Posted on 02/04/2016 4:35:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Fresh off a victory in the Iowa caucuses, a feisty Ted Cruz unloaded on his rival Donal Trump Wednesday afternoon, asking repeatedly who the New Hampshire frontrunner might call "stupid" next.
"You know, he accused the people of Iowa of being stupid. In fact, he skipped the Iowa debate," Cruz said during a press availability in New Hampshire. "It makes you wonder if his next step is to accuse the people of New Hampshire of being stupid -- if he plans to skip the New Hampshire debate, and after that if he plans to accuse the people of South Carolina of being stupid and skip the South Carolina debate."
Trump wondered aloud during a November campaign event how Iowa voters could be so "stupid" as to believe parts of fellow candidate Ben Carson's backstory. At the time, Carson was challenging Trump for poll supremacy in Iowa.
Cruz's barbs Wednesday were the sort of pointed attacks against Trump that the Texas senator previously had been reluctant to make. It wasn't until the lead-up to caucus day, particularly during a mid-January debate, that Cruz began to challenge the GOP frontrunner publicly. Now, it's no holds barred.
"It seems his reaction to everything is to throw a fit, to engage in insults. And I understand that Donald finds it very hard to lose," he said in reference to a Twitter fit Trump threw Wednesday, during which he challenged the legitimacy of Cruz's Iowa victory. Part of Trump's rationale was that Cruz misrepresented his position on healthcare policy.
During his presser, Cruz doubled down.
"Donald does not want to defend his lifelong support for socialized medicine, for Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine. Donald wants to expand Obamacare, so that the federal government is in charge of your health care and my health care, is in charge of your doctor and my doctor," he said. "And he's entitled to that view. It's a view that would be very welcome in the Democratic Party."
Trump has prevaricated on his public policy preferences for health care in the past, though he has said he would replace the law with a system that relies mostly on the private sector.
It's fair to call the exact plan Terrificare.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3316464/Trump-says-Carsons-pathological-temper-cured.html
....”Trump first made the claim in an interview with CNN, then continued the strong criticism during a 95-minute rant at an Iowa rally.
‘If you’re a child molester - a sick puppy - you’re a child molester, there’s no cure for that,’ Trump proclaimed, other than what he called the ‘ultimate cure’ - and death.
He said he didn’t believe Carson’s story about his religious awakening in his bathroom, either, and questioned the retired neurosurgeon’s tale about nearly stabbing a friend.
Trump imitated the incident, moving his belt up and down to demonstrate how difficult it would be to strike the buckle instead of flesh, and bellowed moments later, ‘How stupid are the people of Iowa?’
‘How stupid are the people of this country to believe this crap?’ Trump said during the campaign event at Iowa Central Community College.”....
Trump wasn’t calling the people in DC stupid, he was calling the Iowa voters stupid. Just like Gruber.
Maybe deep down he's thoroughly embarrassing himself.
“Not Presidential! “
Yes because nothing screams presidential like shaming letters and dirty trix. :-)
I think Trump must get face peals.
Or his BP is high.
He says he doesn’t drink.
Maybe he has some kind of skin condition.
?
But it’s really RED.
Waahhhh. Oh, go stuff it. Cruz supporters have posted a similar banner about Trump on almost every thread on Tuesday, prior to this being created.
Trump would need some policy to defend first. He's lacking in that area.
Earth to Cruz: Shut up already. You are just digging a deeper hole. Pretend Trump doesn’t exist. Ignore him!
Um... why does that sort of remind me of what Rick Perry said about deporting illegal aliens last election cycle?
And if everyone has insurance and the government is paying for it... is that not the single payer totally socialized healthcare system that the left REALLY wanted when they were forced to settle for Obamacare as a step in that direction?
I want NOTHING to do with any REPLACEMENT for Obamacare.
I want Obamacare repealed and replaced with NOTHING except the free market!
My concern is:
Trump’s liberalism - consistent with how he’s been for decades
All we have are much of conservative promises from a man who prides himself in the use of hyperbole, but there is no history of conservative action. Only a donation shift that occurred when Trmp began planning a presidential run, in 2013.
To bad Romney haunt been “less presidential” and confronted the cost fraud...
CW,
Thank you for your ample postings. It’s always good to read them. Ignore the responders making personal attacks, and those that refuse to accept reality. They will get a participation trophy along with Trump. But Trump will only get the participation trophy if he doesn’t quit before the end of the process. We can never be sure since he quit in Iowa by not showing up at the Iowa debate. As the saying goes, “Quitters never win!”
Go clean your ears. He wants dinosaurs to sell across state lines for better affordability. Then, take care of the ones who really can’t.
We already provide medical care for the poor, it’s called Medicaid, you may have heard of it.
Maybe that Sarah Palin endorsement wasn't such a good thing after all. ;)
Agree. Trump needs to take the high rode and act Presidential. Let Cruz soil himself cause I think he will.
Maybe Rosacea.
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