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1 posted on 12/14/2015 3:36:55 AM PST by markomalley
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"Nobody Likes You"

Do we really need a 3rd grader in the White House?

CRUZ "MANIA" 2016!!!!!!!!!!


59 posted on 12/14/2015 5:21:34 AM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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Since Trump was talking about Cruz relationship with the senate I would say he is right.

The senate does not like Cruz.


60 posted on 12/14/2015 5:23:06 AM PST by Amntn
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Trump took a few lazy swipes at Cruz on social media heading into the weekend, but it was in two taped interviews for CNN's State of the Union and Fox News Sunday that he revealed the line of attack he’s planning to use. And, in keeping with the schoolyard bully metaphor, it boils down to: "Nobody likes you!" Okay, even Trump is more subtle than that, at least sometimes. What he went after Cruz for was his "temperament," saying that the Texan doesn’t have the personality to be president.

Well! Thank God Ron Garver interpreted Trump's comments! I mean, who among us can read the English language? Sure, questioning someone's temperment is EXACTLY the same as saying "nobody likes you"!

The Elitists must die.

67 posted on 12/14/2015 5:30:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (It has gotten to the point where any report from standard news outlets must be fact-checked.)
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While politician Cruz is telling us all how to build a watch, Trump is simply telling us what time it is, which is what we want to hear, metaphorically.


71 posted on 12/14/2015 5:47:04 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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It's a lesson most of us learn in the schoolyard, but one that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz seems to have forgotten.

Nope, he remembers it, but unlike RINOs he knows how to beat bullies.

72 posted on 12/14/2015 5:48:07 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Changed)
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These so-called journalists are an embarrassment. Instead of discussing issues, they just love engaging in 8th-grade girl issues as they blather on and on about what one politician said about another one.

I can’t help but get an image in my head of some obnoxious 13-year-old fiddling with her hair while prattling, “Did you hear what Mallory said about Emily?”


74 posted on 12/14/2015 5:51:14 AM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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IMO, Cruz is the natural inheritor of most who abandon the Carson, Fiorina and Trump camps. IMO if he sticks it out and runs his own campaign, he should win the nomination. If it goes to a brokered convention he may even win the second vote but its very likely the insiders will push against him. But obviously the gop voters are (deservedly) anti-establishment. The leaders in the race are all basically outsiders: Trump, Carson, Fiorina all never held office and Cruz is young, newly elected (though he held statewide office it was an office that is elected but not very political in duties) and planted himself outside the main and pro small government. Combined these 4 garner huge majority leads. It tells us that the party is sick of the party. But the mainstream pretends it is not so.

Rubio IMO will amass most of the mainline support, eventually, as soon as Bush and his supporters accept they cannot win. But with his huge cash pile and country club support he is unlikely to quit the race before the convention. Indeed if it appears the convention will be brokered he will hang on hoping to cut a deal, as will many others.

IMO, Cruz need not respond to all of Trump’s taunts. I’ve seen him in interviews he’s gotten better at answering in ways that define his agenda and avoids pitfalls and traps. Media tries hard to get him to speak soundbites that they hope to isolate and use against him later. He knows it, so he avoids it to his credit IMO. I say this is one area (Trump, and MSM taunts) where he is wise to just run his own campaign.


85 posted on 12/14/2015 6:05:38 AM PST by monkeyshine
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..heard the recent Cruz speech at Heritage. It was a brilliant and detailed plan for foreign policy. I simply cannot understand the hostile statements against Cruz written by some Trump people on FR. At the end of the day, both camps need each other—policy and style differences between the candidates notwithstanding...


86 posted on 12/14/2015 6:07:11 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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"...By most accounts, Cruz is loathed by many of his fellow Republicans in the Senate, to the point where he is now often refused common legislative courtesies. Journalists have done multiple pieces exploring Cruz's background, and with few exceptions they find former colleagues and acquaintances practically standing in line to say they can't stand him."...

And this is used as a negative by Trump?

Let's look at how people who've dealt with Trump in his world see him:

"......Among people who have done business with Trump are many who feel they have been abused by him. Tama Starr, president of the sign-design company Artkraft Strauss (which lowered the Times Square silver ball that marked New Year's Eve for decades), has written about what she calls "the ugly art of Trump's deals." She and others have told me that it's common for Trump to pay 80 percent of a project, withhold the remainder of what is owed by claiming dissatisfaction with the work, and then force creditors to either give up on payment or engage in expensive litigation that might cost more than the money owed.

Donald Trump's big talk, braggadocio, and boldness have carried him far. But "gravity" - the wearing off of his freshness, the cumulative weight of his excesses, and voters taking a closer look at him before they actually cast a ballot - might well bring Trump down to earth, as Cruz recently suggested in a speech to a group of donors. Even Superman became weak and vulnerable when exposed to kryptonite, and in Trump's case, the equivalent could be exposure to a political environment in which his 91 percent name ID is "trumped" by voters' decision to finally compare him with other lesser-known candidates." Source

99 posted on 12/14/2015 6:19:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Reading the headlines this morning, and reading this post... we are in such a mess I fear for the future of our country and all of us. As a Cruz and Trump supporter, I find myself tired of Trump’s lack of being able to communicate in a manner that would put him so much above everyone else in the race. With so much going for him, he’s squandering his chances.. and we can’t afford to lose this time!!!!!

And Cruz is going into uncharted territory with his attacks on Trump. Both of these men work better if they refrain from the jabs. We can’t afford to lose this time!!!!

To have a felon on the dems side... and to have people who dismiss all of her bad points... is troubling and scares the heck out of me. We can’t afford to lose this time!!!!

With the dumb rocks who vote.. and the illegal activity that goes on in the voting booths.... we are in a heap of trouble and we can’t afford to lose this time!!!

We have many good men on the Republican side... and we cannot choose one who can win in all of this mess... none of them are a cinch to win... and I guess hillary has her dumb rocks and illegals who can overlook who she is.. and we can’t do the same or better to our good men? We are being ripped apart by the media, the perfectionists and the GOP.

We can’t afford to lose this time!!! And I fear we might.


100 posted on 12/14/2015 6:20:32 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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Cruz lost me when Americans are out of work yet he demanded 325,000 more foreign tech workers be allowed in this year alone while companies were firing Americans to hire the cheap foreigners.


108 posted on 12/14/2015 6:40:15 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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“Trump is like a heat-seeking missile for the other candidate's fatal flaw.” We’ll see how many hits Cruz can tolerate.

LOL.

Let's see Donald Trump try to find a 'fatal flaw' in Ted Cruz's conservatism. We'll wait.

114 posted on 12/14/2015 6:48:40 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Revenge is a Daesh best served cold.)
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Nobody likes Hillary, even more so.


115 posted on 12/14/2015 6:49:10 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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I would follow Cruz into battle.

He is correct that the Left needs for him and Trump to be in a cage match, and while I still consider Trump a viable second, I'm not too thrilled with the way he's approaching it.

That said, it's politics and they both need to separate themselves from the other to gain the upper hand - will be interesting because Trump is pretty much a blunt weapon and Cruz can adapt from a scalpel to a blunt weapon as necessary...

118 posted on 12/14/2015 6:49:57 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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NorthernSentinel@NSentinel1

@realDonaldTrump @tedcruz #UnitedWeStand #DividedWeFall
Get it together, guys!

164 posted on 12/15/2015 4:53:28 AM PST by kanawa
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