Posted on 02/19/2016 9:43:05 PM PST by Washi
Are you suggesting we support Kasich?
I don't base my claim that Trump is the best candidate to beat Hillary on polling. Polling doesn't predict how the candidates will look when they start engaging in political battle. I look at Hillary and all I see is weakness. She's old, tired, mean, ugly and her voice is nails on a chalkboard.
Hillary is so bad she's having trouble beating Sanders! The only way she wins against a Republican is if they're too chickens*** to hit back when she starts kicking them below the belt. Trump has already neutralized the "woman card" with his calling out of Bill the rapist. You think nice guy Cruz has the guts to go there? Not a chance. Rubio? That boy will be ground up and spit out by the Clinton machine.
Only a real man can take on the establishment and win. Today that's Trump. Cruz is young. Maybe in eight years he'll be all grown up.
Why then, did Ted apologize?
On national TV no less...
Ending cheap labor policies: Illegal immigration, H1-B’s, Unfair Trade Treaties.
Not getting us involved in another stupid ME war. Notice all the major Republican candidates are for imposing a no-fly zone in Syria. Against Russia.
Fighting/Speaking up against Political Correctness.
Pretty much covers it. It’s also why none of the other Candidates have much appeal to many people.
If A Trump owned subsidiary hired H-1B visa holders then Trump needs to handle that. Cruz proposed a 500% increase in H-1Bs that is total BS.
I was laid off in the late 90's and my whole department was replaced by H-1b's so I have felt the pains of gloBULLism and anti American corporate greed personally. The Zuckerburgs and Gates's of the world complain about phony labor shortages from one of their vacation villas. F them
Go Trump, go!
In your post #37, a very realistic view of Trump along with good reasons to take a chance on him.
"Stop doing that."
Since Trump has been married for a decade presumably he has. Stopped that is. If he's still at it I guess we'll know in August.
IF Trump starts wearing the 'Jesus sent me costume' getting ready for the rapture religion, then he would be following in Cruz's line of work. Strange thing about Trump, he told on himself... And his sins are between him, and his ex-wives and God. What sins has Cruz committed? And where is his public confession?
Thus far Trump is not playing the Jesus sent me card... the instant he does I will respond in kind.
we actually had people vote for bammy who claimed they were patriots, or conservatives, or Christian...
it was the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party and many people, including freepers, BLEW IT big time...
for the record,I'll vote for Trump but I won't be excited about it...he's a liberal rat in rino clothing.
Here is the apology, which does not use the word because it was not warranted:
"Last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying that Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story," Cruz said in a statement first shared with CNN. "That's fair game. What the team then should have done was send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out."
The original Cruz campaign statement was perfectly true:
"Breaking News. The press is reporting that Dr. Ben Carson is taking time off from the campaign trail after Iowa and making a big announcement next week," the email read. "Please inform any Carson caucus goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted Cruz." Perfectly true, perfectly fair, perfectly moral, perfectly Christian.
What is not true, not fair, immoral is Donald Trump's assertion of lies on the part of Ted Cruz personally or even on the part of the Ted Cruz campaign.
I found it posted here, with attribution:
If you can’t see any difference between Trump and PIPS or Bernie you are fool.
I am sorry to be so blunt but it is true
The facts are that Cruz looked GREAT on paper, when he ran for the Senate. We were all impressed by him, but WHAT did we REALLY know about him back then?
We didn't know that he was born in Canada.
We didn't know that he couldn't think on his feet.
We didn't know that he had lousy judgement when it came to people.
We didn't know that he was malleable, that he would vote for something and then turn around and lie about WHY he did and get someone else to also lie for him.
None of us knew that he and his father have some weirdo religious beliefs.
We didn't know how much he could or would lie, nor that he wasn't adverse to engaging in very dirty politics.
Who knew or even guessed at HOW very unappealing Cruz would be to so many different groups of people? We didn't; that's for sure and it isn't that he's a "conservative" ( whatever that means now, in 2016! ), but because he doesn't connect well with many.
We had been told, repeatedly, what a "great debater" and how "brilliant" he is. He's neither.
And the above facts are but part of his problems; not the total sum of them.
Well, that's your opinion, which is fine.
The Christian angle is only part of the whole picture, and not a big part.
Not much difference in the blind zealotry for Trump that there was for Obama.
Both promise Hope and change, but the record is going to show that this people surrendered their Republic to a dictatorship/Monarchy willingly, as long as their ideologue was king.
In any event, kiss liberty goodbye. The people of this country no longer stand on a common foundation and cannot even agree what freedom is, much less where it comes from.
Being an IT worker, I definitely understand your anger.
Having been laid off twice, I share your pain.
Until Trump deals with it, please don’t buy the hype.
I believe Cruz can, and to some extent has been persuaded that H1’s need to be brought under control.
I’ve been kidding about all the recent Vanities for a few days.
Please don’t take it personally.
I like to think that “most” of my Comments here are an attempt to lighten things up a bit.
My Apologies if you were offended.
I suggest that you read FACTUAL American political history, as well as bios of the FFs !
Cruz has, for the Second Amendment.
We get that same ad here in Texas. That last sentence grates on my nerves every time I hear it. It's about as genuine as a three dollar bill. Completely inauthentic.
I hear that ad in Minneapolis on the same radio station which carries Rush Limbaugh.
I take it to mean that he will engage in Hillary-and-Bill like parsing of every single last *syllable* and *inflection* to weasel out.
How does a guy who went to Princeton and Harvard and was acclaimed as a world-class genius (*), manage to "forget" to disclose a loan from his IRA to his campaign, and manage to "forget" that he is a Cuban born in Canada, for purposes of citizenship...?
And his eyelashes keep setting off the lower range of my gaydar detector.
I like what he says: but the "humblebrag" biopics which explain the heavily data-driven campaign funded by the hedge-fund billionaire, make me feel as though I've been played. He's very quick with the "right' conservative answer, but it feels a little too...pat, or assembly-line built. The delivery is not robotic as with Rubio, but it is as though he NEVER allows himself to vary at all in the exact encapsulation of the message. Trump, you can tell ("Two Corinthians") hasn't memorized the Christianese, and so he comes across as more "message: I care" except that it looks like a sincere effort, not at all patronizing...
That's it. Cruz looks and sounds patronizing, even when he's being a slime bag (hiring that Roe dirty tricks guy, growling "EXACTLY what I said," etc.) (*) actually, he'd be at the top of the 2nd rank of Freepers, only more insufferable.
Yes Ted’s voice is HORRIBLE, inauthentic at times, and a real put-off to many !
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