Posted on 11/23/2015 9:49:42 AM PST by Isara
A handful of Donald Trump's supporters played right into the hands of Black Lives Matter when they roughed up one of their members who was heckling Trump at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama over the weekend. From the podium, Trump shouted to the heckler "get the hell out of here" and told security to "throw him out."
...Trump added fuel to the fire during an appearance on FOX News when he said, "Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing." Trump also claimed the heckler, who has been identified as Mercutio Southall, was "looking for trouble."....
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So what if Southall had turned up at a Cruz rally and began heckling? I can't see Cruz telling security to throw him out. Instead, Cruz would have invited Southall on stage and challenged him to a debate right then and there. Cruz would give Southall an opportunity to speak his peace and then Cruz would take his arguments apart. He would have taken a piece out of Black Lives Matter without so much as an angry word.
The bottom line is that Cruz would have taken the high road. Of course, such a thing would never happen with Trump. He knows no high roads, only the gutter. Since he cannot debate ideas, he insults people. Trump is the Don Rickles of American politics only without the humor.
Of course, Trump's supporters will defend him to the bitter end. But if one has to write about Republican presidential candidates and Black Lives Matter, I sure as hell would rather write about how Ted Cruz debated a member of Black Lives Matter than write about how a few of Donald Trump's supporters beat up a member of Black Lives Matter with Trump egging them on.
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Gibberish.
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They have no legitimate means of putting Cruz down, so they have go low.
I was just surprised to see Trisham going with it.
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“I want a Constitutional conservative, not a reality show star.”
I want someone who can win in addition to what I wrote in the last post.
If Trump wins, I hope he picks Cruz.
If Cruz wins, I hope he is tough enough.
If neither wins, I think it’s over.
Yeah, a Trump supporter told me that winning was the only principle he cared about.
I’ve heard all the “electable” stuff before. Last time was in 2012.
“I’ve heard all the “electable†stuff before. Last time was in 2012.”
About when you signed up?
I don’t care about “electable”. I care about actually winning.
No win. No change.
That is a separate issue from winning and then having the big picture vision for what must change and having the stones to do it.
Cruz is exactly what trump needs in a partner. They each have strengths.
No. I signed up in 2011 after lurking for three years.
But if you suspect troll, I invite you to go through my posting history and see if you can find something. You won't. Like I said, I've supported the Constitutional conservative from the beginning.
"I don’t care about “electableâ€. I care about actually winning."
You said you want someone who can win. By definition, that's electable.
"No win. No change."
No Constitutional conservative, no good result.
I'm not interested in some kind of strongman savior. This is a Constitutional republic, and we need to get back to those founding principles or we're lost.
"That is a separate issue from winning and then having the big picture vision for what must change and having the stones to do it."
In other words, a strongman savior who can somehow do magic by his will or the force of his personality.
Yeah. I'm not buying.
"Cruz is exactly what trump needs in a partner. They each have strengths."
Cruz isn't going to tie himself to Trump; it would be too damaging.
Ted's in it to win.
” Cruz isn’t going to tie himself to Trump; it would be too damaging. Ted’s in it to win. “
After Ted fails to get the R. POTUS nomination, he will accept the VP slot, if offered. It’s what politicians do.
The chart that Isara includes on FR is directly from here:
https://www.conservativereview.com/2016-presidential-candidates
Mark Levin is Editor-in-Chief of that site.
If you denounce that chart, don’t demean Isara. Demean Mark Levin.
Isra should be demeaned for promoting a lie.
She shows great disrespect towards other Freepers by doing so.
I sincerely don’t think Mark Levin’s site is “a lie.” Can you provide any evidence that the information provided on Mark Levin’s site (e.g., https://www.conservativereview.com/2016-presidential-candidates ) is inaccurate or skewed?
Look, I don’t care enough to do any of that, I’ve already put more into this than I want to.
I don’t care that much, Trump has overcome much bigger lies.
But red for his FREE MARKET?
Give me a break.
He is the only one who should have green, or maybe gold, for free market, none of the others even know what that means. Trump lives free market, they have only read about it.
Give me a break.
Anyway, he will keep posting the lie, and I’ll keep pointing out that he is abetting a lie.
OK, last word is yours, if you want it, I’m on to things that matter.
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