[markomalley]

So will the meme become "Cryin' Ted"?

[unsycophant]

Does Cruz ever talk about what he’d do to make America great? IDK.

It seems like all I ever read or hear from him is complaining about Trump, or how other people favor Trump.

Cruz has the backing of the GOP ground machine; millions of dollars in PAC support; many pundits & MSM; moonbats; conservative moonbats;

and yet, we get nothing but Lyin & Cryin Ted.

Does he have any vision as a leader, for the USA?

[FreedomGuru]

Cruz-cino proves again that he is a typical politician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYJyVEUaC4

[nathanbedford]

Typically, that is consistently, Ted Cruz conducts himself in a hostile interview without putting a foot wrong.

He was confronted by a smirking, grunting, eye rolling, interrupting Bill O'Reilly who was determined to make the interview not about the candidate or his policies but about Bill O'Reilly. Cruz made his arguments brilliantly as he always does without rancor, without pettiness, without snarkiness in the face of naked arrogance.

It is remarkable that a candidate has to pass the test of what Bill O'Reilly thinks, likes, or will endorse during an interview. Even Katie Couric did not descend to that level.

Ted Cruz won the contest going away.

[iowamark]

Trump and Ted Baxter are old friends, as Baxter makes clear in his books. I am sure that Cruz was advised to avoid The Factor. BOR was generally polite in the interview last night and Cruz handled himself well.

[SkyPilot]

MOONIES FOR CRUZ - by Ann Coulter

The Cruz-bots don't care. They don't care that they're being used as a cat's-paw by the Never Trump crowd, and that a brokered Republican convention is more likely to end with Bernie as the nominee than Cruz.

The Cruz cultists don't even care about plain honesty, which I always thought was a conservative value. Republicans used to be appalled by guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons. Now they are guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons.

It's all hands on deck to stop the only presidential candidate who wants to save America from the cheap labor plutocrats. Cruz has flipped to Trump's side on every important political issue of this campaign -- which only ARE issues because of Trump. These are:

-- Quadrupling the number of foreign guest workers to help ranchers and farmers get cheap labor: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.

-- Legalizing illegal aliens: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.

-- The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.

-- Building a wall: Cruz was against it, and now is for it.

These are all positions Cruz has changed since being a senator -- most of them he's flipped on only in the last year. I'm supposed to believe that U.S. senators can sincerely change their minds about policies it was their job to know about, but a New York developer can never change his mind about pop-offs he made more than a decade ago.

Back in 1999 -- 17 years ago -- when Donald Trump was considering a presidential run on the Reform Party ticket, he said this when asked about abortion by Tim Russert on "Meet the Press": "Well, look, I'm very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject. But you still -- I just believe in choice."

Russert then asked him specifically if he'd ban partial-birth abortion. Trump said, "No. I am pro-choice in every respect and as far as it goes, but I just hate it."

A year later, Trump wrote in his book "The America We Deserve": "When Tim Russert asked me on 'Meet the Press' if I would ban partial-birth abortion, my pro-choice instincts led me to say no. After the show, I consulted two doctors I respect and, upon learning more about this procedure, I have concluded that I would indeed support a ban."

Sometime in the intervening 16 years, Trump became fully pro-life.

You can say you don't believe him -- just as you might say you don't believe Cruz has truly changed his mind on amnesty, the wall, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership, etc. But to claim Trump is pro-choice today -- present tense -- is what's known as a "lie."

But that's what Cruz says over and over again, including in a campaign ad -- and not one of those "super PAC" ads that count even less than a retweet. A Cruz ad plays the clip from that 1999 interview where Trump says, "I am pro-choice in every respect," repeats it three times, and then cuts to a narrator proclaiming: "For partial-birth abortion, not a conservative."

These are the kinds of lies that used to drive conservatives crazy when the Clintons did it. Not anymore. All's fair in smearing Trump.

[MarDav]

Ted was making a point to Bill O’Reilly that he [O’Reilly] spends an awful lot of time defending Donald Trump. He then pointed out several instances of Trump’s positions and...O’Reilly defended Trump.

I’d say he did a pretty good job of proving his point.

[Wpin]

Cruz is always working to bring the world around to his deluded, deranged viewpoint. What has been amazing to me is how many of his supporters have willingly given up their will to this madman. We have seen this in the past, but not here, in this nation. It is like Jonestown on a much larger scale.

[MagnoliaB]

Maybe O’Reilly should have brought up the fact that Glenn Beck has been using his 3 hour a day, 5 days a week radio show for Cruz defending and Trump bashing. What other candidate has that?

[Guenevere]

To read later

Trump lives rent free in Cruz cranium.....
.....every interview!

[trebb]

Ironic how Cruz happily reaps the benefits of a host of folks jumping on trump with both feet and finds it hard to take that one yo-yo supports Trump....

WAAAAAA! Mommy - make the bad man stop!!!!!!

[LNV]

If Cruz can’t even handle O’Reilly without coming across as thin-skinned, the MSM is going to have a field day with him if he wins the nomination.

[JerseyDvl]

Somebody call the LYING waaaaaambulance. He’s just so effeminate.

[Fundamentally Fair]

The comments on Ted Cruz have gotten beyond any reason or logic.

If this EXACT interview had happened with Trump, there would be celebrations and dancing in the street. Trump has made attaching “Faux News” a central theme in his efforts.

Trump fans are to invested in Trump’s Alinsky name calling.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Lion Ted.

[socal_parrot]

It’s very obvious Fox News is slanted toward Trump. They cover more of his speeches and for longer. Some of that is because with Trump rallies, you never know what’s going to happen.

[moehoward]

Bill corrects the record, he doesn’t “defend” Trump. Ted hates to be challenged on his lies.

[JimRed]

Treating Trump (reasonably) fairly is not the same as defending him.

[Ted Grant]

I saw the interview. Strictly amateur hour for Ted. He’s like a parody of a 1980s Republican.

[11th Commandment]

Bill O’Reilly is a BLOWHARD... oh wait, he is on Trump’s side.... Bill is great, gotta buy is books, DVR the factor

[Albion Wilde]

Lyin’ Ted is obsessed. He always calls his elder, Mr. Trump, by his first name, like a scorned woman who slept with an older man for the reflected status or money and then got shut out of his life, but still wants to demonstrate that she was once intimate with him.