles Henrickson]

Sometimes a basketball team with a lead will "let the air out of the ball" in the closing minutes, stalling to try to hold onto their lead. Or a football team will go into a "prevent defense" for the same reason. But it can backfire on them, and the other team can take advantage of it and pull out the win.

It seems that sort of "prevent defense" is what Donald Ducked is doing by ducking out of the last debate. He's trying to protect what he perceives as a lead, and he doesn't want the risk of being exposed for the vacuous empty-suit blowhard he is.

[GeaugaRepublican]

How many times have we heard the candidate trailing challenge the election leader to a debate? Just about every campaign. Ted Cruz is just doing what every politician who is trailing in the polls does.

Trump has a point, this would be the 7th debate, of which the first 6 Trump won, according to the polls. Not much too much new ground to cover and still 6-8 people on the stage.

[TBP]

I hope Megyn wakes up the morning of the debate feeling under the weather. How would it look if Trump isn’t there and neither is she?

[TBP]

Trump’s liberal record is as of a few months ago.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[A real leader who gets his way by bullying and bluster? ]

A real leader who is tough and will not settle for America being a second rate nation! Someone who would have walked away from the Iran negotiations, leaving the Iranians with nothing but their peters in their hands.

[HLPhat]

And yet... he won’t debate because he can’t handle Megan Whatsername.

{ shrug } whatever.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[Trump’s liberal record is as of a few months ago.]

Compared to Cruz’s Canadian record from a year ago?

[TBP]

Trump is afraid of Megyn Kelly — and put out that she wouldn’t put out for him — and afraid of Cruz and afraid of the voters. He’d be scared silly of the Mad Mullahs and Vlad the Imperialist.

[PROCON]

Ha-Ha, Trump won't have his adoring fans at a one-on-one debate with Cruz.

[Enlightened1]

You don’t think the DNC along with GOPe will not shop a federal judge to disqualify Cruz.

Think McFly!

[jjsheridan5]

...and he doesn't want the risk of being exposed for the vacuous empty-suit blowhard he is.

You may want to follow his lead, and stop posting. He would have won this last debate, like he won all of the others. But Fox had clearly indicated that they were willing to go way beyond normal media bias, and turn the debate into even more of a farce than usual. Trump has taken a stand, a stand that Republicans should have taken a long time ago, against this kind of nonsense. And idiot posters just can't handle that Trump is, once again, leading and winning.

You can pretend all you want that Trump is scared, or in some kind of "prevent defense", or whatever fantasy helps you sleep at night. But you are fooling nobody, except, perhaps, yourself.

[dmz]

This is purely a publicity move that has little or nothing to do with Fox News or Megyn Kelly.

This is Donald Trump betting that he wins the news cycle by not being at the debate.

Those that support him will tell us it’s the best move ever.

Time will tell.

[TBP]

If you don’t support single payer health care, tax payer support of Planned Parenthood, TARP, 0bama’s stimulus, taxing the wealthy, touchback amnesty, and shooting people on Fifth Avenue, then you’re obviously just part of the GOPe and not a real conservative!

[PghBaldy]

Ugh. I’ll be glad when the groundhog shows up the day after Iowa.

[VanDeKoik]

After months of hiding off to the side and letting Trump basically take on the planet, and then benefiting from it, he has the damn nerve to say that?