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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
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thanks for the laugh. The Democraps are going to have a field day with all the video they have.

61 posted on 02/24/2016 1:12:51 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Charles Henrickson

I understand where you are coming from. We donated hundreds to Cruz in his first weeks.

Trump does have a bit of carnival barker in him. However, I do believe he has centered on a fair amount of truth he has been consistent on defending and I believe he will not want failure on his name once in office, so he will press forward to his stated goals on our behalf.

Cruz and Rubio both have NBC issues that haven’t been independently vetted, so we would really need to look down ticket to Carson as the next most conservative, independent, voice.

I just don’t see Carson being strong enough to keep Congress and the liberals under control.


62 posted on 02/24/2016 1:12:55 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

P. T. Barnum would be much more accurate to describe the ever crying Glen Beck. Poor Cruz really has poor taste in those he surrounds himself... Crying Beck and lying campaign worker that embarrass him. Make me wonder who he would have in his administration if elected.


63 posted on 02/24/2016 1:13:04 PM PST by nclaurel
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To: Jewbacca
A good businessman does not lose all his investors’ money four times.

Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and William McKinley all filed for bankruptcy prior to becoming President. Jefferson did it several times, in fact.

Try again.

64 posted on 02/24/2016 1:13:26 PM PST by sargon
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To: Jewbacca
A good businessman does not lose all his investors' money four times.

Well obviously that is not true. Trump is a multi billionaire, that makes him one of the best businessmen in human history. That is the one thing you cruz supporters never understood, results mean more then words.
65 posted on 02/24/2016 1:13:32 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
In the last 100 years politicians acting on the orders of internationalist rich donors and the news media mind controllers have all but destroyed this once greatest civilization ever called America.

Every year politicians have grown government,let in more socialist 3rd world immigrants and illegals, allowed unfair trade deals with Asian countries etc., all extremely destructive acts against America. never did these false prophets ever do something to help America nor for America nor for freedom , always the opposite.

It is time for a businessman to set America on the right track again.It is time for President Trump. It was American businessmen like Henry Ford , Thomas Edison , the Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, Carnegie, Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan who built this Country and it will take an American businessman to do it again

66 posted on 02/24/2016 1:13:39 PM PST by Democrat_media (obamatrade is a Trojan horse for unlimited immigration to the USA)
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To: Jewbacca
A good businessman does not lose all his investors' money four times.

He won.

That's what counts.

67 posted on 02/24/2016 1:13:51 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Yer tag line vid is gone.


69 posted on 02/24/2016 1:14:23 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
Sure I know she never said that. But if Trump ultimately wins who do you think will be writing the narrative? Not Trump. It will be the media.

Trump thinks he has courted the media enough that they will do anything to stay in his good graces, but underneath they do not like him. They like Hillary and they will do everything they can to destroy him and it will be a ratings fiesta.

They are chomping at the bit and are preparing an onslaught unlike anything we could even dream about.

70 posted on 02/24/2016 1:14:24 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: Psalm 144

I like that!


71 posted on 02/24/2016 1:14:48 PM PST by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Get a life, LOSER


72 posted on 02/24/2016 1:14:59 PM PST by heights
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To: GotMojo

Cruz’s Internationalist rich donors said “attack Trump” so he he does what they say


73 posted on 02/24/2016 1:15:11 PM PST by Democrat_media (obamatrade is a Trojan horse for unlimited immigration to the USA)
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To: Charles Henrickson

PT Barnum never said there was a sucker born every minute. That is apocraphal. Barnum was a true American—the Curcus reflected his patriotism.


74 posted on 02/24/2016 1:15:14 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yes we can! ;-)


75 posted on 02/24/2016 1:15:19 PM PST by Nickname
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To: All
Trump: Art of the Deal:

The final key to the way I promote is bravado.

I play to people's fantasies.

People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do.

That's why a little hyperbole never hurts.

People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.

I call it truthful hyperbole.

It's an innocent form of exaggeration

and a very effective form of promotion. - Source

76 posted on 02/24/2016 1:15:35 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: GotMojo
Ted is about to lose all of his donors money......

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Not only that, he has to start giving money back and they might prosecute him even if he does.

FEC wants GOP candidate Ted Cruz's campaign to explain 78 pages of contributions agency believes are excessive ...

77 posted on 02/24/2016 1:16:06 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hey! You’re out of time out!


78 posted on 02/24/2016 1:16:12 PM PST by mazda77
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Just look at these Cruzgirl’s posting and its obvious why people despise Teddy, his SUPPORTERS.


79 posted on 02/24/2016 1:16:35 PM PST by heights
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To: Charles Henrickson

IF Trump ever did a circus—IT WOULD BE THE GREAEST SHOW ON EARTH!


80 posted on 02/24/2016 1:16:42 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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