Cruz Asked If a "True Conservative" Would Support Trump; Cruz: " That's a Decision Every Voter...

Real Clear Politics ^ | May 27, 2016 | Ian Schwartz

[miss marmelstein]

We’re articulate, unlike some folks (and you know who I mean!) around here. We actually read books, learn to use invective and sarcasm and ridicule in place (at least for me) of physical strength. It’s a weapon, alright. It makes enemies but it keeps destroyers at bay.

[nopardons]

Very true and it's but one reason why some here ( you know to whom I am referring ), have a problem with our posts AND nominee elect Trump. ;^)

It's an extremely effective "weapon", when used judiciously. Perhaps it's a dying "art", which if so, needs to have new life breathed into it. After all, the FFs were absolutely masters of it.

[miss marmelstein]

I’m of Irish descent - the Irish and the English have a gift for insult. I don’t know why - they’re an articulate people, generally. Perhaps coming from a tiny island always about to be invaded, they learn to fight fire with fire - in their own way.

[BruceS]

I have no idea if Trump is a “true conservative” or not. I suspect he is not. He has not been pushing the conservative ideas he is now espousing for long. HOWEVER, I know Hillary is a progressive socialist. That means that I am going to vote for Trump, because to do otherwise is to provide support for Hillary.

[nopardons]

The English are past masters of irony, sarcasm, and verbal insults; the Irish, not as much but they do hold up their end of it.

Being mostly, 3/4s, Hungarian/true Magyar, that's not really part of my heritage. OTOH, having been born & bred in NYC, in a rabidly Anglophilic family, and cutting my baby teeth on the words of Sir W.S. Gilbert's words, I come b y it rightly. LOL

Like the British Isles, poor little Hungary kept being invaded and taken over. We just fought and keep fighting back and now they have a WALL ! :-)

[nopardons]

Trump is and ALWAYS has been an old fashioned Conservative and a patriot !

[BruceS]

So, in your world, old fashioned conservatives and patriots give money to liberal democrats, state they are pro-choice, favor assault weapons bans, believe in eminent domain for private developers to be able to get land to expand private operations and proclaim Hillary Clinton as a great Secretary of State? They don’t in my world.

[nopardons]

This has been explained over and over and OVER again to you and your ilk; now, I’ll just tell you to shove it and these lies where the sun don’t shine. You truly are a barely literate, uneducated, political naif.

[SunkenCiv]

Whack-a-doodle-doo!

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• Interesting Cruz Poll Being Taken in South Dakota Today
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• Cruz campaign: We could have stopped Trump if Rubio became running mate
• On "SNL" Dana Carvey's Church Lady Returns To Interview Trump and Cruz
• NJ MONMOUTH POLL (Trump 70%, Kasich 15%, Cruz 11%)
• Glenn Beck: America Is a 'Petulant Child' God Must Punish for Supporting Trump Over Cruz
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• Video: Glenn Beck Continues Embarrassing Meltdown After Cruz Bumped From Race
• The Ted Cruz shadow campaign has started
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• Trump: I'm open to Cruz as VP
• [This thread has been pulled on 05/05/2016, Copyright violation.
• [Twitter] The Cruz Crew Jumps on the Trump Train to Unite Against Hillary
• SHOCK poll shows where Cruz and Kasich's supporters will go now that they're out...
• Carson Floats Cruz As Attorney General To Go After Clinton
• Sure looks like Kasich's goal was to stop Cruz
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• Was Ted Cruz's Speech Last Night Shakespearean?
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• What Went Wrong for Ted Cruz
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• Ted Cruz Accidentally Punches And Elbows His Wife In The Face After Dropping Out
• Donald Trump on Ted Cruz: 'One (heck) of a competitor'
• Ted Cruz won the Presidency
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• CRUZ SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN
• 2016 Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race
• Cruz Ending Campaign After Indiana Loss to Trump
• Cruz Drops OUT
• Jeff Roe: Cruz Ending GOP Presidential Campaign
• Cruz quits race
• Cruz, Anti-Trump Forces Spend $6M on Indiana Airwaves
• Campaign puts merchandise on sale as John Kasich, Ted Cruz brace for bad night in Indiana
• Cruz argues w/ another Indiana voter, who tells him you've already been mathematically eliminated
• Report: Ted Cruz Prepares for "Somber Speech" Tonight [Video]
• Video: Cuccinelli Dumps Stewart, Adds Self to Virginia Delegate Heist for Cruz
• VIDEO=> Cruz Camp Predicts Trump Landslide in Indiana -- May Win 3/4's of Delegates
• Aides to Ted Cruz preparing for "a very somber" address in Indianapolis tonight
• Greta makes an unexpected statement about Cruz
• Vanity: Last Rites for sCruzLoose in Indiana..."It's all over, but the shouting"
• Cruz Cult Exposed -- "Religion" of 7 Mountain Strategy A Cult Of Heidi's NWO
• Trump, Sanders lead in West Virginia (Trump leads 61% to 22% for Cruz)
• Carly Fiorina Broods, As Cruz Rants!!! "Vanity"
• Ted Cruz's Messianic Message
• Trump: Cruz has become 'unhinged'
• Glenn Beck: "Huge Drudge Font Size" Mocking My Fast For Ted Cruz A Sign America Is "Done"
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• Rush: GOP Wants to 'Lose With Cruz' to Oust Conservatives
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• Still Report #834 -- Cruz Bails on Indiana
• Indiana talk radio isn't giving air cover to Ted Cruz
• Ted Cruz Renounces Newly Discovered Canadian Citizenship
• Indiana Poll -- Donald Trump 49%, Ted Cruz 34%, John Kasich 13%... ( Trump gets all delegates)
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• Poll: Trump has 15-point lead over Cruz in Indiana
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• VIDEO: Watch Ted Cruz Argue With Disabled Man's Family About Health Care
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• Heidi Cruz: 'Ted Is An Immigrant!'
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• Here's the problem with Ted Cruz, according to Donald Trump Jr.
• [Reuters] National poll: Half of Republicans support Trump [Trump 49.8 Cruz 30% Kasich 14.7%]

Whack-a-doodle-two!

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• Libertarian Presidential Debate (Part 1) - Hosted by John Stossel
• 5 Questions For Libertarians Who Support Privatizing Marriage
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• The Misguided Cruzade for Total Border Control [Open-Border Libertarians]
• Helms gavels down Weld supporters in a show of power (remember when we had real committee chairman?)

Talk about having all the right enemies...

[nopardons]

Thank you SC, for posting all of that!

[itsahoot]

I always took it to be a backhanded swipe at Trump’s more facile critics.

Yep.

[itsahoot]

Glad to know you support DJT 100%!

I have voted for every republican since Nixon one, but I swore I would not vote for another Establishment RINO after I reluctantly voted for Romney, eve though it had Zero effect because the state I live in is 100% demo/commie.

[BruceS]

You truly are a Trumpeter - don’t respond, just insult and call names. I won’t argue with someone who accepts everything Trump explains at face value - although I would be interested to know if you accepted all of Romney’s explanations for his position shifts? Probably not. I only hope that you are right that Trump is now a true conservative. But we know where hope got us with Obama.

[xzins]

And how does that same 44 year old reasonably intelligent person also possess one of the most coveted law degrees in the world, clerk for the chief justice of the supreme court, serve for years as the solicitor general of Texas, and have his Canadian birth certificate in his own hands, and STILL not know he is a dual citizen of Canada?

THAT question turned me from a Cruz supporter to a Trump supporter back about Christmas time 2015.

[Spaulding]

Perfectly and concisely expressed Beautiful_Skies. I envy your skill at using so few words to make the point.

After Obama, whom many of us have to thank for inspiring us to actually learn about our Constitution rather than trust the legal opinions of media pundits, Cruz’ interpretation of natural born citizenship was obviously not just wrong, but a lie. What initially came as a surprise was Mark Levin’s unflagging and incongruous patronage o Cruz, particularly given Levin’s excellent paragraphs defining constitutional originalism on Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny” (p36) To see presumably conservative pundit’s avoidance of USOC opinions, using the ploy Larry Tribe used in his and Ted Olson’s legal misdirection in Senate Resolution 511 hearings. Ribe and Olson failed to note taht the First Congress’ Naturalization Act was completely rescinded in 1795.

It will be a surprise if Levin and others don’t lose audience share. I know he has lost me. Beck, while he was advocating original sources, raised some good points. He clearly went off the rails and forgot what he was preaching five or years before. Ann Coulter had the integrity to admit her original ignorance of the law. Even if our government doesn’t honor, defend and respect the Constitution there are a few voices in the media who do. But they is not always easy to differentiate. A couple of surprised to this reader are a self-declared originalist “constitutional originalist” who calls herself “Publius Hildah”, who cites the rescinded !st Congress Naturalization Act, and Hlllsdale College, which has never had the courage to address the truth about Obama, Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, Haley, but sells itself as a source of Constitutional Conservatism. As Beck once preached, read the sources yourself.

A new source for this reader, even though she missed subtle sloppiness of Publius Hildah (Hildah still opined the ineligibility of Cruz, Rubio, et. al., but incorrectly cited the 1790 Act, which may have been sloppiness, but can’t be ignored)is Krisanne Hall, Krisannehall.com, is full of law and legal history that is missing from our mainstream media, and on radio and YouTube every day with fearless analysis of legal perfidy as hit happens, explaining what actions do and don’t conform to constitutional limitations on our government.

[Grampa Dave]

itsahoot’s tagline is sarcasm and reality in the face of the Never Trumpers.

itsahoot has been one of the original supporters for Trump.

He is one of the Trump people!

[mkjessup]

That’s alright, after almost 20 years and lots of donations I am leaving like hundreds of others. The place has just turned into a cesspool of idiots. AMF

If FR had REALLY turned into a cesspool of idiots, you would be feeling right at home. As it is, you're just one more Trump-hating wackjob who would be happy to see Hillary win.

GFY and don't let the door hit ya, where the bad dog bit ya.

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, hundreds have left over the Cruz flap? Or is it more like 20? If that?

Some people are just drama queens, mk.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” The place has just turned into a cesspool of idiots. AMF”

No we are purging the idiots like YOU biff. Anyone who doesn’t by now see that Cruz is a con man and a fraud might well be the Village Idiot of the Year !

[mkjessup]

Indeed Miss M, indeed they are. For such hysterical 'oh snap' types, every day is another episode in their own personal soap opera, "As The Worm Turns"