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Donald Trump Defends Mitch McConnell Against Ted Cruz
The Resurgent ^ | 1/20/2016 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 01/20/2016 12:09:15 PM PST by conservativejoy

Is Donald switching teams again? A while back he said he had been on the establishment team, but had flipped against them. Yesterday, he attacked Ted Cruz for daring to truthfully point out Mitch McConnell had lied to conservatives.

That does not sound very anti-establishment to me. Defending Mitch McConnell is a defense of the establishment. It is also bad form.

Cruz was right. McConnell was lying and had been lying to conservatives. Him pointing it out on the Senate floor was necessary to expose McConnell. Trump is wrong to attack him for that.

This is just more evidence that Trump and the establishment are cozying up to stop Cruz.


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To: NorthMountain
re> Yes. It's much better to be decorous, and bipartisan, and work across the aisle with the communist minority leader to give Barack Hussein Soetoro Odinga Soebarkah 0bama everything he wants. Even when you promised your constituents that you would oppose the marxist mohammedan president.

NO IT ISN'T

61 posted on 01/20/2016 12:39:07 PM PST by IC Ken
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To: ifinnegan
Posted many times, but it’s bizarreness is still there. What has happened?

Trump's true anti-disestablishmentarianism is being revealed.

I always wanted to use that word in a sentence. Thank you Mr. Trump.

62 posted on 01/20/2016 12:44:35 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Anyone who would give $250,000 to the Clinton Pay for Play Foundation is not getting my vote!)
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To: HarleyLady27
For the record, I ain't trying to ruffle your feathers. But, my point still stands. We should be done working with people who have either set themselves up as the governing elites and/or foster destructive agendas to this great nation. It is time for drastic measures. Whether your man is Trump, Cruz or whomever, we are on the same side in this.
63 posted on 01/20/2016 12:44:47 PM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: chris37

Mac did the lying to Cruz’s face in front of the other senators in the meeting they had. Blatant, outright, intentional. The difference in the method of calling him a liar was Cruz did it with some sense of decorum. Trump would have screamed it while jumping up and down on the podium and would have continued for weeks. Trump does not have the tolerance to let it go that he was blatantly lied to in front of his fellow senators.

So him calling out Cruz on this deal is cheap crap. He has no soul.


64 posted on 01/20/2016 12:50:03 PM PST by biff
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To: 5thGenTexan
IF Cruz had been a ‘conservative’ (which has lost it's meaning) from the beginning, then people would have taken him more seriously...but he's backed by Wall Street, super pacs, lobbyists, and that is what WE the American Voters DO NOT want...

If your going to run for an office, get your money the old fashioned way, by EARNING it, so we don't have a government ‘owned’ by Wall Street, superpacs and lobbyists or special interest groups...

He's connected with CFR, H1B visa, Goldman Sachs, Citibank and is a ‘globalist’ candidate, THEY tell HIM what to do...

65 posted on 01/20/2016 12:50:41 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (.."THE FORCE AWAKENS"!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP 100%....)
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To: frankenMonkey

I’m pretty sure it’s denial.


66 posted on 01/20/2016 12:51:05 PM PST by KGeorge
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To: HarleyLady27

Yes we do. But that had a heck of a lot more to do with Obama being a rabid leftist then it did with Obama being an experienced senator. We have not suffered with leadership incompetence the last 7 years. We have suffered with someone hell bent on giving us full blown liberalism and socialism the past 7 years.


67 posted on 01/20/2016 12:55:24 PM PST by American Faith Today
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To: biff

Trump doesn’t care if he lies or distorts reality...he really doesn’t... and is more then likely laughing his butt of for any who get their pants in a knot over something he says.....

But he WILL watch those polls and the relation to them of what he says...he’s a numbers guy....and you can guarantee he will act to do something outrageous or sensational to keep those polls riding on him...creating stories or whatever...including bad news.... He knows what his supporters and the media will respond to and it doesn’t take much because he’s had 30 years experience playing them to his advantage..


68 posted on 01/20/2016 12:55:31 PM PST by caww
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To: P-Marlowe

:)


69 posted on 01/20/2016 12:55:46 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Jagdgewehr
I'm sure you not trying to ruffle any feathers, and mine doesn't get ruffled, I talk like the East Coast people, I say what I think, and no P.C.B.S. involved, so if I come off strong, that's why....

We need to get rid of almost all the House and Senate, and hoping we can do that as they come up for re-election...but we have to vet them completely....know who is backing them, (Wall Street, super packs, lobbyists, special interest groups) if so, we don't want them in there, we want people that represent WE the American People...if you have to take a second job to earn the money for a campaign, or have people do bake sales, or car washes, or old fashioned ways of getting the money to run for an office, then do it...we have to get the ‘money grabbers’ out of government!!!

70 posted on 01/20/2016 12:57:23 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (.."THE FORCE AWAKENS"!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP 100%....)
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To: 5thGenTexan
Trump will reshape no one. Trump will “work with” them to make as many “deals” as possible.

That is a true leader. Make things work as long as it in the best interest of the American people. It is impossible to rebuild every damn corrupt politician in Washington and most of the States. But a strong President, and Trumps ideas seem to be what America needs to recover, can make changes. Look how King Obama destroyed America. Was he strong or weak? A real dealing president can get much done.

71 posted on 01/20/2016 12:58:35 PM PST by Logical me
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To: HarleyLady27

“he’s backed by Wall Street, super pacs, lobbyists, and that is what WE the American Voters DO NOT want...”

Who do you think funded Trump to build his towers?

Same groups of people.


72 posted on 01/20/2016 12:58:48 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: HarleyLady27

Ted Cruz is grown up.


73 posted on 01/20/2016 12:59:06 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: biff

It’s politics, man. Gets down and dirty sometimes. Trump isn’t playing not to win.

As far as Cruz being lied to, well that’s what happens when you put your trust in a liar.

Did they also lie to Cruz to get his vote on the Corker Bill?

Or did he just give that freely because he trusts all those guys in the senate, and they time after time do the right thing?


74 posted on 01/20/2016 1:00:29 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: conservativejoy

Every time Touchback Trump does this, it hurts him and helps Cruz.


75 posted on 01/20/2016 1:00:55 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Mariner

Calling Mitch McConnell a loser or dopey or stupid is clearly a much better way to deal with somebody.


76 posted on 01/20/2016 1:00:56 PM PST by American Faith Today
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To: conservativejoy

Every time Touchback Trump does this, it hurts him and helps Cruz.


77 posted on 01/20/2016 1:00:57 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: conservativejoy

Every time Touchback Trump does this, it hurts him and helps Cruz.


78 posted on 01/20/2016 1:00:57 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: IC Ken
NO IT ISN'T

Right.

But who does Trump attack? Who does he defend?

Right now, Trump is kissing up to 0bama's rumpswab, the turtle-faced bastard from Kentucky.

And Trump wants my vote???

He's doing his level best to alienate me entirely.

79 posted on 01/20/2016 1:01:00 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: American Faith Today
I do not believe you can be a House or Senator for 3 years and know what there is to know about our government...I believe you need to have run a business of your own to know what it entails, how to deal with people, how to make your business grow, how to promote...

Both obuma and Cruz have two of the same problems, both 3 years of Junior Senators, and a birther problem....

Our government was so over excited to have the first Black person to be POTUS, they forgot our Constitution and everything that makes America the Country that she is...and now look where we are....

I want someone with some business knowledge and life experiences, like myself, to run this country...

80 posted on 01/20/2016 1:01:39 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (.."THE FORCE AWAKENS"!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP 100%....)
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