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Ted Cruz is nobody's puppet. Don't know why Trump would call him one. Here's Trump's Achilles Heel.
1 posted on 08/02/2015 9:01:41 AM PDT by VinL
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To: VinL

Trump will get eaten alive in the debates and I think he knows it.


2 posted on 08/02/2015 9:04:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: VinL

I agree. I have to think that Trump likes Cruz and really meant that for the others Walker, Bush, Rubio etc.

Like I said on the other thread, this election is now about who can raise the most money to keep up with the billionaire Trump.

He set the bar, so he shouldn’t call all of them puppets.


3 posted on 08/02/2015 9:04:18 AM PDT by WestCoastGal ( Ted Cruz is our last chance to save America !!! TedCruz.org Please donate.)
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To: VinL

I can picture Ted Cruz laying down the line in the meeting. “If I’m with you, I’m with you. If I’m not with you, I’m not with you and I’m not going to lie to you.”


4 posted on 08/02/2015 9:09:26 AM PDT by Isara
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To: VinL

Misleading headline!

He didn’t say they were puppets, he asked if they were.


5 posted on 08/02/2015 9:09:59 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: VinL

Bogus headline. Trump didn’t say anything about Cruz and he didn’t say the others were puppets. He asks the question nobody wants to ask.


7 posted on 08/02/2015 9:12:59 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: VinL

I don’t know why you would say that. Trump is simply following basic marketing philosophies. When your product has an asset that your competitors do not have, you bang the drum about it as much as you can. If they can NEVER achieve what you have, as is the case here, you do it even louder. Trump can self-fund and his competitors cannot, thus he’s going to call them all out on it whenever he can in order to promote himself.

Ted Cruz is a big boy. He can handle it.


11 posted on 08/02/2015 9:15:45 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: VinL

You Trump and Cruz supporters are really stupid.

If you do not think Trump will not attack Cruz if he is a threat, then you are fooling yourselves.

Likewise, if Cruz has an opportunity to take the lead in the polls over Trump by attacking him, he will.

These are politicians, not friends.


14 posted on 08/02/2015 9:17:02 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Scott Walker - a more conservative governor than Ronald Reagan)
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To: VinL
"Anyone bothered that he’s taking the Harry Reid tactic against Republicans?"

Referencing an obvious truth is now a Harry Reid tactic ?

Does anyone really think the Kochs and cohorts give over $1bil each cycle and ask for nothing in return?

If so, please make you case.

15 posted on 08/02/2015 9:17:03 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: VinL

Trump speaks the Truth!


20 posted on 08/02/2015 9:22:43 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: VinL

Trump is an arrogant ass who will get his clock cleaned in the debates.


29 posted on 08/02/2015 9:42:22 AM PDT by Josh Painter (As government expands, liberty contracts - Ronald Reagan)
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To: VinL

Trump is an egotistical fool.

You think Obama bristles and gets angry at the smallest sleights? Trump is worse.


31 posted on 08/02/2015 9:46:02 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: All

The fact that Trump is running, does expose at the least, the system and that is of politicians serving to an extent, special interests. That may not always be a bad thing.


34 posted on 08/02/2015 9:49:17 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: VinL

Trump could NOT say “4 out of 5 who went to beg Koch’s for money are puppets”. So, Cruz just got lumped in with the others. Trump and Cruz have not fired at each other, yet. Which is all good.


35 posted on 08/02/2015 9:50:38 AM PDT by entropy12 (Make America Great Again!!! Go Trump/Cruz 2016....others are all in pocket of their rich donors.)
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To: VinL

Trump is behaving like a child. He lashes out indiscriminately and says some pretty bizarre things. Personally, I like Carly, but it looks like she won’t even be in the debates. No doubt the Dems will seize on that and say it’s because she is a woman.


43 posted on 08/02/2015 10:05:57 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: VinL

The Koch Brothers support amnesty, homo marriage, and abortion. They are not even libertarian! The Left hates them simply because they don’t donate to them.


45 posted on 08/02/2015 10:24:45 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: VinL
Trump's net worth is open for debate. I've seen figures between $2.7 billion and $10 billion.

Does everyone really think he's willing to spend a billion of his own cash, or more, to fund his run? I don't believe it. He can stay above the fray for now, and act superior to those who need OPM, but at some point he will need/want to raise money. JMHO, of course.

58 posted on 08/02/2015 11:19:09 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: VinL

This would be the Koch event that Trump’s representatives asked that he be included in but were turned down?


59 posted on 08/02/2015 11:21:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: VinL

The Koch Brothers are POISON. Pro-gay marriage, pro-amnesty, pro-drug legalization, pro-TPP treaty. They give MILLIONS to La Raza groups and radical homos. Trump is RIGHT.


61 posted on 08/02/2015 1:32:48 PM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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To: VinL

He’s mad because the Koch Bros. rejected him. He asked them to share their data and allow him to speak to the activists who attend. It was snobby, loser GOP nonsense to exclude him.


66 posted on 08/02/2015 4:02:23 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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67 posted on 08/02/2015 4:46:27 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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