Posted on 03/14/2016 10:13:32 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump views protesters as disloyal people worthy of punishment and that the best response to Mr. Trump is to defeat him at the ballot box, reiterating his own pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee in the fall.
Mr. Cruz re-upped criticism of Mr. Trump for recently having rally attendees pledge their support to him, likening it to an action kings and queens demand of their subjects.
“It’s also reflected in his treatment of protesters, where anyone who’s a protester is disloyal and must be punished,” Mr. Cruz told reporters in Illinois ahead of the March 15 primary there.
“The only pledge that I am interested in, the only hand-raising that I’m interested in is on January 20, 2017, when I hope to raise my right hand with my left hand on the Bible and pledge to each and every one of you that I will preserve, protect [and] defend the Constitution and fight for the hard-working taxpayers,” Mr. Cruz said.
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“That is a question the voters are asking: At what point do we say ‘enough is enough?’ ” Mr. Cruz said. “If Donald Trump is the nominee, he is a disaster, and the answer is to beat him.”
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“Even Rush supported Trump today.”
“Rush defending Cruz right now.” (Comment #20)
I’m confused (I didn’t her his program today).
On trade wars.
We are already in a trade war. We have been losing since 1973. NAFTA sped it up. China’s most favored nation status put it on steroids. We know this.
We have 93 mm out of work. At least. With 2/3 of those coming here being illiterate, how will they work with any quality? Where is their diligence and discipline? IIRC, 2/3 of Hispanic inmates are illiterate.
I don’t know how to fix this. I imagine we’ll have to have WPA type programs for awhile, if we are to rebuild our infrastructure.
If we DON’T rebuild, the globalists WILL kill us somehow. They will have to. And they’ll come for the fighters first, like many on FR.
I do not see any other way than Trump because he builds and makes deals. If we go H3ll or Sanders, we are completely gone forever-1000 years of darkness. We were warned.
I quit supporting Cruz after TPA and Corker. That’s globalism writ large, as well as direct support of our enemy-making US the largest supporter of state-sponsored terrorism in the world.
I’m a Cruz supporter and can’t believe he is uttering this leftist BS. He is supporting the communist left and their guttural antics? WTF Ted, did you get kicked in the head by accident in the last four days and lose your walking around sense boy?
Cruz is trolling for anti-Trump votes to the left of Trump. Conservatives are dead to him.
If Cruz ever makes it to the White House it WILL be his job to defend the right of Americans to peacefully assemble and OUR right to free speech. It WILL be his job to stop protesters who illegally interfere with our rights.
By giving the rabble soft cover, he’s telegraphed that he doesn’t care about the rights of the twenty thousand Americans who legally assembled over the lawbreakers - if it suits him.
How do you know that about millions and millions of people? You can't.
The rest of your post--don't be such a frightened person, man up.
Protesting is fine, I am all for it. That would involve having your signs and protesting the Trump event outside the facility he is presenting at. What these Moveon, Occupy Wall Street and Bill Ayers groups did was “disrupt”, that is not protesting.
Cruz as a Constitutional lawyer should not better and point out that distinction. Political Protest, fine, I am all for the Libs protesting (peacefully), it is the disruption of Trump Events that I have a problem with.
Yes.
Fine. And will you agree to post a public vanity that you were oh so wrong if the economy rebounds and if our security is actually strengthened? If the veterans are taken care of and our 2A rights are expanded?
Kristallnacht.
I don’t think Irving Kristol was involved in that.
Wow! I dismissed what support I had for Senator Cruz, following his opportunistic slap at Trump on Saturday. He could have just kept the blame where it truly rested - with BLM, OWS, MoveOn, Bernie, and the Democrat machine in general - BUT he had to attempt attaching blame to Trump. That was the final straw for me. I could not believe that Senator Cruz could be so politically deaf as to “go there” - but he did. And that was the end of the trail. Same for Rubio and Kasich, although neither of those two clowns ever had my support.
Now, today, with this comment, Cruz doubles down on his abject political stupidity? Does he honestly think that Trump’s supporters will flock to him? I am just dumbfounded by this man’s in-your-face arrogance. I cannot even stand to listen to him any more. He’s just a total turn-off in every way imaginable - in fact, he gives me the creeps.
Sorry for the rant.
The only pledge he’s interested in is raising his hand .... and that I’ll support the nominee.
What a fraud!
Fact is Trump does sound like a union thug.
When he says stuff like we used to make these guys be carried out, who is he talking about?
Union thugs. Democrats and Commie-socialists.
It happened to Freeper Don Adams early on here. He was protesting Hillary Care and the Philadelphia union thugs beat him bloody.
Cruz, the constitutional LAW expert thinks enforcing the law is punishing people.
These trade wars are nothing more than socialist redistribution on a global scale.
Diana West really rips apart the whole Ted Cruz “outsider” facade in this column from last week.
I’ve seen lots of comments from the Cruz supporters that claim Neil Bush and the others that have come from the failed Jeb team only bring money and connections with them, but look at the immigration interests and globalist connections that they represent.
Cruz people had better realize and soon that he will do nothing else than to be a continuation of Bush 41 and Bush 43 presidencies if he’s elected.
Just when we thought our fellow Americans, voting in droves in the early primaries not for Jeb Bush, had prevailed through the ballot box against the rigged wheels and multi-millions of the permanent insiders of Bush, Inc., we find that Jeb Bush’s finance committee has attached itself, leech-like, to “outsider” Ted Cruz.
And vice-versa.
On March 3, eight former members of the Jeb! team joined the Cruz campaign:
Paul Dickerson of Houston, TX
Boyden Gray of Washington, DC
Charles Foster of Houston, TX
Reginald J. Brown of Washington, DC
Paula and Jim Henry of Midland, TX
Nancy and Randy Best of Dallas, TX.
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Why would Cruz do this to himself, and his supporters?
Dickerson, Gray, and Brown are all former Bush administration officials, either 41 or 43, or both. Dickeron was at Bush 43’s commerce and energy departments; Gray was Bush 41’s legal counsel, an ambassador for 43; Brown, a counsel for Bush 43.
So much for “Ted Cruz, Outsider,” a guise — a political ruse, as compellingly argued at Conservative Treehouse — that was always an extremely long stretch for someone who earned his spurs inside the Bush legal team during the 2000 Florida recount; who worked closely in 2000 with Houston immigration lawyer Charles Foster to craft Candidate Bush 43’s pro-immigration/legalizing-aliens overhaul, and whose wife, Heidi Cruz, famously on leave from “outsider” bank Goldman Sachs, would go on to work for key globalists Robert Zoellick (Bush 43’s fast track booster) and Condoleeza Rice (Bush 43’s SPP booster), while co-authoring, as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a blueprint for “North American Union.” And yes, it matters. Particularly when Cruz is a Canada-born presidential candidate who insists he’s both “natural born” and a constitutional originalist. Smoke and mirrors seems to be this couple’s chosen decor.
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Consider the man midway down the new Jeb-to-Ted finance committee list, Houston immigration lawyer Charles Foster. Foster is a Bush loyalist to the hilt, whose Wiki page tells us he “initiated and co-chaired” Houston monuments to George H.W. Bush and James Baker both; and, as noted above, worked closely with Cruz on formulating Candidate Bush 43’s immigration program.
Foster is also former co-chairman of Foster Quan, LLP — motto: “the Comprehensive Immigration Law Firm” — and current chairman of Foster, LLP — motto: “fostering Global Immigration Solutions.” He also heads the Greater Houston Partnership on Immigration Reform, billed as “a nationwide effort to secure sensible immigration reform that meets the needs of the business community, families and our nation’s economy.”
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TPA isn’t the problem. TPP is. Once Cruz read TPP he did NOT support it. I don’t get what the problem is.
Trump likes to tout that he makes deals. So what, anyone can “make a deal.” Not all of Trump’s deals have been great. He went into Atlantic City in the 80s and nearly bankrupted himself. Was that a great deal? No it wasn’t. He was rescued by bankruptcy laws.
Are you telling me Trump is going to get us a great deal in bankruptcy? I might believe that.
Beyond that, I don’t really want a guy who will make deals with the democrats. That is what we’ve had for 100 years. It’s gotten us nowhere. I don’t see how anything changes. The only way to fundamentally change America is to shrink government and amend the Constitution to reign in the bureaucracy.
Which of Ted Cruz’s platform planks do you not like? He wants to shrink tax rates/the IRS, the DOE, the EPA, audit the Fed, defeat ISIS, etc. What is not to like? Beyond that, he would probably support a Constitutional Convention, which is what we really need beyond anything. I can’t say that for sure, because I don’t know that he’s ever been asked about it, but I know his former boss Greg Abbott is for it and has the ear of Cruz.
Anyways, I’m getting sidetracked.
“I thought it was against a federal law to disrupt rallies with SS present.”
The 1st Amendment trumps Federal law.
DT pours gasoline on fires. Totally UNPresidential
Anyone who thinks DT treatment of protesters is presidential should watch Ted Cruz talk down a Code Pinker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QCbpafD3Pw
He also lied. Was not told by PD to call off rally. Whole thing was a diversion from horrible debate performance.
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