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Cruz Blasts Trump as a Fake Conservative
Texas Tribune ^ | Jan. 16, 2016 | Patrick Svitek

Posted on 01/16/2016 9:18:45 AM PST by Isara

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To: conservativejoy

“his birtherism attacks are going to ultimately make him look foolish as lawsuits are filed and dismissed.”

#1 He’s not filing the lawsuits.

#2 Cruz will need a SCOTUS decision to stop that as the Democrats will make sure they dont use this issue unless he is the nominee or VP candidate.

#3 Trump has carved out a political base that is unmalleable, that’s why his numbers only go up. Cruz’s base is made up mainly of people that had abandoned other candidates whom they supported far tighter than Cruz, and have little firm attachment to him.

The moment he looks to be headed down, they will bail.


81 posted on 01/16/2016 9:54:41 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Cboldt

“I am glad that Cruz is firing criticism at Trump.”

Yeh he better do something to take the spotlight off the two loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank he a former solicitor general of TX “forgot” to disclose as part of the campaign rules.

Between that and pizzing off NY state Teddy has stumbled badly. :-)


82 posted on 01/16/2016 9:54:56 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SteveSCH

Cruz could have put this positively, as a set of promises rather than as a sarcastic dig.


83 posted on 01/16/2016 9:54:59 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Isara

Ouch? This guy (Cruz) is a veritable master of irony. Ya all are.
Thankfully, it’s ticking me off less & amusing me more.


84 posted on 01/16/2016 9:54:59 AM PST by KGeorge
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To: Will88

Go take another hit on the pipe. Better yet, got work for Hillary instead of Trump.


85 posted on 01/16/2016 9:57:13 AM PST by biff
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To: lodi90

Rumor has it that Trump has hired Bruce Springsteen to record a new theme song for the Ted Cruz campaign called “Born Near the USA”.

When asked for comment, Cruz said “If Donald Trump and Bruce Springsteen want to act like a bunch of hosers, that’s not my problem, eh.”


86 posted on 01/16/2016 9:57:23 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Cruz let Trump bait him into getting negative.

That was a mistake.

I would have suggested Cruz come out with a statement that he loves New York enough that he wants to see a brighter future for it, with more classical freedoms and a turnaround from the dangerous situation it has been getting into.

You can either pan someone who is down in a hole, or else you can reach out a hand to pull that someone back up. The political, wheeler dealer way is to pan the someone. The actual Christian way is to reach out the hand.


87 posted on 01/16/2016 9:58:44 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You’re so right. If Cruz said it with sincerity instead of smarmy sarcasm he would have won a lot of people over.

We’ve had a divider in the White House for 8 years and we need a uniter, and Cruz had a BIG opening there to be that guy.


88 posted on 01/16/2016 9:58:50 AM PST by SteveSCH
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To: lodi90

Their has not been a new Iowa poll done since the debate. Lets see what the Iowa polls look like at the end of next week. I think you will see Trumps numbers crumble now that he has pointed himself as the defender of New York social liberalism.


89 posted on 01/16/2016 9:59:23 AM PST by dschapin
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To: Isara

Trumps past is no secret.

However Cruz(R-Goldman Sachs) is a new development.
Brand new news.

No wonder Cruz wanted to hide his relationship with one of the most
hated Wall Street companies in the country.

Cruz may be the most conservative in the race.
He is also beginning to look like just another sleezy politician.


90 posted on 01/16/2016 9:59:28 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Isara

people change i was a hardliner liberal atheist once and i am now a Lutheran christian, Trump WAS a liberal not anymore.

Yes i am ashamed of that, in 2008(and years before that) i was a open borders ultra liberal who hated Christianity,supported gun control ,but events in my life changed me for the better in late 2008 early 2009 .

One shameful story was that when a coworker of mine who was a christian told me he was and went into tirade on him about how god was a myth for weak pathetic humans.

I tried to convert people to atheism even and i even had success with that, i truly hope god can forgive me for that.

People who knew me from that time have been shocked for my conversion, now i dont go to church because the churches where i live are ultra liberal who preach homosexual marriage is great and i am not bringing my family to such heretical churches.

So my church is my house where i and my family pray on sundays and read the bible

late 2009 i had become a Lutheran christian. Long story short what started to question my atheism was when i was looking a cigarette i was smoking(yes i have my vices) and i thought how can this cigarette exist? Because the fundamentals of science is based on that materials cannot come from nothing and yet here it was among the world and everything else.

Just the fact that world exist is a paradox to science so there has to be a divine creator.

So if something like me who hated christians,hated guns and supported open borders can change like me im willing to give trump that chance.


91 posted on 01/16/2016 9:59:41 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: Isara
FORT MILL, S.C. — Ted Cruz, long reluctant to directly criticize Donald Trump, threw caution to the wind Saturday as he ripped his Republican presidential opponent as a fake conservative.

That won't work...Trump never claimed to be conservative...We all know that...

Trump is an independent running in the Republican Party...He doesn't like either Party any more than we do...

Cruz is trying to bring conservative politics back to the Republican Party...
Trump is trying to save the country...

Trump takes down everyone who gets in his way...Cruz must have a lot of self confidence...

92 posted on 01/16/2016 9:59:50 AM PST by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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To: SteveSCH

Trump absolutely destroyed Cruz today. Carpet bombed him on his NY comments. Starts at 8:00

http://rsbn.tv/watch-live-donald-trump-speaks-in-portsmouth-nh/


93 posted on 01/16/2016 10:00:09 AM PST by lodi90
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To: libbylu

Ted should go to donaldjtrump.com. it’s all laid out there.


94 posted on 01/16/2016 10:00:23 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Well, at least his parting shots can serve as an opportunity for Trump to defend himself. I think that's a good thing for the public/voters. Assuming that the parting shots have some substance and aren't gross misrepresentations in the style that Rubio uses.

Cruz is toast. There is a critical mass of informed and determined opposition on the issue of qualification. That's not a policy question, that cuts to the bedrock. it also risks reputation, because some people will conclude that he knew or should have know his qualifications were dicey, and he was not forthcoming - on a bedrock issue. That is no "clerical error in the filing" stuff.

95 posted on 01/16/2016 10:00:24 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Well it isn’t until he gets what will come from the hose.

He could say something like that is sad.


96 posted on 01/16/2016 10:00:53 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: kjam22
This is where it has to go.... and it is the right time. I like trump, but I’m convinced he’ll do a deal with the gope if elected.... and we’ll get biz as usual.

Then we haven't lost anything by voting for him...

97 posted on 01/16/2016 10:01:14 AM PST by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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To: biff

Lol, you’re already reduced to personnel insults since your boy Ted is on such shaky ground, pretending to be some sort of outsider candidate.

He’s just one more tool of the GOPe and his big donors.


98 posted on 01/16/2016 10:03:07 AM PST by Will88
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To: Iscool

Stop making sense please. People are trying to argue here. ;-)


99 posted on 01/16/2016 10:03:38 AM PST by Kudsman (Restore the Republic, repeal the 17th.)
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To: Cboldt

Yes Ted has problems for sure. If you or I forgot to file our campaign loans properly it might be because we are dummies but for the form Solicitor General of TX to “forget” is a litte unbelievable.


100 posted on 01/16/2016 10:04:45 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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