Any Trump Attacks on Cruz Probably Aren't Going to Work Like They Did with Others

Reaganite Republican ^ | 14 December 2015 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

After breezily dispatching (Walker, Perry) and/or permanently crippling 
(Bush, Rand Paul) a number of weaker GOP challengers who dared to get-up-in-his-grill, Donald Trump is now making noises about going after Ted Cruz... but if he does, this time it's likely to be different.

First off, he looks like a disingenuous hypocrite to attack Ted Cruz after allying himself with him so closely to this point, saying nice things repeatedly, and claiming they think almost identically. He's clearly taking a huge risk in alienating the Republican base.

Trump has claimed he's only going to get into tangles with Cruz 'if he comes after me first', but with the media egging him on now daily The Donald seems to be attempting to stoke some open friction. This really does make him look like the politician he always claims not to be... Trump's all but said himself he has no reason to attack Cruz but for personal political gain-- how deeply cynical to not even hide it.

Truth is, Cruz's base of support consists of Evangelicals unlikely to be charmed into voting for Trump... as well as many voters like myself who agree with a lot of what Trump says -and think he's done the process a lot of good- but long ago decided Cruz was a better presidential candidate, one with a still-more-conservative platform. I'm not a Trump 'hater' at all, but there is nothing he could possibly say or do that would have me taking him over Ted Cruz in the primary.

For all the talk about how loyal Trump voters are, the support Ted Cruz has earned to this point has him out-front by ten points in Iowa now... and all of those people have already had a long, hard look at Donald Trump.

When Trump attacked those with fragile support, it was an entirely different situation that he faces in going after Ted Cruz... I'd say he's even going to have a hard time coming up with material/dirt on Senator Cruz -without sounding like Mitch McConnell- the guy is clean as a whistle and a true Reaganite... not much to pick apart there, nothing any conservatives would give a hoot about, anyway.

On top of that, Cruz probably won't take the bait, either...

[Reaganite Republican]

***PING***

[C. Edmund Wright]

That’s because he attacked Cruz FROM THE LEFT.

It’s important WHY you attack - just as important as WHO you attack. The WHY here is all wrong. The WHY here is full establishment. Trump went full establishment this weekend against Cruz, against all Tea party senators, against the domestic oil industry, against Scalia. Trump was big lefty all weekend.

Be warned.....

[HomerBohn]

Trump will not attack Ted Cruz.

[VanDeKoik]

They don’t love Cruz, they hate Trump.

When you team up with the GOPe that’s all you have.

If he manages to win the nomination they will drop him like a bad habit, and you people will be spending months bitching and moaning about the lack of party support, and how so and such operative is sabotaging Cruz.

But today you want to act like Cruz’s new “friends” are backing his agenda. Yeah right!

[silverleaf]

This is true

These guys need to work together

[Helicondelta]

Wishful thinking.

Cruz voted for the TPA, for the expansion of H1B visas and refuses to say if he is in favor of giving legal status to illegals.

Carson had much less baggage and look where he is now.

[elhombrelibre]

Cruz is the real deal. Trump is a newly minted, mercurial, ersatz conservative.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

We really need to stop sniping between the two.

For real.

[Reaganite Republican]

It would be best avoided, I agree

Seems to be changing now tho

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Donald Trump Goes Nuclear: Let’s Face It, Ted Cruz Is a Bit of a Maniac

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3372042/posts

[Servant of the Cross]

The Establishment's only hope: Trump & me in a cage match.
Sorry to disappoint -- @realDonaldTrump is terrific. #DealWithIt
12:03 PM - 11 Dec 2015
4,903 4,903 Retweets 7,683 7,683 likes

However, to the extent that Trump, JUST LIKE THE ESTABLISHMENT, wants a "cage match", he has jumped the shark.

He's piling up a series of missteps ... Netanyahu, Scalia, Iowa ethanol government handouts, personal attacks on Conservatives ....

[skeeter]

Are you kidding. A guy who has argued cases before the Supreme Court isn’t gonna take this kind of bait.

[odawg]

“That’s because he attacked Cruz FROM THE LEFT.”

Ted Cruz stated to a group in private, and it was made very public, that Trump did not have the judgment to be trusted with the nuclear briefcase. Is that an attack from the Left or Right?

[skeeter]

Yes. Stay positive about the one you support, but knock off the attacks.

Nobody is changing anybody else mind.

[Servant of the Cross]

Carson had much less baggage ...

For this conservative, there is no baggage worse than this ...

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[C. Edmund Wright]

That attack - and it really wasn’t an attack - is neither from the left or the right.....and trust me, it was made public on purpose by Cruz to elicit just this kind of idiotic response from Trump.

But I’ll give you credit, you’re coming to me to straighten out what is left and what is right. That’s a great decision on your part.

[gusty]

Your a little late with that statement. Trump attacked Cruz over the weekend. He said Cruz acts like a MANIAC in how he conducts himself in the Senate. Trump used Cruz’s fight with McConnell as an example of Cruz being a MANIAC. Also said that Cruz was beholden to BIG OIL at another venue. Trump capped it all off by retweeting a Leftist propaganda piece about the corrupting influence of the KOCH BROTHERS. Trump went full Bernie Sanders this weekend.

[P-Marlowe]

He already did. He used a GOPe attack.

[Servant of the Cross]

We really need to stop sniping between the two.

Trump is the only one sniping.