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Cruz Blasts Trump as a Fake Conservative
Texas Tribune ^ | Jan. 16, 2016 | Patrick Svitek

Posted on 01/16/2016 9:18:45 AM PST by Isara

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To: McGruff

Trump’s next ad should have “Oh, Canada!” playing in the background.


21 posted on 01/16/2016 9:29:17 AM PST by Salamander (I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
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To: Isara
Cruz doesn't get it. It does not matter Trumps past but his present. We all make changes in our lives over time, but Trump has a good look at what America is now and where it must go. His adverser picks are probably the best the Country has.

Trump for President. Cruz is out.

22 posted on 01/16/2016 9:29:17 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Isara

Americanism is what Trump stands for (with some conservative points). We haven’t had that since Reagan. I prefer Cruz but can live with an American President like Trump.

He ‘Trumps’ Bush Jr and Senior.... And annihilates McCain and Romney.


23 posted on 01/16/2016 9:29:40 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: samtheman

I think it’s good that they demand straight answers from each other. It forces the competitors to go on the record. I don’t like the empty name-calling, but some of that is inevitable.


24 posted on 01/16/2016 9:29:52 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Isara

Guessing that the “tweeting and tweeting and tweeting” thing is calculated to hit a nerve. Even some of my Trump supporting friends are critical of his seeming need to constantly respond to even the smallest of criticisms via Twitter.


25 posted on 01/16/2016 9:30:00 AM PST by AHerald ("Do not fear, only believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: HoosierWordsmith
Are you suggesting that he won’t take ownership for these comments sent under his name?

It would not surprise me to see Trump back away from these tweets and explain that it was his staff sending them. It may be his only chance....

26 posted on 01/16/2016 9:30:11 AM PST by kjam22
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To: samtheman

I was hoping these two would be allies but I guess it will not be.


It’s a campaign with only one winner. Only two week till voting starts so it’s time for a good bash. This will blow over later, IMO.


27 posted on 01/16/2016 9:30:49 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Isara

Ted is now the great hope of the GOPe to split off enough votes from Trump so they can steal the nomination in a brokered convention.

He’s Karl Rove’s boy now. What a tool!


28 posted on 01/16/2016 9:31:22 AM PST by Will88
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To: samtheman

Allies? Did you think Teddy was spending money and time running to... What?
Remember this while the war is on.. Teddy will fight with the truth. DT will use every slimy tactic and lie. Think about that when you vote.


29 posted on 01/16/2016 9:32:06 AM PST by libbylu (Cruz: The truth with a smile.)
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To: Isara

Old news to political junkies like us, but maybe not to LIVs.

We’ll see. I think Trump’s following already knows all this.


30 posted on 01/16/2016 9:32:12 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Trump and/or Cruz, it's all good.)
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To: lodi90

Yeah. Probably pretty hard to be allies at this juncture.


31 posted on 01/16/2016 9:33:05 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: dschapin
I think Trump can have a good rebuttal to the "social liberal" attack, which is a valid attack, IMO.

The function of the president is not to set social tenor of the country, see Congress, States, Courts. He can promise to nominate justices and judges who will apply the constitution, and he might go further and use the bully-pulpit to call for impeachment of judges who go beyond interpreting laws, and into rearranging and conjuring them.

32 posted on 01/16/2016 9:33:20 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Isara
he ripped his Republican presidential opponent as a fake conservative.

I don't think Trump is a fake conservative because I don't think he has been advertising himself as a conservative at all. Rather than market himself under someone else's brand label he has been marketing himself as Trump. He has attacked GOPers for being fake republicans, but the case there is self-evident.

It is like all the people here who breathlessly announce the enormous revelation that Sanders is a socialist / communist, as if anyone were under any apprehension that he were anything but. It simply isn't news.

33 posted on 01/16/2016 9:33:35 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Isara

Always accuse the other person of what you are, the playbook of the left.


34 posted on 01/16/2016 9:33:44 AM PST by proust (Texan for Trump! Born in the USA!)
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To: Isara

35 posted on 01/16/2016 9:34:14 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: proust

How does President Trump get anyone to work for him? Gotta come from the left.


36 posted on 01/16/2016 9:34:56 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Isara

I am a supporter of Cruz, and have not criticized Trump because aside from Cruz, he is the next best choice.

Now that we are getting close to the primaries, it is expected that Trump and Cruz will go after each other.

Remember, Trump went after Cruz first for something that even he knows isn’t true, so Trump has no complaint when Cruz goes after him; and Trump is what we called in the Army, “A target rich environment.”

The Trump supports going after Cruz over a clerical error for 1-2 personal loans, that he paid off, have no right to whine when Cruz goes after Trump for his past donations and policy positions which are based on Trumps own words.

The race has now just begun, and it’s going to be interesting.


37 posted on 01/16/2016 9:34:56 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: Isara

Ouch!
“That has got to drive him nuts, and I imagine it sent him out of bed this morning tweeting and tweeting and tweeting,” Cruz said. “I think in terms of a commander in chief, we ought to have someone who isn’t springing out of bed to tweet in a frantic response to the latest polls.”


Cruz is quickly becoming a “dead man walking”..


38 posted on 01/16/2016 9:34:59 AM PST by AFret.
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To: libbylu

Teddy will fight with the truth. DT will use every slimy tactic and lie. Think about that when you vote.


Right.

I am going to take my voting advice from you.


39 posted on 01/16/2016 9:35:05 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: deport
So what, deport? Really, so what? What exactly is hypocritical about raising money from like-minded New York republicans while also criticizing New York liberal policies?

And the gay businessmen thing, what exactly is wrong with that? Do you believe that being against gay marriage or the activist homosexual agenda is somehow mutually exclusive to meeting with gay people?

40 posted on 01/16/2016 9:35:34 AM PST by AHerald ("Do not fear, only believe." - Mark 5:36)
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