Posted on 04/07/2016 8:47:03 AM PDT by maggief
Drudge Report editor and Washington Times columnist Charles Hurt took a look at the state of the Republican presidential primary on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon.
Hurt said the Republican Establishment loves talking about convention rules, floor fights, and the fine points of delegate behavior because “it allows them to avoid a far deeper and more important problem they have, and that is that they are completely out of touch with Republican voters.”
“They opened this huge avenue for Donald Trump, who isn’t like them, who’s an outsider, who is flamboyant, and is a force unlike anybody else,” he continued. “They allowed him to walk in, and the guy was one hundred percent in tune with voters on everything.”
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“Having covered Ted Cruz, and what he has done in the Senate ever since he has been here, to see him now as the henchman and handmaiden of the Establishment to block Donald Trump?” Hurt marveled, scoffing at the suggestion that the Establishment is actually moving in Cruz’s direction on the issues or that they would allow him to win the White House and become the nominal leader of the Republican Party.
“It is not going to work,” Hurt declared. “All he is doing is, he’s doing their work to prevent Donald Trump from clinching the nomination.”
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Here are five “leaders” that do:
Lisa Murkowski-Alaska
Lindsey Graham-S. Carolina
Adam Kinsinger-Illinois
Garret Graves-Louisiana
Chris Gibson-New York
My only contention that Trump only wins by having 1,237 votes going into the convention, not that he would win any other way.
Your support of Cruz is making it so that neither are our candidate.
Rule 40.
People don't change, and Trump is a con-man and has plenty of Suckers buying his 'Snake Oil".
He has already satisfied rule 40. He has 20 states already, well past the 8 of rule 40.
It is obvious to me. But I went all Trump after the Cruz/Chicago give away to the Left Wing Disruptors. That proved to me Cruz was in it for himself and NOT the country.
Now there’s a list of who’s who! Adam, that gift that keeps on giving. Prime example of a ‘vet’ who uses that to his advantage and it means nothing in the end. I’ll site Tammy Duckworth, another perfect example of vets without honor.
As will Cruz. This means no other candidates on a second ballot.
Show me where you are getting that piece of information.
There is no proof he received any special treatment.
But there is proof that he got very low interest rate loans from Goldman Sachs & another bank, Citibank I believe it was, but it might have been Chase.
It does not go to sleaze factor, but rather to who Ted really is.
Remember he ran as the guy that railed against the political influence big banks had on politicians and was the reason they received bailouts. So getting loans from these very same entities would not have swayed voters to vote for him, which is why his very late disclosure of these loans is important.
The loans themselves were not nefarious, they were perfectly legal, but not disclosing the loans was a slight of hand to keep the truth from the voters. It was quietly disclosed on the forms just prior to the runoff election. Then later claimed after it became public that it was an oversight.
Ted is way too smart for that to have been the real reason. We now also know that he is clever enough to play the game of politics. My belief is that it was intentional, because after all many would believe that it was just an oversight. Even I believed it because I wanted Dewhurst out of there.
You are going to believe what you want to believe, and I am under no delusion that I will change your mind, but I am on record as to telling you the truth about your man Ted.
Heidi Cruz’ role in all of this was as one of a large panel of readers and her sole identifiable contribution to the project is a one-paragraph response in the final appendix in which she says:
“We must emphasize the imperative that economic investment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is no force proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital, and producing results like financial markets and profit-making businesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a higher living standard for the poorest among us — truly the measure of our success. As such, investment fundsand financing mechanisms should be deemed attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be developed in conjunction with market participants.”
So basically, her role here is to say that free markets and free trade are the answer to greater regional prosperity. I find it hard to believe that any conservative or republican would disagree with this or condemn her for believing it, and it’s positively bizarre to see someone who is as much of a globalist insider as Dewhurst raising this sort of argument.
Now show me your source on Cruz's "sweet deal" interest rate
But let's say that they keep that rule in place and Cruz then fails to meet that rule. Cruz is then automatically eliminated from ever receiving votes, leaving only Trump.
Who do you think wins that scenario? I'll give you a clue, it won't be the American people.
The committee can propose but the delegate will vote on rule changes. So, no changing them won't be easy.
If Cruz doesn't win eight states then he's out. Period. Trump wins.
I’m a businessman and an attorney who lives in a very blue county (although will move to a red one very soon). I DON’T donate to both parties.
BTW I’d like to see that info on Ted’s interest rate.
BTW I’d like to see that info on Ted’s interest rate.
1. Cruz had a legal obligation to disclose the loans
There are two disclosure requirements. He complied with one, reporting both the Goldman Sachs and Citibank deals in his personal financial reports as a candidate and newly elected senator. The campaign paid zero interest, the documents say.
The personal financial disclosures also report Cruz's no-interest loans to the campaign. There's no connection made between the two sets of transactions. The disclosures also don't show any sell-off of the couple's financial investments.
The day after announcing for president, he told Bloomberg News, "Goldman is one of the biggest banks on Wall Street, and my criticism with Washington is they engage in crony capitalism. They give favors to Wall Street and big business, and that's why I've been an outspoken opponent of crony capitalism, taking on leaders in both parties."
Not if he doesn’t get the magical number of 1,237.
From Factcheck.org:One of Cruz’s loans — a line of credit from Citibank — carried an interest rate of “prime – floating,” according to his personal financial disclosure form. We don’t know what type of line of credit Cruz received, but TD Bank currently advertises a home equity rate lower than that for “qualified customers” — prime minus 0.5 percent. PNC Bank, too, offers a rate lower than prime.
Citibank’s website currently says its home equity lines carry rates of prime plus an additional margin. When we asked Citibank about the prime floating rate Cruz secured for his line of credit in 2012, Kamran Mumtaz, a Citi spokesman, told us: “The interest rate offered was consistent with the product offering at the time.” A floating rate is a variable interest rate that can change — in this case, it would change if the prime rate changes.
Naughty naughty.
Many insist Cruz is some sort of Conservative Messiah. Really?
Anyone w/an IQ above room temperature should know that there are no conservatives in DC. All are politicians to the core who will say anything to anyone, anytime; then repeat it!!!!!
Plain and simple, Trump despite his warts is a non-DC persona and perceived as an agent of change. Period.
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