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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.

[Rastus]

“And all the kids cheered! But I didn’t cheer. I stood right up and started shouting, ‘This isn’t what happened last week! Have you all got amnesia? They just cheated us! This isn’t fair! He didn’t get out of the cockadoodie car!’”

[Red Steel]

I’d like to add nobody knew politically who Ted Cruz was until only 4 years ago or about his views. He was born on the national political scene where he could have made up much of his political and personal persona in the ambitious pursuit of the Senate and now the presidency And Bam! The CONservative world swallowed him whole cloth.

[stockpirate]

Posting the truth about Ted sCruz only confuses his flock of zombies.

[CapitalistCrusader]

What really gets me is the Corker bill and Mr. Cruz's explanation of why he voted for it.

"I voted no on cloture because we should have insisted on amendments to put real teeth in this bill. Ultimately, I voted yes on final passage because it may delay, slightly, President Obama’s ability to lift the Iran sanctions and it ensures we will have a Congressional debate on the merits of the Iran deal. I will continue to lead the fight to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to protect the national security of America and our allies."

If Mr. Cruz really wanted debate about the merits of the Iran deal why not insist that the deal be considered a treaty, as it rightly should have been? The only reason for the Corker bill was to prevent that debate from occurring.

On which conservative, constitutional principle is denying the United States Senate its proper role in advising and consenting on treaties made with foreign nations based?

Mr. Cruz should have voted no on cloture and the final passage for the precise reason that the bill is an affront to the constitution.

[major-pelham]

That’s only like the best piece written on the campaign in a year. Cruz supporters have become a cult adopting every leftist campaign tactic in the book. And they’re ready to get us 4 more lefty SCOTUS to ruin the republic when he loses worse than Romney. He has no support, he’s merely a vehicle for the #nevertrump elitists. Sad.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

See sky, in their world which is controlled by the GOPe, it’s not really the GOPe of old, those guys are NOT who are driving Teddy or supporting him! I mean, look, Teddy still hasn’t apologized to McConnell for gosh golly gee!

No no no, the GOPe went on hands and knees begging Teddy to let them be a part of his brilliant plan to do great things for America! See, Teddy the TOOL is the genius, the outsider who is out smarting ALL those career politicans, just being the constitutional wizard he is, they (GOPe and their master Teddy) had to shield themselves away from Sessions! I mean really, what does Jeff know about illegals flooding the country?

See, it’s easy and kinda fun to play dummy and follow the bouncing ball - just nod at everything Teddy says and spew fire from your mouth at the mere mention of that clod Trump!

It’s so easy!!

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