Posted on 03/22/2016 1:14:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The only defense that he and his supporters can muster is that he has "evolved" on his beliefs of nearly seven decades. This is awfully convenient, of course, considering that his new talking points match the narrative that is required to stir up what psychologists are calling the "authoritarian wing" of the Republican party. These are the Republicans who are angry about what the government is doing and who want someone strong to tell them what to think and how to act. It's the daddy-issues wing of the party - those who know enough to want change but who don't take the time to research the claims of their chosen candidate.
These people won't be reached. Instead, we're appealing to the curious- but thoughtful-Republicans who are interested in hearing what Trump has to say but who won't follow him blindly based upon the unlikely claim that he's erased 67-years of liberalism just in time to be Mr. Conservative. They will research him and come to the conclusion that he was pro-amnesty less than two years before his infamous anti-immigrant rant when he launched his campaign....
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Ted had a chance to make this central to his campaign.
He chose not to. He thought all he had to do was get the Christian vote that stayed home in 2012.
He left the door wide open for someone to tap into the anti illegal sentiment in this country
Show me the bill he sponsored.
I want to see it too.
We’re not getting real immigration reform (including a wall) unless congress gets their act together.
Cruz hasn’t been able to get the senate to cooperate with him. I don’t see that changing just because he changes from Senator Cruz to President Cruz.
Trump has decades of getting people to work together. I can guarantee you he’s had multiple contractors on projects who hate each other and blame each other and hate the inspectors and on and on. But he gets things done (and it seems on time and on budget). That means he can find win-win situations which all successful businessmen I know are experts at. He may not be able to do that with congress but I have higher hopes for him than Cruz.
Where is the Wall Cruz proposed?
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The Canadain/Cuban isn’t going to build a wall. Hell it
may stop some of his family from coming to visit.
First, he said that he would waterboard, just not en mass as thee would have it. He would only do it in specific times and under specific circumstances.
When did he say he would not question terrorists families, I remember something about not summarily killing the families of terrorists.
Won’t stop the refugees, then why has he been calling for the halting of refugees coming into this country since Paris, San Bernedino, and again today.
Won’t round up the illegals, when has he said that? He has said that he is not going to create a mass of secret police, going door to door asking for papers. He has said that when we find illegals through the legal process, we deport them.
Which part of his policies would help ISIS, The overwhelming them in air raids, arming the Kurds, leading the Arab countries in fighting them, and possibly putting our own soldiers in force to “Utterly destroy ISIS”.
Or perhaps it is the talk of “If you wage jihad against America or Israel, you are signing your own death warrants.” That sounds like just the policies to help ISIS to me.
The wall that he was calling for since 2012 when he was first elected, the wall that should already have been built based on federal law, The one he has promised since this election started to finish building. That wall?
Finally the invitation to terrorists is very simple.
“You wage Jihad, you DIE”
This was posted a couple months ago and discussed at length. Cruz’s ‘support’ for a wall was in fact a typical political answer to a question from a debate moderator as to whether he would support a wall along the length of the Texas/Mexico border. He never brought the issue up on his own the way Trump did. If you know had to interpret these kinds of answers, it’s clear that it was political doublespeak designed to cover all sides of the issue, just like Cruz’s comments that the protesters in Chicago were responsible for the riots, but at the same time Trump is responsible for creating the climate for encouraging them.
When asked if he supported building a wall, Cruz responded (I’m paraphrasing) ‘Yes. I support walls, fences, increased border security, drones, everify, anything that works.’ If you don’t see the wiggle room Cruz provides himself with that answer, you’re not looking very hard.
“Show me the bill he sponsored.”
Are you referring to Trump?
why was he on the border giving out bears to illegals as they crossed then?
The speech referenced in this screed has Ted calling for a fence. Not a wall.
Typical.
do you not see what you have just done?
You accuse others of insults and yet you did the same.
he might have been , just as he might have been giving to cruz too.
what bill did he do or sponsor and when did he mention to build a wall please?
That’s the poison pill, as I’m sure you know.
When Trump says wall, he means something you bang your head against.
Cruz was running for President.
He’s been running for President since he and Heidi got together.
Pretty obvious now.
With the most liberal President in US history at the helm.
What the hell did you want him to do?
He has stood for conservative principles his entire career, Trump, about 3 years...
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