Posted on 01/18/2016 2:33:22 PM PST by Isara
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) blasted 2016 rival Donald Trump on Monday, questioning his ties to Democrats and previous support for liberal positions as the two battle for the top spot in Iowa.
"If he's giving checks to Democratic politicians and he supports their views... then it starts to suggest, 'gosh if he publicly supports their views if he finances their causes,'" Cruz told Boston radio station WRKO. "Then suddenly when he announces as a candidate for president, every single one of his views changes - listen if he has had a change of heart, I am thrilled."
Cruz, who is competing with Trump for the GOP nomination, added that if Republican voters want a nominee who will "cozy up to Chuck Schumer - by the way he's written checks to Chuck Schumer, I never have - then you ought to be backing him."
The Texas Republican's comments come after Trump told ABC's "This Week" that Cruz is a "nasty guy" and "nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him."
The two candidates have been locked in an escalating rhetorical battle this month after Cruz said that Trump represents "New York values."
Trump, in return, hit Cruz over previously undisclosed loans he accepted from Goldman Sachs and Citibank to help finance his Senate run. Cruz, on Monday, suggested that Trump's criticism was hypocritical, calling it "more than a little rich."
"You want to assess who stands with Wall Street? Then look at the actual records of the candidates," he added. "Donald Trump vocally and enthusiastically supported TARP, the bailout of the big banks. He vocally and enthusiastically supported Barack Obama's stimulus plan."
Trump suggested that the loans underscored that the senator is controlled by the banks.
While Cruz had long been reluctant to take on Trump directly, the two have stepped up their rhetorical barbs as they head toward the Feb. 1 Iowa caucus.
Trump has led the Republican field in recent Iowa polling, but Cruz claimed the top spot in a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll released last week.
Trump is planning to campaign in Iowa this week with stops scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.
While Cruz on Monday urged primary voters to study candidates' records, he sidestepped directly calling Trump a "fraud" or a "hypocrite."
"Those are your words," he told radio host Jeff Kuhner, adding, that he doesn't plan to get into a "food fight or personal insults."
However, he noted that "Donald seems very rattled right now. ...He's been launching an awful lot of attacks in the last couple of days."
OK, that’s fair enough.
Since your neutral, and make a objective decision without all the mudslinging and put it aside, what does your conscience tell you ?
Keep hope alive. Acceptance comes slowly. You’re guy is imploding. The media smells the desperation, the rest of the candidate field smells the desperation.
What it tells me is that while I find the two of them marginally acceptable over the others who are absolutely non-starters, both have significant flaws, and I really cannot at this time decide which one is better.
That’s why I believe in the end, one way or the other, the better candidate will clearly emerge, but at this point I cannot say who it is.
Cruz will never be president of the U.S. ;-)
What’s that what they use to say in the old days when someone had the flu or virus ?
To let the flu or virus run its course or play it’s self out.
Here is another question ?
Who is slinging the mud harder Trump and Ted Cruz ?
Or Hillary and Sanders ?
This whole thing is starting to turn into more of Reality TV Show for the rest of the world to watch than anything else.
I know. I just have to keep reminding myself that this crap just comes with the territory and happens every election.
I wonder how many of them are self professed Feminist ?
"When gun rights are gone you all probably will cheer him again."
Trump spent his adult life fighting against everything we believe in and they sayd "he HAD to do that in order for his business to be successful.:
Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck, Erick Erickson and countless other conservatives raise concerns about Trump and these same people say that those conservative leaders exposed themselves as the frauds they are.
The Constitution doesn't matter. Conservative ideals, ideologies and records don't matter.
Whatever Trump blusters about - even if he changes his position in the very same day, or even in the same interview - is all that matters. He will Make America Great Again... because he says so. And if the rest of us don't buy into this alternative, distorted realities we are all apparently just idiot, stupid, loser jerks.
Man just when you thought our countries had problems now we see a portion of the conservative movement turned upside down on its head.
“Are you really interested in going back and forth about how each candidate isn’t perfect?”
Why don’t you tell me something you don’t like about Cruz and I’ll let you know my concerns about Trump.”
Cruz’ conservative transgressions are trivial compared to Trump’s. Trumps support for TARP, the Obama Stimulus and flirtations
with government run health care are stunning.
Don’t like what Cruz did on the TPA, Corker Bill and his initial support for expansion of the H1B Visas. As important as those votes were, they just don’t measure up to Trump’s nonideological ramblings on various important issues.
It is a conservative/ non conservative thing for me...
Can’t we all just get along?
It's the only way possible to communicate with 'nasty' Cruz supporters. Insult intended.
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