Posted on 03/13/2016 11:52:28 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing the recent protests and violence at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rallies, Sen. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Trump was “encouraging people to violence” and pointed to an instance where he said to “punch that guy in the face” as his proof.
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Spare us. You been a mindless Cruz fan girl for months. To pretend you are thinking about this is just another way to attempt to lie.
This seals the deal.
Voters are suppose to trust “Ted Cruz the Principled” to be the “Strongest Constitutional Conservative”?
But when an easy slam dunk issue like the Chicago riots presented Ted Cruz, plays politics instead like a standard issue GOPE poltican.
If he is willing to cave to the false media meme rather then defend unreservedly defend Constitutional Principals of Free Speech and Free Assembly, what else is he willing to cave on when the pressure is on?
How can Cruz be president material when encouraging people to riot and take over people’s rallies because they hear words and somehow think that is permission to do so?
I know the Cruz Gope fanboys will spin it but....
Trump's rallies are private events for his supporters. These are NOT public speeches.
He paid good money to rent out the spaces.
You do not have the First Amendment right to barge into a private event and then blame the host for inciting the very violence that you created.
Nope. He approves it, but he didn't justify it.
But that's not really relevant, anyway.
Everyone knows you are responsible for your own actions: regardless of what someone else says.
I’d like to see a real fight—not these candy-ass debates. Or maybe mud wrestling. Reince Priebus should get busy, maybe hire Vince McMahon.
A section of the crowd at the Chicago riots were chanting “Bernie, Bernie” so yea, Bernie’s folks were part of the riot.
To the Cruzers it smells like roses to them.
Simple moron. If you went into your neighbors house and started screaming at him and calling his family racist, wouldn’t you expect to get your face punched? Same damn thing here. Either peacefully protest, or if you are going to conduct yourself in a threatening manner, expect to get popped one. You are either beyond stupid or just another Cruz troll trying to defend an indefensible position.
Please read what Reagan did to the Berkeley protesters. He didn't offer them tea and crumpets, that's for sure.
I see the same thing. If I'm not mistaken, Cruz set a goal back in high school to be president of the United States. Not that that's a bad thing to aspire to but what I've seen lately from Cruz is a relentless drive to achieve that objective now at all cost. I think Shrillary Clinton has that same drive. Which is kind of scary because they both seem to place their service to the American people secondary to their ambition. Both Shrillary and Ted ran for senator only because it was seen by them as a stepping stone to something bigger (I put Obama in that same category as well). From Day One of being senator, they all immediately started running for president. None of them ever accomplished very much as senator - it was all about the bigger prize that lay ahead.
Are you wearing pink glasses and living with your mommy in a children garden ?
Your society is extremely violent but msm obama and other globalists want you to STFU and accept your fate of slave .
Trump is putting the focus on that !
But some prefer the fake fairy tale for crying babies and blame Trump because he is highlighting the problem .....
“it was at a public speech”
No it wasn’t.
It’s no more public than if I went to movie theater and talked on my phone.
The tickets are free to the public, but that does not mean it’s anything goes.
Sorry to break it to the Trump supporting freepers, but yes, when you say you would like to punch a protestor in the face and talk about how in the good old days protestors were carried out on stretchers you are encouraging violence. This is even more evident when you look at the fact that Trump offered to cover the legal fees of anyone who ended up roughing up a protestor at one of his rallies.
Trump’s violant rhetoric does not justify what BLM and the Bernie folks did in Chicago but it is definitely part of the poisoning of American politics. I don’t want to see our politics devolve into a street war between Bernie’s communists and Trump’s brownshirts.
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Exactly.
Violence as a means to conflict resolution is not cool. There are bigger fish to fry.
That is just a ridiculous position to try and defend.
Cruz is acting like a Defense Lawyer trying to use “She was asking for it” rape defense
Cruz is making a “Yes but”, defense.
Cruz is saying
Yes what was done was wrong BUT it is justified because the victim...
Anyone NOT welded at the hip to a candidate knows that is exactly what this is and will hold Cruz accountable
There was such an opportunity here for Cruz and he totally blew it.
Can you imagine what the result would of been if Cruz had come out and supported Trump and soundly castigated the media and the rioters? If he had made a full throated defense of the Constitutional principals of Free Speech and Free Assembly?
But instead he weaseled just like the standard issue GOPE politicians.
The Left poisoned politics years ago, Trump is the first to fight them back on their own turf.
Certainly the extreme left has been violent for years but Trump is helping to mainstream violence. We on the right have always had a respect for law, order, and decency. Trump is beginning to eliminate that.
Say it again.
It’s also wrong to rape someone.
But if you are going to wear that sexy outfit it “does spur on a more antagonistic tone which may be more prone to violence”.
Right?
And where has cowering to the Left gotten us?
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