Posted on 12/12/2015 8:38:00 AM PST by Isara
Current GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump levied a personal attack against fellow Republican Ted Cruz at an Iowa campaign rally Friday night, disparaging the Texas Senator’s Cuban ancestry while questioning Cruz’s Christianity.
Cruz has been soaring in recent national polls and is now seen by many as the favorite to win Iowa, a state that has the first official test of voters and has a high number of traditional values-based evangelical voters.
“We’re doing really well with evangelicals,” Trump argued. “And by the way, and again, I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness. It’s true. Not a lot come out. But I like him nevertheless,” Trump claimed.
Last month, when Dr. Ben Carson temporarily passed the real estate tycoon and reality TV star in one Iowa poll, Trump said that Carson was suffering from a "pathological disease" that is comparable to a "child molester," while calling the voters of Iowa “stupid.”
Yesterday, Ted Cruz garnered the support of influential Christian conservative leader Bob Vander Plaats, President and CEO of Family Leader, seen as a major win for Cruz.
Friday morning, Donald Trump gave a hint that he may be getting ready to start slinging mud, with the bombastic billionaire tweeting that “it will be easy” to defeat Ted Cruz.
Previously, Trump has delivered an onslaught of personal attacks, non-related to any stance on issues, against virtually every other candidate. Jeb Bush and Ben Carson were labeled by Trump as being "low energy" and "even lower energy," respectively while Carly Fiorina's face was ridiculed by Trump as being unpresidential. Lindsey Graham had his personal cell phone number given out to reporters at a Trump press conference.
However, questioning Ted Cruz’s ability to be an evangelical just because his father, Pastor Rafael Cruz, who is an evangelical minister and a powerful example of the American Dream and an example of what immigration is supposed to look like in the United States, immigrated to the United States, is immature and desperate at best and extremely mean-spirited and unpresidential at worst.
Pastor Rafael Cruz escaped Fidel Castro’s communist Cuba and came to America in 1957 on a student visa with one hundred dollars sewn into his underwear. His first job was making 50 cents an hour as a dishwasher.
In 1980, the elder Cruz was a grassroots activist for Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign, a time when Donald Trump may have still been a liberal Democrat and was beginning to buy off Democrat politicians for business favors.
For Trump, whose personal insults are anything but Christ-like, to question anyone’s Christianity, is shameful, despicable and should be utterly condemned by all.
Trump’s Obama-like ego will not allow him to apologize or ask for forgiveness. After all, Trump admitted that he has never even asked God for forgiveness.
In July, at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Trump was asked by pollster Frank Luntz if he’d ever sought God’s forgiveness.
“I’m not sure I have ever asked God’s forgiveness. I don’t bring God into that picture,” Trump answered.
What kind of Christian, as Trump purports to be, has never asked God for forgiveness? The answer is that it is impossible to be a Christian without asking Jesus Christ to forgive your sins.
If anyone should have their Christianity questioned, it’s Donald Trump. Maybe he’s projecting.
Cruz is very shrewd. He will not reply in kind, but take the high road. It will pay off in the long run.
What a crap article to post.
You obviously did not listen to his rally speech. He said nothing of the sort about Cruz. This article is completely false.
That is the "personal attack" of his Christianity and Cuban heritage?
not much of a zinger
I didn’t hear Trump ‘disparage’ Cruz’ ancestry....or question Christianity (?)....and I listened to the entire speech, last night.
Please. I quit sundance before I found out he hates Cruz.
The posted article reflects the way a lot of us feel. I know that things like truth and records do not matter to trumpees so I will leave it at that.
You must be on some kind of google alert for any article disparaging Trump. You seem to find them all, the more dishonest they are, the better.
What a crap article to post.
Fringe media.
Yup... the headline is misleading to say the least
Trump's no conservative.
I have learned truth doesn’t matter, either to the MSM or to many Cruz supporters.
Thanks for posting. I agree.
Trumpees of course are blinded by trump’s “light”. They even excused his obvious mocking of that journalist.
I listened also and I didn’t hear any of that garbage either....
Kinda like not being a conservative doesn’t matter to any Trump supporters? Because he sure as hell isnt one.
The bigger the lie about Trump the better Isara like it.
What does this even mean? Do Trumpsters get special decoder rings so they can understand Trump's gibberish?
I didn’t hear it either.
Cruz supporters are not interested in the truth. They become more and more like the media everyday.
“For Trump, whose personal insults are anything but Christ-like, to question anyone’s Christianity, is shameful, despicable and should be utterly condemned by all.”
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?”
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