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The special hell of a Cruz rally: What it's like to spend an evening with GOP’s oiliest operator
Salon ^ | February 5, 2016 | Gary Legum

Posted on 02/06/2016 1:23:54 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Eagles6

And clinton and bernie are the best thing since ice cream


21 posted on 02/06/2016 2:38:22 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Bobalu
'On his proposal to "carpet-bomb" ISIS, Cruz has been getting blasted by military leaders for weeks for a) not seeming to know what carpet bombing actually is, and b) not knowing that it's a war crime. But he hasn't changed his pitch. In Nashua he tells the crowd that during the first Gulf War in 1991, the United States flew 1,100 sorties a day against the Iraqi army, "carpet-bombing" it into oblivion so that all our ground forces had to do once the invasion began was mop up the shattered remnants of Sadaam Hussein's forces. This understanding of carpet bombing is wildly inaccurate. Cruz either does not know this, or more likely he does not care. I'm betting on the latter.'

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Cubans who've lived under Communism for years are flooding over our porous borders in record numbers. Could some of them be as dangerous as jihadists?

Think about it.

. American cannot afford any more 'immigrants' to take care of.

We are 19 TRILLION dollars in debt.

Americans are suffering- for instance our elders and veterans, our hiways and bridges are falling apart.

I'm sure many Cubans are good people who are just trying to escape Communism for a better life- BUT WE CANNOT TAKE CARE OF THE WHOLE WORLD.

WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF AMERICANS FIRST.

Do we dare elect a Cuban president?

What, if anything will he do about the Cuban invasion?

THINK ABOUT THIS.

22 posted on 02/06/2016 2:39:11 AM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan ...(girl type))
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To: snoringbear

NO kidding.


23 posted on 02/06/2016 2:39:20 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: jonrick46
I hope Ted Cruz holds it together up to the Convention. We may need him for the fight of America’s life in the election.

He seems to have done his homework and laid the groundwork. He knew they'd be coming for him from every side.

24 posted on 02/06/2016 2:40:37 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: patriot08

Not to mention that Cruz’s father fought on the side of the pro-Castro rebels. Then his father spent almost 50 years (1957-2005) in America off and on, before bothering to become a citizen.


25 posted on 02/06/2016 2:43:06 AM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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To: patriot08
THINK ABOUT THIS.

You're using the Salon writer to support your position?

?

I'll repeat:

Cruz:....Just two weeks ago was the 25th anniversary of the first Persian Gulf War. When that war began, we had 8,000 planes. Today we have about 4,000. When that war began, we had 529 ships, today we have 272. You want to know what carpet-bombing is? It's what we did in the first Persian Gulf War: 1,100 air attacks a day, saturation bombing that utterly destroyed the enemy. Right now Barack Obama is launching about 15 and 30 air attacks a day. He's not arming the Kurds. We need to define the enemy, we need to rebuild the military, to defeat the enemy, and we need to be focused and lift the rules of engagement so we're not sending our fighting men and women into combat with their arms tied behind their backs. Jan 28, 2016

26 posted on 02/06/2016 2:44:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This guy is so enlightening. I am going to dump cruz and support bernie. Wow, now my life will be so easy and oil free.

Thank you know nothing know it all, you are what makes ameriker great.

CRUZ N WEST.
FORGET THE REST!


27 posted on 02/06/2016 2:45:02 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The cognitive dissonance of this moonbat is off the charts.


28 posted on 02/06/2016 2:45:45 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It is the typical anti-Christian diatribe puke coming from the Left. This type of bigotry infests the Lame Stream Media so bad it makes the Zika virus look like a case of indigestion. Like the Zika virus, it causes microcephaly to those exposed to it. I call such people Zer0 Infobots. For an example of them, watch this video from “Watters World” of students at University of Oregon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muXwSwhCH0w


29 posted on 02/06/2016 2:46:29 AM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: r_barton
Rafael Cruz - Born 1936: 76 years old

Rafaek Cruz was born in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1939. His father, Rafael Cruz, was a salesman for RCA, originally from the Canary Islands, Spain. His mother, Emilia Laudelina Diaz, was a teacher.

Cruz states he joined the Cuban revolution at age 14 and "suffered beatings and imprisonment for protesting the oppressive regime" of dictator Fulgencio Batista. According to Cruz, as a teenager, he "didn't know Castro was a Communist". Cruz has stated in interviews that he fled Cuba at age 18 in 1957, after an attorney for the family bribed a Batista official to grant him an exit permit. Cruz said he left with $100 sewn into his underwear before the Battle of Santa Clara, in which the revolution toppled Batista on January 1, 1959.

A Cuban emigre, he knew little or no English when he arrived in Austin to study at the University of Texas. During interviews and on the campaign trail, Cruz' son Ted recalls his father telling him he worked his way through college as a dishwasher, making 50 cents an hour. Cruz graduated from the university with a degree in mathematics. A few years later he became a staunch critic of Castro after "the rebel leader took control and began seizing private property and suppressing dissent". Cruz recounts that his younger sister fought against the new regime in the counter-revolution and was consequently tortured. He remained regretful for his early support of Castro and expressed his remorse to his son on numerous occasions.

In 1959, Cruz married Julia Ann Garza (August 22, 1939-May 18, 2013), but divorced after a few years. She later became a professor at California State University, Stanislaus. They had two daughters, Miriam Ceferina Cruz (11/22/61-2011) and Roxana Lourdes Cruz (born November 18, 1962), a Greenville, Texas, physician. Miriam died in 2011. He has one grandson.

In his twenties, Cruz moved to New Orleans. In 1969, at his new oil company job, he met his second wife, Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson, a computer programmer from Delaware. Cruz and Wilson lived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where their only child, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, was born. While in Calgary, the couple owned a seismic-data processing firm for oil drillers.

After Cruz graduated from the University of Texas in 1961, he was granted political asylum in the United States following the expiration of his student visa. He became a Canadian citizen during his residence in Canada, returning to the United States with his family in the mid -'70s. He renounced his Canadian citizenship and in 2005 became a naturalized U.S. citizen."

30 posted on 02/06/2016 2:51:00 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Give em hell Cruz!
And give us ethanol free oil and plenty of it!


31 posted on 02/06/2016 2:52:55 AM PST by Theophilus (The GOPe are dealers. The Marxist Democrats are duelists.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

So this idiot writer for Salon admits he’s an atheist:
“It’s all enough to make one despair, and to pray to a God you don’t believe in ...”
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Just another view from the liberal left, where they don’t understand that people are fed up with their ideals.


32 posted on 02/06/2016 2:53:50 AM PST by octex
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To: Theophilus

Lol!

So perfect!


33 posted on 02/06/2016 2:54:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: jonrick46
... For an example of them, watch this video from "Watters World" of students at University of Oregon:

Thanks - that's good on-the-ground proof illustrating how the youth have been indoctrinated by Big Education and set up by Democratic Party policies (roadblocks to economic expansion) to run to socialism.

34 posted on 02/06/2016 2:57:42 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The condescending, elitist, haughty, and snarky reporter is a prime example of why the American press is so disposed today. I could not read past the first couple sentences.


35 posted on 02/06/2016 2:57:50 AM PST by iontheball
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To: iontheball

We must be winning.


36 posted on 02/06/2016 2:58:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Cruz is often described as "oily," but that word doesn't really do him justice. In fact, he's so oleaginous he reminds one of the puddles covering the stained cement floor of a Jiffy Lube. It's not just a physical characteristic - though there is that; the man has a sheen about him - but also one of affect.

With all the petroliferous comments, not one of these lying sumbitches has the balls to come right out and make reference to Cruz as a "greaser", but they sure hint that a lot.

I believe, in any venue except the "it's okay when we do it" Left, that would be considered derogatory or even "racist".

37 posted on 02/06/2016 2:58:54 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: snoringbear

I hadn’t scrolled down yet...I caught that, too. It’s pretty common, and the sort of ‘cute’ bullsh*t the Liberals pull when they think they are getting away with it.


38 posted on 02/06/2016 3:02:18 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

The Left only sees people as commodities to exploit by dividing.

They are the racists, the haters, the bigots who want to divide and conquer by bringing out the worst prejudices and fears in everyone - plot and plan so that they’ll attack each other, while they’re consolidating power over everyone.


39 posted on 02/06/2016 3:05:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: patriot08

Do we dare elect a Cuban president?
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Cruz is not a Cuban. He was born a US citizen.

I’ve generally liked your postings for years, but stop the BS.


40 posted on 02/06/2016 3:06:28 AM PST by octex
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