Trump Goes Personal Against Cruz; Disparages His Cuban Ancestry; Questions Christianity

Politistick ^ | December 11, 2015 | Matthew K. Burke

[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.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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GOPe-MSM-DNC Establishment will FALL to the Ted Cruz-Donald Trump 2016 Victory Campaign : 2015-12-11

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3371447/posts


Their delegate counts for the 2016 GOP Convention will be as follows:

Ted Cruz @ 37.80 percent
Donald Trump @ 27.3 percent

for a total of 65.1 percent ... enough for a "first ballot" nomination.


Ted Cruz will ask Donald Trump to be his Vice President, and Trump will accept.

Trump will pledge his GOP Delegates to Ted Cruz, and the rest will be history.




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[Psalm 144]

Needs more informative polka dots to fan the intellectual blaze.

[MEG33]

See 58 I agree.

[dschapin]

The article is accurate. Trump did make a dig at Cruz’s Christianity and his Cuban heritage. You Trump supporters are going to try to wish it away but there was a reason that Trump said what he did and it was to try to exploit anti catholic bigotry. Trump also attacked Cruz for being against Ethanol subsidies. So, you can stick with Trump if you want but don’t call him a small government conservative.

[Starstruck]

It means that mostly Catholics come from Cuba and most Catholics are not considered to be evangelicals, save some of the most conservative. Trump was probably implying that Cruz was not getting his supposed evangelical support from the Cuban-American community. The remark doesn't mean much of anything except to those looking for something to twist and distort.

Like I say you have a decoder ring if you got that from his statement.

[exit82]

+1

[dschapin]

Trump clearly said this in his speech. I have seen the clip. The Trump supporters are simply trying to run from it. They are sure Trump is their savior and they are determined to follow him like lemmings over the cliff.

[Still Thinking]

I can’t figure why they don’t do coal gasification like South Africa did for strategic energy independence. We’re sitting on an immense pile of coal. When Sasol build their first plant there, the government guaranteed them the equivalent of $20/bbl, meaning they could make a profit competing against $20 oil. I’m sure the breakeven is somewhat higher now with higher labor costs and so on, but it can’t be that much higher, and there’s the security aspect (and the screw OPEC aspect as well), so you’d think it would be a no-brainer.

[School of Rational Thought]

Someone published this?

Keep your religion out of politics.

[Will88]

Excuse me, this IS an election. Every candidate is in it to win and this does not constitute an attack on TRUMP.>

That's all true, and Cruz's "gravity" remarks were stupid and insulting, and will not help him in any Trump supporters.

[Servant of the Cross]

No ... this just cannot be. Trump ONLY insults people who 'attack' him first. He promised this to Chuck Todd.

"Well, I think I'm a nice person. I really do," Mr. Trump replied. "And I think that's why my numbers always go up as you get to know me better. I think that frankly, I'd like to discuss the issues. I'm not looking to take anybody out or be nasty to anybody. And as you know, Chuck, when I made, you know, harsh statements about various people, that was always in response to their criticism of me.

Oh .... wait .......

[dschapin]

If that was case than explain please what the point of Trumps little comment was because the only explanation that I see is that he was trying to imply that somehow Cruz couldn’t be a true evangelical since most Cubans are Catholic.

[dforest]

That remark was meant for Cruz and he knows what it is.

[conservative98]

Teddy attacked first.

[Jane Long]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-bolling-why-are-gopers-on-same-side-as-hillary-and-liberal-media-against-trump/

[dschapin]

Huge difference between privately explaining to your donors why you think you will win - basically explaining your strategy to them - and making a personal attack on a political opponent in a televised public rally. I don’t really mind the attacks but you Trumpsters trying to draw an equivalency here are crazy.

[Servant of the Cross]

Keep your religion out of politics.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people". It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ... John Adams

For Reagan, spiritual faith was not something to hang in the closet upon taking political office. As governor he had often relied on prayer for guidance, and after entering the White House he felt he needed prayer as much as ever. And politics, he held, needed faith. He frequently invoked George Washington's aphorism that religion and morality were "indispensable supports" to political prosperity.

[xzins]

I heard the comment. It was entirely disconnected from what he was saying. It was a true observation. Cuba is/was a more Catholic country.

[dschapin]

The ethanol mandate forces oil companies to blend in Ethanol which actually is bad for car engines and reduces gas milage. If it wasn’t for this mandate then Ethanol would not be used and would be worthless and Corn would go back to being a food product. This is absolutely a big government control of the economy type program and surprise surprise Donald Trump supports it and Sen. Cruz opposes it.

[Servant of the Cross]

Teddy attacked first.

Yea ... right. Trump views everything but complete adoration and obedience as an "attack". #ThinSkin