Posted on 03/24/2016 5:46:31 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Ted Cruz warned Donald Trump not to "attack women" Thursday after the Republican frontrunner appeared to escalate the personal feud over their wives.
"Donald, real men don't attack women," the Texas senator wrote after the billionaire retweeted an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz.
The exchange came after Trump showed no sign of backing down in the dispute over a campaign ad that featured an old picture of Melania Trump posing handcuffed and nude for GQ magazine.
The flare-up prompted Jeb Bush to endorse Cruz Wednesday in a rebuke to what the former Florida governor called the "divisiveness and vulgarity" of Trump.
Trump repeated late Wednesday that he believed Cruz "knew about" the ad, which appeared to be aimed at persuading Mormon women to support Cruz in Tuesday's Utah primary.
The ad was created by the anti-Trump Make America Awesome Again super PAC and featured a photo shoot of Melania from 2000 with the meme caption: "meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday."
As polls closed in Tuesday's contests, Trump tweeted : "Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!"
On Wednesday, Cruz told NBC's TODAY that Trump's threat "speaks volumes about character" and "is the epitome of classlessness."
"If Donald is trying to mess with my wife, he's way out of his league," he added
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You PAC did.
Oh and some of your supporters seemed to see it as marching orders:
“She knows how to say I will pose nude for money in 5 languages.”
“when this woman is 10,000x times more impressive than unintelligible prop Melania Trump will ever be...”
And you have Romney saying she is just some cheap European import wife.
real Constitutional conservatives do not subjugate the 1st Amendment in order to score political points.
For Trump, stirring up stupid controversy is free publicity. And it gets sympathy votes. This is how Trump has run his whole campaign and it is not Presidential.
I think we are going to be in great shape with trump. He doesn’t back down which is great dealing with terrorists and unpatriotic Americans. Go trump!
You mean Trump’s SuerPACs.....that dont exist?
When this comes back and bites him in the butt, and I think it will, Ted will say it's all the fault of his new spokesman Neil Bush who told him not to disavow what a Cruz supporting PAC did.
Trump never starts these pissing matches but he always ends them on top. Cruz’s team posted inappropriate pics of Trump’s wife. Trump struck back. Now Cruz complains because his bullying tactics failed.
Yeah, we all know the pics were not posted by Cruz’ campaign, but they were done in his name. He did not strongly disapprove of the tactic and demand that those guilty stop. He simply tried to shift the blame.
Trump is no coward. He should never be expected to act like one.
real Constitutional conservatives do not surround themselves with the GOPe
Cruz is TOAST !
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3378862/posts?q=1&;page=201
SEN.CRUZ WAS BORN IN CANADA TO A MOTHER WHO WAS A CANADIAN CITIZEN AT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH.
I don’t know any man who would not have been disgusted that someone would use their name in an ad with a pic of another mans naked wife. He should have called out that pac and told them to remove his name from the disgusting ad, but he didn’t. This is disgusting! He is looking nastier and nastier every day.
The graph at the link shows all the anti-Trump PACs and candidate PACs.
Anti-Trump PACs Have Spent $17.3M on TV and Radio Ads So Far
[”Donald, real men don’t attack women,”]
“Cruz, real men don’t frighten their young daughters”
.....and the Republican circular firing squad continues. Can't wait to see how this turns out.
...or I will spill the beans on your wife...
One more thing lyin Ted is desperate to hide from everyone
Yea, there is a big difference between attacking a woman and threatening a woman. Trump prefers threats because it's all talk. The only thing the windbag is good at. He'll leave it up to his surrogates to do the attacking so he can deny an responsibility.
That is BS and you know he approved that stupid ad just like he willingly jumped into bed with the GOPe!
No, I mean his Kool-Aid slurping drones on FR and elsewhere.
Eff, "Presidential", how about America First for a change ?
It’s called a threat.
Hey if TRUMPS wife wants public photos of her as a SLUT ....
Why isn’t that relative? She’ll be in the Whitehouse with him!
Some people don’t want a slut in the white house!
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