You know Rush says he's played a few rounds with the Donald, so therefore he knows him. Don't worry Rush says - Donald isn't a liberal. Trust me Rush says.
So when the time comes for Trump to confront Cruz, where does Trump come at him from? What was the Donald's first instincts? To come at Cruz from the left. When this first happened Rush et. al. let into Trump with a warning not to go there.
But here we are today. First Trump lit the fire of Birther II. Next, it's hitting Cruz for being anti-ethanol (the reality of Cruz's stance is a 5 year phase out of the RFS).
Sure the Donald is entertaining...
However, I doubt this guy has any core convictions or principles. Donald is out for Donald and what garners Donald more popularity, fame, and what I used to think - improves his brand. But now I don't think it has anything to do with good business. I think it's simply just pathological.
They are running for President. If they don’t want to engage, don’t run. If you don’t like to get criticized, even if it is BS, don’t run.
This IMHO is largely a feigned feud for ‘rat consumption. I think they are both part of a winning plan..
Trump is making a mistake when he takes this tack. It makes him look unprincipled. Which he is.
... However, I doubt this guy has any core convictions or principles. Donald is out for Donald and what garners Donald more popularity, fame, and what I used to think - improves his brand. But now I don’t think it has anything to do with good business. I think it’s simply just pathological.
BRAVO. You are dead on. He has more in common with Bambi than a republican much less conservative. He knows how to sell himself and he has. Been saying since fall if his mouth didn’t take him out our friend Teddy would.
“He’s about it for me. I’ve never been to one of these before but I really like his ideas,” said Michelle Turner, 44, of Ottumwa. But when asked if she intended to caucus, her answer was direct: “No, nuh-uh.”
Trump needs to come up with some real issues. He is beginning to sound nutty.
The Donald is playing to a base that consists mainly of former Democrats. Unfortunately he has no concern for basic Republican principles. He likes big government. He just thinks you need to run it better.
I already knew Trump was a grifter.
Now I can add sleazeball to the list.
You can trust Trump. He's not like the others.
Wow...flip-flopping is a subject Trump should avoid as it opens HIM up to new avenues of attack. Just as Hillary’s accusations of sexism opens her (and her Bubba attacks on the women who her husband raped) up to attacks along those lines.
By the way, Cruz HAS favored phasing out the Ethanol subsidies over 5 years and he CONTINUES to favor phasing them out over 5 years. For those of you “from Rio LInda”, ‘phase out’ means end.
Well who would know more about flip-flopping than Donald Trump?
I am agnostic on this. I honestly think that Trump should hit him with everything he has (between the two as it stands, Cruz would get my vote). If Cruz can’t weather this or fight back then he doesn’t deserve to win.
The Democraps and media will not be taking it easy on him. Weather the storm and fight the headwinds or quit. Become stronger or fade. These are the times that try men’s souls.
How does Trump take out his opponents?
By ridicule and innuendo.
Why doesn't he challenge their ideas?
Because he can't.
Has anyone heard him make a coherent case for... anything?
All he does is sloganeer.
As president, I will rescind the EPA’s blend wall, allowing ethanol to command a much larger share of the energy market. How much difference will that make for Iowa corn farmers?
Sure sounds like he’s for it now.
“Next, it’s hitting Cruz for being anti-ethanol”
No, he’s hitting his purported flip-flopping on the issue. There is a difference.
So, is Trump willingly ignorant of Cruz’s positions or purposely deceitful?
Donald’s a liar. He has been all along with his change of position. Don’t expect anything different in the future.
Here is a hard question for the Trumpites...
(I use the term Trumpites because it denotes a cult. As in a cult of personality.)
Name a liberal position that Trump didn’t support a few years ago...?
I can understand Trump... He’s a creature of reality T.V..
The guy I really don’t understand is Rush. Rush was relentlessly against Romney during the last primaries (and rightfully so). Romney’s chief crime against conservatism? Romneycare (Trump supported single payer etc.). In terms of flip flopping, Romney pales in comparison to Trump. And yet the positive earn media that Trump has got on the Rush Limbaugh show has been through the roof. Rarely does Rush say anything critical. He’s always positive about or defending Trump. It Rush wants to dedicate his show to Trump, the fine. But it would do Rush’s credibility and reputation a favor if Rush presented the whole Trump - good and bad (his past). Rush always laments how the MSM shows it’s bias by what it refuses to report - what it covers up. How is Rush any different when it comes to Trump for the last six months?
I wonder when Trump is going to stop lying about Ted Cruz.
Won’t hold my breath to find out.