Posted on 03/23/2016 10:04:10 AM PDT by McGruff
If Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's dig at arch-nemesis Donald Trump sounded good, that's because it was cribbed from an Oscar-winning screenwriter.
The Texas Senator used a line from the 1995 movie "The American President" to warn Trump to stop threatening his wife — only Cruz neglected to attribute the source.
"If Donald wants to get into a character fight, he's better off sticking with me, because Heidi is way out of his league," Cruz told CNN Wednesday morning.
That's nearly verbatim from the Aaron Sorkin-penned scene in which Michael Douglas' Commander in Chief slams a rival by saying, "If you want a character debate Bob, you better stick with me because Sydney Ellen Waid is way out of your league."
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Wow we can agree on something. The whole concept is the ridiculous ego trip of the decade.
Yes. Thank God for a long primary process or we might not have seen the Cruz Egg Crack. Better now than later.
Of course Ted had something to do with the ad. It was about his opponent. Ted could have publicly attacked it at least.
Agreed, see someone under pressure and how they react tells us a lot - and Cruz failed.
All Cruz has to do is condemn or denounce the ad.
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“I wish there was this much vitriol for the left”
Exactly. Makes me wonder how many here are on the left.
Cruz is being such a liar. He later said that Donald Trump said this because he lost Utah but this whole exchange happened BEFORE any Utah results were out! Cruz is getting desperate and it takes a desperate man to embrace an endorsement from Jeb Bush.
The line is definitely lifted from the movie. See the video comparison:
Not that it matters.
In the real world, what you are assuming is that Cruz committed a crime. It is illegal. If you have evidence of him supporting the ad I will switch my support from Cruz to Trump. Put up or shut up.
What you are assuming is that Cruz committed a crime. It is illegal. If you have evidence of him supporting the ad I will switch my support from Cruz to Trump. Put up or shut up.
Cruz is imploding.
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Yes he is. Something like an inverted popcorn fart.
I thought, "Now what's he up to?" I think I know.
It's been all Cruz, all day on TV. It doesn't take very long for the charm to wear off.
He has many fine qualities to support a life in politics, but likability isn't one of them.
When the spotlight isn't on Trump it glares on the rest of them, and it is revealing.
The absence of condemnation or denunciation by Cruz.
Cruz tacitly APPROVES of the ad.
All he has to do is condemn or denounce the ad.
It's very simple.
He doesn't have to apologize - it wasn't his ad. But now, he's aware of it or seen it.
Just give us your opinion of the ad, Cruz.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 4m4 minutes ago
Lyin’ Ted Cruz steals foreign policy from me, and lines from Michael Douglas— just another dishonest politician.
I’m Jeb Bush, and I approve this ad.
LOL!
I agree. He should denounce the ad.
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