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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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canadian; cruz; slate; thunderdome; trump
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To: heshtesh

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Only among the Trumpophants.

Their panties are piled so high on the stage that nobody can see the candidate.


81 posted on 12/12/2015 1:04:58 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: dforest

What about 2008?


82 posted on 12/12/2015 1:05:21 PM PST by FreedomForce (First choice: Cruz. Second choice: Trump. Forget the rest of them.)
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To: editor-surveyor

As a 15+ year member of FR I find this really sad. I have read here everyday that I can remember. I know most of your names. I don’t post much, because I think others are better at expressing their views than I am.

I always thought that you were a stand up guy, I’ve read your posts for years. I’m sad.


83 posted on 12/12/2015 1:05:43 PM PST by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: Vision Thing

Knowing Beck, it was more like making themselves great again.


84 posted on 12/12/2015 1:06:00 PM PST by dforest
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To: Vision Thing

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Thanks for adding your panties to the pile!


85 posted on 12/12/2015 1:06:19 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: FreedomForce

He supported the GOP. Remember Sarah Palin? A friend of Trumps?


86 posted on 12/12/2015 1:07:26 PM PST by dforest
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To: FourPeas

Well this is Slate, and not Salon....and this is the most reasonable writer Slate has. He actually characterizes conservatives more accurately than 99% of the Jurassic Media.

This article is very balanced, and ends up on the side that there won’t be a coming Trump Cruz war. I think there will be at some point.....


87 posted on 12/12/2015 1:07:27 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: editor-surveyor

Very elegantly stated in a cruz-like manner.


88 posted on 12/12/2015 1:07:51 PM PST by Vision Thing
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To: magglepuss

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You did openly attack libbylu without cause on this thread.


89 posted on 12/12/2015 1:08:36 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: magglepuss

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You did openly attack libbylu without cause on this thread.


90 posted on 12/12/2015 1:08:40 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: libbylu; Jane Long

See response


91 posted on 12/12/2015 1:08:46 PM PST by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: dforest

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Trump-Obama-class-warfare/2011/10/19/id/414955/


92 posted on 12/12/2015 1:09:22 PM PST by FreedomForce (First choice: Cruz. Second choice: Trump. Forget the rest of them.)
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To: mkjessup
End of the Cold War. Major achievement.

Also, avoided the mess his son got us into in the Middle East. That also counts for something.

Good luck on Trump turning out to be as good a diplomat and not antagonizing everybody we have to work with.

93 posted on 12/12/2015 1:11:35 PM PST by x
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To: editor-surveyor
I'm very disappointed in you.
94 posted on 12/12/2015 1:11:48 PM PST by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: mkjessup

Ahh, you are the coolest to say such a nice thing.

Thanks for pushing back on all the right people, jessup.


95 posted on 12/12/2015 1:13:31 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: dforest

It was twofer: a self-promotion stunt and a globalist publicity stunt.


96 posted on 12/12/2015 1:15:36 PM PST by Vision Thing
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To: dforest

Now that is a Bingo! You are an instinctive detective! Who else would (maybe) interact with her posts, but over there!!

Thanks, df. %:D


97 posted on 12/12/2015 1:19:18 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: editor-surveyor

You did openly attack libbylu without cause on this thread.


I asked her an honest question on a Trump rally thread where she lied and dashed. I’m sorry that the only way to get her/his attention is posting on anther thread. This attacking the front runner has got to STOP.


98 posted on 12/12/2015 1:20:26 PM PST by magglepuss (Don't tread on me)
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To: magglepuss

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Sorry to have to keep disappointing you, but attacking the people that are standing up for the only faintly conservative candidate on the scene is not a path to propriety.

Perhaps Trump has mesmerized you; it happens, that is how we end up with our enemies heading up our party’s ticket.

It won’t happen this time, he stands no chance whatsoever of being elected, because the majority have had his number for at least a decade.
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99 posted on 12/12/2015 1:20:41 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

My bad, I need to read more carefully.


100 posted on 12/12/2015 1:23:54 PM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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