Posted on 11/11/2015 7:31:34 AM PST by Isara
Cruz: If the GOP embraces amnesty, Hillary Clinton will win (video)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is making light of his struggle during the latest GOP debate to list all of the federal agencies he would eliminate as president.
Cruz struggled to list the five agencies he would eliminate as president during the Republican debate Tuesday night, listing the Department of Commerce twice.
"Five major agencies that I would eliminate: the IRS, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, uh, the Department of Commerce and HUD," Cruz said.
Many political observers compared the segment to a similar moment from then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry's disastrous "oops" moment during a GOP debate in the 2012 presidential election.
Unlike Perry's highly publicized moment, however, Cruz did not allow for any pregnant pauses amid his hesitation in the prime-time debate segment, quickly carrying on with other points.
Cruz told host Megyn Kelly that the fifth agency he would eliminate is the Department of Education.
I agree. I noticed that he said Commerce twice, but actually thought at the time, "he handled that way better than Perry." Candidates cram a lot of info into their heads before these debates, and once in a while, the recall just isn't quite there. It happens.
The difference between Cruz and Perry is that when Perry momentarily forgot one of his points, he stumbled, drew attention to it, and gave one of his opponents (Ron Paul, if I remember correctly) the opportunity to step in and correct Perry on Perry's own point--drawing further attention to the fact that Perry's opponents knew his positions better than he did.
With Cruz, on the other hand, he had the confidence to just keep going, and who cares if he said an agency twice? It's the difference between a verbal slip-up that gets some attention the day after the debate (Cruz), and a clip that gets repeated for the entire campaign, and comes to represent a candidate who is just not on the ball (Perry).
“The reason it won’t hurt Cruz is simply because he didn’t stumble over it like Perry did. It brought Perry to a dead stop as he thought about it.”
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Yes, and also because everyone knows that Cruz is brilliant...a minor error like this does not fit the narrative. However, after listening to Perry for 2 minutes, most folks realize he’s a dope!
Well. The EPA needs to b added to Cruz’ list.
“...The EPA wasn’t always around.”
EPA: 1970
DOE: 1979
Both have outlived any usefulness they may ever have had.
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