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.
"Looks like Ted Cruz is getting ready to attack. I am leading by so much he must. I hope so, he will fall like all the others. Will be easy!"
That is a "Twitter" or a "tweet," not sure. I can only surmise that many people who consume twitters are bird-like intellects who feed on very small pickings.
Then the next twitter taunt :
"Ted Cruz should not make statements behind closed doors to his bosses, he should bring them out in the open, more fun that way!"
Man!! We really need a President who is a master of the new Twitter generation! That'll show the world! Hey, Donald, how about a Twitter on how many Muslim employees you've fired from your Trump Empire, or how many business concerns with Islamic countries you've pulled out of, since your declaration about banning Muslim immigrants?
It flummoxes me that so many people are falling for this patriotic attention-loving showboat. Trump is an entertainer pop star trying to challenge Ted Cruz on entertainer pop star terms. His public is so enamored that they will regard the fact that Cruz cannot compete because he isn't an entertainer with a "personal brand," it means Trump is better than Cruz, when the reality is that Trump is only better than Cruz at showmanship thanks to an established "personal brand."
When it comes to actual politics and conservative solutions, all Trump has is bombast and a very liberal-left-moderate past. But if he's competing on entertainers' territory -- the entertainer will win.
You are relying on defensive strategy. You are thinking in terms of not letting the Democrats advance.
Time to go on offense and think in terms of what conservatives CAN advance. We have to choose ONE, the best ONE, now. We don't get to have both, we have to choose one. What are you even thinking about Hillary for? Why aren't you staying focused on the task at hand -- and that is to choose the best ONE to run against whatever the Democrats put up?
It will mean having to reject one of them. For me, it is a very easy decision -- Trump is an exceedingly bad risk, with a history of looking to government for solutions. Pointing it out is part of the process, for all you perceive it as "circular firing squad."
Cruz is the much more compelling and convincing conservative who looks to the Constitution for limited government solutions.
"Work together"??? What are you talking about? The two are IN A FIGHT for the party's nomination, for the love of Pete!!!
Look, we only get to choose ONE. That's it. NO matter how much we wish and dream and fantasize, we don't get to have both. We have to choose one or the other. These two guys are competing with each other to win the Republican nomination for President.
And you want them to "work together"?
Let them "work together" once in office -- and if you think Trump would be the kind of president who would work with the likes of Ted Cruz, you will be mortified and disappointed, because Donald Trump has a long history of being the antithesis of Cruz politically, although it is omitted from Trump's "personal brand." It is, however, part of the past 26 years up to recently. He didn't even join the Republican party until it was in the throes of McCain and Romney, right about the time the Republican party left me, Trump "found" it.
We have to choose ONE, SOON, and the choice is very clear: Ted Cruz.
Just what we can trust in the White House.
He may do well with women and all demos in the general, but he will do piss-poor in the White House because he is a long-established left-leaning “moderate” at best and zero political compass but a great flair for patriotic showmanship.
In that case, you would be loathe to accept Donald Trump, who practically brags about his own donor-owner status when working with politicians.
You criticize Cruz for meeting with moneyed people, and yet you support a man based on his very aspect of being moneyed -- Trump is a billionaire, that's all we need to know to be assured of his abilities, that's the reasoning. Sounds like skipping the middle man and making the donor the owner all the way up to the White House.
Oh calm down. Obama and Biden were competitors and look what happened. Trump/Cruz would be a great team.
I think you’re obviously right - BUT the last sentence of Cruz’s, “the lion’s share of their supporters come to us”, gave me an “Aha!” moment. Many of us say Cruz avoids trashing Trump because Cruz is a nice guy, (ok, he is), or figures Trump would select him as VP candidate (a logical assumption), or down the line in thoughts, that a President Trump would nominate Cruz to the Supreme Court at the first opportunity, and there will be some (a very attractive thought that is!) I hadn’t figured yet that Cruz’s reasoning could be that if Trump flames out or loses, his “lion’s share of supporters come to” Cruz. Maybe I would, maybe you would, but I think in general they wouldn’t. So where would they go? Back to bed on election day or go out and start/vote for a third party. Cruz is underestimating us Trump supporters. Of course, so is the RNC.
My two cents.
... (according to him, apparently, see Forbes article of June 16, 2015, "Trump Exaggerating His Net Worth In Presidential Bid," can't link it because of Forbes' website) ...
... is the "conservative" choice for President, when eight years ago -- while we here were agonizing over the specter of John McCain as "our" nominee -- Donald Trump was a Democrat with glowing praise for McCain and the Clintons, all three!
There are scary hard, cold truths that Trump supporters have yet to stand up and face. The sooner the quicker. We only get to choose one, and we have to do it soon. Trump is a really lousy choice.
And I always wanted a pony.
Seriously -- what has ever been the likelihood of that? In any presidential race any time? Name me the last presidential candidate who named as his VP his closest primary contender?
We only get to choose one. We have to choose one, now.
Assuming Trump was elected, if Trump actually took on Hillary and the dems he would loose everything and even his son would never do business in a dem controlled state again.
Trumps own words from Art of the Deal, demand everything and settle for what you really wanted to begin with.
With Hillary as president Trump will make another $10-$20 billion, he’s not passing that up.
OMG, yes. He really doesn't want Ted Cruz to get him in his sights.
Yes, if you include Donald Trump's "twitter" tweets basically daring Cruz to "say it to my face."
Where is Trump now in his process of pulling any of his business interests out of Muslim countries, and/or firing his Muslim employees? Banning a religion is the wrong way to go about it. There is a better, smarter way and Cruz has it.
He comes across to me as an old hot-head.
Cruz seems young and cool thinking.
Nicely said.
But......Cruz is now going to be the new favorite of the establishment and MSM to depose Trump. They don’t like Cruz much but they know that he’s Washington and will be malleable. Anyone but Trump; they despise him for besting them all. They tried Carson but he couldn’t make it even under their direction.
Cruz WILL also be OWNED by the donors!!!!
Ted’s snarky remark about giving Carson and Trump big bearhugs and “smothering” them with love for the benefit of the media and the public didn’t sound much like Reagan to me.
'Tis the season! {^) Will be seeing one little boy do just that (on film) soon, God willin'!
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