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Trump won't rule out Cruz as VP pick
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Posted on 02/04/2016 4:30:06 PM PST by springwater13

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To: springwater13
Donald Trump has a YUUGE heart. Those of us that support him see that. I think Cruz has to fix the citizenship issue somehow and Donald would consider him seriously for VP. Cruzers can keep denying that the citizenship eligibility issue is bogus but it is not and it is not going away. It will haunt Cruz till the very end.
41 posted on 02/04/2016 4:38:58 PM PST by virginia9000
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To: babygene
That’s easy... Make it contingent on the outcome of the court battle that would surely come from the Dem side.

Why would the Democrats pick up the birther cause when there are so many Republicans doing it for them?

Besides, none of them will have standing.

42 posted on 02/04/2016 4:38:59 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: a fool in paradise

What’s the old saying

Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.....


43 posted on 02/04/2016 4:38:59 PM PST by arl295
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To: arl295

I’m going to thrash Jeb Bush!

Look, I’m already beating Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Scott Walker, and Bobby Jindal. I’m moving up. I’ll be breathing down Trump’s neck in no time.


44 posted on 02/04/2016 4:39:03 PM PST by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Rubio would be a bad choice

I will not vote for ANY Cheap Labor Express candidates


45 posted on 02/04/2016 4:39:30 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: napscoordinator

Martin Shkreli is going to be his VP. He is the only one who can stand up like Trump.


46 posted on 02/04/2016 4:40:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Segovia
I just wish the Donald would STFU. Can you imagine four years of listening to that guys mouth?

Waaaaaaay better than Hillary.

47 posted on 02/04/2016 4:40:09 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Republican Presidential Nominee Marco Rubio!!! How's that sound?)
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To: springwater13

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Settled law.

No court would hear such a case; it would fly in the face of the congress, which holds sole authority on citizenship.


48 posted on 02/04/2016 4:40:21 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: springwater13

Trump is brilliant. He went day after day about Cruz and Iowa until the national news picked it up tonight and now he can play nice while the truth gets out to all the american voters. He is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I am really surprised that some here are against him.


49 posted on 02/04/2016 4:40:32 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Yashcheritsiy

50 posted on 02/04/2016 4:40:49 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: springwater13

I doubt Cruz would accept.

To do so would be to hitch his future to Trump’s where he’d have to parrot his bosses liberal policies.

That would be the end of Cruz running ever again as a conservative and he’s young and has potentially many more runs ahead of him.


51 posted on 02/04/2016 4:40:53 PM PST by DB
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To: napscoordinator

McConnellhas already said that the Senate would not take up a Resolution.
A Senate Resolution does not change the Constitution.
It provides a fig leaf for the powers that be to ignore it.


52 posted on 02/04/2016 4:41:18 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: napscoordinator
He won’t pick Cruz. He said he won’t rule him out.

I think Trump has ruled him out when he questioned his eligibility. How does he walk that back now?

53 posted on 02/04/2016 4:41:42 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: springwater13
Well, I don"t know. Look, I have nothing against him. It was sort of a sad thing that happened, but I'"ve always liked him," Trump told Hugh Hewitt on his radio show Thursday, after weeks of trashing his primary rival as nasty, hypocritical and disliked. Trump added that he has "always gotten along well" with Cruz, but that "I'm so much now focused on New Hampshire."

Pretty stunning change in attitude in < 24 hours. Dude is like Oceania in 1984. One day he's at war with Eurasia and good friends with Eastasia. The next day, he's at war with Eastasia, and has ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia.
54 posted on 02/04/2016 4:42:13 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Aside from the question of fact as to where McCain was born, there is a difference between ‘The United States’ and “United States Territory’.

That’s why there was always a question about Barry Goldwater, born in the Arizona Territory before Arizona became part of ‘The United States’.

Of course, Barry Goldwater was a US citizen by birth - but like Ted Cruz or John Cain, only by action of statute law. For me that is a distinction without a difference.


55 posted on 02/04/2016 4:42:14 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: springwater13

“Looks like Donald got the message that going scorched earth on Cruz when he poses no threat is counterproductive. He wasn’t talking about Iowa today. He was focused on his agenda at his events and in interviews.”

Looks like someone finally informed him that he’d better make sure he wins NH or his campaign is in serious trouble. This is his home area and the state is tailor made for his moderate-populist appeal. It is as much a “must-win” for him as Iowa was for Cruz, and Cruz is clearly not the main threat here, Rubio is.


56 posted on 02/04/2016 4:42:24 PM PST by lquist1
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To: napscoordinator

Well, I personally DON’T believe Cruz is eligible because of the extremely strong focus on jus soli among pretty much all the early jurists and common law commentators.

However, if he goes and gets the fig leaf from the Senate or a court, well, I guess that’s settled regardless of what I think.

Better to suffer this little illegality than to allow the greater evil to occur, as Cato said.


57 posted on 02/04/2016 4:42:37 PM PST by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: 4rcane

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>> “ He will do whatever to win” <<

How did that work out in Iowa?
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58 posted on 02/04/2016 4:42:41 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Haha, just knock out Marco Polo first

Also don’t forget Gilmore


59 posted on 02/04/2016 4:42:46 PM PST by arl295
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To: springwater13
Trump finally calms down and says something smart. he has to stop painting himself into a corner with his pronouncements. I doubt he has realized that this flies against his goofy assertions that Cruz is ineligible, but it's another day for trump, so he says another thing.

However should trump make it to the general election, he would never select Cruz as his running mate if Hillary is available, because Hillary brings much more to the table for Trump to help him WIN in the general. And let's face it, that's what his supporters want him to do - WIN. And then build a wall that Mexico pays for. And a little thing like choosing Hillary as his running mate wouldn't even dissuade many of them from voting for him. And choosing Hillary would help him cut into the liberal democrat base against a socialist Sanders. And would help him with older women, lesbian women, moderate democrats, pro-choice women, shove Bernie's supporters to only the fringe lefties, and college kids, that haven't experienced anything too much real in life.

60 posted on 02/04/2016 4:42:52 PM PST by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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