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.
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I can’t wait to see how the Trump supporters justify this, and tell us how this shows what a great campaigner Trump is... What it does reveal is Trump’s total ignorance of Christianity in general and evangelicals in particular.
Bob Vander Plaats endorsed President Mike Huckabee, in 2008
and President Rick Santorum in 2012.
He has also supported subsidy to ethanol.
Grist for the ‘can’t wait to twist my panties’ crowd.
“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.”
Not a lot of Christians come out of Islamic countries either, I suppose pointing out that some do is “disparaging” their faith.
Kind of like all of the Trump supporters outraged over Cruz supposedly questioning Trump's "judgment"...
Cruz is showing restraint, which is a sign of true strength. Also very presidential.
I don’t have a problem with Cruz questioning Trump, neither does Trump. Cruz should be brave and do it to his face rather than leaked stuff.
Yes, it is false and there will many more like it. There will also be many who will take the bait without taking the time to listen to what Trump says rather than what the MSM and the GOP elite say that he said. Ted Cruz is the darling of both the Left and the Right now because he’s the last best hope against Trump for both. Carson enjoyed this position for a time but he blew it.
Have you noticed the Cruz supporters post the same articles 20 times and make the same complaints about their candidate being disparaged??
I quoted the article. I didn’t say one word about Cruz. Try to keep up. I can give you pages of his double talking lawyer bull crap if you’d like...which you’ve seen and still can’t comprehend.
Trump is TEN times nicer to Cruz than I’d ever be. Cruz is a con man.
Spin? I gave you quotes. Spin that. There are few evangelics in Cuba. Fact.
Exactly correct that the media wrongly reported that Trump attacked Cruz.
In his Iowa rally Trump really did not attack Cruz. He simply made a statements of differences of opinion which was hardly an attack.
It is as if, for example, both Trump and Cruz love Ferraris but Trump likes red ones and Cruz likes yellow ones.
Trump then makes a public statement that Cruz does not like red Ferraris.
The next day the media everywhere announces that Trump launched a blistering attack on Cruz for not liking red Ferraris. That’s how the press reacts making a tempest in a tea pot.
First there was Bush.
Then it was Fiorina.
Then Carson.
Then Rubio.
And now Cruz.
All paper tigers created by the media.
You know I forgot to add that had Cruz people taken the time to listen to Trump’s last rally in Iowa they would have realized Trump said something very profound about Cruz during the Q&A. Very, very profound!
Trump said that there would definitely be a prominent place for Cruz in a Trump administration. Of course the press would somehow spin this as a blistering attack on Cruz. Somehow they forgot to report this. Does not sound like Trump hates Cruz.
The media is simply dying for a fight.
I think Trump and Cruz have got some kind of deal going.
What it is I have no clue but those two are up to something. If after the primaries those two pool resources they would make an unstoppable crushing juggernaut. The talent in their two respective organizations would vaporize anything the media or establishment has to throw at them.
We would witness the reducing of the media and establishment to rubble and the blowing up of the PC culture. Sends shivers up my spine!
Come on AuntB. Trump made a thoroughly obnoxious remark about Cruz’s religious faith, in a disparaging context. And you try to justify it.
“I’m Cuban, Irish, and Italian, and yet somehow I ended up Southern Baptist.”
Ted Cruz
Trump was a lot nicer about Cruz than I’d have been. I’m not electing a preacher and Cruz is a phony. If you can’t see that pious bunch of BS for what it is, I can’t help you.
My post was not meant as a criticism of Cruz. In fact, I support him.
But I do appreciate your interest.
LOL.. yes, I’ve noticed that.
Kind of sad, in a way.
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