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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Yes - either that or the Trumpzika virus!
Not tell the boy does some releasing, been waiting years for that. Do not release Mr. Trump let them all twirl on.
And most of it went to Democrats. Pretty liberal ones, at that.
And most of it went to Democrats. Pretty liberal ones, at that.
MegaDittos Bump
Not to be mean of trying to be funny...I seriously think Trump may be at the beginning stages of Alzheimer. Sometimes he appears very confused and answers the question like he has no idea what was asked. Just like Adm Stockdale (Perot’s VP running mate). My dad has Alzheimer’s so I can see it coming on.
"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."...
What tariffs on US goods are they going to raise that they already haven’t? There is such a trade imbalance with everyone that the only countries that will get hurt in a trade war will be China, Mexico, South Korea, Japan et al.
Wow! That came out the week Trump announced. Got anything new?
My parents were split Democrat and Republican. I was a very bright kid. I was writing assembly code in 4th grade. I was supporting Reagan in college and tearing into professors and making them look foolish.
I was able to convince my democrat dad to that the rats weren’t the people that he thought they were. So now they are a conservative family. But I’m a Libertarian, so I haven’t got them all the way to the light, but they are still moving in the right direction.
So if DC insider Cruz is so hard on amnesty then why is he peddling Miami Go Go boy Rubio ?.
Rubio the traitorous snake who stated on Univision he will Keep
Barry the Muslim executive amnesty in place !,,
Ted is united with this traitor !
Trump will wipe out all EO on day one .
Get new material Cruz - Rubio joint venture trolls .
And Trump isn’t a crap flinger? That’s all he does.
trump will tell the truth
he did not donate, he bought hillary off
money paid for services rendered
Ugh, Trump gave $300k to RNC. That is not on the politician list.
Huh? You’re just like Obama and global warming scientist...just claim the topic is won and move on even though you have clearly lost.
Everyone knows Trump is more an insider than Cruz. Trump has democrats in power that like him. Cruz doesn’t.
And that’s why he can’t release his taxes. He tried to write that off as a business expense.
Yeah, Trump followed Bill Clinton’s advice to tap in to the GOP anger - and now he could the sitting duck they’re going to knock off.
“Cruz has already released most of his and was releasing the rest by March 1st.”
Sooo, how on earth can he criticize Trump for not yet releasing his, when Trump’s return are infinitely more elaborate than his?
Because Trump can release his older ones that are ready to go...like Cruz did.
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