Please don’t do this, Donald. Cruz and you are natural allies.
No cage matches, please. Everyone here should keep their powder dry and not take potshots either way.
Let the partisans of candidates or the GOPe trolls drop their vitriol, but don’t call anyone names.
The Republican Establishment ultimately wants a Trump-Cruz Cage Match so they can slip Marco or someone else through.
The attack from Trump should be responded to in a positive way by Ted emphasizing that the Republican Establishment may think he’s ‘a maniac’ but that’s because he threatens the status quo in Washington.
I hear you, Laz. Trump was on the brink of being the greatest president since Reagan. I was getting revved all last week. His muslim plan was brilliant; even Shlafly supported it.
And now ... he’s leaving himself wide open:
1. He stands for Big Ethanol.
2. He said disturbing things about Justice Scalia:
Trump hits Scalia over comments on black students
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3372041/posts
“Scalia was essentially paraphrasing Thomas Sowell’s well-researched and apt argument.” — 9YearLurker
If Cruz can defend Scalia in a timely manner, a HUGE feather in his cap.
remember - - Trump plays CHESS.
When Trump is threatened in the polls, he lashes out with personal attacks (ugly face, loser, low-energy, idiot, stupid, clown, etc, etc.) at each ascendant. Unfortunately, this is Trump’s schtick! Also, Trump usually tries to create a sense of excitement (ratings) for upcoming debates; maybe we’ll have a good WWE cage match this Tuesday! CNN will be happy with a made-for-TV Trump/Cruz fist-fight, and will likely try to provoke a nasty exchange.
However, where others have failed by responding in-kind to Trump’s personal down-in-the-mud attacks, Cruz, so far, has shown the discipline to not take the Donald’s bait. In addition, I would expect Cruz to be more than ready this time to filet the Donald substantively on one of his policy statements to draw a clear contrast and to demonstrate his command of the issues. The rest of the field also will all be gunning this time for both Cruz & Trump...might be some fireworks...should be fun to watch!
Tweet that to him. The more the better. @realDonaldTrump
Also, send it to @DanScavino. He’s a senior advisor to Trump who seemed to be attacking Cruz right after the Cruz private tape was leaked. They need to hear from us because I suspect the GOPE has created dummy accounts to encourage a fight.