Posted on 12/11/2015 5:40:01 AM PST by VinL
One day after a report that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned Donald Trump's "judgement" in a private event, Trump called out Cruz for criticizing him behind close doors but refraining from negative comments in public.
Looks like @tedcruz is getting ready to attack. I am leading by so much he must. I hope so, he will fall like all others. Will be easy!
.@tedcruz should not make statements behind closed doors to his bosses, he should bring them out into the open - more fun that way!
Cruz has so far refrained from bashing Trump in public. After Trump announced his proposal to ban Muslims from coming to the United States, Cruz disagreed but stopped short of condemning Trump's remarks.
But the Texas senator spoke about Trump and Ben Carson during a Manhattan fundraiser on Wednesday, according to the New York Times.
"Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button? Now that’s a question of strength, but it’s also a question of judgment. And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of them," Cruz said of Trump and Carson.
Cruz has started gaining on Trump in the key primary state of Iowa, which may be making Trump uneasy. The real estate mogul has a habit of attacking his Republican rivals when they rise in the polls, as both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal noted this week. Trump may have released his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country in an attempt to boost his support with evangelical voters in Iowa.
Only amnesty money -> bad...or at least it used to be :(
You left out the word that he uses often, "expedite". He wants to expedite them back. You can't expedite them back when the current legal quota line is 5 to 10 years long.
“Nor is he the conservative leader on immigration in the Senate. Jeff Sessions is.”
I admire Sessions, and I think his father took a bad rap — it was the ousting of FBI Director Sessions that allowed the Clintons to raid the 900 + FBI files and to ‘manage’ the peculiar investigation of Vince Foster’s death.
But Sessions apparently believes in Cruz or he would not let the new member steal his thunder and be the public face.
Clearly psychology was not your major, or even a minor. Trump's stream of consciousness style of public speaking is his most endearing charm. It is hard to be double minded when one says whatever comes into one's mind.
Trump does not lose track of his subject matter. I have heard him refer to a comment made and parenthetically dropped ten minutes earlier, tying all of the subsequent thoughts together. His mind, far from a sieve, is a computer.
Dammit, this is aggravating. I have no interest in being a Trump apologist but I cannot let wrong headed opinion stand.
Nope, Carson is threatening to leave the RNC. He can see the writing on the wall. It’s going to be Trump. Trump’s not going to take down Carson after this.
Cruz doesn’t complain about Hillary or Obama’s finger on the button, but questions Trump & Carson’s finger.
His public bear hugs that he talked about giving to Trump and Carson, yet bad mouthing them behind their backs is not going to sit well with voters.
Any advantage Cruz has over Trump with women will change very quickly when Hillary runs hundreds of millions of dollars in ads with rape victims and incest victims. They’ll be crying saying Ted Cruz won’t let me control my body that was violated
Hillary will destroy Cruz with women in a general.
“The Gang of 8 bill passed the Senate 68-32 with 14 Reps voting for it. Cruz didn’t stop anything.”
His resistance helped encourage patriotism in the House.
Well this is a sure fire way to make the worst of the bunch stay in office. McLame/Palin wouldn’t have been NEARLY this bad
I have contempt for most Evangelicals (not that Evangelical =/= all Christian denominations) because they are the ones, in the 80s and 90s, that have almost single-highhandedly taken the image of American Christianity and flushed it down the drain to the point where it has never recovered. Most of that due to their ridiculous support for all of those televangelists scammers and con-artists.
And many of them still are fans of these people!
You can't expedite them back when the current legal quota line is 5 to 10 years long.
What country and category of immigrant are you referring to? You do understand that we have caps and quotas based on categories with the exception of certain ones like spousal visas.
Again your opinion with no facts...
How about this from Trump???
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/the-absolute-trumpest-121328
36. Women: “You have to treat ‘em like s—t.” (New York magazine, Nov. 9, 1992)
I admire Sessions, and I think his father took a bad rap — it was the ousting of FBI Director Sessions that allowed the Clintons to raid the 900 + FBI files and to ‘manage’ the peculiar investigation of Vince Foster’s death.
WTF? William Sessions is not the father of Jeff Sessions. His son is Rep Pete Sessions of Texas. Get your facts straight.
But Sessions apparently believes in Cruz or he would not let the new member steal his thunder and be the public face.
LOL. It is Sessions who is the public face of the issue for conservatives. He is the go to guy in the Senate. It was Sessions who prepared the brief on the Gang of 8 bill and distributed it to the House members. And Sessions personally brief them.
Did you also read from my post
Trump was worse than EVERY republican candidate in that survey with women in their matchup with Hillary!!!
You realize that you’re “they all must leave” thing has exactly zero chance of ever happening no matter what Donald trump tells you, right? There are 535 other people who have a say in the matter who are all beholden to special interests AND the demonization that the press will ensure is heaped upon any who try. Therefore the Cruz strategy is the only one that has any chance of ever being enacted.
The ball is in Cruz’s court. If anyone is going to prevent this clash, it’s him.
More recently, he strategized with House conservatives to devise a response to last summer’s border crisis, when unaccompanied migrant children from Central America were being apprehended at the southern border in record numbers. And this year, he lobbied against a border-security bill written by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-Texas). That legislation was pulled from the House floor and has not been back since.
No. You lack the basic understanding that no matter where you get money from means you are dependent upon that person or entity. So if my father lends me money or provides me a place to live, that would be “good” money so to speak. But I would still be beholden to and controlled by him. If he wanted to kick me out, I’d be homeless, or if he wanted a repayment on his loan that would affect other aspects of my life for the moment. Now, if I borrowed money from say a loanshark, that might be considered “bad” money and it might result in more serious consequences if I didn’t repay, but I would still be beholden to another interest. In both instances I am free to ask and they are free to give, just as Cruz is free to ask and they are free to give. The problem with you Cruz supporters is that you are unable to see Cruz for what he is, another politician at the trough of donors and the government, just less bad than the rest of them. Your 1st amendment argument is a non-sequitur.
I knew this would come. I also knew it will probably get me banned from FR.
There we go again... the media sets up a question then puts words in Trumps mouth
This was a dumb-ass reporter asking a question and taking a response and extending it much farther than trump meant
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