Posted on 02/15/2016 10:09:57 AM PST by catnipman
Under a Trump presidency, Americans would lose their gun rights and religious liberty and see abortion rights dramatically expanded, Cruz said Monday morning on Fox News.
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No, Cruz is not “desperate to save this country from a New York liberal casino mogul con man,” he is desperate to force the fulfillment of an erroneously and un-scripturally given “prophecy” that God never gave him.
>>One freshman senator is not going to lead the Senate. He did provide leadership for many House members.
A leader leads, regardless of his position power. Perhaps he is trying too hard to get out of the Senate, if his calling was to legislate.
>>That’s to prove he is a member of the club.
His ineffective noisemaking proved that he is not a member of the club.
What's a Cruze?
“Whomever comes out on top after Super Tuesday will likely be propelled to the nomination...not merely SC. Would you not agree?”
Agreed. But I take my prognostication one step further: if Cruz loses by 20 points or more to Trump in S.C., then that BADLY hurts Cruz’s momentum going into the SEC primary. His loss in NH has already started Trump’s bandwagon rolling in S.C. as Trump’s poll lead improved in S.C. after the N.H. voting results.
Cruz knows this, which is why he’s gone into an absolute frenzy of negativity.
And if Trump puts a liberal on the court and his pick chooses to go against the NRA? What does he do? Dick Nixon said he was against abortion, but after Roe v. Wade. he did not lift a finger to slow down the implementation of this new law. Saturday, Trump sounded like Nelson Rockefeller, except that Rockefeller never sold himself as hard as Trump does,
that said, I think that if Ginsberg were to drop dead next April, Trump probably would be more likely to put a conservative judge on the Court than Bush would. That would be simply a matter of necessity. But an appointment two years later? Who knows? I think he is prejudiced against the right, his politics is like his speeches, stream of consciousness.
“I shall do so.”
Cool!
And Trump knows he has to win big, which is why he went into a frenzy on Saturday.He hopes the democrats and the independents put him over.
“Hopefully Ted Cruz for POTUS/VPOTUS/SCOTUS is over.”
Actually, I still think Cruz would be awesome on SCOTUS. I think his legal conservative bonafides are real; I just think he’s a HORRIBLE candidate and have been totally turned off by his dirty campaign tactics and his weaseling and lies as a candidate.
However, Cruz is hated so much by his Senate colleges, I’m not sure his nomination could be affirmed.
Honestly, they are both looking silly. I wish they’d knock it off.
Trump or Cruz for me is a big win. A Trump/Cruz ticket (which I doubt will happen now) would have been a yuuuge game changer in republican politics.
Could you imagine. Trump as president, Cruz as president of the Senate...circumventing Mitch McConnell. Oh man, I know I'm day dreaming, but that would be absolutely delicious.
Is that the video from the late 70’s?
TRUMP already pleaded “GULTY, as charged”, and nearly 30 years later reasoned why he changed, when he changed, and even said that growing up in liberal New York you think differently from, “say people in Iowa”.
You guys really need some new material.
Cruz does play nasty. Where is the guy who roomed with Cruz? You know the one who said he was never seen to be particularly religious before running for office first in TEXAS, and now for the nomination to the presidency.
Where is the high school testimony where Cruz is already planning a life around running for president? Overtly overly ambitious is not a condition completely defined to Hillary, but to Ted.
What he is riding is the Evangelicals, serving as his mules to the front office.
It is amazing there is no hesitancy to attribute 30 year old material to TRUMP, but none to Ted. Same old, same old.
Never mind his open border donors from Wall Street, CoC and the %300,000.00 donation to his campaign from none other than Mitch McConnell. Never mind Cruz was silent in the 2012 states senatorial races, while serving make up duty on the NRSC, as Vice Chairman, where he gave $200,000.00 to the Committee who pulled off the MISSISSIPPI TREATMENT against Daniels, the Tea Party conservative leading that race. It worked, and Thad Cochran was re-elected.
Remember Mississippi.
“This lying Cruz campaign team is going end up costing him his Senate seat as well as the Presidency.”
I hope you are wrong about the Senate seat. He may be of value there, under a different Majority Leader.
I saw this morning that Bush PAC internal poll was showing Cruz is only 2 points behind Mr. Trump. I really like Ted Cruz. In the late 80s I used to be an Assistant Public Defender in the 2DCA in Florida. As a result, the issue of who will pick Supreme Court Justices is a major.
The mudslinging is pretty bad in South Carolina. It is hard for me to believe anything in the ads, etc. It keeps crossing my mind that when a candidate says this or that candidate sent an offensive mailer for example - how does anyone know that the person making the accusation didn’t send out the flyer putting another candidates name on it? Or a PAC supporting the complaining candidate?
If Bush had listened to Cruz, we would have had a Justice Mike Luttigg, who was Cruz’s first choice. Cruz had a second choice, also not Roberts. He only supported Roberts when he became the nominee.
Cruz said he was troubled at the time by the lack of record of Roberts. He also pledged that he would never nominate anyone without a solid conservative record of upholding the Constitution.
Trump donated to Ted Cruz.
They changed or modified their positions after being selected. Turncoats.
RWR is said to have been a good judge of character, yet here we have two moderate/liberal turncoat justices he nominated.
Cruz and the Nation got burned with the Roberts pick. Would he make the same mistake again? I don’t know. If elected, I would hope not.
But to lay all of this (Roberts) at Cruz’s feet is disingenuous...how does one defend against a turncoat?
Trump’s possible nominees aren’t any guarantee either...even though they appear quite conservative now, (Pryor going after Roy Moore is of some concern) they could decide to turn as well.
In fairness, Trump’s position on the 2nd Amendment has changed...he was for an “assault” weapons ban not too long ago. So it stands to reason he would have to promote his newfound position on firearms and the 2nd Amendment. Up until recently, I was not aware he had come off of his original ban position.
Cruz has steadfastly maintained the Constitutional position, inherent, God given right of self-defense.
As an interested observer/voter, I don’t see why Cruz would have to reinforce an already known position.
“Planned Parenthood and Code Pink both supported in the last week or so.”
Supported by whom?
If you claim by Trump supporters, you are a liar.
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