Posted on 02/04/2016 4:35:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Fresh off a victory in the Iowa caucuses, a feisty Ted Cruz unloaded on his rival Donal Trump Wednesday afternoon, asking repeatedly who the New Hampshire frontrunner might call "stupid" next.
"You know, he accused the people of Iowa of being stupid. In fact, he skipped the Iowa debate," Cruz said during a press availability in New Hampshire. "It makes you wonder if his next step is to accuse the people of New Hampshire of being stupid -- if he plans to skip the New Hampshire debate, and after that if he plans to accuse the people of South Carolina of being stupid and skip the South Carolina debate."
Trump wondered aloud during a November campaign event how Iowa voters could be so "stupid" as to believe parts of fellow candidate Ben Carson's backstory. At the time, Carson was challenging Trump for poll supremacy in Iowa.
Cruz's barbs Wednesday were the sort of pointed attacks against Trump that the Texas senator previously had been reluctant to make. It wasn't until the lead-up to caucus day, particularly during a mid-January debate, that Cruz began to challenge the GOP frontrunner publicly. Now, it's no holds barred.
"It seems his reaction to everything is to throw a fit, to engage in insults. And I understand that Donald finds it very hard to lose," he said in reference to a Twitter fit Trump threw Wednesday, during which he challenged the legitimacy of Cruz's Iowa victory. Part of Trump's rationale was that Cruz misrepresented his position on healthcare policy.
During his presser, Cruz doubled down.
"Donald does not want to defend his lifelong support for socialized medicine, for Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine. Donald wants to expand Obamacare, so that the federal government is in charge of your health care and my health care, is in charge of your doctor and my doctor," he said. "And he's entitled to that view. It's a view that would be very welcome in the Democratic Party."
Trump has prevaricated on his public policy preferences for health care in the past, though he has said he would replace the law with a system that relies mostly on the private sector.
It's fair to call the exact plan Terrificare.
Not accusing you at all. Just hurts perceptions if you want to give the appearance of being fair and objective on this. You can take this advise or leave it.
That is exactly how I feel.
The enemy of my enemy is my candidate.
Nothing you say for or against me is going to change the way I conduct that Caucus.
I judge each side’s votes identically. If Cruz’s numbers surpass Trump’s, I couldn’t care less.
Reality is what it is. It would be a waste of time to try to manipulate it.
I appreciate that you say you don’t mean to intimate anything. These are the thoughts that guide me none the less.
Aww, you don’t know how much that hurt.
LMAO
Must be tough looking reality in the face.
I feel for ya, I really do.
But posting the same graphic on each and every FR election-related thread is pretty much the definition of spam. And the fact that the graphic isn't particularly clever or well-done doesn't help.
And yet the Cruzbot antics on all those threads was perfectly ok.
As many complaints as I got, well guess what. I received high fives for it too.
Some folks got it and thought it was dead on target.
They all thought it was very well done.
Your note wasn’t offensive and you’re welcome to your thoughts on it.bbi didn’t’ expect everyone to like it or appreciate it.
What’s your thought on the same article being posted five to ten times per day from some of the lamest web sites around? Is that spam?
What’s your thought on the lies being posted all day every day for eight months? Is that spam?
How many times have you seen it posted that Trump is for single payer? Thousands?
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