Posted on 02/04/2016 10:05:05 AM PST by conservativejoy
There's a truism amongst fighter pilots: you can't fake it at 500 knots and enemy fire all around. One's real character emerges.
That's what's happening as the presidential race has begun. Real results - not polls - are now being felt, and Donald Trump, who beat his chest as the inevitable victor in the polls, is revealing his true character - as is Ted Cruz, who surprisingly bested him in the first live battle, the Iowa caucuses.
As the caucuses commenced, Cruz was accused of maliciously reporting that candidate Ben Carson was dropping out of the race. That would help Cruz, it was theorized, since Carson voters presumably might go to Cruz.
What actually happened, is that Carson revealed he was going home after Iowa and not on to New Hampshire, where the next vote will be held and where most expected him to go. CNN reported this with hints that it was strange. Why wouldn't he be going to New Hampshire? Was he dropping out?
Unnamed (so far) elements of Cruz's campaign then, as the caucuses were being conducted and votes being tallied, tweeted basically the same. When Carson, after the election, found this out, he cried foul. Cruz, who all evidence so far indicates had no personal knowledge of his campaign's tactic, nevertheless immediately apologized. Carson eventually blamed CNN, although he was not happy with anyone involved. Details of the matter are still to be revealed.
But Trump, a smart man and certainly aware of these basics - and after a gracious acknowledgement of Cruz's victory - the next day reversed and charged that Cruz had lied to get votes. He is now demanding a new Iowa election.
Trump has been rude and blustery but not, at least in public during this race, a sore loser.
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I know, the Cruz antics had me go from being OK with Cruz or Trump to “HELL NO” regarding Cruz or Rubio I might add.
At the least it told me he is just another politician and nothing more, and not deserving of slavish admiration as though he is Reagan incarnate. At best he would be a competent administrator of the government as it exists and would keep the globalist agenda on track.
GOPe, now in new yummy conservative flavor.
hey, don’t mock the Canadian pilots. They are between us and Russia.
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die”
Yes it is, which is why the inability of Cruz’s supporters to admit their candidate played unprincipled dirty politics on a caucus night is so stunning.
They attack anyone who points out the truth - really bizarre behavior.
Get it over yourself. Since when is it unprincipled politics to use a news source? What I find unprincipled is the lack of any healthy debate in favor of name calling. Trump needs to show me he can withstand some criticism and rise above the fray, as do the rest of the bunch!
But unfortunately he likes to name call and sling mud at the first hint of any slight or sign of disrespect or even at the perception of the same.
I have received one of those types of campaign mailers before. They are not new. I ignored it like I do all other campaign mailers. This is much ado about nothing.
As for the Carson crap, Carson needs to hold his own campaign people to account. They are the ones who put out the information to CNN to begin with. Of course, Carson has so many people bailing on his campaign, he may not want to alienate any more of them.
Carson was on Hannity last week and said he’s a pragmatist and that if he didn’t do well in Iowa & NH he wouldn’t stick around long. CNN got the scoop from Carson’s own people and by inference opined that this wasn’t good news. So what if Ted’s people made that same inference to try and attract his supporters.
But if calling Cruz a liar is what you have to tell yourself to try and help build support for Trump then have at it. Just admit that Trump’s name calling (Carson’s a psychopath) is a sign of a weakness.
You haven’t admitted Trump’s weakness. Posting this only proves your desperation.
“You haven’t admitted Trump’s weakness. Posting this only proves your desperation.”
You haven’t admitted Team Ted’s dirty lying politics on a caucus night. Not admitting it when even Ted apologized for it only proves your desperation.
Just because you call it that doesn’t make it true. Was it necessary for them (CNN or Cruz) to run with the story, probably not but that doesn’t mean it’s dirt politics. What do you think the motive of CNN was? What is the motive for Trump to bash anyone who he chooses? The obvious answer is to make the others look bad. For CNN it is to show support for Hillary, for Trump it is to get votes.
No media outlet said that Carson was dropping out. That was an assumption Team Cruz unilaterally made and later had to apologized for.
Not rocket science.
No mocking intended.
A bunch of my frat bros were Canadians.
Great guys.
Now if Cruz was from Quebec I might be a little worried...
To me after that I feel his ethics go by a different definition than what most would use.
It was inferred and they offered opinion that this was not something a serious candidate would do.
Is that any reason to make up a lie and spread it around on caucus night??
Stop equivocating.
How is that different than telling people for weeks that Ted is a nasty guy, or calling Carson a psychopath, or Jeb is low energy? Trumps throws out these terms in an effort to cast doubt on his opponents. Trump came in second which cast doubt on all his bluster. He’s using this to try to build himself back up.
Carson’s own actions raised this doubt. CNN reported this as strange and indeed something that was tantamount to throwing in the towel based upon past election coverage experiences.
“How is that different than telling people for weeks that Ted is a nasty guy,”
Lying by the supposedly most “principled” conservative in the race on a caucus night??
Are you kidding??
Wow.
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