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Cruz’s Big Chance to Turn Tables on Trump (MSM is key)
Lifezette.com ^ | January 13, 2016 | Jon Conradi

Posted on 01/13/2016 10:31:52 PM PST by JSDude1

Ted Cruz, now locked in a struggle to the political death with reigning campaign champion Donald Trump, faces a make-or-break night at the GOP debate Thursday night.

Proving his mettle as a candidate worthy of his post-season position, Cruz has ruggedly endured a sustained week of media battering over Trump’s birtherism blitz, losing little ground.

Trump’s all-out offensive raising questions about Cruz’s eligibility because of his birth in Canada – widely held to be a non-issue by constitutional experts — has arrested Cruz’s upward momentum but not caused a collapse. But while Cruz has barely dropped in the polls as a result, he cannot merely survive under siege from Trump if he means to win the nomination.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: armourofgodted; clericalerrorted; cruz; heidishoneymoney; heidispotofgold; heidissecretstash; liberalmedia; troll; trump; wallstreetinsider; wallstreetownscruz
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To: TigerClaws

They hate Cruz more because he’s an intelligent, philosophical, movement conservative. Trump, they realize, is a demagogue without long term or sincere commitment to anything besides his own vanity. The Left can relate to him; he’s just as likely to return to his Democrat/crony roots as he is to pushback Liberalism in any way. With Cruz, they’re fighting what they call an “ideologue.” With Trump, they’re fighting a guy keen to prove he can make deals good for him with them. He could make a lot more money as president, and that’s likely a big motive for a man of avarice. With Trump, the government will get much, much bigger.


41 posted on 01/14/2016 12:27:42 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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To: browniexyz
Cruz needs a voice coach asap. That nasally whine is a little too high-pitched.
He sounds like he has a cleft pallet.
42 posted on 01/14/2016 12:27:53 AM PST by lewislynn ( You know you're a Muslim if everything offends you.)
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To: JSDude1

Big Lie. Cruz is not eligible. He did not have two American parents.Vattel is the authority. the so called experts are lying.


43 posted on 01/14/2016 12:39:42 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: JoSixChip

Trump has alienated conservatives, I would rather vote for Clinton than Trump if forced at this point.


44 posted on 01/14/2016 1:03:30 AM PST by Leto
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. Not interested in its instrumentation.


45 posted on 01/14/2016 1:36:52 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: doc maverick

I’m starting to understand why most everyone never pursued Obama’s eligibility for all of those years. Think about it...


46 posted on 01/14/2016 3:17:36 AM PST by Enduro Guy
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To: TigerClaws

My thoughts exeactly.......

...HUH?


47 posted on 01/14/2016 3:17:47 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: jobim

Try .....5000 thousand turned away


48 posted on 01/14/2016 3:22:59 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: JoSixChip
In your dreams!
The LAME STREAM MEDIA is all but DEAD, and so are the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" ! Trump is having real problems with the "FOR PRIVATE USE" part of his LOVE of "EMINENT DOMAIN" !

49 posted on 01/14/2016 3:28:59 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: JSDude1

There isn’t anything either of them can do, say or be accused of falsely that could disuade me from supporting either one. These are the only two people I trust to deal with the problems facing our nation. They may not be perfect but they are light years ahead of the riff raff running against them.


50 posted on 01/14/2016 4:07:57 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: icwhatudo

“Cruz: Well, that reminds me of something I once told my daughter on one of those warm Texas nights - right after I had to spank her for lying about her pretend friend - when even a cold drink won’t exactly parch a dry mouth anymore than our founding fathers tried to in developing a constitutional...


51 posted on 01/14/2016 4:23:09 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (As a representative of Earth, I officially welcome Global Warming to our planet)
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To: Leto

The Republic is crumbling. The enemy needs but one final charge to snuff out the flickering flame of freedom. To bring us all darkness, for all time. You say to the man in the foxhole with you,
“Give me the Holy Hand Grenade!”
Leto replies,”No thou shant use this one, for it is not holy enough!”
“What does that matter? They are coming, hand me The Holy Hand Grenade of Manhattan! Now!”
Leto,”No, it is a far better thing for all of us to be imprisoned, tortured, and hopefully die rather than using a weapon that is not holy enough!”

The specter of Hitlerys walking dead can be seen slogging their way closer and closer, in exasperation, you train your side arm at forehead of Leto and say,”Hand me the Holy Hand Grenade of Manhattan...NOW!”
Jeb intervenes and says, “Umm, er, I can fix it! I will crawl back to camp and get the Holy Hand Grenade of Ambien. You guys stay here, I will be back. I am going to fix this.” He then falls asleep.

Ted Cruz says in a direct and articulated manner, with a strained face of constipation,
“Halt! You can not shoot a conscript for refusing an order. The last such instance was one Eddie Slovak, who in 1945 was found guilty of desertion.The case was adjudicated on Nov 11 by nine staff officers of the 28th Division, none of whom had yet been in battle. One of those judges, Benedict B. Kimmelman, wrote a stark and intriguing account of his role in the story of Pvt Slovik, capturing the scene thusly:
Five witnesses were heard. The cross-examinations were perfunctory. The defense made no closing argument. The court recessed for ten minutes, resumed, and retired almost immediately afterward...”

With time running out you pull the trigger, grab the Holy Hand Grenade of Manhattan, and that is when Huckabee starts his incantation:”Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Manhattan, saying, “Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.”

While Rubio is enlisting illegals,Christie is complaining about the lack of rations and Paul is rolling a joint, Fiorina is busy selling company ordinance for half the cost and Kaisch is waving a white flag. You toss the Holy Hand Grenade of Manhattan and count,”One, Two, Five!”

With great aplomb,the weapon detonates causing the most beautiful, grand explosion ever seen, it was such a wonderful and great explosion that you will never remember or want to see any other explosion. It was a yuuuge explosion with the loudest of loud booms ever that boomed!
You look out of the fox hole, and they were all gone. And you say, ‘We win, they lose.


52 posted on 01/14/2016 4:41:49 AM PST by RavenLooneyToon (Trump or Cruz, if you don't vote then STFU and leave the country, non-voters =non-Republic.)
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To: JSDude1

Or ... Cruz could respond by signalling that he is continuing his campaign "in good faith" that he eligible for POTUS based on contemporary events and that his bonds to citizenship are equally strong, if not stronger, than Obama's. But that he will also pursue judicial review from the Supreme Court on the matter once seated as POTUS such that clarity to the term "natural born citizen" can be documented once and for all. Should he be found ineligible, then Chester Arthur will have been the first ineligible POTUS, Barack Obama the second, and he Ted Cruz would be the last.

A little intellectual honesty with the public is all it would take. This would appease the birthers. It would point the damaging spotlight on Obama to assuage democrat attacks. It would set the Supreme Court at ease knowing they have cover to continue ducking the issue for the next election cycle. It's easy and winnable all the way around. Cruz can be seated as POTUS if he plays his cards right.

Longer term thinking, however, I want Cruz at some point to "retire" to a Supreme Court appointment. It's going to be challenging to get him ratified if he doesn't get in front of this eight-ball now. He does not want to be remembered as the guy who lacks Constitutional understand of citizenship. He has to own his status and signal his intentions and keep it all 100% above board and Constitutional.


53 posted on 01/14/2016 4:49:12 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: RedHeeler

The media does not want Cruz or Trump,they will help Trump damage Cruz and will then target Trump and shill for Hillary


54 posted on 01/14/2016 5:16:55 AM PST by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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