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To: nathanbedford
He didn't bribe a single person and you know it.

Politicians, including Ted Cruz are influenced heavily by major donors. Those donors can typically get to the front of the line of attention and push, or lobby the very people they supported financially. With some aspect of transparency, it's very easy to see who has the biggest influences on politicians by looking at their donors.

As someone in business, Trump played the game...like virtually ALL others. There are no bribes. There are donations. The very same donations and sweetheart loans that Ted Cruz has and is accepting as part of his long career inside the beltway.

You apparently fail to see the difference between the owner and the owned. Trump is an owner. Cruz is owned.

64 posted on 02/13/2016 9:19:48 AM PST by Solson (Trump plays to win. Deal with it.)
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To: Solson; odawg
As someone in business, Trump played the game...like virtually ALL others. There are no bribes. There are donations. The very same donations and sweetheart loans that Ted Cruz has and is accepting as part of his long career inside the beltway.

You apparently fail to see the difference between the owner and the owned. Trump is an owner. Cruz is owned.

Do you two not see that Donald Trump is the ultimate insider. He bought his way into the game as a businessman so that he could manipulate the system to his selfish advantage. You excuse Trump in this by saying that all Trump did was play the game like everybody else. Even like Ted Cruz.

Ted Cruz accepted loans which he must pay back, Donald Trump accepted loans many of which he bankrupted and Donald Trump gave contributions which is an entirely different matter.

But the idea that Donald Trump will change his motus operandi when he takes office just exploded in Iowa. It was Trump who supported big government crony capitalism to get elected, worse, Trump abdicates expanding biofuel subsidies. Ted Cruz, the alleged insider, to his credit defied the heretofore powerful biofuels special interest, a substantial voting bloc in Iowa, and stood for limited government and capitalism.

That is why I say that those who back Donald Trump believing against all evidence that he will bring reforms to the system which we all despise are fools. Donald Trump will play the same game from the different side of the table. It is Ted Cruz who stood up for capitalism in the Senate and in Iowa. All we have seen from Donald Trump in his business career and in Iowa is crony capitalism and big government. Donald Trump has shown himself in Iowa to be as opportunistic a politician as any who has sought special interest votes.

Only a fool will bet the nation that between the time of his election and it his walking into the Oval Office he will experience an epiphany.


65 posted on 02/13/2016 10:22:20 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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