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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.
Maybe after we get the current corrupt political class out of DC we can make some rational decisions on a host of issues. But with the folks in DC now? Not a snowballs chance in he||
Trump never strikes first. He would never have said anything about Cruz until Cruz struck him.
Yes they do forget. And they don't realize that all their Trump bashing in the name of Cruz is actually damaging to Cruz. And Cruz has shown very poor judgment in abandoning his previous truce with Trump. He was echoing George Will and others by implying: do you want Trump's finger on the nuclear button?
Ted is showing himself to be much more an establishment Republican than some have thought. What do his billionaire donors want? And his fence straddling and hair-splitting and flip/flopping about immigration and trade make him even more suspect. He's been very inconsistent on those issues even since he announced his candidacy.
BTTT. Huge. Difference. Class versus Nonclass.
Yeah, the current crowd of morons explains the issue for today, but I thought it made sense even before they were in charge, yet there are nothing but pilot projects. Weird. Wonder if it has something to do with the composition of our coal, vs. SA.
LOL!
I do not agree with him on eminent domain. However that issue is not even in my top one hundred. Neither is ethanol. We are being invaded and are losing the War with Radical Islam. So really who gives a flip about eminent domain or ethanol.
If ethanol or eminent domain is all you've got against Trump, it game over and lights out. Because Enforce the law, build the wall, trumps both ethanol and eminent domain
Gutter yellow journalism at its best. Obviously the OP is in the gutter by posting the cr@p article.
Like I said, Trump called into Fox and Friends this morning and discussed it further.
If Trump said this he's a jackass.
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A jackass he maybe but Rafael Cruz converted from Roman Catholic
to a born-again Christian in 1975.
Apparently it doesn’t matter to the Trumpkins that two-thirds view him negatively and a Trump candidacy will lead to another Clinton presidency and a judiciary with a lifetime tenure to complete the socialist and rabid left-wing agenda.
I'm not a Trump supporter at this point (and, in fact, am leaning toward Cruz), but I can't see how this garbled comment is any kind of clear insult to Ted. What the heck is it supposed to mean, anyway? It's practically a non-sequitur, something along the lines of "I like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of Senators come out of Texas, in all fairness. Its true. Not a lot come out. But I like him nevertheless.†It doesn't have anything to do with anything and is vapid to the point of meaninglessness.
‘Cruz is very shrewd. He will not reply in kind, but take the high road. It will pay off in the long run.’
Or he will allow his super pac to attack trump so it appears he is taking the high road...
Trump’s use of “but” doesn’t fit your spin on the intent of his remarks. I ain’t buying it. He meant to disparage.
Come on now, you know the truth. Only reason Trump reacted was because what Cruz said about him. By the way, that was not the first time Cruz said what he did about Trump. This is the first time Trump jabbed back.
So take your koolaid boy and put a band aid on it.
The media haven’t been able to destroy Trump. The Democrats haven’t been able to destroy him. The only weapon left for them is to pit unwitting Republicans against each other to do it.
Sandwich technique. The "I like Ted" delivered with all the sincerity of "Brutus is an honorable man".
Never go full Trump, never.
You can't handle the truth ....
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