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The Coming Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Showdown
Slate ^ | 12/11/15 | John Dickerson

Posted on 12/12/2015 11:45:51 AM PST by libbylu

Cruz is demonstrating a skill a president must have: avoiding a confrontation for a larger goal. During political campaigns, there is an obsession with presidential action. The party out of power demands that the president do something in response to everything. But it’s often the case that letting a situation develop is the wiser course. That’s the course Cruz is on.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


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To: Jane Long

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Feckless potmetal in your case, as usual.


41 posted on 12/12/2015 12:41:14 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mkjessup; libbylu; magglepuss; Jane Long; nopardons; onyx

She is a coward. She can not sustain the broader debate, encumbered as she is to communicate beyond those grunting sounds, and then slithering off like a rodent from a rat trap, to some other thread.


42 posted on 12/12/2015 12:42:05 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: x

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>> “What are the odds that an outsider with a habit of shooting off his mouth would be substantially better?” <<

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But he’s rich...


43 posted on 12/12/2015 12:42:28 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: magglepuss

“I am no man”

One of my favourite movie lines. :)


44 posted on 12/12/2015 12:43:11 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: libbylu

By March Cruz will drop out and endorse Trump. I wonder how some of the more rabid “Cruz or Lose” crowd here will take that?


45 posted on 12/12/2015 12:44:35 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: editor-surveyor; magglepuss

.....attacks are pure emotional panic from perceiving his boy to be unable to defend himself.....


Ms. e-s, you’ve just described yourself. ^^


46 posted on 12/12/2015 12:47:20 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: libbylu
"The Establishment's only hope: Trump & me in a cage match. Sorry to disappoint -- @realDonaldTrump is terrific. #DealWithIt," the Texas senator tweeted Friday afternoon.
47 posted on 12/12/2015 12:47:53 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: RitaOK

Rita, you truly have the soul of a poet.

Probably one of the reasons I like ya! ;)


48 posted on 12/12/2015 12:48:00 PM PST by mkjessup (Islam is the ENEMY of all civilized people. Obama is a Muslim. What's that tell ya?!?)
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To: magglepuss

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Sorry my bad on your “gender.”

Your crazy attacks aimed at Libbylu who has done nothing but post real facts, and never bashed anyone.

If you don’t like the facts, shoot the turkey that provided them, not the reporter.
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49 posted on 12/12/2015 12:48:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: magglepuss

1. In response to Cruz bashers and gloaters.
2. Trump deserves it. I won’t vote for him if he is the nominee. And if he wins in my mind it is guaranteed LIBERALS he will put on the SC and all other benches
3. His multiple changes between his campaign position eliminates him for me. To trumpees absolutely none of that matters which I find confusing.
4. His response to any real or perceived criticism is the most childish I remember in any politician besides Bambi, speaking of which his deal about mandating death penalties confirms for me he will happily continue Bambi’s use of EO to NOT FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION.
5. The dream of trumpees that Cruz wants or would be VP candidate. Trump won’t get the nomination. If he offered it to Cruz he would be a fool to take it. Cruz is not a fool.
6. With such a man with real values from whom Trump has taken many of the same positions, why would anyone want a fake? Cruz has more knowledge of issues and such an even temperament.
I have reached the conclusion trumpees expect him to obfuscate, stretch the truth, lie, and love his calling people names, belittling and will defend him no matter what he says or does.


50 posted on 12/12/2015 12:48:11 PM PST by libbylu (Trump - BICKERING LIKE A SCHOOLBOY. (I said it before Cruz did)!!!)
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To: Jane Long

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Good old Potmetal Jane.


51 posted on 12/12/2015 12:49:43 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor; dforest; Jane Long
Trump creates his own vulnerabilities.

See? You and the Donald DO have something in common! :))
52 posted on 12/12/2015 12:49:58 PM PST by mkjessup (Islam is the ENEMY of all civilized people. Obama is a Muslim. What's that tell ya?!?)
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To: libbylu

Im voting Trump his position on illegals is clear. Ted hands out teddy bears to illegals at the border with Glen Beck. That was my nail. I would vote for him if Trump is gone but we need a non-PC alpha candidate to steamroll everything.


53 posted on 12/12/2015 12:50:04 PM PST by MARKUSPRIME
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To: trisham

LOL, I had to look that one up. I’ve been talking about a marathon. I do usually get Monty Python and Spinal Tap references.


54 posted on 12/12/2015 12:50:22 PM PST by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: mkjessup; editor-surveyor

Ugh, he ain’t even a smart troll, he is just a dumb troll waste of space with limited brain power.


55 posted on 12/12/2015 12:51:01 PM PST by dforest
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To: editor-surveyor

You are right about one thing. Cruz is a globalist, Trump is a nationalist.

Oh, that wasn’t what you meant?


56 posted on 12/12/2015 12:52:45 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Jeff Head

“A showdown is counterproductive and would do the nation a dis-service.

I am looking for more of a merger!”

Me too.


57 posted on 12/12/2015 12:53:22 PM PST by Senormechanico
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To: libbylu

Writers at Slate salivate just thinking about it. We’ll see whether or not the candidates give them what they want.


58 posted on 12/12/2015 12:53:56 PM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: editor-surveyor
HOGWASH and PIFFLE !
59 posted on 12/12/2015 12:54:19 PM PST by nopardons
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To: magglepuss

I love both! :)


60 posted on 12/12/2015 12:54:31 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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