Posted on 12/10/2015 7:49:24 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Senator Ted Cruz raised questions on Wednesday at a private fund-raiser about whether Donald J. Trump, his bombastic rival for the Republican presidential nomination, has the "judgment" to be president and mused about "strength," according to two people who attended the event in Manhattan
The remarks from Mr. Cruz came as he has studiously avoided public criticism of Mr. Trump, who is handily beating the rest of the Republican field in opinion polls.
Mr. Cruz has positioned himself to be the beneficiary of any erosion of support for Mr. Trump. While he has said he doesn't agree with Mr. Trump's proposal for a ban on Muslim immigrants entering the United States, he has taken pains to praise Mr. Trump for making immigration a focal point of his candidacy.
But inside a conference room in a Madison Avenue office, with about 70 people pressed around a table, Mr. Cruz gave a candid assessment of the race, lumping Mr. Trump with another candidate whose supporters the Texas senator hopes to poach, Ben Carson, according to two people present for the remarks.
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Ted Cruz is too brilliant to say such a thing, even in private. Trump will KNOW the truth of this, if true we will know very soon.
Agree, agree and agree!!!!
I’m ALL caught up.
Again, IMHO, if this true, Cruz just made a huge mistake.
...but no one has any idea of where he really stands on anything.
That can be said about any of the candidates of either party. They are politicians who will do anything to get elected. Obama got the two highest vote totals in American history—by far. Hope and Change won out. Now we find out what it really means.
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I don’t completely disagree with you. Rubio was the Tea Party celeb du jour when elected. After the election, however, he said one thing and acted differently. Rand Paul was another one but he hasn’t gone completely to the dark side. Cruz has, for the most part, stayed the course. Until they are actually in office and casting votes no one knows what they will get.
Trump is a complete wild card. No one has any idea what they are getting.
Don't declare victory just yet. The game hasn't even gotten to the end of the first quarter.
“Suck it up buttercup.”
Yet more intelligent and insightful snippets from a Cruz-bot.
“Biden speaks without thinking through what he is about to say and neither does Trump.”
I think this a common way that people underestimate Trump. If this were true, I don’t see how he could manipulate the press so easily to get into the headlines almost every day. He has to have thought out what his new “outrage” du jour is going to be. Look at his speeches, he says similar things for each speech, but he varies them up just enough to ensure that he’s the center of a big press story the next day. That takes real perceptiveness; he couldn’t successfully do this over and over almost without fail for every speech, if he really weren’t thinking through what will get him more headlines.
I think Trump is a master tactician. That’s why he’s on top still after continual predictions of his inevitable downfall. Read The Art of the Deal. What he does is pretty deliberate, if you ask me. He knows how to play the game. He seems to understand what will appeal to Republican voters and how to manipulate the media into spreading his ideas for free to that public. If he acted and spoke like a typical politician, he’d be nowhere now compared to where he is. This is one reason I have greater faith in his ability to win the general election with a hostile media than any other of the candidates.
Trump gets along with everyone until attacked - ever see him on an interview? He usually has the liberal reporter eating out of his hand. Getting along doesn't mean agreeing with.
Well Trump did say this last year in regards to Obama and Putin.
Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to "show his manhood."
The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.
"We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," Trump said. ..."
http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098
Well, he has to. I mean, if you’re the #2 horse, you don’t get to #1 til you get in front of the first guy.
“This smells to me like the Times is trying to manufacture a wedge between Cruz and Trump. “Hey, why don’t you and him fight it out—
My immediate reaction as well. If I were dictator, I would put the entire writing staff of the NYT in Gitmo.
How can Trump’s “judgment” be any worse than the last four presidents we’ve had since Reagan. I wonder if Cruz really said that. That’s a stupid thing for Cruz, a politician, to say. It is the judgment of politicians, always worried about their political fortune and future, that has been our problem for a long time.
Generally, non-politicians and average Americans have shown much better judgment than our corrupt politicians. This is a “ruling elite” type of statement. I hope Cruz didn’t say that.
Probably another lie out of the mouth of the lying NYT.
Absolutely. Damn shame what has happened to our once great culture. Now just about everything sucks, even the cartoons.
(Harvey to Ralph) “Now remember tough guy, if you don’t show up I’ll come and get you, where do you live?’
Norton immediately responds: “328 Chauncey Street!”
Rightly or wrongly, the MSM has successfully branded Cruz as an extreme right-wing zealot. And Cruz has some other negatives vis a vis issues as well as eligibility questions. His support from the Club for Growth, Goldman-Sachs, and a big hedge fund sugar daddy should give us some pause as well. The guns have not been trained on Cruz yet, but they will be if he gets more visibility.
If I was Teddy I would not bring up the judgement argument. Especially after TPA, The Corker Ammendment and now the Muslim ban stance.
Yeah, I believe everything I read in the NY Times.
True. And it was a pretty mild one. I suspect it’s just a start, testing the waters perhaps.
Unless those rumors of some collaboration are true. Then he’d gracefully let the chips fall.
“We need a president like Trump who isn’t afraid to shoot...”
We already have one that is afraid of shooting and a whole lot of other things that would protect America.
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