[UnwashedPeasant]

"...that the son of a bartender and the son of a mailman and the son of a dishwasher and a successful businessman can all stand on this stage..."

If he had said "the son of a successful businessman," it would have humorously made an important point about Trump's resume.

[TexasGator]

“If he had said “the son of a successful businessman,” it would have humorously made an important point about Trump’s resume. “

That was his meaning and that is the way I took it.

[gg188]

I'm the son of a businessman basically the entrepreneur class, and everyone of all of them I knew when I was growing up was working twice as many hours a week as a waiter or dishwasher and 10 times as much real work a week as a mailman or any other government employee.

These were mostly small businessmen, but driven to produce, to create, by passion, preferred 90 hour weeks to taking orders from someone else or putting their fate and career into someone else's hands.

Small $ compared to Trump's enterprises---but the same spirit at the core. We need a government made up of these men instead of the useless non-productive takers we have in an army of millions of worthless bureaucrats.

But I realize...that was then...this is now. The three establishment stooges we had to watch tonight who choose to spend a lifetime sucking on the taxpayer teat, producing nothing, actually being counter-productive, wasting taxpayer money on all their bs.

[Trumpinator]

"...that the son of a bartender and the son of a mailman and the son of a dishwasher and a successful businessman can all stand on this stage..." If he had said "the son of a successful businessman," it would have humorously made an important point about Trump's resume.

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Cruz ruined his own joke and thus his point - oops.