But Tump supporters, it seems, cannot allow themselves to discuss these areas. They respond with attacks and insults.
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When I’m insulted, I fight back. Why shouldn’t I?
Okay, let me address this. Here’s the difference between Cruz’s checkered history and Trump’s checkered history.
Trump said things, but he focused on being a businessman. As you can see upthread, if he donated, it was mostly to Republicans and NY politicians. Balance his donations out, and it breaks even, especially if you discount the politicians wetting their whistles donations. And while he made lots of money for himself, he also gave jobs to lots of workers and ensured that people were paid.
Cruz, on the other hand, is on record as voting for cloture on TPA and voting for HB-1s. These took (or in TPA’s case, it enabled the taking of) jobs and money away from American workers and American families.
You don’t know them. You didn’t see them bleed. But Cruz voted to take food from their mouths and to rip clothes off their backs. And why? Hell if I know.
Donald said some unpleasant things.
Cruz actually voted for them.
Which scares you more?
Quote where I insulted you.
But Trump hasn’t donated to Republicans more than Democrats counting since 1999. It was the opposite, even with a Republican only record since October 2010.
So with a little over 5 years of Republican only catch-up, he has almost, but not quite, got it even. That was a pretty big deficit, don’t you think?
Would you accept this from any candidate other than Trump?
Sometimes voting to cloture is a way to get it to the floor before it gets worse in committee. You do it if you think they have not mangled the bill with with riders to buy enough votes. It can be a risky play and can backfire on you.
But to ascribe malice to Cruz on the Senate maneuver would be equivalent to assigning malaise to one of Trump’s bankruptcies.
I say the cloture vote for Cruz and the bankruptcies for Trump were not malice, but both the result poor execution. Mistakes.