Posted on 02/26/2016 1:13:51 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
RUSH: In terms of substance? I disagree with Chris Wallace. I think there was substance in this debate last night, and depending on what you want -- depending on what you were hoping to see and then what you think going forward -- there's really only one candidate in this debate last night which was chock-full of genuine policy-oriented substance, and that was Cruz. And I happen to know, folks...
I hear from people constantly, as you can imagine, and I hear from you even on the phones. But there have been people during the entirety of this campaign who think that Trump is a pretender, that he really doesn't know much about what all this is about, that he's getting by on the cult of celebrity and other things in our pop culture that people get excited by and attach to. There have been people who say, "We've gotta expose Trump. Trump's gotta be exposed. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He doesn't know conservatism.
"He doesn't know policy. He's just up there saying things that sound good in a populist sense." So what Cruz did last night was essentially expose that. If that's what you think needs and has needed to happen, Cruz did it last night. And probably the best way to illustrate how it happened is, one of the fears that a lot of anti-Trump people have is he's not really even a Republican. And they keep talking about all of his donations to people like Chuck Schumer and the Clintons.
Trump's response was, "Hey, look, you know, I live in New York City and they run the show there, and I'm in business, and there are certain things you have to do to get things done. You have to work with these people. But I'm a Republican." And he's made it clear, and he's tried to make that point over and over again. But Trump found last night Ted Cruz illustrating that. (summarized) "Look, if you think we have to beat Hillary Clinton, Trump's not the guy to do it. Trump cannot go out and hit Hillary Clinton on any of the things that she has done, any of her corruption, because he has contributed to her.
"He has donated. All that would have to happen," Cruz says, "is for Trump to hit Hillary in the debate and Hillary, and all she's gotta do is say, 'Donald, I don't know what your problem is. You donated to me to do this exact thing. So I don't know what your problem is now.'" And Cruz said, "We can't nominate somebody who donated to her." It's akin to the people that said we shouldn't nominate Romney. "If we nominate Romney, there's no way we can get Obama on Obamacare because Romney invented it in Massachusetts.
"Romney gave us Romneycare, and the guy that wrote Romneycare then turned around and wrote Obamacare," and it took Obamacare off the table as far as Romney's concerned. He couldn't hit it because there's a retort, "What do you mean you don't like Obamacare? You wrote its father. You implemented and signed into law its father, Romneycare. What are you?" And Cruz's point was that same set of circumstances with Hillary are going to occur.
Because it can be demonstrated that Trump's donations to the Clintons over the years -- including to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation -- have facilitated political move that Hillary Clinton has made. So the people who have wanted Trump exposed, that was pretty substantively done by Cruz. On the Rubio side, what Rubio did was literally just laugh at Trump all night, literally made fun of him, mock him. Not act frightened or afraid of him, and not be worried about ticking off his supporters, either.
A first for both.
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I’m pointing out that he doesn’t need to make the bulk of his donations to Democrats and any conservative should be concerned about that.
do the Kochs and Soros give to both sides just to buy “cooperation”?
Besides, Trump told Sean Hannity that “I didn’t get anything for it.”
Dismissal for lack of standing does not create any legal precedent. By contrast, in the present situation, suits have already been brought under state ballot access laws where standing was found to exist because they were brought at that early stage. Further, there is nothing to prevent the Democrat nominee, who would have standing at the general election stage, to bring suit. Trump would have standing at this time to sue but why would he, if he is winning? It would make no political sense.
And if Cruz had stayed above the fray as you suggest, you'd be calling him a pussy today. Stop pretending it's anything other than a no win situation.
The DEAL Hillary and Trump made is working.
Just like Romney, Trump is going to make the conservatives stay home then she wins the prize.
She gets the power and he gets the money.
Of course it took a lot of stupids to pull it off.
Facebook Billionaire!
Explain to us how conservative is that ?..
Take your blinders off long enough to open your eyes & realize you are a Trump zombie and are desperately in need of some common sense.
Trump is mr amnesty not Cruz. Trump will allow illegals to come back in (magically legal now). That IS amnesty.
Putting people who cut in line back to the end of the line isn’t fair to those that never cut in line and just encourages more cutting in line. If you cut in line you never get to come back! That’s Cruz’s position.
Hell when Trump is done with his deals for the wall he’ll probably have to pay China for licensing the IP from the Great Wall of China. But his supporters will still say it’s a great deal.
Trumpism is a new strain of Alzheimers.
So Trump did to Cruz EXACTLY what Hillary will do to Trump in the general.
Well that just proves that most conservatives would refuse to drink a beer with you.
In a Pig’s eye!!!!!
In a Pig’s eye!!!!!
And she would say and I supported partial birth abortion like you wanted me to.
-— Putting people who cut in line back to the end of the line isn’t fair to those that never cut in line and just encourages more cutting in line. If you cut in line you never get to come back! That’s Cruz’ position. -—
Trump stated his touchback position last night, but they still support him... So then it isn’t even about immigration. It’s blind trust in Trump.
It’s a strange religion.
If Trump didn’t get anything for his money to politicians...why did he give it? He must have been giving it to like minded politicians to help them win their fight.
That’s the way Trump wins. He starts throwing fecal matter at everyone. If they fight back Trump says look at these nasty guys with sh!t all over them. If they don’t fight back he says they don’t have what it takes to win.
I was a Democrat for many years before becoming a conservative... had a heart when I was young and a brain when I was older.
Is this a club where you can’t be a member until you’ve been conservative for at least 10 years?
And can I assume you were born in a conservative family?
When pressure hits one sinks to their nature. Cruz is a mud-slinger, exemplified by his total campaign. He never was the ‘spirit filled’ happy warrior. Besides, pontification is not policy.
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