Posted on 12/13/2015 7:33:18 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
In what's more evidence that Donald Trump is becoming completely unhinged, he is now stooping so low as to label Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz "a bit of a maniac":
"I don’t think he’s qualified to be president… I don’t think he has the right temperament. I don’t think he’s got the right judgment… You look at the way he’s dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there like a — you know, frankly like a little bit of a maniac. You’re never going to get things done that way."
He added:
"Look, I built a phenomenal business. I’m worth many, many billions of dollars. I have some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world. You can’t walk into the Senate, and scream, and call people liars, and not be able to cajole and get along with people. He’ll never get anything done. And that’s the problem with Ted."
It's rather fascinating that this is coming from the most bombastic and maniacal presidential candidate in history. Almost every single one of his proposals are downright outlandish, and he calls everyone who dares disagree with him "a loser" and worse. See how he smeared Dr. Ben Carson by calling him "pathological."
What's more, Trump's latest jabs at Cruz prove that he has no idea what real conservatives want. Cruz promised them to stand up for their values in Washington D.C., even if the establishment would hate him for it. That's exactly what he's done, and it's one of the main reasons that he's now so popular among Evangelicals, very conservative voters, and those who identify themselves with the Party.
If I was Cruz, I'd politely ask The Donald to attack me even more. After all, this will only end up helping, rather than hurting him.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Cruz is great. His respect for and knowledge of the Constitution is unquestionable but, yes, he could definitely lose to Hillary
Plus he’ll be obligated to his donors.
Post links.
Straight out of the democrat playbook. Sad.
Tell us what Cruz said. Quote him.
Donald Trump was not in the House or Senate or in the White House when those things came out for a vote, now was he???
Did he ‘vote’ on them? What State was Trump a Senator or Representative in when those votes were taken???
Better read it again....
And I’m sure who ever you supported in 2001 to 2010 won didn’t they???
If you watched the Town Hall meeting yesterday in Aiken, S.C. you would have heard Trump say that Roberts was an embarrassment and a big disappointment and that Thomas was his favorite and that Scalia was also very high on his list of respected SC Justices.
Move the slider to 14 minutes in which is the beginning of the entire event. His comments regarding the Justices are much later in.
Donald Trump Holds Town Hall Meeting in Aiken, SC (12-12-15)
At the time these things were ‘voted’ on, what State was Trump elected to? These were House and Senate votes, what State was he elected to???
Has Trump ever been elected by a State to represent either in the House or Senate at any time of his life???
These are votes that were taken...where was Trump when these votes were cast????
USSR generals are on record as saying they thought it was not possible to keep up with the Star Wars spending that we were doing.
Reagan should have told the establishment to go to hell when they pushed Bush down his throat.
I didn’t know until recently that Bush coined “voodoo economics”
Cruz may be a maniac, but he’s OUR maniac.
I like Trump. I am very glad he is in the race. I think he and Cruz share a lot of common ground. Trump should follow Cruzs lead here and be respectful to the only other conservative in the race. No attacks. Either one winning is. Victory for the USA.
Maniac? Hilarious coming from the “Don Rickles” of the 2016 campaign.
Trump has the luxury of not being in an elected position, and can hide behind that fact.
Cruz is a good man. He is Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but Trump is right, he won’t get anything done as president, he has too many people in his own party who hate him.
Trump is doing a fantastic job highlighting the unfettered immigration chaos this country is facing and throwing the PC religion of restrained speech out the window. He is the leader in the polls largely due to this. He has relegated the GOPe candidates to bottom tier status by dominating news coverage on these fronts alone. Good for him! It is about time someone did this.
Trump will tell you he is the guy that can get things done. He is the guy that can work with both sides of the aisle in Congress. Unfortunately, I believe him. This paradoxical statement is the problem. I don’t want things done. I want them undone. I want paralysis in DC the other 99% of the time.
Ronald Reagan’s famous quip that the most terrifying words in the English language are “I am from the government and I am here to help,” are even more true today than ever before.
Trump thinks he can move things forward. Cruz cannot. Good! We need a President that follows Buckley’s words and “stands athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’” The constitutionalist Ted Cruz certainly fits the bill for this most vital role. His use of executive power to enforce existing law, his primary functional duty as President, while being restrained from expanding executive power by fiat as we have been subjected to is paramount to the very survival of the Constitution.
Trump would get things done, certainly. He comes from a lifetime of ruling as an absolute monarch over his empire. The switch to being subordinate to the will of the people through the Congress does not suit his temperament. He has big ideas and comes from a liberal ideology that is too ingrained, espousing big government solutions. Trump may very well have discarded his liberal ideology (doubtful, but possible).He is no Obama and does not seek the destruction of the United States. He is, unabashedly, a patriot. He does not, however, come from a life-long ideological background of paying homage to constitutional principles and limited government. His history of statements is evidence, the only thing we as voters have to go on, of seeking solutions through government intervention.
I sincerely hope that Trump bangs the warning drum over the threat this country faces due to its immigration problems. If it were at all possible, I would want him to bang it louder. It is an existential threat. So to is the long-term destruction of the Constitution and idea of limited government. This is not Trump’s beat on the drum. It is the one that Ted Cruz has banged since he entered pubic life.
When your private session with strategists include dissing Trump for his judgement and putting it out there about finger on the button, it’s a prelude to where Cruz will be.
Just doing it in private first so he’s not seen as poking the bear.
Trumpanzees
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That will really help your cause.
>> Cruz is maniacal, Carson is pathological, Fiorina is ugly <<
Don’t forget that Rubio sweats too much.
Think anyone will get any airtime when the press can go bonkers over this supposed "feud", breathlessly focusing on how it develops. The presstitutes can't help themselves and the result will be that the also-rans trying to crawl out of the ratings cellar will find the door has been nailed shut.
This is a shut-out strategy, pure and simple. None of the other candidates will be able to get on the field, let alone score here. This is how the "brokered convention" dreams of the GOPe get stymied. Trump/Cruz will run the table on the primaries and whether or not they trade off a few states the larger goal is to ensure that by the time the Spring rolls around the nomination is already sewn up.
Come July the Trump/Cruz ticket will simply be formally confirmed.
This is how Trump shoots himself in the foot. If he and Cruz got together now, defined a platform and spelled it out, they would be an unbeatable team. Instead, they will tear each other down according to the “rules” of modern campaigning, and ego.
And how might you reverse it? Without working across the aisle, Executive Orders is all that is left.
And then once we have finally demonstrated to the American people that we have secured the border, the problem’s solved, it’s not a promise from a politician, it’s not empty words, it’s been done, then and only then, I think we should have a conversation with the American people about what we should do about whatever smaller population remains.
Reporter asks Ted Cruz four times: “How do you define amnesty?â€
He has never said he will deport the 11 million illegal, he talks about green cards, H1b visas,
A path to legal status, but not to citizenship. A green card with no right to naturalization.
Cruz Tries to Claim the Middle Ground on Immigration
Legal immigrants will take more jobs, eligible for more entitlements. Cruz's only objection is the one word citizenship.
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