Posted on 02/04/2016 12:34:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
NASHUA, N.H. - Still riding a wave of confidence after winning the Iowa Caucuses, Ted Cruz was in rare form Wednesday night as he mocked Donald Trump over everything from losing Iowa to a previous record of liberal policy positions.
"Have you noticed Donald doesn't take losing well?" he said at a town hall here. "Donald told us every day for a year he was going to win Iowa, win it big, win it 'yuuuuuge,'" he said, poking at Trump's speaking style.
"I don't think people are interested in temper tantrums, or you could call it a 'Trumpertantrum,'" he continued, when asked about a number of criticisms Trump has thrown at him recently, including that his Monday night win in Iowa was fraudulent.
Cruz's comments came hours after his first major escalation of attacks of the day, when he suggested Trump's temperament was so poor that he might be inclined to "nuke Denmark," and Cruz also suggested his young daughters were more mature than Trump.
On Wednesday night, Cruz gloated over a report that former Democratic President Jimmy Carter's comment that he would prefer Trump over Cruz because Trump would be "malleable." Cruz said he instructed his team to track down video of those remarks from Carter, who is deeply unpopular among Republicans.
"I read the article on my iPhone today, my comment to the team was, if there is video, get the video, I want the video, I'm going to pay to air Jimmy Carter's attack on me," he said.
When protesters interrupted Cruz, with some yelling about climate change, Cruz said it appeared that "these children attended the Donald Trump-style school of debate."
And when he was asked about his wife's ties to Goldman Sachs and an undisclosed loan from the bank in the Senate race, Cruz defended the move and pivoted back to Trump attacks. "Heidi and I did something that is very novel and unfamiliar to Donald: we paid it back," he said to applause. "We have never declared bankruptcy, we have never stiffed a loan, we have never walked out on a loan, we paid it back."
Cruz said Trump's last financial disclosure form showed he had millions of dollars in loans, and "it could literally be billions of dollars he owes."
"For him to make this attack, to use a New York term," Cruz said, "is the height of chutzpah."
Trump IS correct.
TRUE!
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
really? wow
The Donald is showing everyone what an arse he is. I hope that he's having a great time....it's NOT going to last long.
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CALLER: ...I've been a Trump guy from the beginning, Rush. I'm one of those angry people. I grew up in abject poverty with abusive parents, and Ronald Reagan told me I can be different, that where I came from is not where I can end up. And this country has afforded me things and lets me do things that I can only imagine. I've also supported the Republican Party, and they slapped me in my face. Two landslide Senate victories that did nothing but get them to capitulate to Obama --.....
CALLER: Well, what my overall point is, I think what happened is this. The anger can only last so long, okay? I'm angry about the things that I mentioned and, you know, I'm angry about the fact that I was laid off eight months ago and I'm weeks away from being homeless after raising two kids since I was 16 and coming from nothing. But the anger can only last so long, and hearing [Trump] constantly talk about the Canada thing even after he lost, which anybody of any type of conscience has to look at why you lost and humble you a bit and lead you to a different direction. He still harps on the Canada thing.....
CALLER: I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. It's not the Canada thing overall. It's starting to seem like his anger is disingenuous and he's angry for anger's sake, not just angry for principles. He's angry because it sells something. I don't want to be sold anything anymore. I was sold something by the mainstream Republican Party that obviously was proven to be a lie over and over again. I don't want to sold anymore. I'm starting to think that this whole anger with him is not for the reasons that he tends to let out. It's more for "this is what they're going to buy."
the very type of judge Cruz would nominate.. great judicial judgement right there on Cruz’s part
he and Roberts were friends for 20 years and he said he’ll make a great Supreme Court judge.. until he wasn’t.. oops
Trump said he would go with a Clarence Thomas type judge for the USSC
this from the guy whose college roommate despised him within the first 5 minutes of meeting him
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Nice ad hominem attack! One of his later college roommates, David Panton, became a lifelong friend. So which one counts more?
Ted Cruz Reverses His Support for Chief Justice Roberts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3392646/posts
Rush has been trashing Trump and pushing Cruz and now Rubio for months.
You want anecdotal stories? Okay.....I have family and friends in Texas...many of those who were ardent Cruz supporters, especially when he was running for the Senate are now VERY anti-Cruz!
Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008. The office had been established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction." As Solicitor General, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four.
Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court. Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress. Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."
READ further to learn what cases Ted Cruz argued and won.
Do try to come up with your own opinion/thoughts, instead of feeding off others’; you’re just like dear old M2T ! LOL
[”Have you noticed Donald doesn’t take losing well?”
That fits in nicely with the opinion of the millions of Americans who are aligned solidly behind this massive movement.
Cruz TRIES to mimic Trumps style of tough talk but comes off as a ranting liberal just like Hillary and Sanders.
yeah great.. but he still loved him some Judge Roberts. saying there was no finer man for the job
Then that’s what he should do; he isn’t fit to do much of anything else. And he is INELIGIBLE to be either VEEP or president!
Only because Trump has been saying the TRUTH about Roberts and how ROTTEN a Justice he is.
[You REALLY believe that?]
She doesn’t believe that ‘dressing down’ is pandering to the common folk and not polished, slick, suit wearing, Washington politician.
Explain that, please; it’s a bit confusing.
> associate deputy attorney general
Sounds like a position where one gets to make recommendations, not decisions.
[Explain that, please;]
I’ll try, it’s like a liberal politician dressing up in bib overalls with a straw in his mouth when goes to a farming state or as Hillary pandering to the black folks with...I ain’t no ways tarred.
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