Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Ted Cruz slams Donald Trump: ‘We can’t be fooled by P.T. Barnum
The Washington Times ^ | February 24, 2016 | Seth McLaughlin

Posted on 02/24/2016 12:57:22 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Taking aim at businessman Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz said at a campaign rally Wednesday that too much is riding on the 2016 presidential election to get fooled by a showman that is more bluster than substance...

"We can't be fooled by P.T. Barnum," Mr. Cruz said, alluding to the late founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. "The time for the clowns and the acrobats and the dancing bears has past."......

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stcanadiansenator; canadian; cruz; cruzslamstrump; cw; gangof14; ineligible; lolpost; propagandadujour; ptbarnum; ptbarnumposting; tdscoffeclutch; tediban; tedspacificpartners; trump; usualsuspect; willthemudstick
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 241-250 next last
To: Jewbacca

Another poster who has no idea of how chapter 11 works.


41 posted on 02/24/2016 1:07:50 PM PST by old curmudgeon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

BS! Cruz has had only 1 bill passed that he sponsored. I think Obumer did better than that. FAIL! Now lets see, 1 bill passed against a man who built a multi billion dollar industry employing thousands of people. CRUZ will LOSE.


42 posted on 02/24/2016 1:07:57 PM PST by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
Before NH and its tiny blue state, SC and its open (D) crossover primary and NV and its fraudulent outcome.


43 posted on 02/24/2016 1:08:30 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CodeToad

May 8, 2013 Fox News Latino

Ted Cruz Files Amendment To Deny Path To Citizenship As Senate Works On Bill

......”The amendments filed today to strengthen border security and reform our legal immigration system will not only bring meaningful, effective improvements to our immigration system, but also have a chance of becoming law,” said Cruz in a statement. “America is a nation of immigrants, built by immigrants and we need to honor that heritage by fixing our broken immigration system, while upholding the rule of law and championing legal immigration.”

His amendments are among more than 300 filed by the Tuesday evening deadline. Republicans wanting tighter enforcement provisions filed a majority of the amendments, with Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, leading the pack with 77 amendments.

Supporters of the bill, mainly of the part of it that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants, kept a steady drumbeat in defense of the measure though emails, websites and social media.

In a press release, America’s Voice, a leading national group that advocates for more lenient immigration laws, singled out Cruz’s anti-citizenship amendment as particularly worrisome.

“This would not only destroy the path to citizenship in the Senate bill - the popular heart of an immigration reform solution - but also turn its back on 100 years of precedent in immigration policy,” said the release..........

************************************

Dec 17, 2015: Politico

Who’s right: Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio?

“....The bipartisan group of eight senators - including battle-tested veterans and relative newcomers like Rubio - painstakingly negotiated a delicate compromise in early 2013 that would overhaul every corner of the U.S. immigration system, including a 13-year pathway to citizenship for millions here illegally.

Fans and foes of the legislation, as well as observers at the time, knew the core bill couldn’t change too dramatically because that would upset that compromise, which not only had the backing of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate but also coalitions off the Hill, such as labor unions and the business lobby.

Cruz’s amendment - which called for stripping out a pathway to citizenship, but keeping a path for legalization - would have done precisely that.

The night before each Senate Judiciary Committee markup, senior Gang of Eight aides would huddle to scour through each of the amendments that were teed up for the following day, determining which proposals would be palatable and which would be unacceptable. This strategy was meant to ensure the core elements of the Gang of Eight deal would stay intact (the four members of the Gang who sat on the Judiciary Committee would vote in a bloc, usually with the rest of the committee Democrats, to vote down potential deal-killers).

“This one was one that clearly we all had to oppose because it went to the core of the deal,” recalled an aide to a Senate Democrat during the 2013 negotiations. “It could’ve unraveled the whole deal. Sure, Cruz himself never called it a “poison pill” at the time. But no senator refers to his own proposal as a poison pill, even if it plainly is. The Gang of Eight never considered Cruz as “gettable,” and it was well-known at the time that Cruz was never going to vote for the bill and was in fact, trying to kill it.”.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3400777/posts?page=3


44 posted on 02/24/2016 1:08:36 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: dasboot

“Not gonna work.”

No. That flat, nasal mewling reached its peak effect in Iowa and is flattening out now like a dying whoopie cushion.


45 posted on 02/24/2016 1:08:47 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Clear out the Bushes for a proper field of fire.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
long-running civil lawsuit

Civil case, not criminal. Get it. Plenty of ex students claim to have benefited from the class.

46 posted on 02/24/2016 1:08:55 PM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Jewbacca

To save thousands of jobs he does!


47 posted on 02/24/2016 1:09:20 PM PST by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Jewbacca

Ted is about to lose all of his donors money......


48 posted on 02/24/2016 1:09:21 PM PST by GotMojo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me, fool me as many times as the republicans and I must be an idiot.

"The establishment" has fooled enough people, enough times, and many of us have had enough. Trump may be fooling us, but at least it'll only be the first time (shame on him).

I like Senator Cruz also (my 2nd choice) but I think that Senator title puts him too close to the people and processes that we don't want to be fooled by again.
49 posted on 02/24/2016 1:09:56 PM PST by LostPassword
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Trumpinator
Here is Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU2_1OgFSWY

And here he is as PT Barnum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZYjpBa4vfg

50 posted on 02/24/2016 1:10:03 PM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Cruz to testify at trial if he is a NBC.


51 posted on 02/24/2016 1:10:10 PM PST by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: rineaux

Oooh, Photoshopped picture. LIAR! LIAR!


52 posted on 02/24/2016 1:10:24 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Parley Baer

“We can’t be fooled by P.T. Barnum,”

That is it? Is that all Ted has? Oh my, talk about the bottom of the barrel. Sounds like desperation to me.


It sounds like the recently departed Yeb? to me, but then, perhaps we are saying the same thing in different ways.


53 posted on 02/24/2016 1:11:09 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Clear out the Bushes for a proper field of fire.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Well we for sure weren’t fooled by shaming letters and dirty trix in Iowa, NH and SC by Cruz. Trump even had to warn the NV Secretary of State yesterday that Cruz people were going to videotape the caucuses. Agains’t the rules of course.

So with Beck slobbering all over you 24/7 who’s PT Barnum? LOL!

The horse has died but Teddy won’t get off.


54 posted on 02/24/2016 1:11:32 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Cruz was beaten by almost 24.5%. Trump received over twice as many votes as Cruz did. Trump beat Cruz across nearly every demographic including white evangelicals. Perhaps you and Cruz should contemplate that before engaging in name calling against this winner.


55 posted on 02/24/2016 1:11:35 PM PST by RC one (I will vote for the Republican nominee period. end of story.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jewbacca

P.T. Barnum was a sucessful businessman—he gave people what they wanted to see—even if it was the Cardrift Giant of the Figee Mermaid. Ted Cruz has shown himself the new Nixon with his dirty tricks (not done as well as tricky dick) He shafted Dr. Carson, insulted Rubio, and many enemies in the US Senate—not talking about Trump. He is done.


56 posted on 02/24/2016 1:11:41 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Good for starters, but Ted’s got to up it a bit.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/bet-on-donald-trump?mbid=social_twitter


57 posted on 02/24/2016 1:11:41 PM PST by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: onyx

Bump post 28


58 posted on 02/24/2016 1:12:12 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: All

Bill Clinton Called Donald Trump Shortly Before Billionaire Announced His Presidential Bid

"Several weeks before Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy, he received a phone call from former president Bill Clinton at his office in Trump Tower in Manhattan. While Clinton reportedly did not urge Trump to run for president during the conversation, [Bill Clinton told] the real estate billionaire that he should take a more prominent role within the Republican party and that he was tapping into a vein of frustration among GOP voters.".....

59 posted on 02/24/2016 1:12:40 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Slyfox

That’s a very Willard and the rats kind of post.


60 posted on 02/24/2016 1:12:48 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Clear out the Bushes for a proper field of fire.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 241-250 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson