Ted Cruz fires back at Trump for lawsuit threat and name-calling

FoxNews Lation ^ | February 16, 2016/

[SoConPubbie]

With the Republican primary in South Carolina just days away, Ted Cruz has stepped up his fight with Donald Trump, who is threatening to sue him unless he stops airing what the billionaire candidate calls "false ads" and retracts what he called a series of lies.

Cruz questioned both Trump's conservative credentials and whether he had the temperament to be president.

"The people of South Carolina want a consistent conservative they can trust," Cruz told reporters before his rally in Aiken. 

Cruz, who is trying to weaken Trump's standing among South Carolina's social conservatives and evangelical Christians, also released a new television ad attacking Trump, showing footage of him praising Planned Parenthood and Hillary Clinton. It ends with the line, "South Carolina cannot trust Donald Trump."

Trump is challenging Cruz's eligibility to serve in the White House, calling him "the most dishonest guy I think I've ever met in politics." 

"I think he's an unstable person," he said, later declaring: "He's nuts."

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Cruz also blasted Trump's sister, a federal appellate judge, calling her a "radical pro-abortion extremist" who should not be considered for the Supreme Court vacancy.

Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. Trump has said she would make a good justice, but Cruz said she would not be a good choice, citing an opinion she wrote in 2000 that held a New Jersey law banning late-term abortions placed an "undue burden" on a woman's constitutional right to have the procedure.

Cruz then pointed at Trump's apparent confusion during a Republican debate last year over what constituted the nuclear triad as an example of how the real estate mogul is unprepared to be president. 

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams " Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

[SoConPubbie]

    CRUZ or LOSE!

[Helicondelta]

[House Atreides]

TRUMP: “Don’t call my bluff!”

[Diogenesis]

As if his vote to allow the vote on ObamaTRADE,
wsa not enough, Cruz is losing it.

[bigbob]

So, after SC votes and proves they do indeed trust Donald Trump, will Cruz drop out and go back to the job he was elected to do?

[HoosierWordsmith]

Cruz is calling Trump’s bluff, putting out negative Trump ads each day. What is the pussy waiting for?

[alstewartfan]

Welcome Trumbie! Take me to your leader.

[Slyfox]

Trump is calling him "the most dishonest guy I think I've ever met in politics."

That is TrumpSpeak for "I couldn't charm this guy with my overwhelmingness, and he did not kiss my feet."

And he doesn't think Bill and Hillary are not honest? Oh, that's right, they kiss his feet.

[alstewartfan]

Yeah, what IS the pussy Trump waiting for? lol

[ripnbang]

Cruz pulled back some adds today.

[digger48]

"The people of South Carolina want a consistent conservative they can trust,"

That's "firing back"?

That's more like taking on a Howitzer with an Airsoft

[alstewartfan]

Ted wouldn’t chip in with Trump to help Reid’s and Pelosi’s campaigns either, the b*stard! lol

[skeeter]

Calling someone a liar does not an effective counterpoint make.

[HockeyPop]

Unbelievable. Trump’s sister is a dyed in the wool radical feminist. I do business with a law firm in Pa and she is considered the Princess of Darkness. I cannot fathom how any conservative can support Trump

[Just mythoughts]

Notice that Cruz no longer calls himself ‘original intent’ of the Constitution ‘conservative’.... snicker

[DoughtyOne]

I didn’t see anyone ask you to.

[hawkaw]

It will be unreal if Trump does sue Cruz. But then again didn’t Trump threaten to sue the “One” over his birth certificate and never followed through or an I wrong.

[napscoordinator]

Cruz is so stupid.......now everyone will run to their computer to google Trumps sister and find out she is 79 years old. Cruz is a novice.

[kjam22]

Unbelievable. Trump’s sister is a dyed in the wool radical feminist. I do business with a law firm in Pa and she is considered the Princess of Darkness.

And I heard Trumpy say that she would make a great justice....