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Cruz draws from anti-Islamist fringe
Politico ^ | 3-17-2016 | MICHAEL CROWLEY

Posted on 03/17/2016 6:55:23 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

Ted Cruz's new team of foreign policy advisers includes several fringe conservative activists and fervid anti-Islamist hardliners — but few of the GOP establishment elites who are outraged over the rise of Donald Trump.

Cruz's list of nearly two dozen names includes Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., a former Reagan Pentagon official whose focus on the influence of Islam in the U.S. has drawn charges of bigotry. In June 2009, Gaffney claimed there was "mounting evidence" that President Barack Obama "not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself."

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KEYWORDS: antiislamist; cruzforeignpolicy; islamophobia
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To: AndyTheBear
So being against Islamic terrorists is an extreme hardline position now?

Yes it is. Compared to the Islamic terrorist sympathizers.

21 posted on 03/17/2016 7:34:46 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The republican party is the voters, not the politicians.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton
I said:"Never did see that evidence."

I guess I didn't make myself clear. I meant the evidence that Trump indicated he had or would soon have the real one in hand, but he never did.

You said:"Then you must have never looked at the document."

I have seen the certificate Obama put online many times.

22 posted on 03/17/2016 7:48:24 PM PDT by Spunky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9uAobbQ4A)
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To: txhurl

Cruz should have suspended his campaign last Tuesday night after losing every contest of the night.


23 posted on 03/17/2016 7:50:11 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Citizen Zed
fervid anti-Islamist hardliners

Sounds like my kind of people.

24 posted on 03/17/2016 7:51:50 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Spunky

Okay, I misunderstood you.


25 posted on 03/17/2016 7:51:56 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Citizen Zed

Hey, I’ve always liked Frank Gaffney.


26 posted on 03/17/2016 8:01:08 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006.)
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To: bankwalker

A quick Google search uncovers about ten such articles, here is one citation from national review picked at random: http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-on-there-being-zero-proof-he-opposed-iraq-before-the-w#.jd0Rm4gJB1

Donald Trump simply lied. Worse, he lied about George Bush lying when it was Donald Trump himself who lied. Yet you will hear allegation after allegation in this forum about how Ted Cruz is a liar. Anyone with a sense of decency would recoil from those allegations when applied to Ted Cruz. Donald Trump is a liar and he is unfit to conduct foreign policy because he is essentially a foreign policy ignoramus.


27 posted on 03/17/2016 8:05:37 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s a good article and mentions several noteworthy individuals on the Cruz team.

One excerpt:

Cruz himself has made the threat of radical Islam a centerpiece of his campaign, and often attacks President Barack Obama for declining to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.”


28 posted on 03/17/2016 8:10:05 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Hillary and Sanders draw from pro-Islamist fringe


29 posted on 03/17/2016 8:12:30 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: mabelkitty

Reagan had hardliners too, including Frank Gaffney, perhaps the hardest of the hardliners on Cruz’s team.

Reagan defeated the Soviet Union. Now, as then, no hot war is required.

Look at the big wars of the 20th century and who started them, in descending order of casualties:

WW2, Roosevelt(D)
WW,1 Wilson (D)
Vietnam, Kennedy (D)
Korea, Truman (D)


30 posted on 03/17/2016 8:19:13 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Cruz has been personally supporting the islamists.

He is going to have to backtrack and apologize for that before getting any credit for when he opposes them.


31 posted on 03/17/2016 8:31:42 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

Can’t we all just get along? /s


32 posted on 03/17/2016 8:34:45 PM PDT by Citizen Zed ("Freedom costs a buck o five" - Gary Johnston, TAWP)
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To: VerySadAmerican
If Cruz would say he’s for wiping out Islam he’d get my vote.


When you have Frank Gaffney, Gen Boykin and Andrew McCarthy as part of your inner circle, that's about as close to saying you are for wiping out Radical Islam as you can get

33 posted on 03/17/2016 9:00:27 PM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Millera)
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To: MrEdd

Cruz has been personally supporting the islamists.

He is going to have to backtrack and apologize for that before getting any credit for when he opposes them.


Bull S**t


34 posted on 03/17/2016 9:01:20 PM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Millera)
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To: rdcbn

Corker bill.

Iranian Nuclear weapons.

I think that is a big problem.
Ted Cruz had no problems with it.

You and I have chosen different sides as to whether giving the Ayatollahs nuclear weapons helps Islam or not.


35 posted on 03/17/2016 9:07:25 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Citizen Zed

From Time magazine and was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and a reporter for the Boston Globe and has written for the New York Times Magazine, New York, The Atlantic and many other publications.

36 posted on 03/17/2016 9:18:00 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Citizen Zed

From Time magazine and was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and a reporter for the Boston Globe and has written for the New York Times Magazine, New York, The Atlantic and many other publications.

Politico's Crowley Perpetuates Myth That Boehner 'Went Behind Obama's Back' With Bibi Speech

By Tom Blumer | March 18, 2015 | 11:22 PM EDT

Many media myths won't die because those who should know better — and I believe in many cases do know better, and don't care — perpetuate them.

One can't divine his mindset, but Politico's Michael Crowley, in his coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu's resounding Tuesday electoral victory, did his part to continue the myth that the Israeli Prime Minister's "March 3 speech to Congress (was) arranged by Speaker John Boehner behind the Obama White House’s back." It wasn't, and claiming that it was a million times won't change that.

37 posted on 03/17/2016 9:24:58 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: ChessExpert

Other than his own brain, the only people Trump mentions are the guys we all can hear on “the shows”.


38 posted on 03/17/2016 9:52:06 PM PDT by buckeye49
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To: Citizen Zed
“Ted Cruz’s new team of foreign policy advisers includes several fringe conservative activists and fervid anti-Islamist hardliners”
And for what it's worth the SPLC, CAIR and the other usual suspects on the left are getting all bent out of shape over this. Moments like this makes me even more proud of my tagline :)
39 posted on 03/17/2016 9:56:49 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Those are all good people.


40 posted on 03/17/2016 10:10:33 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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