Posted on 02/15/2016 8:56:16 PM PST by SoConPubbie
In Saturday night’s debate, Ted Cruz took Donald Trump’s longstanding… and current… support for Planned Parenthood, hung it around Trump’s neck, set it on fire (metaphorically) and chased Trump through the streets. It was a horrific example of a blustering bully called out on his own record and being made to own it. If you haven’t seen it, you owe it to yourself to check it out:
Now Cruz has followed this up with an attack directly linking Trump to Planned Parenthood and the Center for Medical Progress investigative videos.
TRANSCRIPT
VO:Ted Cruz and I approve this message.
REPORTER: In between sips of wine and bite of salad a Planned Parenthood doctor discusses getting money for tissue from aborted fetuses.
MEGYN KELLY cLIP: Harvesting the organs of aborted fetuses for money…
VO: Planned Parenthood treat the unborn like another form of currency and yet some politicians still defend them.
DONALD TRUMP: Planned Parenthood serves a good function.
SEAN HANNITY CLIP: With the debt we have should we even give them a penny?
DONALD TRUMP: We have to look at the positive.
VO: Donald Trump is just plain wrong
Trump can’t run from this. He’s trying to bluster his way through it with the “women’s health” bullsh** but 86% of Planned Parenthood’s revenue comes directly from elective abortions. Abortions on demand. Abortions with no underlying medical reason other than inconvenience.
As the New York Times notes:
Takeaway
Starting the ad with newscasts on the videos gives the accusations a more authentic, trusting feel and grabs the viewers' attention more than using a narrator. It also builds the case against Planned Parenthood before linking Mr. Trump to it, while subtly pointing to a similarity with Mrs. Clinton, a pariah to many South Carolina Republican voters. But perhaps most effectively, the ad highlights Mr. Trump's position on a hot-button social issue that he has taken as a candidate, and not from his past, to attack him.
Thank you! 14% in a primary state is a high wall to climb, compared to 5% in a caucus state like Iowa.
The bigger hole Trump digs for himself, the more outrageous he becomes to try distract.
After the loss in Iowa it was sue and redo.
After he went Code Pink, Michael Moore and pro-PP in the debate, threaten to SUE and go third party and blow up everything!
It’s stopped working.
Actually dynoman has Make America Great points down.
So, in your view, Trump is supporting Planned Parenthood just to win the general. He doesn’t really support PP, and after the election - POW - lookout PP.
Yes?
I don't want a daughter or granddaughter to die because of some shady medical procedure she thought she had to have.
While abortion is murder, it's not my job to live other people's lives for them.
Only to keep them as safe as possible. If I can save the baby, too - then that's a plus.
Start preparing your concession speech for Saturday night.
It will come in handy.
I'm sure that Trump could tell you that truth is easier than lies. :)
Amnesty, open border, pharmaceutical, and pro-corporate pac money. Oops, forgot banking.
“Redstate has become a joke.”
Doesn’t really matter since Cruz is ineligible to be president. I really do wish someone WOULD sue both Cruz and Rubio and get them off the stage.
I am pointing out Trump is lying about his position.
You are carrying on about “Cruz’s lying” and how it matters so much to you, why doesn’t Trump’s lying matter?
So you believe Trump really does support Planned Parenthood.
I want to know what Cruz glued to that porn stars butt that he puts in his commercials. Teddy is a dirty dirty preacher man.
You are carrying on about “Trump’s lying” and how it matters so much to you, why doesn’t Cruz’s lying matter?
“Yeah, um, he said that, he believes that, um, but he’s winning,” stopped working even longer ago.
And Ted was part of the congress that fully funded planned parenthood. He is a sick man.
“UntrusTED”
Brilliant!
Right. And I shouldn't have to pay "rent" to the government on my house after I've paid it off in toto.
But I do.
Pro Abortion to sell body parts sickens me. That is the worst part of Plan Parenthood. Taxpayers should not have to subsidize this monstrosity no matter how you feel about it.
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