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Cruz: New Hampshire, Iowa Show Only I Can Beat Trump
The Texas Tribune ^ | Feb. 10, 2016 | Patrick Svitek

Posted on 02/10/2016 10:42:37 AM PST by justlittleoleme

"You cannot beat Donald Trump coming from the left," Cruz told reporters here before a rally. "You see more moderate candidates standing on the debate stage and saying, 'Gosh, Donald, we need more amnesty. Gosh, Donald, don't be so tough on radical Islamic terrorism.' That's not going to work."

"The only way to beat Donald Trump is to highlight the simple truth of his record," Cruz added. "It is not conservative."

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After coming in first in the Iowa caucuses, Cruz finished a distant third behind Trump on Tuesday night in New Hampshire, though he joked he deserves the same credit Marco Rubio got a week earlier for beating expectations in Iowa.

"I am looking forward to a week of wall-to-wall coverage on Fox News of the impressive third-place finish," Cruz said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: carson; cruz; palin; reagancoalition; rubio; teaparty; trump
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To: DouglasKC

Winning the primary based on moderates without getting very conservative voters is how we lost in 2008 and 2012. Too bad so many freepers want to repeat history and help ensure the supreme court is packed with radical leftists who will shred the constitution.


121 posted on 02/10/2016 2:27:31 PM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: samtheman
LOL...not really. *snicker*

But it IS a word that pseudo intellectuals like to use, when then really mean vague and stupid utterances. :-)

122 posted on 02/10/2016 2:28:20 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Fantasywriter
Did you watch the debate? Kasich did EXACTLY THAT. He said he's pass a Gang of 8 revival bill.
123 posted on 02/10/2016 2:28:52 PM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: dynoman

Trump brings politics down to a new gutter level low, refreshingly free of substance for those who don’t like to think too hard.


124 posted on 02/10/2016 2:30:23 PM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: JediJones

It’s too bad that your obdurate refusal to actually see reality has so blinded you to the factual truth.


125 posted on 02/10/2016 2:30:28 PM PST by nopardons
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To: JediJones
NONSENSE !
126 posted on 02/10/2016 2:31:00 PM PST by nopardons
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To: CottonBall

Little M2T has NO ideas of his own.


127 posted on 02/10/2016 2:32:21 PM PST by nopardons
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To: PrairieLady2

Cruz is not a globalist. He just doesn’t pretend to be an isolationist like Trump. Sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming “la la la,” interestingly enough, doesn’t make the rest of the world magically go away.


128 posted on 02/10/2016 2:32:36 PM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: nopardons

I learned it from John Kerry. I forget what he nuanced but the term stuck with me.

It is a great Lurch Word.


129 posted on 02/10/2016 2:32:48 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: nopardons

Found it.

International Man of Nuance

http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2004/09/10/john_kerry,_international_man_of_nuance/page/full


130 posted on 02/10/2016 2:33:51 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: HarleyLady27

You’re totally full of crap. Cruz is taking heat from neocons in ads now because he ROLLED BACK NSA’s unconstitutional surveillance. Stop the lies.


131 posted on 02/10/2016 2:35:17 PM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: CottonBall

They can go all the way to the convention and then release their delegates to the other....whichever is in the lead in delegates takes the P, and the other takes the VP.

That works for me.

It cannot be a public deal, though.


132 posted on 02/10/2016 2:36:31 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: map

Trump will certainly deliver millions of new Mexican-American citizens through his touchback amnesty program. Not sure if he’ll fly them in by helicopter or not.


133 posted on 02/10/2016 2:36:58 PM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: JediJones
Trump isn't a "GLOBALIST" and neither is he an "isolationist".

OTOH, Teddy IS somewhat of a GLOBALIST !

134 posted on 02/10/2016 2:37:43 PM PST by nopardons
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To: bigbob

Then why did your ready-made moderates McCain and Romney fail?


135 posted on 02/10/2016 2:37:50 PM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: JediJones

That’s yet another LIE!


136 posted on 02/10/2016 2:38:12 PM PST by nopardons
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To: bigbob

So who are you going to nominate next, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey or Bill Gates? If only rich businessmen can make the country great, are you going to keep only ever nominating them?

What is different about your definition of conservatism from the “radio talkers?”


137 posted on 02/10/2016 2:39:55 PM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: samtheman

LOL....poor Jonah...he’s a pseudo and afraid to call a spade a spade.


138 posted on 02/10/2016 2:40:40 PM PST by nopardons
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To: napscoordinator

You’re the dummy if you don’t realize Trump has 30 years of public statements ON THE RECORD, most of them supporting New York Values liberalism and big-government statism.


139 posted on 02/10/2016 2:41:03 PM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: JediJones
Need I wave GOLDWATER under your nose?

And Cruz isn't even as "good" as Goldwater was.

140 posted on 02/10/2016 2:41:59 PM PST by nopardons
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