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Cruz challenges Trump's 'make America great again' slogan
Washington Examiner ^ | 2/19/2016 | Ryan Lovelace

Posted on 02/19/2016 6:49:43 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday challenged the premise of Donald Trump's promise to "make America great again," and asked if Trump knows how America ever became great in his closing pitch to South Carolinians.

Speaking in Myrtle Beach, Cruz launched into an extended diatribe about what he perceived as Trump's lackluster position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He followed it up with a list of Cruz's campaign promises and a stinging rebuke of Trump's singular message.

"We will see the economy explode, small businesses grow, young people coming out of school with three, four, five job opportunities. Wages going up. You know what? We're going to be winning so much we'll get tired of winning," Cruz said, mimicking Trump's message. "It's easy to say let's Make America Great Again, you can even print that on a baseball cap. The question to ask is, do you understand what made America great in the first place?"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: UnwashedPeasant
Brilliant! That perfectly summarized the trouble with Trump.

Right. cruise knows way more about business than Trump.


21 posted on 02/19/2016 7:05:18 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: ncalburt

Cruz voted for the Corker bill too. How does voting for bills that subvert the constitution make America great?


22 posted on 02/19/2016 7:05:38 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I tend to shy away from a potential President Sound Byte myself. This country needs substance, not rhetoric.


23 posted on 02/19/2016 7:06:23 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
This from Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and I wish Ted Cruz would use it!

America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation.
24 posted on 02/19/2016 7:08:20 PM PST by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Wondering how many jobs Ted bears has created.


25 posted on 02/19/2016 7:08:35 PM PST by moehoward
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To: The Iceman Cometh

You must be ignorant, then. Maybe visit:

http://www.youngcons.com/ted-cruzs-resume-is-very-impressive-should-make-him-standout-amongst-other-candidates/

... and then come back and say that Ted Cruz is unaccomplished.


26 posted on 02/19/2016 7:08:52 PM PST by Theo (Trump = French Revolution. Cruz = American Revolution. Choose wisely.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Mark Sanford just came out with Hannidy and Cruz........If he endorses Cruz, I am going to laugh so hard. Cruz gets the WORST people behind him. I wonder if they will go hiking in Appalachia.

Lord Cruz run as fast as you can.


27 posted on 02/19/2016 7:08:58 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Why does lawyer cruz know more about economics than Trump?


28 posted on 02/19/2016 7:09:59 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (And Trump could win it all My rightful place from birth Dad ive let you down Dub ive made you hurt)
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To: over3Owithabrain
Is there even one real life story of Cruz helping someone other than for money and political advancement?

Didn't he pick up hidi when she was crazy along side the road?


29 posted on 02/19/2016 7:10:50 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: napscoordinator

Sanford endorsed Cruz earlier today. No link handy, but you can google it. :)


30 posted on 02/19/2016 7:11:09 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet (Border: Close it. Illegals: Deport. Muslims: Ban 'em. Economy: Liberate it. PC: Kill it. Trump 2016)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Dang. FR is full of anti-conservative jerks. Just look at all the cynical, uninformed comments in this thread.

Do y’all know that the founder of this website SUPPORTS TED CRUZ as his #1 choice? If you did, maybe you’d cut back on the cynical and uninformed anti-Cruz vitriol.

Yes, Jim Robinson supports Trump. But his FIRST choice is TED CRUZ.


31 posted on 02/19/2016 7:11:18 PM PST by Theo (Trump = French Revolution. Cruz = American Revolution. Choose wisely.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“You know what? We’re going to be winning so much we’ll get tired of winning,” Cruz said, mimicking Trump’s message.”

Yeah, only Cruz wasn’t mocking Trump’s showman’s mannerisms, as Il Trumpe does when mimicking the handicapped.


32 posted on 02/19/2016 7:11:34 PM PST by IAMNO1 (Cruz is binary, Trump is quantum. Cruz answers right from wrong. Trump answers "all of the above")
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Right on!!!

Cruz has a long list of accomplishments in the real world. For example he created uhh....uhhh...uhhh

OK, maybe he didn’t create anything.

But he worked in private industry doing uhhh...uhhh....uhhh.

OK, maybe he didn’t work in the private sector, either.

But his long list of accomplishments are right up there with Hellry Clinton.

Good grief....Cruzers are unable to discern reality.


33 posted on 02/19/2016 7:12:56 PM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
The question to ask is, do you understand what made America great in the first place?

Maybe Ted can tell us what made Canada great.
34 posted on 02/19/2016 7:14:08 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: All
I seriously doubt that Cruz even knows who coined that
phrase first when he was a 10 yr old lad living and going to
school in Canada:

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35 posted on 02/19/2016 7:14:17 PM PST by mkjessup (Say Ted? Glenn Beck says God snuffed Scalia so America will vote for you, GET RID OF HIM!)
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To: newfreep

7 pro Cruz comments out of the first 37. This thread must be rigged.


36 posted on 02/19/2016 7:15:55 PM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prosecution 2016)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

...do you understand what made America great in the first place? Eh?

Pray America wakes


37 posted on 02/19/2016 7:16:23 PM PST by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: Jim Robinson

Jim,

This is your website. You founded it. You are the ultimate moderator.

How do you tolerate such anti-Cruz venom on your site? Any post that mentions Cruz is immediately polluted by anti-Cruz comments. Completely overrun by anti-Cruz slime. I’ve been here for decades ... and am finding the anti-conservative slander unrelenting.

Is there nothing you can do to restrain the anti-Cruz onslaught?


38 posted on 02/19/2016 7:17:05 PM PST by Theo (Trump = French Revolution. Cruz = American Revolution. Choose wisely.)
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To: CharleysPride

He can always start his own mega-church.


39 posted on 02/19/2016 7:17:43 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: jospehm20
Good question.

DC Cruz has fooled a lot of posters here.

Ted and Heidi help created and push thru a Treason treaty which will destroy millions of US jobs and flood the country with H 1 Visas .

40 posted on 02/19/2016 7:18:06 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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