Posted on 02/03/2016 7:34:41 PM PST by Mozilla
As Donald Trump spent his week attacking Ted Cruz while trying to win favor in New Hampshire, Cruz took a much different approach: He praised his Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders. Cruz knew that the state is notorious for its regionalistic voting when he spoke highly of the Vermont senator to a crowd in Henniker this afternoon.
“In diagnosing the problem, I agree in many ways with Bernie Sanders,†he said, according to Politico‘s Katie Glueck. “I enjoy watching the media folks. They’re very puzzled when they say, ‘Gosh, Ted, you sound exactly like Bernie, saying it’s all big money and lobbyists and corruption.’ Well, you know what? That’s right. It is. Washington is corrupt.â€
He went on to say that the real division in politics is not between Republicans or Democrats, but between career officials in Washington and their constituents before concluding that the only difference between him and Sanders was their proposed solutions to the mutually agreed-upon problem.
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Cruz has a lot of Career beltway guys and robbing Trump helped them keep it that way for now.
Both Cruz and Sanders agree that illegal immigration is bad and that gun control is bad.
Cruz is more emphatic on both of these points but Sanders does basically agree with these two rather important points.
Oh no, Cruz! Don’t agree with Bernie about anything. He’s an admitted Socialist.
Oh no, Cruz! Don’t agree with Bernie about anything. He’s an admitted Socialist.
Heck, I agree with Sanders on the problems. It is just bat crazy communism has never SOLVED any of those problems, which are thousands of years old. Look up Diocletian and what he did to money.
Trump was “robbed”...
That’s pathetic.
If that’s all it takes to roll Trump wait until he gets to DC...
Sanders wants people to be able to sue gun dealers and manufacturers out of existence.
Not exactly “gun control” but...
Tricky Dickie Cruz is now a socialist, just in time for NH.
Delusional or an outright liar. Which are you?
Considering Cruz gets a ton of money from lobbyists, he is being disingenuous.
Is that the most intellectual comment..that you can muster?
Ted ought to include his top advisors in that group of DC folks
This is stupid. Never ever give props to your enemies
I thought he voted against that and Hillary is using that against him?
-——Cruz has a lot of Career beltway guys and robbing Trump helped them keep it that way for now.-——
What did Cruz rob from Trump? Iowa ?
I know it’s hard to understand but conservative voters vote for conservative candidates....
You’re right. I got it wrong.
But looking through his actual comments on the subject, they pretty much mirror what Obama says publicly about guns.
Close gun show loophole.
Ban semi-auto assault rifles “designed only to kill people”
“sensible” gun control
Expanded background checks
Mental health
yada yada
Sanders has addressed many problems as a country we face....so Cruz is right to agree with them....
The difference is their solutions....
Cruz is based on capitiaism and market forces, constitutional principles, the other would make Mao smile...
The concept of addressing public policy issues has always been the same coin, just different sides of it...
-Sanders wants people to be able to sue gun dealers and manufacturers out of existence.
Not exactly “gun control†but...
He flip flopped on this like a week ago and his heart isn’t in it.
Sanders is basically an old line socialist who tends to be skeptical about gun control, free trade, and mass immigration.
Cruz was a tub-thumping evangelical for Iowa; now he’s an open-minded `free thinker’ for New Hampshire.
That’s something that doesn’t require a degree in poly sci or law to figure out: Ted’s all things for all people.
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