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Carter would pick Trump over Cruz
The Hill via MSN ^ | 2/3/2016 | Rebecca savransky

Posted on 02/03/2016 9:29:03 PM PST by gusopol3

Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that if he had to choose, he'd pick Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over rival Ted Cruz, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

At a lecture in Britain's House of Lords on Wednesday, Carter was asked to give his “assessment” of American politics.

After talking about his own victory in the 1976 Democratic presidential caucuses, he went on to say that Trump would be a better option than Cruz.

If he had to choose between them, “I think I would choose Trump, which may surprise some of you,” he said.

“The reason is, Trump has proven already he’s completely malleable,” Carter said. “I don’t think he has any fixed (positions) he’d go the White House and fight for. On the other hand, Ted Cruz is not malleable. He has far right-wing policies he’d pursue if he became president.”

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To: Secret Agent Man; All
Yes it S.A.M.

Carter would pick Trump over Cruz

We don't care what Carter thinks. Ever.

The Hil via MSN = AGITATORS.
41 posted on 02/03/2016 10:13:19 PM PST by ssfromla
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To: gusopol3; All

If Jimmy Carter wanted us to vote for Cruz, he would endorse Donald Trump.


42 posted on 02/03/2016 10:16:51 PM PST by RC one ("...all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens" US v. WKA)
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To: gusopol3

Bob Dole
Harry Reid
Karl Rove
Jimmy Carter

up next: Reverand Wright, Pelosi, and Charles Manson


43 posted on 02/03/2016 10:16:58 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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To: Neu Pragmatist

Nah. If we have to fight, fight like it’s world war 2 and don’t be ashamed.

But saying any of these guys would do that is like predicting what you would do in a knife fight. No one knows until it happens.


44 posted on 02/03/2016 10:18:27 PM PST by Outlaw76 (Conservative, Showman, Rino. Make your choice wisely.)
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To: gusopol3
Welp, that does it.

Carter points north, I turn 180 degrees.

WTF OVER ?

45 posted on 02/03/2016 10:18:45 PM PST by onona (Where are you tonight, my sweet Marie)
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To: Neu Pragmatist
the majority of Americans are war weary

I will submit to you that the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS don't even KNOW we ARE AT WAR !!!

You see it reported anywhere ? Casualty lists ??

The MSM is entirely complicit with this BS. We've had so gosh damn boots on the ground in the ME for over 10 Freeping years !!

end game ? We don't need no stinking end game

46 posted on 02/03/2016 10:22:03 PM PST by onona (Where are you tonight, my sweet Marie)
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To: gusopol3

Yeah, he is, right.

Trump is malleable, Cruz is not.


47 posted on 02/03/2016 10:22:12 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: gusopol3
Nope. Carter has been wrong every single time. This is further proof that Ted Cruz is the right candidate. Ted Cruz should use this as a badge of honor.
48 posted on 02/03/2016 10:26:29 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Pretty much. Trump has been endorsed by all the right people.....for president of communist North Korea.


49 posted on 02/03/2016 10:30:54 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: gusopol3

Bernie Sanders: 'I'm prejudiced -- I want Donald Trump to win the nomination'

Business Insider ^ | Feb. 3, 2016 | Maxwell Tani
50 posted on 02/03/2016 10:33:02 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I wonder what his daddy Joe would have picked?


51 posted on 02/03/2016 10:37:01 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: gusopol3

He’s as crazy as a bedbug and no one cares.


52 posted on 02/03/2016 10:45:37 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT; randita; sickoflibs; BillyBoy

Carter must be “GOP-E”. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL


53 posted on 02/03/2016 10:45:49 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: gusopol3

I love what Cruz says; But his connections to the establishment through the CFR and other GOP connections has historically and almost certainly will tell the tale that he will be more of the same. One can’t go by just what some good speeches advocate. Eisenhower had wonderful speeches that would have convinced any blue blooded American that this is our guy. But the people and connections around him and the determinate factor being the arguably treasonous globalist agenda put forward tells the tale. Unfortunately Cruz as much as I hate to say has those same people and establishment around him that cannot be overlooked. Historically the evidence has been uniform that when one has these globalists CFR roots anywhere around them - GAME OVER- . If Trump truly stands against a harmonized globalist NWO or new America as the agenda is set to unfold then He’ll likely be takin’ out of the picture by assassination if necessary. I guess we’ll find out. But all this projection as to what Trump is? WHo knows? Maybe the guy really wants to uphold this fragile republic and middle class for posterity and everyone is busy projecting all manner of anything and everything to upset what could be a blessing or at least a stop gap to try and get things righted. There is a wicked plan to see America enslaved and destroyed and the incivility among conservatives and American’s is symptomatic of how screwed this country is.


54 posted on 02/03/2016 10:49:26 PM PST by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: gusopol3
Carter is right. It takes a former democrat, union activist, married twice, reformed conservative like Reagan attracted a lot of democrat crossover votes.

On the other hand, a rock solid conservative like Goldwater lost in a landslide to LBJ.


55 posted on 02/03/2016 11:09:08 PM PST by entropy12 (Cruz could double as a wind sock!)
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To: gusopol3
Carter?

Why would anyone with functional synapse listen, or even care, what that waste of human skin has to bloviate about, regarding anything under the sun?

The epitome, the very definition of failed president, the utmost failure to which all other failures are held up against to judge the degree of failure, that Guy?

I would vow to piss on his grave, except I have prior commitments with Mz fondles.

.This guy says something, anything, and people on this board actually comment on it?

Like what he says has any resemblance to something one would give a second thought to.

Jimmeh?

56 posted on 02/03/2016 11:24:03 PM PST by going hot
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To: dfwgator

I can’t remember which debate it was, but all the candidates save Trump were for No Fly Zones and shooting down Russian planes. Once Trump said he would bomb the hell out of ISIS, all the others now say the same thing...Cruz says he will drop a nuke (he said he wants the sand to glow, can only happen with a nuke)

So let’s get past this one...we all agree that everyone wants to bomb ISIS, will Cruz’s bombs kill more than Christie’s bombs or Rubio’s bombs. Trump will bomb them until they go to hell and then he will bomb hell. Now that’s some bombing if you ask me.

But I believe that Trump realized the old realpolitik. Syria has been a Russian client State as Israel is ours. Russia will go to war to protect its client state, in fact its obvious that it already has. Let em have Syria...bring some sanity to the area. A few mortars lobbed once in a while toward Israel and Israel does the same and everyone is happy.


57 posted on 02/03/2016 11:54:18 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: Michael.SF.

I look at it from a perspective as “both Cruz AND Trump now have endorsements from persons of dubious regard”.

Cruz has Glenn Beck to live with now, and it seems Trump has to deal with good tidings from perhaps the worst President ever before Obama.


58 posted on 02/04/2016 12:53:36 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Milhous
...only in theory to those who remember Carter.

You may be right. Most people can't even remember the more recent fiasco that is the Clintons. Doesn't bode well for a reasoned choice for our next president. The electoriate hasn't done a very good job selecting candidates since Reagan, including the one's who lost to Obama.

59 posted on 02/04/2016 2:05:18 AM PST by Cannoneer ( "..raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.." GW)
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To: gusopol3

Well, at least its a step up from the Palin endorsement.


60 posted on 02/04/2016 2:59:05 AM PST by wyowolf
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