Donald Trump Dares Ted Cruz To Criticize Him In Public

TPM ^ | 12/11/15 | Caithlin MacNeil

[dp0622]

you even answered like a ten year old :)

[HLPhat]

>>He had no choice but to respond.

He could’ve CHOSEN to demonstrate good judgement.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“Romney won the Independent vote and still lost despite getting 1 million more votes than McCain.”

Right. Glad I remember ‘McRomney’, but who is McStain again?

Seriously though, Romney had a record number of GOP hispanic votes. That was the Establishment’s magic formula, and it FLOPPED. They still refuse to admit it, which means that they are sold out to the immigration lobby.

We need an ‘Art of the Deal’ president to end this kind of madness, someone willing to confront powerful people and lobbyists and who knows how to handle them.

The more I thought about Trump talking about blocking muslim immigrants was the day I found my favorite candidate. Few lobbies are more powerful than those which represent muslims.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘He could’ve CHOSEN to demonstrate good judgement.’

So [strictly hypothetical ...]

If I say ‘Good judgment is a challenge for you, so therefore I should be the one who posts here and not you.’

How would you respond to that hypothetical accusation?

[kabar]

I prefer Trump's position paper on immigration, which was authored by a staffer in Sessions' office. As long as Trump relies on Sessions for advice, I am not too concerned about Trump going off message and using hyperbole.

My biggest frustration with Trump is that he is not using the points in his position paper that link jobs, unemployment, wages, etc. to immigration. Except for Santorum, Trump is the only candidate advocating reduced immigration levels. And Trump wants bigger cuts than Santorum.

[HLPhat]

Sniff sniff.

Is that cheese?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

But who is doing the ‘wining’ for the cheese?

Trumpsters defending a tweet? Or the Cruzies who complain about the tweet?

Not that simple, is it?

[Charles Henrickson]

My biggest frustration with Trump is that he is not using the points in his position paper. . . .

This is why I do not put much stock in Trump's "position papers." Other people wrote them. I wonder if Trump has even read them. I have not heard Trump speaking with any depth or substance or specifics on a number of issues. I go by what comes out of Trump's own mouth in the debates and speeches and interviews. And what I have heard does not impress me.

[kabar]

Cruz connects well with the moral majority vote that gave REagan a landslide and the Christian Coalition Vote that helped win it for GW Bush.

The demographics of this country have changed significantly since the days of Reagan. In 1970 one in 21 in this country was foreign born; today it is less than one in 8, the highest in 105 years, and within a decade it will be one in seven, the highest in our history. By 2019, half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG. Each cohort that turns 18 each year is more Dem than the previous one. Immigrants and minorities vote more than two to one Dem.

Since 1990 35 million legal permanent immigrants have entered the US. Thus is the equivalent of the population of Canada. In 1970 non-Hispanic whites were 89% of the population; today it is 63%. Demography is destiny. CA is the canary in the coal mine.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Whether any politician sticks with his official plans, no one will know until he does it. But ...

Trump IS getting himself informed — he keeps shocking the media with his research:

Donald Trump claims more British Muslims join Isil than the armed forces

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3371354/posts

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Five police officers claim Donald Trump is RIGHT about parts of London being so radicalised

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3370457/posts

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I believe that this kind of research sticks with a person. You learn things like that, and you are not so easily swayed by jaded advisors.

[kabar]

I discount what Trump says and trust that his position papers will be the promises he will keep. I believe he will build a wall. I believe he will deport the illegals and strengthen enforcement of our existing immigration laws. If he just does that, this country will be far better off.

On immigration Trump has the best position paper ever put forth by a candidate. It is the reason why Trump is leading the pack. For me, he really is the only game in town. For too long, we have bought the promises of the political class who are bought and paid for by the corporate class and special interests. I am willing to take a chance on someone outside the system to put us on another path.

The GOPe meeting to take down Trump attended by Priebus, McConnell, and staffers from the Rubio and Bush campaigns should infuriate us all. This is Mississippi all over again on a national scale.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Loretta Sanchez: Five to 20 percent of Muslims ‘have a desire for a caliphate’

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3371366/posts

[The info keeps rolling in, Senator Cruz — BAN MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS.]

[mac_truck]

Cruz supporters are so sensitive. Face it. Cruz is running a smarmy cynical mini-me campaign parroting Trump's talking points, while hoping Grandpa Trump dies so he can inherit his supporters. He's been trailing Trump around like a puppy dog for months. It's undignified.

Trump isn't attacking. He's tweaking Cruz so the media news cycle will pay more attention to Cruz's smarmy tendencies. He says one thing behind closed doors to his owners and is all lovey dovey to Trump in public. He even mentions his cynical strategy of bear hugging Trump and Carson while waiting for them to fail.

Good analysis...Cruz will spend the weekend trying to clean this mess up.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— My husband just shook his head and said, “Wow, there’s no way that guy belongs anywhere near the White House.” -—

It’s hard for me to understand why people prefer Trump to Cruz. I don’t understand the strong emotional attachment. I have a stong emotional attachment to Reagan now, but it developed over time and mostly after the fact.

[Mariner]

your analysis is correct

[af_vet_1981]

1. What did the policeman say to Ted Cruz after pulling him over ?
   
   You Cruz, you lose.
   
   
2. What did Donald Trump say to the RNC dealers at the convention ?
   
   My hand Trumps yours.
   
   

[HLPhat]

The lack of judgement is demonstrated when the sheeple allow themselves to be divided into “Cruzies” and “Trumpsters”.

The lack of judgement is demonstrated when the “choice” is made to resonate with the political dung heap instead of going about the constructive task of restoring the Republic to its declared purpose: “TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS”.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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The "feud" between Donald Trump (whom I admire) and Ted Cruz (my choice) is a totally manufactured MSM-GOPe-RINO fabrication.

Qui Bono ?

Jeb Bush.

Meanwhile, Ted and Donald are enjoying the extra news coverage ...

[wbarmy]

When Reagan said that, he was talking about campaigning, the enemy was whomever they wold be facing in the general election. But you keep flailing away, and the country will get what you deserve.

[firebrand]

Skipping to the end here, after reading over 100 replies:

The judgment Cruz was talking about was the voter’s judgment. It was, of course, judgment about a very serious subject.

But the original article’s headline correctly nailed the salient criticism: that gravity would bring the arc of Trump’s campaign down.

Of course Cruz would have to prove to his donors that Trump would lose.

The lethal quality of the whole incident is in its happening behind closed doors, which Trump accurately nailed in his tweet on this. Cruz said something in private that got recorded. If it weren’t for this espionage-and-betrayal aspect, it wouldn’t have the punch that it does.

All that said, I would guess there are going to be some remarks tonight about gravity, closed doors, and bosses.