Posted on 01/26/2016 7:35:22 PM PST by Kaslin
Okay, I get the sarcasm now. I can be slow to get sarcasm some times.
But Cruz IS acting like a petulant little punk. Cruz was on Bill O'Reilly claiming that Trump wants to fund planned parenthood, even though, after the videos came out, Trump clearly stated he wants PP defunded and will insure that it is defunded.
Why would Ted Cruz blatantly lie to his audience like that if he wasn't basically a child upset that Trump is crushing his dream-- from the age of 14-- to become President?
Cruz will never be President. He is too dishonest and self-serving.
But then I stumbled upon post number 4 here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3389031/posts?page=4#4
Dishonesty and self serving persona never stopped a politician from obtaining any elective office.
BTTT
You make a good point.
I’m sure we can find plenty of tough sounding quotes from McConnell and Boehner about Pelosi and Reid. And they bend over for them every time. Trump will sweet talk them if it serves his interests, but is much more likely to get what he wants.
People are demanding that Trump forcefully denounce the Democrat leadership and yet how many RINO’s have we seen talk tough about the Democrats, only to give them everything they want behind closed doors? It’s amazing how gullible people are. They would rather judge their candidate by the tough sounding speeches they give rather than the results they get. The bottom line is, which candidate will be able to out maneuver the Dems? A lying RINO, or Trump?
It’s basically the number one lesson we’ve been learning this election cycle: the difference between superficial “conservatism” and what’s really going on beneath.
Appearance does not equal “what really is.” Even Trump is far deeper than his mere appearance, which is the funniest and best thing of all!
And, by their fruits will ye know them....
Think about it.
“Trump knows you have to engage in negotiations in order to win. They are not going to just fold their hands and go home.”
Really? The Republicans in Congress with huge majorities have done exactly that - folded time and again like a cheap suit. Obama has spit in their eyes and they gave him everything he wanted. And what they didn’t want to give him, he took anyway. We want whoever gets in there to run roughshod over them just like Obama has done to us - return the favor in spades.
When exactly did Obama engage in negotiations with the RINOs?
Even if Trump ultimately has to negotiate with the Democrats I want him to remember that they are his opponents, not his friends. I don’t want him trying to stay on a buddy buddy relationship with them.
Here is the exchange between Barnicle and Trump on MSNBC. Please read it and see if you don’t think that Trump is being a little too chummy with the enemy.
“BARNICLE: So Donald, instinctively, and you are a candidate of instinct, what is your instinct about who right now on the Democratic side of the aisle, who would you be able to deal with to cut a deal, any kind of a deal? What’s your instinct on that?
TRUMP: Well, I think that I’m going to be able to get along with Pelosi. I think I’m going to be able to — I’ve always had a good relationship with Nancy Pelosi. I’ve never had a problem. Reid will be gone. I always had a decent relationship with Reid, although lately, obciosuly, I haven’t been dealing with him so he’ll actually use my name as the ultimate — you know, as the ultimate of the billionaires in terms of, you know, people you don’t want.
But I always had a great relationship with Harry Reid. And frankly, if I weren’t running for office I would be able to deal with her or Reid or anybody. But I think I’d be able to get along very well with Nancy Pelosi and just about everybody.
Hey, look, I think I’ll be able to get along well with Chuck Schumer. I was always very good with Schumer. I was close to Schumer in many ways. It’s important that you get along. It’s wonderful to say you’re a maverick and you’re going to stand up and close up the country and all of the things, but you have to get somebody to go along with you. You have a lot of people. We have a system. The founders created the system that actually is a very good system. It does work, but it can’t work if you can get nobody to go along with you. That’s the problem that you have with Ted Cruz. He is a guy that nobody likes and nobody trusts, and he is a nasty guy. He says things that are very nasty. So I have to be nastier than him. It’s just one of those things.”
Jim, I respect you a lot, but I’m not sure that you read my post.
To put it simply, deal making is not a deal breaker for me; as long as the illegal problem is taken care of, then it’s a heck of a lot better than what we’ve been getting the last 12 years.
And so far, in my opinion, Trump is the one who has the best chance to do that.
Am I really a liberal Trumpanzee because of that?
Assuming, of course, that I didn’t just take your post too literally.
If Jim isn’t happy with what I have to say, he can tell me himself, and if I broke the forum rules I’ll correct my error.
Jim doesn’t need a lickspittle to tattle on the forum-goers.
Honestly, reading Jims later post to me, I think the one he sent me that I posted to you may have been sarcastic.
Tell that (your first sentence) to the *cough* conservative Republican congress critters we elected. Even some of the recent more conservative tea party types. Tell that to Paul Ryan.
If we win the presidency, and manage to keep the Senate and House, why do we need a dealmaker? We run everything through reconciliation to avoid a dammocrap filibuster in the Senate, and we do LEGALLY AND CONSTITUTIONALLY what the dammocraps did in 2009 - 2010. We reverse all of the kenyan antichrist’s executive orders, and if necessary, we nuke the filibuster to get our judges approved, and all is presided over by the actually conservative President Cruz.
Paul Ryan has been a huge disappointment. I will be honest, I had real high hopes for Paul when Romney picked him as VP. I have been bitterly disappointed.
I agree one hundred percent. I think we have a unique and limited opportunity to elect a real conservative this time. Unfortunately that opportunity will be squandered if the Republicans nominate Trump who I am utterly convinced is a progressive who is trying to deceive Conservative voters about who he is.
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