Ted Cruz courts the bigot vote: Why he won’t criticize Donald Trump [Barf Alert!]

Salon ^ | MONDAY, JUL 6, 2015 | SIMON MALOY

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

    Ted Cruz Ping!

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    CRUZ or LOSE!

[ilovesarah2012]

Cruz said he wasn’t going to criticize Trump. I bet the liberals hate that.

[miss marmelstein]

I want on, please! I’m so impressed with him! He’s the most intelligent candidate I’ve seen in a long time.

[BenLurkin]

[RckyRaCoCo]

Salon = used toilet paper in need of a flush.

[Eddie01]

Cruz!

[DemforBush]

Simon Maloy is a dingbat. And one with wayyyy too much time on his hands:

(From HuffPo)

“The Greenwich, Conn., native and 2003 graduate of Williams College is a deputy research director of the left-leaning media criticism website Media Matters for America, and he writes the ‘Limbaugh Wire,’ an hour-by-hour rebuttal and critique of the conservative talkmeister.”

[Delta 21]

No need to waste energy on something thats gonna self immolate anyway.

[Steely Tom]

[bigot] == [an American who believes our nation should have borders]

[cripplecreek]

There would be no point in criticizing Trump. Trump may be an ass but he isn’t wrong on the border issue. Plus there a 1st amendment element to this.

If anything, it just shows how much smarter Ted Cruz is than the average candidate.

[kingu]

Yep, yep, bigot vote... We’d never win any votes from the victims of crime from illegals - which the lion’s share of course would be the ‘latino’ vote the author speaks of. Random shootings by illegals happen all the time in California.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I wonder how those idiots at Salon would feel if a member of their own family were slaughtered by an illegal alien..who am I fooling, they would probably be OK with it thinking that they somehow deserved it because hey, illegals are victims dont ya know

[VeniVidiVici]

The flaming author -

[A_Former_Democrat]

Anyone who supports illegals and illegal immigration is the real “bigot” here. If they weren’t minorities mostly, then the cries would be loud and clear from the left. Hypocrites, you bet.

[SoConPubbie]

I want on, please! I’m so impressed with him! He’s the most intelligent candidate I’ve seen in a long time.

You have two choices:

1. Once daily ping of all Ted Cruz articles for the day.
2. A ping for every Ted Cruz article (High Volume).

[Regulator]

Send the little name caller to Juarez.

In an hour, we’ll see who’s the “bigot”.

If he lasts that long.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

She had the audacity to get in the way of his bullets so obviously she is a bigot.

[Chickensoup]

So when people ask me about the Mexican illegal aliens, I just say that I am uncomfortable with being complicit with the Mexican ethnic cleansing by elite and rich Spanish descent Mexicans against their indigenous population. That certainly changes the conversation. Often stops it.

[South40]