Posted on 12/11/2015 5:40:01 AM PST by VinL
One day after a report that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned Donald Trump's "judgement" in a private event, Trump called out Cruz for criticizing him behind close doors but refraining from negative comments in public.
Looks like @tedcruz is getting ready to attack. I am leading by so much he must. I hope so, he will fall like all others. Will be easy!
.@tedcruz should not make statements behind closed doors to his bosses, he should bring them out into the open - more fun that way!
Cruz has so far refrained from bashing Trump in public. After Trump announced his proposal to ban Muslims from coming to the United States, Cruz disagreed but stopped short of condemning Trump's remarks.
But the Texas senator spoke about Trump and Ben Carson during a Manhattan fundraiser on Wednesday, according to the New York Times.
"Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button? Now that’s a question of strength, but it’s also a question of judgment. And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of them," Cruz said of Trump and Carson.
Cruz has started gaining on Trump in the key primary state of Iowa, which may be making Trump uneasy. The real estate mogul has a habit of attacking his Republican rivals when they rise in the polls, as both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal noted this week. Trump may have released his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country in an attempt to boost his support with evangelical voters in Iowa.
Like I said, earlier, amnesty $$ = bad $$
Jeff Sessions is the only thing worth keeping in the Senate. If not for him, we’d have gotten Bush’s amnesty.
Good to see you, Kabar!
Uups. You got me.
All I know is that ‘Sessions’ is a name I respect. Sorry to get them mixed up. And I’m not surprised that they are on the right side.
Now, Professor Arthur March will, uh, bow out now to your superior commmand of the facts.
But I still like Cruz even if I endorse Trump, for what it’s worth.
You do understand that we have caps and quotas based on categories with the exception of certain ones like spousal visas.
Yes, we have existing caps and quotas.
But the implication of legally expediting the good ones back is the support for a legalization, touchback, over-and-back, amnesty passed by Ryan and McConnell and signed off by a president Trump.
“I have contempt for most Evangelicals”
Thanks.
That is to my mind a liberal point of view.
Hence my comment.
Maybe you are mistaking contemptible charlatans, such as Benny Hinn with evangelicals.
Evangelical simply means today, mainstream non-liberal Protestant.
Did not start this? what are we 10?
He hears a campaigner’s strategy so now he gets to say and call Cruz anything he wants.
i will vote for trump but sometimes i am flabbergasted by the posts of his admirers.
Thanks for posting that and putting the truth in context.
Me thinks perhaps The Donald doth protest too much.
You can say amnesty $$ = bad all day long and you would be correct.
But until you document that somebody such as Cruz is receiving amnesty money, you have not made any additional point.
Smooth talker, par excellence, like the good lawyer he is.
At the surface level, your comment was correct.
But if you really think about the entire remark, what Cruz is really doing is trying to link the decline of the Trump and Carson campaigns not to “gravity”, but to concerns about judgement.
The very fact that he says “and I think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of them” makes it quite clear that he believes issues of judgement are a problem for the other candidates and the reason for their decline.
He is projecting his own doubts about Trump and Carson onto “the people”.
In point of fact, one might say that Trump is a great communicator. For example, with a couple of tweets he has Ted Cruz against the ropes. Ted and everyone else is scrambling to interpret what Ted said, while Trump knows exactly what he said.
God bless you for your hard work on border safety.
I’ve never been good with remembering names. Very embarassing sometimes. Dyslexic name-and-face memory. Hope you can forgive that.
Look up Club for (Mexico’s) Growth and FreedomWorks/Koch Bros.
Lot’s of info, right here on FR, about how these groups refused to try to stop 0bama’s amnesty push. That’s the point where many FReepers lost all respect for these two groups.
Why any candidate would want to side with these amnesty/Open Borders pushers, is beyond anything.
Well, he didn’t start it. Whatsa matter? Do facts pain you?
You guys aren’t any better, so cut out the victim BS.
So far, Trump hasn’t said anything much about it. Just a couple twwets.
“Me thinks perhaps The Donald doth protest too much.”
Yeah, good judgment is a challenge for Trump, but apparently not for Cruz. Right? A presidential candidate can let a ‘minor’ slight like that pass. No big deal.
Unless he wants to win.
“That is to my mind a liberal point of view.”
Then you may need to figure out the difference between the two.
“Maybe you are mistaking contemptible charlatans, such as Benny Hinn with evangelicals.”
No. His audience consist of them, just like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart.
“Evangelical simply means today, mainstream non-liberal Protestant.”
That would be news to lots of denominations.
Thanks, Fresh Wind. A really fair comment on your part.
The only thing I’d add is that Cruz said this at a private meeting. I really don’t think his intent was to bash Trump. If so, it was a really, really weak ‘bash’, AND it wasn’t done in front of the cameras.
I imagine when those 2 are finally ready to go after each other that we’ll know it.
That’s exactly why the MSM has been trying to start a fight. Takes the focus off how terrible the Dems are.
I’m hoping these guys will run together. Trump/Cruz 2016
The idea that all “monied interests” are bad is straight out of the Marxist Democrat playbook.
And it comes from Trump and some of his supporters, even here on FR, who don’t even try to document where Cruz’s big money really comes from.
There are good monied interests and their are bad monied interests. Its up to the candidate to connect with the good money.
Pretty basic conservative, free market, pro First Amendment principle.
It cost a billion dollars to run for POTUS now. It’s a fairy tale to believe that type of money does not buy malignant influence. We’ve lost every major battle with K Street lately. Money is the reason why.
The smartest thing the leftists ever did was co-opt corporations. Main street has got no flank now to their attacks. Main Street is now surrounded by marxists and their corportist stooges.
But do feel free to continue prattling on about the first amendment. Marxists will pay no mind while they steam roll us with their corporate partners.
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