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 ...
“NH shows Cruz can beat Trump. Wow.”
Canadian math.
its more Ted Cruz deception. Conservative is not what you call it when you’re a globalist. Ted Cruz is a globalist.
Now it’s on to South Carolina where the polls (before the NH Primary) show Trump with the largest spread between himself and Cruz he’s ever enjoyed. 36% to 19.7%. Plus Cruz is going to have the “Three Amigos” going after him like three hungry dogs to a measly single bone. I seriouisly doubt that they will spend much on Trump, but rather try to take Cruz out because at least with him, they have a glimmer of hope. That is if they can spare some time from going after each other.
The crap you are peddling is the same crap the GOP has been peddling my entire 65 years. And that is Conservatives can’t win. Not buying what you are selling.
Ah yes the good old tried and true ?Establishment campaigning tactics of running negatives ads....which is going to go over with this years voters like a fart in Church.
Seems it “Hail Mary” time for Team Cruz. Winning campaigns don’t go negative, that is only something losers do to desperately try and turn things around
Jeb is 0.6% of the vote behind Ted for 3rd place with 14% of the vote yet to be counted.
Cruz has to pray Jeb doesn’t overtake him.
Jeb is 0.6% of the vote behind Ted for 3rd place with 14% of the vote yet to be counted.
Cruz has to pray Jeb doesn’t overtake him.
Excellent
Who is Theodore?
Is that Rafael Eduardo Cruz? Where did the Ted come from? Just wondering
66,000. Ted lost to Trump by 66,000 votes in NH. That shows me that Ted lost bad.
140,000 to 83,000. That tells me Trump has 57,000 more votes than Ted so far.
36-20. That’s Trump’s lead in SC before the NH results. That tells me Cruz is a decided underdog.
Tell me again Ted how you can beat Trump??
Say what?
Trump’s margin in NH was 6 times Cruz’s margin in Iowa.
Ummm... he didn’t “beat” Trump in NH.
And quite frankly, I wouldn’t use the word “beat” for IA either. A slim victory that only garnered one additional delegate.
As it stands now, Teddy, Trump is winning the delegate count.
Go back to playing with your dolls!!!
Lets see, so far in vote count, Trump beat Cruz by what, 60,000 votes?
Ted Cruz, the junior Senator from Texas and presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is routinely billed by the mainstream media as a Tea Party outsider who is reviled by fellow Republicans as a ‘wacko bird’ along with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and GOP Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan.
It is not simply his wife’s connection to Goldman Sachs and investment banking or his unreported loan from the multinational investment banking firm, however, that betrays this image.
A closer look at Cruz reveals he is a neocon insider, not a renegade outsider.
His campaign manager, Chad C. Sweet, co-founded the Chertoff Group with former Bush and Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. Sweet, as a leader of the Chertoff Group, ‘advocated for expanding NSA metadata collection,’ according to his bio on the risk-management and security consulting company’s webpage.
Mr. Sweet formerly served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to becoming Chief of Staff of DHS, Mr. Sweet worked as an investment banker at the firms of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs as well as served in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service,’ the bio continues.
Cruz’s foreign policy advisor is the notorious neocon James Woolsey, the former director of the CIA during the Clinton administration. Woolsey is connected to the now largely defunct Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a think tank with an agenda formulated by top neocons William Kristol and Robert Kagan. PNAC was at the forefront of the Bush administration push to invade Iraq. He is a former vice president of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and an advocate of the neocon hardline on Iran.
Ted’s foreign policy team includes Elliot Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz, a trailblazing neoconservative ideologue. Abrams was a key adviser on Mideast policy at the National Security Council (NSC) during the George W. Bush presidency and also a staunch advocate of the Iraq invasion, the hardline on Iran and military strikes against the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Finally, the man in charge of public relations for the Cruz campaign is Dan P. Gabriel, a former CIA covert action officer and a founding partner of Applied Memetics, a company ‘focused solely on developing engineered influence for clients seeking to alter their tactical or strategic operational environments,’according to its webpage. The company specializes in propagating memes that ‘can move through the cultural sociosphere in a manner similar to the contagious behavior of a virus,’ in other words Applied Memetics specializes in propaganda.
The latest Cruz meme is working hard to convince followers of Rand Paul, who dropped out of the race in the wake of the Iowa caucus, that Cruz ‘is the natural inheritor of the modern libertarian movement built by Ron Paul, which was especially resonant here in New Hampshire, where the elder Paul won second place four years ago,’ CNN reports.
‘Cruz’s entreaties appear to be paying off. A number of state legislators-in places ranging from here in New Hampshire to the Paul family’s Texasâsigned onto the Cruz team.’
Ted Cruz is not even remotely a libertarian. He is a neocon masquerading as a champion of liberty. If nominated and elected he will continue the forever war agenda initiated by the Bush regime and further expand the high-tech surveillance police state.
Unfortunately many Republicans, desperate to beat Hillary Clinton and the Democrats in November, are buying into the illusion.
CNN reporting...
Idiot.
You take Trump's vote and you calculate in the sign of the zodiac formulation.
Next you subtract the calories he ate for dinner.
Then you bound it all up with fish wrap.
Next you call members of the media and explain the double carp discount.
And then waa laa, I'm in first place!
Give me your bullet Barney...
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Ted your not thinking clearly.
Trump hasn’t even used his most potent weapon yet.
Trump said last night he is 45 million under budget, that is more money than you have now to spend.
Trump hasn’t gone to spending as planned yet and if and when he needs to you have can’t get air time to refute his commercials.
Trump in a sense is playing with home turf advantage.
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