Posted on 12/21/2015 8:43:32 AM PST by Helicondelta
Ted Cruz woke up Sunday morning to a fresh barrage of charges of inconsistency from his Republican rivals for the White House, allegations that go far beyond his battle with Marco Rubio over their roles in the 2013 immigration debate.
In TV interviews, at least three of his GOP opponents raised accusations new and old that the Texas senator is anything but the "consistent conservative" he claims to be on the campaign trail. Joining Rubio in the Sunday morning pile-on were U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Leading the charge has been Rubio, the Florida senator who has been tangling with Cruz for weeks over a range of issues — most sharply immigration. Rubio has charged Cruz with being unclear on how he would deal with the 12 million people already in the country illegally, while Cruz has countered that he has never wavered in his oppostion to providing any form of "amnesty" to them.
"There are multiple issues in which he has tried to do these sort of things," Rubio said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "If you're going to attack someone on a policy issue, you need to be clear where you stand on the issue, and where you stood in the past."
While Rubio renewed his claims against Cruz on immigration and foreign policy, the Floridian received some help on another show from Paul.
"I think on a number of issues, he wants to have it both ways, depending on which audience he's talking to," Paul said on CNN's "State of the Union," adding that Cruz was being especially deceptive on immigration. "I think he should just admit that he changed his mind — that he used to be for legalization but he's not anymore."
As Paul spoke, his campaign released a Web video that offered up four issues on which Cruz has allegedly flip-flopped: how to deal with people in the country illegally; whether the United States should accept Syrian refugees; Trade Promotion Authority, a measure that gave President Barack Obama power to fast-track trade agreements and the reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
After each charge, the video replays a clip of Cruz stuttering during an interview last week on Fox News in which he was pressed about his immigration position.
Cruz needs to go TRUMP on his response!
More noise to try and protect Brave Brave Sir Rubio on the issue.
Cruz voted against, Rubio voted for, end of story.
More GOP shenanigans?
Taking Cruz down now so when they figure out a way to dump the Trump Cruz won’t be standing in Jeb’s way.
If I were Rubio I wouldn’t talk about myself either.
We've had six years of "conservatives" that we elected, including Ted Cruz, being 100% ineffective (some of the time) or, more often, being complicit in the treachery.
Time for someone who can actually change something.
LOL....
I can do more if you keep trying to support Trump by bashing Cruz.
The boss disagrees with your spam posts, ghost....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3366604/posts?page=26#26
Trump wants to secure the borders, enforce the law, end anchor babies, end sanctuary cities, build a wall, deport them all, secure the borders, secure the nation, including sending the refugees back!
No one is better at border security, national security than Trump.
Sounds pretty damn conservative to me.
Want to talk about cutting taxes, cutting spending, cutting regulations, cutting government, cutting cronyism, cutting corruption, growing the economy, putting our people back to work, making America great again?
Trump does. And he sounds pretty damn conservative to me.
Want to defend God, family, guns, country? Want to build the greatest military ever so no one dares mess with us?
Trump does. And he sounds pretty damn conservative to me.
Want to build a coalition including conservatives, capitalists, blue collar workers, veterans, gun owners, religious people, minorities, freedom-loving Americans of every stripe?
Trump does. And he’s doing it. And that sounds pretty damn conservative to me!
Reagan Revolution meet the Trump Revolution.
No excuses for the tone. None needed.
So, there’s that.
It's time for Trump and Cruz to unite, permanently, as a team. Perhaps as a Trump/Cruz ticket, or perhaps with Trump as President and Cruz as Attorney General. And then Cruz as Trump's pick for the first open slot on the Supreme Court.
I'm not worried about Cruz's, or Trump's, imperfections. I'm worried about that crazy lady with a battle ax.
I KNEW they would attack Cruz . . . but I'm really surprised they are doing so now. Despite the #s from IA, it could be they have concluded that Cruz's usefulness is over.
I am not really out to bash Trump. I am out to payback the Trump supporter who posted this thread and keeps on posting Cruz bashing threads.
In a (now apparently) major lapse in campaign judgement (his first, IMHO), Cruz allowed himself to get dragged into the mud of these votes, and it's still going on.
Exactly. Ever see a race where the two car team is dominate? The stronger driver takes as much ground as he can while the teammate blocks.
Cruz is trying to run his own race, but he is essentially just blocking.
Check out what he says about Cruz, too.
Most likely scenario of this Cruz/Rubio pillow fight is that it destroys them both and Trump sails above the fray to victory.
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