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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he has untold numbers of corporations. finding that needle in hundreds of already audited hay sticks is problematic
Trump CAN'T BEAT Hillary. He has supported her financially.........and is "socially" a friend. He can't "turn on her" with any credibility....especially with the videos where he "praised her" and says how she'll be a GREAT SOS.
So what's Trump going to hit her with next? That Hillary lies and broke the law with her server? Yep....that's going to work since Trump's in trouble with the law too...and Hillary is going to have a BLAST talking about Trump's FRAUD problems. As in........"Trump, who the heck are you to talk to me about illegal activities?"
And how is Trump going to push his border wall/anti-illegals AGAINST Hillary's "we have to treat illegals HERE with dignity and we NEED them to work jobs no one else will do". I can already hear Hillary cackling about the fact that Trump proves her point since he uses illegals in building his Washington hotel and uses Foreigners in his Florida gig........
I just CAN'T believe Cruz waited this long to actually talk about this crap.
Sure, because admitting to bribing a public official will help Trump so much in the general...
“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.”
Tell you what, if you can look through the miles and curvature of the earth and post and tell me what color of shirt I am wearing right now, I will give your assertion some credibility. If you cannot, then STFU.
With all your lying it's hard to believe you missed one big fat fact :
Trump send out one tweet calling Bill Clinton a sexual predator and the Clintonistas yanked Bill off the campaign and Trump killed The secret weapon !
The War on Woman line by the DNC was shut down !
That's a fact .
Keep on lying for whatever DC establishment hack your astroturfing for this week !
-— You are being deliberately naive about the nature of Trump’s business, and why he needs cooperation from local politicos -—
So he could lose business by not supporting the pro-abortion Democraps?
Is he hard up for cash or something?
When will it be convenient for him to stand on principle, if he has any?
When has he ever taken a principled conservative stand that didn’t serve his self-described”greed”?
That is the test of a true conservative. Cruz has passed that test
The difference is that Cruz and Rubio will talk a good game regarding immigration but would do absolutely NOTHING if elected.
With what. Never answer a single one of her accusations, just keep hitting her with the tons of mud she earned over the years.
Trump should demand Cruz release his United States identity verification documents.
Well to be fair...the real reason they are doing this is to “embarrass” him to the have-nots that are supporting him. They are hoping he didn’t give to charity or some other thing like that.
I’m not a Trump supporter but I think the whole tax release thing is kind of BS. But they all do it.
And spend the rest of the campaign answering nitpicking questions.
Or don't. Finish this race in 4 days. Then start hammering both democrats.
You are posting the same EXACT line under several names. No one is buying.
Why don’t you give it up? Your boy is done - stick a fork in him.
Hillary is so screwed. I’d be surprised if she doesn’t stroke out on the campaign trail. Actually, having been though strokes with my dad, I don’t wish that on anyone. Even Hillary. She deserves time in Leavenworth. And I want her to be fully aware of the experience.
Ted and Heidi Cruz are just another DC insider power and money hungry couple .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3397502/posts
Read all about it.
Cruz worked in the W Bush and his wife worked for Goldman Sachs and then joined the Bush Admin to help cook up that treason TPP disaster for Goldman Sachs which she rejoined after her mission there for Goldman was completed .
There entire campaign is financed by Wall Street and Robert Mercer the evil New Yorker Hedge Fund billionaire with a 6 to 10 billion dollars Tax fraud mess .
Ted ‘s donations are from other DC hack group such as ‘ the Club for Growth ‘ and Chamber of Crony Capitalism’ No one believes that tired outsider nonsense about Goldman Teddy !
Huh? I’m for-q-Clinton and it’s the ONLY account I have on FR. If you want to sinuate otherwise, let’s make a bet on it. If I’m right your account gets disabled for 60 days. If you’re right my account is permanently deleted (I’ve had it for years so I’m putting up more than you are).
Want to take the bet or do you want to admit you’re a liar?
I was doing that ‘born on third and thinks he hit a triple’ thing... and I was wrong... You got here on your own... good for you.
You vote for my bill, and I’ll vote for yours.
You vote my way, and you’ll get a chairmanship.
Since when are Congresspeople not ‘paid for their efforts’?
Then YOU need to search cause other anti-Trumpers are using your lines.
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