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To: JennysCool

When Trump supporters have to defend him, they end up smearing staunch conservative talk show hosts, saying Trump critics are “too conservative,” praising him for fighting the establishment one day and for teaming up with the establishment the next...

I can guarantee you I will never have to betray or violate my principles to defend Cruz. And I feel no shame in defending him from criticism over a silly campaign mailing. There are vital issues at stake in this election. The format of this mailer is not worth the effort and time to talk about. This is a fluff tabloid issue that no one will care about nor remember after a day or so.

I’m extremely tired of hearing the non-stop smearing of Cruz and the wild overreaction on any piddling little mistake he makes. Cruz is the biggest hero in politics to emerge in the last 5 years and has an incredible future as a leader of the conservative movement. No one has done as much good for the conservative cause as Cruz. Not Trump, who donated to Democrats to pad his own business profits while never demanding they change their principles, and not Palin who abandoned political office to cash in on a reality TV career. Cruz can restore the conservative movement like Reagan and Gingrich did while Trump neither understands nor believes in the bedrock conservative principles and represents an existential threat to the conservative movement. We have bigger things to focus on than a get-out-the-vote mailer.


446 posted on 01/30/2016 12:57:22 AM PST by JediJones ("Beautiful, famous, successful, married - I've had them all, secretly." -Trump on women in 2007 book)
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To: JediJones

You may be correct in Jedi, but for the Cruz Campaign to send out this mailer is bad optics when his whole campaign is riding on Iowa. If he doesn’t win Iowa, he is done. I want you to notice I am saying the Cruz campaign did this, not the candidate. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. But while its just a silly mailer. This things tend to take on a life of their own. Jeff Roe stepped on his wanger on this one.


451 posted on 01/30/2016 1:00:48 AM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: JediJones

I understand where you are coming from & I like Ted, but there is no longer a “conservative movement” to save.....there is only conservatism incorporated. Trump is rolling because he’s seen as a populist/nationalist. And that’s what the public is drawn to because this country is way past ideology now.


455 posted on 01/30/2016 1:02:15 AM PST by LongWayHome
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To: JediJones

I understand your feelings, but this is no PIDDLING LITTLE MISTAKE or SILLY CAMPAIGN MAILING. This INJURES Cruz. He has been ill-served by his marketing people. If you truly support him, you should demand the people who came up with this ridiculous Stalinist tactic BE FIRED!


457 posted on 01/30/2016 1:03:03 AM PST by JennysCool (My hyprocrisy goes only so far.)
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To: JediJones

“And I feel no shame in defending him from criticism over a silly campaign mailing. There are vital issues at stake in this election. The format of this mailer is not worth the effort and time to talk about. This is a fluff tabloid issue that no one will care about nor remember after a day or so.”

Translation:

I have no good defense for this, so I’m just gonna shame you have having the nerve to care. I just hope no one pays attention to this, because then that’s when stuff will really hit the fan.


483 posted on 01/30/2016 1:15:50 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: JediJones

No one has done as much good for the conservative cause as Cruz.
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What, exactly, has Cruz done for the conservative cause?


730 posted on 01/30/2016 7:32:32 AM PST by Amntn ("The only special interest not being served by our government is the American people" - Donald Trump)
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