Posted on 08/10/2015 5:01:16 PM PDT by VinL
Following a campaign rally outside Nashville on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz revealed the foolproof debate question hed put to Hillary Clinton if the two individuals were to meet on the debate stage next year. The subject of his query? Not Benghazi or destroyed e-mail servers, but income inequality.
Over the last six-and-a-half years, the rich have gotten richer and hard-working men and women across America have seen their lives get harder and harder, Cruz said during an exclusive interview with The Federalist on his campaign bus. The people who have been hurt the most are the most vulnerable. Young people, Hispanics, African-Americans, single moms.
Weve seen for two terms now the big government policies you and Barack Obama advocate dont work, Cruz said before getting to the ultimate question for Hillary. Why should anyone believe a third term of the same failed policies would produce anything different?
A former college debate champion, Cruz expanded on how he thought Hillary might respond to his question, and how he might react to that response.
I think she would respond with high level rhetoric about income inequality that would not address any of the substance, Cruz told The Federalist. And then I hope to come right back at her with: I emphatically agree income inequality is a tremendously important problem. Thats why it is such a compelling indictment of your record that its increased dramatically under your policies..
Conspicuously missing from Cruzs question and response were any mention of any of the various scandals dogging Hillary Clinton: nothing about deleted e-mails, mishandled classified information, Benghazi, or Planned Parenthood organ trafficking. The junior senator from Texas said those omissions were intentional.
If one goes down the road of scandals with Hillary, it would consume more than a two-hour debate, Cruz joked. And frankly, the key to winning in 2016 is running a populist campaign of hard-working men and women against the bipartisan corruption of Washington, which Hillary embodies.
Cruz, whose poll numbers surged into the double digits after last weeks first Republican primary debate, told The Federalist that 2016 is a grand opportunity for Republicans to invert the traditional media narrative that the GOP is rich and out of touch, while Democrats are the party of the working man.
My dad came to America with nothing, washing dishes, making 50 cents an hour. When I was in high school, my parents went bankrupt, Cruz said. In contrast, he noted, Hillary and Bill Clinton have made hundreds of millions of dollars exploiting their government service.
Cruz didnt seem at all worried about Hillarys power to drive the narrative in 2016. Why the confidence?
Hillary Clinton hasnt even driven a car since 1996.
Cruz will destroy any rAt in a debate. As the field shrinks in the primary race he will distinguish himself in the debates.
He will be the next president.
Gotta love this guy.
I’ve always thought that Obama’s excuse for gun control could be turned on the left for immigration. If building a border wall could save just one life, then we have a responsibility to build it. Perhaps making reference to Kate Steinle in that last sentence.
I’m pleased to see him using his 2008 US Supreme Court win in the Medellín v. Texas case to call on states to impose sanctions on Iran without the federal government.
What at a glance looked like a simple death penalty of a foreign national (illegal) was actually a major fight over state and national sovereignty vs the international community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_v._Texas
in 2013, Michigan passed the Iran sanctions act preventing economic cooperation between Michigan and Iran. The feds can’t do squat to prevent it.
http://www.9and10news.com/story/20491510/closed-for-business-iran-economic-sanctions-act
The media controls when where and how the debates go. If the media says no, where then will the debate go? What gets me is the Media makes up the questions. i.e. Mrs Clinton, do you prefer a black, red, green or blue pants suit? Mr. Cruz, what is the name of the driver who drives the car of the President of Bukistan? The double standard applies, make the Republicans look evil and dumb and the Democrats smart and good. There is only one question I would ask, Mrs. Clinton, have you ever used the “N” word, and then ask her to take a polygraph exam. Which I know she’ll never do. Either way she’s in trouble.
Why should anyone believe a third term of the same failed policies would produce anything different?GAG! You Cruz people have got to be kidding. Did you people just get out of high school? That question you nimrods think is so forward thinking has been used to pound over the Republican's head for decades by DEMOCRATS.
The Democrats invented the term. Same failed policies, same failed policies, same failed policies, same failed policies.
This guy has you clowns so mesmerized it's getting sickening..
If we hear that kind of "same failed policies" shit from any party anymore the voters are going to run right to the voting booth to vote Trump. Those that won't will be running for the exits or just staying home .The people who have been hurt the most are the most vulnerable. Young people, Hispanics, African-Americans, single moms.
OMG! He sounds like a liberal, he sounds just like Hillary (except she sounds like she has balls, he doesn't). Next he'll say "it's for the children"..."It takes a village"
Right, the ones being hurt the most are the ones getting all the free shit. Cruz wants to give them more free shit. Got it.
All she has to say is what they always say. The obstructionist republicans block all the legislation that help poor people...And he'll stand there with his droopy eyes and scolded puppy look with nothing to say...Game over for Cruz
What fools you people are.
UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE
Heres The One Debate Question Id Ask Hillary Clinton -Debate, debate, debate, debate, debate.
That's all this guy knows and he has yet to accomplish one thing with his so called brilliant debate tactics.
Debating gives the other person a chance to respond. What he should do is pound her over the head with the things she's done. But he doesn't have the balls.
He wants to debate...that's it.
Uh, that's part of the point, isn't it? As, in "LOL Take their narrative and shove it right down their throat."
Cordially,
Not a fair question. Too personal and hard to answer.
I don’t worry about the trolls. They’re just desperately seeking attention.
If Cruz and cankles do debate and voter id comes up, Cruz can ask her “can she use her DL as an ID.... O’ wait you don’t have one....
Hey Jwaslh07, take good care. You’ve been found out.
LOL that would be hilarious.
I dont worry about the trolls. Theyre just desperately seeking attention.
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You’re right, CC— I have an ignore list. Ted is brilliant, and Cruz supporters have higher I.Q’s— it’s a substantiated fact! I simply pray for the others.
Right. He’s picking on her because she’s a woman.
Zactly. He should lose his job as a journalist.
Answers come easily to a man who is simply speaking THE TRUTH. The truth will bear witness with the listener. God bless and keep Ted Cruz.
From your lips to God's ear.
Yep - and to top it off, he just told the Hillary camp that he has so many tools to take her apart with that he isn't concerned about sharing some of the tactics with them...he threw down the gauntlet and it will be interesting to see if they pick it up, try to cover it over so it doesn't scare them at night, or deny its existence and hope for a miracle to make it go away...
Cruz was in town Sunday night and I wish I could have gone. Busy moving kids to college and co-op town, etc.
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