Todd Grills Cruz on Immigration, Never Gets an Answer

Mediaite ^ | July 5, 2015 | Evan McMurry

[conservative98]

Meet the Press host Chuck Todd spent several minutes Sunday morning trying to extract an answer from Senator and 2016 candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) about what the Donald Trump-saluter proposed doing with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, and appeared very unhappy when he didn’t get one.

[zencycler]

Suppose you grounded your kid, and then, at breakfast, you tell him he should leave now so he’s not late for school, to which he responds “if I do that and I’m not late, can I not be grounded for today?”, to which you respond “get your butt out of this house and get to school on time, and we’ll talk about that later.”

Whether you intend to tell you kid yes or no about what he wants (reprieve from grounding) you shouldn’t, in my opinion, say anything when he’s trying to use what you want as leverage - especially when what you want is, by far, more important. Also, in the analogy above, I’d say you did give your kid an answer, as did Cruz to the equally petulant Democrats and their lapdog media brats.

[ConservingFreedom]

headline says "never gets an answer" on "immigration".

You're right - what the interviewer never gets an answer on is what to do about the illegals that are here. Tell-you-later is a less dissatisfying answer than JebJeb's or KrispyKreme's amnesty-you-betcha - but not one that gets a candidate my active support, and I appear not to be alone in that.

[zencycler]

That sums it up nicely, and I agree that his tell-you-later answer is less dissatisfying than some others. I suppose the optimist in me wants to believe it’s being done to take away negotiating leverage from Dems on border security, and that the answer we get later would be one we’d both like.

However, I completely understand the worries that would create - giving rise to the skeptical view that he may be holding back on a more amnesty-lite solution that would anger his base. I don’t think that’s the case, but I could be wrong.

I guess either way - as president or as senator - time will tell.