Posted on 01/29/2016 8:42:45 PM PST by JSDude1
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse is one of the best new Senators elected in 2014, and we at RedState were proud to support him in the primaries. After keeping a low profile his first few months in the Senate, the 43 year old freshman has gradually been building a higher profile as a conservative reformer, and has recently started grilling Donald Trump on Twitter. Today, Trump fired back - and Sasse responded in kind, giving The Donald a taste of his own medicine.
Sasse started bearing down on Trump on Sunday, beginning by noting - as many elected Republicans have - that Trump has indeed raised some important issues and questions in this campaign. But Sasse has far more serious questions on his mind about Trump as a potential Leader of the Free World.
As you can see, some of these questions were serious policy issues, some were questions of personal character, but all were serious matters a presidential candidate should be ready to address. Getting no response, Sasse upped the ante two days later after Trump bailed on the debate in Iowa, which neighbors Sasse's state
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I reminded of a small poodle nipping at the heels of a grizzly bear.
Red Star squeaks up again.
Sasser’s tweets:
Q2: You’ve said you “hate the concept of guns.” Why the change? When did it happen? What’s the 2nd Amendment mean to you?
Q3: A few yrs ago u proposed $6trillion tax hike. Still want to do that? Agree w/ Biden that higher taxes=more patriotism?
Q4: You brag abt many affairs w/ married women. Have you repented? To harmed children & spouses? Do you think it matters?
Q5: I believe 1 of the most damaging things POTUS Obama did is ignore Constitution, act on his own,& bypass Congress(cont)
Next GOP POTUS must roll this back & reaffirm a Constitutional system b4 we lose this special inheritance forever (cont)
Do you agree that exec unilateralism is very bad? Because you talk A LOT about “running the country” as though... (cont)
...as tho 1 man shld “run America.”
Questn5: Will you commit to rolling back Exec power & undoing Obama unilateral habit?
Trump’s responses:
.@BenSasse looks more like a gym rat than a U.S. Senator. How the hell did he ever get elected? @greta
These rino ba$terds are going down real hard.
Don’t. Even click on red state — they are reduced to writing about tweets? Wow great conservative journalism there
I hate all such headlines.
This is nothing.
Yup, Yup, three cheers for Don Rickles, er, Trump.
Oh, he ‘kept a low profile’, eh? Kind of makes the assertion that he’s a reformer seem a bit silly. Unless we’re holding all ‘reformers’ to the same standard as Ted Cruz: lots of talk and no actual legislation.
Maybe someone needs to compare what Sasse said when campaigning for the Senate and what he’s done since being sworn in. And he’s asking the same tired old questions that have been asked countless times and featured in TV ads from Jeb and Cruz and others.
People will have to pick their candidate based on the candidate’s campaign and who they choose to believe. All these publicity seekers aren’t adding anything to the process.
besides, Ben Sasse, a junior US Senator, is in a tweet contest with one of Trumps surrogates, probably a 20 year-old staffer with a flair for sarcasm who handles Trumps tweets.
Every time I advance the page 6 inches, my browser crashes.
Same thing at “The Daily Caller.” Read for a couple minutes, then crash-crash-crash because of omnipresent ads.
Adblock Plus.
These rino ba$terds are going down real hard.
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NOOB, Ben Sasse is no RINO — and he’s asking TRUMP (BLESSED IS HIS NAME) legitimate questions.
Noscript might be better for that particular problem. Adblock fine, too.
Thank you. Red State likes to run victory laps for non-events where there was never a contest.
True, true. Poor junior jumped right in didn’t he?
If there was a representative Congress functioning as it was designed, then Monsieur Sasse’s questions would seem germaine.
But Congress is irrelevant, so his questions are also.
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