Posted on 01/04/2016 2:19:43 PM PST by conservativejoy
I should have said he was running his successful Senate campaign beginning in 2011. One of the issue where he differed from Dewhurst was that Cruz supported a border wall.
Damn the facts, full speed ahead!!!!
The GOP stall on such issues, I have no faith that any R or D will do anything about it.
The Donald is a true believer in the “Winning Through Intimidation” school of rhetoric and knows “the aggressor writes the rules in all contests/challenges!!!”
No, Trump’s not a liberal liar...not at all, LOL.
Cruz was for a border fence, not a wall. Does not matter anyway. Cruz worked in the Bush admin and so did his wife who advocated for open borders and the North American Union. They are not for the same as Trump.
Looks like another Trump is for amnesty quote. Do have a link for that? Thank you.
We need a leader not a follower. Cruz leads on anti-abortion. Trump leads on plans to restore the economy, immigration, foreign policy, veterans benefits, second amendment rights and replacing Obamacare.
The border wall/fence was passed into law a while back. It's the executive branch that has balked at building all of it, mainly Obama.
It’s okay, Trump, it just means he’s in your corner.
Thank Jesus for that. It's why Cruz is the clear choice.
Folks, let’s hope that soon EVERYONE will be “copying” Cruz’ and Trump’s hardnosed policies on border security. That will be long, long overdue.
Linked soundbites prove differently.
As for Cruz’s working in the Bush administration, do you REALLY want to play “guilty by association”?
I know I’m just giving you a hard time. It just seems like Cruz folks here are freaking out with their attacks on trump. Many of them I understand but there are some that are just over the top silly.
The over the top stuff actually hurts and does not help - which is why Ted won’t do that.
The problem with this is - even though Ted might have called for building a wall prior to his run for president - he never ONCE made it a campaign issue until Trump did. Therein lies the rub and the fact that Ted did copy him. M2T and COPY CAT CRUZ at his finest. Even now, he just jokes about the wall, saying he’ll have Trump pay for it, or to see Jeff Sessions about building that wall. This is no luaghing matter and tells me he isn’t serious at all about putting up a wall. All political speak. He doesn’t even watn to go anywhere near what to do with all the illegals already here - says we’ll have that conversation after the border is secure. Oh yeah, let’s not forget his little trip to the border with Glenn Beck to pass out toddy bears and soccer balls. Stick your head in the sand if you want, but many of us are wise to his parsing of words and slick lawyer talk.
I think by now we all know facts do not mean much to Trump when they are not on his side.
“I can predate this 2012 interview of Cruz advocating a border wall with a video from 2011 of Cruz on the border wall.”
Frank Luntz DEMANDED that Republicans not discuss ‘divisive’ issues regarding immigration, during THIS ELECTION CYCLE (i.e., 2016), as the Republican big-money (cheap labor) people, I mean his polling results, showed it was a losing issue for the party.
Until Trump showed up on the scene, it certainly appeared to me that EVERYONE was listening to Luntz, and that NO ONE was talking border walls or deportation in this cycle. Maybe they had talked it prior to 2012, but then George W. Bush SIGNED LEGISLATION to build a wall (in 2006)...and we all know what happened next (i.e., it got killed once the big-money people got their say).
Then Trump came along and everything changed. While I’m certainly happy that Cruz is again supporting a wall, and that Scott Walker supported one (even if on the wrong border)...it is harder to be sure that either of them, or any of the others, are all that serious about it.
If these two want to one-up each other on who can clean the illegal immigration issue up faster thats fine with me.
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