Posted on 01/17/2016 7:41:06 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The fracas between the Republican presidential front-runners escalated Sunday as Donald Trump went after Ted Cruz's likability, calling him a "nasty guy."
"Nobody likes him, nobody in Congress likes him, nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him," Trump said in an interview airing on ABC's "This Week."
After weeks of circling each other, the gloves came off between Cruz and Trump in Thursday's debate, as Trump questioned Cruz's birthright citizenship and Cruz attacked Trump's "New York values."
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Ted Cruz is also a creepy pervert. Ask some of his college co-eds.
I’m done with Trump. His “win at all costs†crap
this is what it takes to beat hillary....... Cruzers loved it when Trump destroyed the field for him, but sooooo butt hurt when it’s his turn to get schlonged
I predict a nice, reasoned and civil thread proceeding from here.
Who are you talking about?
“the most conservative in a particular race is of no value if you are also the most obnoxious in the race.”
Worth repeating.
If no one follows, you are not a leader.
Trump’s such a child.....he has no discerning ability when it comes to accessing what’s bad and what’s good outside of how it advances his own agenda’s. ...he uses anything which will advance himself.
Trumps vocabulary seems entirely composed of short words and simple sentences.
“Nasty guy” will stick.
“Actually he was employing the reductio ad absurdum by way of illustration.”
Trumpsters only hear what they want to hear.
You could explain it to them 100 times and they would still repeat the exact same BS as if they never heard it.
Wait until his creepy college antics start being more widely circulated. “Creepy” will start gaining some currency as well.
#trumpremorse is trending on FR.
We need a nasty President! He isn’t the nastiest out their—but he fights. Don’t attack or you will end up in the mud and blood-—You don’t want to have a street fight—Turmp likes the gutter and will beat you with experience wallowing in the filth and mud. He will comeout smiling—a winner. Thats what the USA needs now.
Got something to support that nasty comment or are you just full of shit.
I don’t like this line of attack.
It is a fact that, after the battle is over, the winner needs the support of his opponent’s partisans. While a good bashing is traditional in politics, you need to take care that you haven’t crossed any lines that would prevent your opponent’s partisans from supporting you.
Trump didn’t have to worry about it so much with Bush’s supporters, since they were so few. But with Cruz, its a bit different. There are a lot more of them, and they are many of them very personally committed. A slam at Cruz is interpreted as a slam at them too.
Trump can get away with some of this stuff, just because (so far) most Cruz people like Trump, and most people factor some of that in as Trump being Trump. But slash and burn politics do have blow-back. You could say this about both candidates; they both need support from the other once the primaries are over, and their supporters have to be able to bury the hatchet once the convention is done. A little nastiness can be tolerated, a lot of nastiness can cross lines that can’t be uncrossed.
For me, I prefer Cruz, but I like Trump for his stand on national sovereignty so he is my second choice. As a result I don’t normally attack anyone for supporting him. I do worry that, on issues not related to national sovereignty his record is all over the map; but this year national sovereignty is the number one issue which is the reason he has so much conservative support. The people who like Trump don’t mind him being nasty, when the nastiness is directed at our common enemies; we are happy someone is finally speaking up. It may start to wear thin when we see it directed against people we like.
If wooing McConnell and McCain are what we are measuring, Cruz is making friends with the right people. This attack is hurting Trump immeasurably, pulling a lot of people like me away who are open to a moderate in this case because he is really good on a few issues and knows how to man-handle the media. He’s down a bad path now, and it may blow this whole thing up and leave us with one of the milquetoast losers hanging around in 3rd-6th place.
Here ya go, bud:
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/hottopics/2016/01/ted-cruzs-college-roommate-recalls-his-creepy-habits/
Are you making a joke again?
Like the one about “some FReepers” shooting DT?
Exactly!
And Trump said he'll consider filing his own lawsuit challenging Cruz's eligibility to be president based on his birth.
I wonder if Trump would file an amicus brief in the Schwartz case.
It wouldn't change how the court rules, not one bit, but it allows Trump to get argument on the record.
He could (and should) limit the argument to procedural questions, arguing only that the court should decide the case over Cruz's motion to dismiss without deciding the case.
The more Trump tweets, the less likely I am to vote for him in a general election. And if I’m wondering, given how I loathe the democrats, that is a bad sign for Trump.
Particularly since I’m certain he is running on the Nixon/Dole strategy: Act conservative in the primary, then run as far left as you can in the general. Dishonest, but it used to work. Except some of us are tired of being stabbed in the back 24 hours after the nomination.
I want to see some consistency, some indication the guy REALLY believes something, and Trump is all over the board.
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